Voices from the Renaissance collection

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unitid

{"value"=>"20635", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Sc MG 335", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1974-1977", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1974/1977"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Voices from the Renaissance collection"}

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repository

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

abstract

{"value"=>"The David Levering Lewis \"Voices from the Renaissance\" Collection consists of forty-three summary transcripts of interviews Lewis conducted with individuals who were either active during the Harlem Renaissance period or who knew people who were Harlem Renaissance figures. The interviews were done for Lewis's book, <span class=\"title\">When Harlem Was in Vogue</span> (1981)."}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

origination

{"value"=>"Lewis, David L., 1936-", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>David Levering Lewis is a Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and earlier taught American and African American history at the University of California, San Diego.</p> <p>Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Lewis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk University, 1956; Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, 1958; and his Ph. D. degree from the London School of Economics in economic history, 1962. Lewis's research focuses on twentieth-century African American history and comparative intellectual and cultural history as well as European and African history in the late nineteenth century. He is the author of <span class=\"title\">When Harlem Was in Vogue</span> (1981).</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The David Levering Lewis \"Voices from the Renaissance\" Collection consists of forty-three summary transcripts of interviews Lewis conducted with individuals who were either active during the Harlem Renaissance period or who knew people who were Harlem Renaissance figures. The interviews were done for Lewis's book, <span class=\"title\">When Harlem Was in Vogue</span> (1981). The transcriptions are impressionistic rather than verbatim, which Lewis prepared from the fifty-two audiotapes containing the interviews. Interviewees include Raoul Abdul; Wilhelmina Adams; Regina Andrews; Helen Armstead-Johnson; Poppy Cannon; Mercer Cook; Miriam DeWitt; Owen Dodson; Aaron Douglas; Pearl and Ivy Fisher; G. James Fleming; Emerson Harper; Jean Blackwell Hutson; C.L.R. James; Henry Lincoln Johnson; Mildred Johnson; Bruce Kellner; Alfred Knopf; Rayford Logan; Gerri Major; Henry and Mollie Moon; A'lelia Nelson Bruce Nugent; Mae Wright Peck; George N. Redd; Helga Rogers; Maurice Russell; George Schuyler; Charless Sebree; Amy Springarn; Mae Miller Sullivan; Marjorie Toomer; Charles H. Wesley; Dorothy West; Leigh Whipper; and Edith Wilson. Interviewees discuss their lives and individuals such as W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, J. A. Rogers, and Carl Van Vechten and his book, <span class=\"title\">Nigger Heaven</span>.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Gift of David Levering Lewis, 1987.</p>"}

date_start

1974

keydate

1974

date_end

1977

date_inclusive_start

1974

date_inclusive_end

1977

extent_statement

.06 linear feet (1/2 archival box)

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Item], Voices from the Renaissance collection, Sc MG 335, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}

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