- unitid
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{"value"=>"20634", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 334", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11561541", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"ca. 1928-1964", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1928/1964", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
{"value"=>"1928-1933", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1928/1933"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Notes for \"Race, Class and Party\""}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.21 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"=>"Paul Lewinson was a professor of history specializing in African American suffrage and white politics in the South. This collection consists primarily of notecards organized by subject and state for Lewinson's book, <span class=\"title\">Race, Class and Party: A History of Negro Suffrage and White Politics in the South</span> (1932)."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Lewinson, Paul, 1900-1988", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Paul Lewinson was a professor of history specializing in African American suffrage and white politics in the South, and also was employed as an archivist. He received his Bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1922, and his Ph.D. from Brookings Graduate School in 1927. He began his career as an instructor of history, then assistant professor of history and political science, at Ohio State University (1927-1929), and he was a visiting professor at Swarthmore College (1931-1932 and 1937-1938). From 1933 to 1935, Lewinson was responsible for the Taft Papers at the Library of Congress, and from 1935 to 1960 he worked at the National Archives. He was appointed Chief of the Labor Department archives in 1938 then Director of the Industrial Records Division in 1947. He died on October 10, 1988.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Notes for \"Race, Class and Party\" collection consist primarily of notecards organized by subject and state for Lewinson's book, <span class=\"title\">Race, Class and Party: A History of Negro Suffrage and White Politics in the South</span> (1932), published by Oxford University Press. Subjects include the Old South, slavery, suffrage, general politics, and race prejudice. In addition, there are a postscript Lewinson wrote in 1964 for a later edition to his book, a letter from his publisher, and two publications: \"The Negro in the White Class and Party Struggle\" (1928 journal article) and <span class=\"title\">A Guide to Documents in the National Archives for Negro Studies</span> (1947).</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Jean Lewinson, 1989.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Diana Lachatanere, March 1989. Processed through the Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 February 23"}
{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Allison Hughes.", "date"=>"2023 February 3"}
- date_start
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1928
- keydate
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1928
- date_end
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1964
- date_inclusive_start
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1928
- date_inclusive_end
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1964
- date_bulk_start
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1928
- date_bulk_end
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1933
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Notes for \"Race, Class and Party\", Sc MG 334, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}