Found 6 collections related to Diaries

Lavinia Williams was an African American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who played an influential role in the development of modern and folkloric dances in Haiti, Jamaica, Guyana, and the Bahamas. Organized into fifteen interrelated series, the collection documents Williams's career as a dance teacher and choreographer in Haiti from the mid-1950s to the end of her life. less

SDiane Adamz-Bogus (b.1946) is a writer, educator, and new age healer; she is also known as Shariananda Adamz and "The Oracle Soul-Joiner". The SDiane Adamz-Bogus papers date from 1946 to 2002, and document her work and life through correspondence, journals, photographs, scrapbooks, teaching files, files for the Woman in Moon publishing company, and writing files. less

The collection consists of the papers, 1910-1991, of Melva L. Price, a professional educator, community activist, and performing arts supporter, who lived in Harlem most of her life. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence to and from Price, and includes letters from friends, colleagues and officials of the organizations to which Price belonged. There are also personal diaries, 1922-1936 (scattered); two of Price's grade-school notebooks; autograph books for 1916 and 1920; and souvenir journals from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority's Mississippi Health Project (1930s) for which Price did field work, collecting data and giving support to the medical team. less

The Schuyler family included George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977), his wife Josephine Schuyler (d. 1969), and their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler (1931-1967). George Schuyler was a black conservative journalist, and Philippa was a pianist, composer, and journalist. Family correspondence, writings, news clippings, photographs, music programs, serials, and awards. Most material pertains to Philippa's life and her professional career, including her travels in Southeast Asia and the memorial foundation established in her memory by Josephine Schuyler. Philippa's papers include personal correspondence, a complete set of programs for her national and international tours, published and unpublished writings for her books, articles and plays, and manuscript music for her own compositions. George Schuyler's papers consist of typescripts of his writings including "How to be Happy Though Colored," "The Negro in America," "The Plantation American Negro," "Robert Clifton Weaver," and "Portrait of a Public Servant." Also, a smaller amount of material concerns Josephine Schuyler, including her writings under the name Heba Jannath, her diaries, and her work in the memorial foundation established for Philippa. less