- unitid
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{"value"=>"25607", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 748", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1958-1999", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1958/1999"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Robert W. July collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.0 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Robert W. July was a Rockefeller Foundation Assistant Director for the Humanities and an historian, and he spent the decade between 1955 and 1965 scouting for new talent in West and Southern Africa. This collection provides the perspective of an executive of a major foundation who encountered many of the leading cultural and intellectual figures in Africa, Black and white, on the eve of independence in the French-speaking and British Commonwealth territories."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"July, Robert William", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Born in 1918, Robert W. July was a Rockefeller Foundation Assistant Director for the Humanities, and spent the decade between 1955 and 1965, scouting for new talent in West and Southern Africa. After a stint as visiting professor at the University College of Nairobi, Kenya, and the Ibadan Institute of African Studies, Nigeria, he switched to a new career as an historian. His work received critical praise from various African and African-American historians. July died in 2004.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection provides the perspective of an executive of a major foundation who encountered many of the leading cultural and intellectual figures in Africa, Black and white, on the eve of independence in the French-speaking and British Commonwealth territories. The author's published books are represented by correspondence, reviews, and research material. Other writings include two unpublished novels, book reviews, conference papers, encyclopedia articles, and an essay article on the political philosophy of Wole Soyinka. Correspondents include the critic and editor of <span class=\"title\">Black Orpheus</span>, Ulli Beier; the Nigerian author and critic, Abiola Irele; the British Africanist, Dennis Austin; the Ghanaian folklorist, Kwabena Nketia; the British editor of <span class=\"title\">Nigeria Magazine</span>, Michael Crawford; the West African authors Colin Legum, Kenneth Dike, and Efua Sutherland; publishers; and agents. July's extensive research notes for the book <span class=\"title\">Origins of Modern African Thought</span> drew from local West African newspapers from the 1860s to the late 1920s, and from archival sources in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Ghana. Also included are microfilm copies of documents from French colonial archives on the Senegalese Blaise Diagne, and on David Boilat, a mulatto priest and literacy advocate in West Africa in the 1840s.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Robert W. July collection is arranged in ten series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593081'>Biographical</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593084'>African diaries</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593090'>Published books</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593100'>Other works</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593110'>Research notes</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593111'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593115'>Conferences</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593119'>Proposals, grants, and awards</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593123'>Other authors</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes Peter Benson's \"Border Operators: <span class=\"title\">Black Orpheus</span> and the Genesis of Modern African Art and Literature\".</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25607#c1593124'>Printed matter</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged into 10 series: I. Biographical; II. African diaries; III. Books; IV. Other writings; V. Research notes; VI. Correspondence; VII. Conferences; VIII. Projects and awards; IX. Other authors; and X. Printed matter.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the Robert W. July estate, December 2004.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs and negatives</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Andre Elizee, December 2004.</p>"}
- date_start
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1958
- keydate
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1958
- date_end
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1999
- date_inclusive_start
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1958
- date_inclusive_end
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1999
- extent_statement
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2.0 linear feet (2 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Robert W. July collection, Sc MG 748, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}