Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola papers

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{"value"=>"20729", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Sc MG 142", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1928-1933", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1928/1933"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola papers"}

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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"=>"Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola, an African American, was born Joseph Howard Lee in 1887 in Baltimore, Maryland. As early as 1907 he was using the name \"LoBagola,\" claiming that he was from the French Sudan, and was on the lecture circuit speaking about African customs and his claims that he was a Black Jew. In 1930 he published <span class=\"title\">LoBagola : An African Savage's Own Story</span>, which was translated and sold in a number of European countries, and <span class=\"title\">The Folk Tales of a Savage</span>. LoBagola died in 1947 while in Attica Prison, having been arrested and imprisoned several times for petty theft and sexual crimes. Correspondence between LoBagola and his agent, James B. Pond, contracts, clippings, advertisements, and a typescript of a lecture entitled \"My Religion,\" about his experience as a Jew."}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

origination

{"value"=>"LoBagola, Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn, 1877-1947", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola, an African American, was born Joseph Howard Lee in 1887 in Baltimore, Maryland. As early as 1907 he was using the name \"LoBagola,\" claiming that he was from the French Sudan, and was on the lecture circuit speaking about African customs and his claims that he was a Black Jew. In 1930 he published <span class=\"title\">LoBagola : An African Savage's Own Story</span>, which was translated and sold in a number of European countries, and <span class=\"title\">The Folk Tales of a Savage</span>. LoBagola died in 1947 while in Attica Prison, having been arrested and imprisoned several times for petty theft and sexual crimes.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Includes correspondence between LoBagola and his agent, James B. Pond, contracts, clippings, advertisements, and a typescript of a lecture entitled \"My Religion,\" about his experience as a Jew.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Purchase, University Place Book Shop, 197802</p>"}

sponsor

{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}

revisiondesc

{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Allison Hughes.", "date"=>"2022 May 27"}

date_start

1928

keydate

1928

date_end

1933

date_inclusive_start

1928

date_inclusive_end

1933

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Item], Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola papers, Sc MG 142, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}

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