Found matches for Langston Hughes in 9 collections.

The Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections (HAJMTC) were formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (one-three file folders per personality or event). The collections contain information dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, and they document early dramatic actors, minstrel shows, vaudeville, musical revues, Broadway productions, and protest dramas, among others. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers and the productions in which they appeared, there are collections for poets and visual artists. less

409 Edgecombe Avenue, also known as Colonial Parkway Apartments, is a residential apartment building in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem that was home to many of the city's Black elite during the 1920s–1950s. The 409 Edgecombe collection consists of the personal effects of building residents, typically including correspondence, bills, receipts, and other ephemera. The collection is made up of the contents of trunks found in a storage room of the building by the 409 Edgecombe Avenue Tenant Association. less

Elizabeth Murphy Oliver was a Black American journalist and author best known for her work with the Baltimore-based newspaper, The Afro-American. The Elizabeth Murphy Oliver papers date from 1872 to 1997 and cover Oliver's career at The Afro-American, her children's book Black Mother Goose, and her time as commissioner of the Maryland Commission on Afro-American History and Culture. The collection is represented through drafts, clippings, correspondence, notebooks, and ephemera. less

Harry Belafonte is a Jamaican-American musician, actor, and activist best known for popularizing calypso music with international audiences, and his involvement in the American Civil Rights movement. His collection contains project files, correspondence, scrapbooks, press materials, scores, lyrics, and scripts that chronicle his career as a singer, songwriter, actor, public speaker, and advocate for political and humanitarian causes. Belafonte's papers reveal the business aspects of his performance projects, source material for his acting and singing career, and organizing efforts associated with the political causes he championed. less

The Schomburg Center scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of Black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight Black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960. The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for these volumes are ABJ, AJ, A McD, AM, AMC, AVR, BB, CMN, EJ, EMN, EW, FNR, GG, JC, JP, LS, MB, MN, MPT, MS, MSRD, MW, SC, VK, and WA. Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson and MS likely belong to M. Starke, both of whom clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker. Initials MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, and RS likely belong to Ruby Scott, Clerk-Typist, both assigned to the 135th St. branch through the Works Progress Administration. The scrapbooks were compiled and bound by The New York Public Library. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted. The publications represented include African American newspapers such as the Afro-American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Boston Guardian, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, New York News and Harlem Home Journal, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune Additional newspapers include Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Times, and Newsweek, among others.. Not all clippings include date or source information. less

The Alice Childress papers document Alice Childress's career as a writer and actress, and her activities in the theatre for five decades in New York City. The Personal Papers series includes correspondence, an oral history conducted by Ann Shockley, Childress's FBI file, diaries, calendars, interviews, educational materials, family letters, files for her two husbands, and biographical information about Childress. Significant correspondents include writers Kay Bourne, Harold (Hal) Courlander and Susan Koppleman. less