Found 23 collections related to Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938

Papers include letters written to Bruce from black politicians, journalists, intellectuals, and activists including John Wesley Cromwell, Alexander Crummell, Richard T. Greener, T. Thomas Fortune, and Arthur A. Schomburg, as well as manuscript and printed copies of Bruce's articles, editorials, short stories, poems, addresses, and other writings concerning national and local politics, race relations, historical black figures, Haiti, Prince Hall Masons, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, among other topics. less

Author, poet. Born in Jamaica. Correspondence and manuscripts of McKay's works, both published and unpublished, including "Banjo," "Banana Bottom," "Harlem Glory," and "Romance in Marseilles." Included are letters with Max Eastman, from Louise Bryant, Arrack Johns, director of the Federal Writers' Project, and to Carl Van Vechten, 1941. less

The W.E.B Du Bois collection consists of a small body of speeches, articles, correspondence, and related material primarily authored by Du Bois. Of special interest is a typescript, with editorial comments, of the first two chapters of Du Bois's autobiography Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940-1942). The collection also includes a typescript of an article entitled "Miscegenation" (1935). There are thirteen speeches and a book review, ranging in subject matter from "The Talented Tenth", a tribute to Dr. Carter F. Woodson, race relations, labor issues, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Mahatma Gandhi. One of the speeches, "What the Negro Wants in 1948", was delivered at a meeting of the NAACP. less

Harry A. Williamson, a member of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New York, was a prolific writer on the subject of Freemasonry. The Harry A. Williamson papers : additions consist of writings, reports, souvenir journals, newsletters, and court depositions. less

The papers consist of correspondence and writings by Richard T. Greener. Two letters, June 22, 1916 and June 4, 1918 are to Arthur Alfonso Schomburg and are in response to letters Schomburg had written in his capacity as Secretary of the Negro Society for Historical Research. less

Antigua-born concert pianist. Trained in British Guiana and Oxford University, Bruce Wendell began his musical career as a pianoforte recitalist in 1926, and performed in Paris and London before his New York debut at Town Hall in 1937. Six autographed letters signed, to Arthur Schomburg from Bruce Wendell, one letter of recommendation by Schomburg in Wendell's behalf, seven recital programs of performances by Wendell and some mounted clippings. less

Doris Thompson moved in social and cultural circles in Chicago and Harlem where she met and became friends with many African-American artists, writers, and professionals, among them the artist William Edouard Scott, newspaper editor Wendell Dabney, Manet Harrison Fowler, founder of the Mwalimu School in Chicago, and bibliophiles Arthur A. Schomburg and Henry P. Slaughter. She was married four times; her third husband was Andrew Robinson, a graduate of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania). According to one source, she was a professional dressmaker, and in the 1940s during her marriage to Andrew Robinson, she was an active member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Lincoln University. The Doris Thompson Papers reflect a few aspects of Thompson's life and that of her third husband, Andrew Robinson. Thompson maintained a correspondence with several individuals and organizations including William Lloyd Imes, pastor of Harlem's St. James Presbyterian Church; Manet Harrison Fowler, founder/director of the Mwalimu School, who featured Thompson in recital (1938) in one of the New York chapter's programs; and actress Vinie Burrows, whom Thompson met during Burrow's childhood. less

The Frank Wuttge Jr. research file is comprised of material Wuttge gathered about Mary Elizabeth Bowser and the Bowser family. Included are research notes, correspondence with researchers, publishers, television and movie producers and others regarding documentation about Bowser's life. There are also committee materials and the 1977 tree dedication ceremony announcement. Wuttge's interest in Arthur Schomburg and the Schomburg family is documented by letters from Wuttge to Schomburg biographer James Egert Allen, notes on the Schomburg family, and the origin and history of the surname. There is also printed material regarding Alexandre Dumas and other prominent black men. less

Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (1902–1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, writer, and the national poet of Cuba. Born in Camagüey, Guillén studied law at the University of Havana, but abandoned a legal career and worked as both a typographer and journalist. His poetry was published in various magazines in the early 1920s; his first collection, Motivos de son (1930) was influenced by his meeting with the African American poet, Langston Hughes. West Indies, Ltd., published in 1934, was Guillén's first collection with political implications. Political repression persisted in Cuba even after the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado was overthrown in 1933. After being jailed in 1936, Guillén joined the Communist Party the next year, traveled to Spain for a Congress of Writers and Artists, and covered the Spanish Civil War as a magazine reporter. Identifying as a Communist denied him a visa to enter the United States the following year, but he traveled widely during the next decades in South America, China, and Europe. In 1953, after being in Chile, he was refused re-entry to Cuba and spent five years in exile. He returned after the successful Cuban revolution of 1959. Starting in 1961, he served more than 30 years as president of the Unión Nacional de Escritores de Cuba, the National Cuban Writers' Union. Among his awards were the Stalin Peace Prize in 1954, the 1976 International Botev Prize, and Cuba's National Prize for Literature in 1983. The Nicolás Guillén scrapbook contains poems by Guillén; criticisms of his poetry; typescript and manuscript letters from Nicolás Guillén to Arthur Schomburg; the pamphlet "La poesía cubana de Nicolás Guillén [por] Regino E. Boti"' and the musical composition "Negro bembonson, letra de N. Guillén, musica de Eliseo Grenet." less

Arthur (originally Arturo) Alfonso Schomburg was a collector of books and manuscripts pertaining to black history and culture, whose collection formed the basis for the Schomburg Center for Black Culture. This collection includes typewritten manuscripts written by Schomburg, a memorial tribute by Alain Locke, and genealogical research conducted by his descendants. less

Las Dos Antillas was a political organization founded by Rafael Serra, Rosendo Rodríguez, Arthur A. Schomburg (Secretary), Silvestre Pivalo (Treasurer), and others to support Cuba and Puerto Rico in their fight for independence from Spain. It was founded in 1892 and dissolved in 1898, at the end of the Spanish-American War. The minutes document the donation of weapons, money, and medical supplies to aid the independence struggles of Cuba and Puerto Rico. less

The records of the Schomburg Center document the activities of the six individuals who managed the library, dating to its establishment by Ernestine Rose. The records are divided into the following series: General Correspondence, Reference Correspondence, Memoranda, Subject Files and Visitors' Registers. The majority of the material consists of subject files containing a considerable amount of correspondence. less

An African-American educator and writer, James Egert Allen was the first president of the New York chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and an active member of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, and the Johnson C. Smith Alumni Association. He was the author of The Negro in New York (1964), Black History: Past and Present (1971) and The Legend of Arthur A. Schomburg (1975). Allen died in 1980. This collection consists of correspondence and writings ranging from 1938-1975, documenting James Egert Allen's activities as a columnist, Kappa Alpha Psi member, chairman of the Johnson C. Smith University Centennial Committee, and founder of International Associates of Cultural Affairs, a group travel venture. less

This collection consists of one folder of papers relating to the personal and professional life of John Edward Bruce. Included is a drawing of an invention of a metal binder clasp by Bruce; an 1888 letter from Bruce to M. L. Robinson of the National Leader accepting the position of associate editor; a printed poem ("Song of the Night Child") with a picture of Bruce; an essay entitled "Great Thoughts by Great Negroes" (authorship is unclear); a copy of the "Congressional Record" (1918) in which Bruce's pamphlet, "A Tribute for the Negro Soldier", was included; and invitations such as a one for a testimonial dinner for Bruce (1905). Also included is correspondence between Bruce and friends such as Arthur A. Schomburg, J. E. Aggrey, W. M. Trotter, Rufus L. Perry, and Emmett J. Scott; and a letter of condolence to the relatives of author Frances E. W. Harper, including her obituary from the Theban Literary Circle (1911), of which Bruce was president and Arthur A. Schomburg was a member. less

The New York Public Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, in addition to Wood, included Arthur A. Schomburg, Henry G. Leach, New York Public Library, Mrs. Charles S. Brown, Jr., Library trustee; and Eugene Kinckle Jones, Secretary of the National Urban League. Charles S. Johnson, editor of Opportunity magazine, managed the negotiations between the officials of the National Urban League and Mr. Schomburg. The 135th Street Branch Library, under the guidance of Ernestine Rose, the Head Librarian, already had a nucleus of a reference library, the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints that had officially opened on May 8, 1925. The Schomburg Collection became a major part of this reference library. Schomburg Committee of the Trustees of New York Public Library Files consists of correspondence and minutes of meetings of the Schomburg Committee of the Trustees of The New York Public Library. There are also some news clippings relating to the purchase of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature comprised of books, pamphlets, prints, manuscripts and other material. The post 1926 papers include correspondence pertaining to efforts to keep Arthur Schomburg on the library payroll, acquisition of additional material, and Arthur Schomburg's research plans. The correspondence is largely between L. Hollingsworth Wood, president of the National Urban League and member of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, and Franklin Hopper, Chief of Circulation of the NYPL; Charles S. Johnson, Secretary of the Advisory Committee; Dr. F. P. Keppel of the Carnegie Corporation; Henry G. Leach, Chairman of the Advisory Committee; Ernestine Rose, Librarian of the 135th Street Branch Library; and Arthur A. Schomburg. less

Arthur (originally Arturo) Alfonso Schomburg was a collector of books and manuscripts pertaining to black history and culture, whose collection formed the basis for the Schomburg Center for Black Culture. This collection consists primarily of correspondence to Arthur Schomburg; press clippings, mostly in scrapbooks, of articles by and about Schomburg; ephemera; and memorials of Schomburg written after his death. less

The Joseph family was the maternal family of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a renowned bibliophile and collector of books on the Black experience worldwide. Schomburg's mother, Mary Joseph, was born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, in 1837. She migrated to Puerto Rico before his birth and worked as a midwife or laundress. Schomburg and his sister Dolores Diaz spent most of their childhood in St. Croix. Their maternal grandfather and great-grandfather, Nicholas and Nathaniel Joseph, lived in St. Croix in the town of Christianted where they owned a house and lot. The collection includes a certificate of baptism for Mary Joseph, Arthuro Alfonso Schomburg's mother; deeds of a house and lot purchased by Nicholas Joseph in 1835 and bequeathed to his son Nathaniel in 1860; and a contract for repairs to be performed to the family home. less

Lawrence Dunbar Reddick (March 3, 1910 – August 2, 1995) was a professor, historian, biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr., and former curator of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Collection. Reddick was a scholar in the field of African American Studies and collected materials related to the Black experience in the military, education, and professional environments. Reddick's collection contains photographs and negatives used in his research, as well as images illustrating his academic career, civil rights advocacy, and personal life. less