"No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the Messenger, 1917-1928" interviews

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{"value"=>"Sc MG 826", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"b18755819x", "type"=>"local_b"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1970-1972", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1970/1972"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"\"No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the <span class=\"title\">Messenger</span>, 1917-1928\" interviews"}

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repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}

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{"value"=>"English"}

origination

{"value"=>"Kornweibel, Theodore", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Theodore Kornweibel is a retired professor of African American history at San Diego State University, and an author and editor of six monographs. His works include <span class=\"title\">Investigate Everything: Federal Efforts to Compel Black Loyalty During World War I</span>, <span class=\"title\">Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919-1925</span>, and \"<span class=\"title\">No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the \"Messenger\", 1917-1928</span>\".</p> <p>The <span class=\"title\">Messenger</span> was a monthly political magazine published by and for African Americans between 1917 and 1928. It was co-founded in New York City by economist Chandler Owen and labor activist A. Philip Randolph to promote socialist ideology and New Negro strategies for racial progress. The magazine included articles on many of the issues important to African Americans during World War I and the postwar period, and thus helped to strengthen African American intellectual and political identity in the age of Jim Crow. It also played a critical role in the development of the Harlem Renaissance; after 1920, The <span class=\"title\">Messenger</span> featured a greater number of articles about Black culture and began to publish rising Black writers, featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>These interviews consist of six oral history interviews conducted by Theodore Kornweibel in 1970-1972, to provide firsthand accounts for his book <span class=\"title\">No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the \"Messenger,\" 1917-1928</span>, published in 1975. The book examines the political, economic, and social alternatives available to Black people in the 1920s, including Garveyism, socialism, and trade union movements. Interviewees are: Arna Bontemps, James Ivy, Theophilus Lewis, Ernest Rice McKinney, A. Philip Randolph, and George S. Schuyler, all of whom either contributed articles to the <span class=\"title\">Messenger</span> or were on its board.</p> <p>The interviewees discuss their role in the the <span class=\"title\">Messenger</span>, among other related topics. Randolph's extensive interview focuses on his reasons for founding the magazine, its stance against World War I, and his personal opposition to the Russian Communist Party because it was \"anti-labor in action\". Schuyler discusses other staff members as well as the shift, beginning in 1923, in the content of the articles from a radical to a middle class focus.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Theodore Kornweibel, June 2010.</p>"}

separatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.</p>"}

revisiondesc

{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2020 November 9"}

date_start

1970

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1970

date_end

1972

date_inclusive_start

1970

date_inclusive_end

1972

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0.02 linear feet (2 folders)

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Item], \"No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the <span class=\"title\">Messenger</span>, 1917-1928\" interviews, Sc MG 826, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" These interviews consist of six oral history interviews conducted by Theodore Kornweibel in 1970-1972, to provide firsthand accounts for his book <span class=\"title\">No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the \"Messenger,\" 1917-1928</span>, published in 1975. The book examines the political, economic, and social alternatives available to Black people in the 1920s, including Garveyism, socialism, and trade union movements. Interviewees are: Arna Bontemps, James Ivy, Theophilus Lewis, Ernest Rice McKinney, A. Philip Randolph, and George S. Schuyler, all of whom either contributed articles to the <span class=\"title\">Messenger</span> or were on its board.", "generated"=>true}

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