Found 9 collections related to Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
Holte, Clarence L., 1909-1993
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 718
4.0 linear feet (4 boxes)
Clarence LeRoy Holte (1909-1993) is principally known as an African American bibliophile who collected books pertaining to Africa and the African diaspora. He was also an advertising executive and for twenty years worked as an ethnic market...
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Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 339
18.37 linear feet (42 boxes)
The collection documents Julian Mayfield's career as a writer, educator and actor, and his activities as a political expatriate in West Africa and Guyana. Significant correspondents include fellow African-American expatriates and friends Maya...
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Freeman, Robert Turner, 1918-2001
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 795
.8 linear feet (2 archival boxes)
A notable pioneer of the life insurance industry in Africa, Robert Turner Freeman, Jr. was born on April 25, 1918 in New York City and graduated from Lincoln University in 1941. In 1945 he entered the life insurance industry as the vice-president...
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Sherwood, Marika
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 600
.2 linear feet
Research notes, interviews and correspondence relating to Kwame Nkrumah, compiled by Marika Sherwood during completion of her book "Kwame Nkrumah: The Years Abroad, 1935-1947." The material covers several subjects: the former president's life in...
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Hunton, Alphaeus, 1903-1970
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc Micro R-5003
Personal papers including biographical statements, and correspondence with other scholars and African political leaders including E.U. Essien, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, and Nnamdi Azikiwe of Eastern Nigeria. Correspondence, court summonses and...
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Weekes, Akua
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 678
2.08 linear feet (5 boxes)
Akua Weekes is an activist, Black Nationalist, freelance journalist, and writing professor at Touro College. Her activism dates to her undergraduate years at American University in Washington, D. C. Weekes participated in the student take-over of...
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Egbuna, Obi B.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 944
2.62 linear feet (7 boxes)
The Obi Egbuna papers consist of the personal papers and manuscripts of this Nigerian novelist, short-story writer, and political activist.
Drake, St. Clair
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 309
44.79 linear feet (108 boxes)
The distinguished social scientist and activist St. Clair Drake only claimed the distinction of being one of the first eleven or twelve persons of color to secure graduate training in anthropology between 1900 and 1945. Divided into 18 series and...
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Schuyler family
Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Sc Photo Schuyler Family Collection
5127 items (4.7 cubic ft., 20 boxes). 1031 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller. 867 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller. 870 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 9 x 9 cm. and smaller. 13 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 28 x 52 cm. and smaller. 179 photographic prints : col ; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller. 194 photographic postcards : b&w ; 15 x 11 cm. and smaller. 30 polaroid photographic prints : b&w, some col ; 9 x 13 cm. and smaller. 28 halftone photomechanical prints : b&w, some col ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller. 10 postcards : b&w, some col ; 9 x 14 cm. 8 x 5 cm, 1 tintype (8 x 5 cm). 109 slides : col ; 5 x 5 cm. 13 x 18 cm. and smaller, 19 color transparencies (13 x 18 cm. and smaller). 1 map : line illustration ; 24 x 30 cm. 1 pencil sketch : b&w ; 27 x 23 cm. 1 photostat : col ; 13 x 18 cm. 485 negatives : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller. 1133 negatives : b&w ; 7 x 7 cm. and smaller. 155 negatives : col ; 7 x 7 cm. and smaller
George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977) was an African-American journalist and author. Josephine Cogdell Schuyler (ca. 1900-1969), the daughter of a wealthy white Texas family, was an artist and writer who managed Philippa Schuyler's musical career....
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