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Creator
Stock, Mildred
Call number
Sc MIRS Stock 1980-25
Physical description
1 audio_recording
Language
English
Preferred Citation
Mildred Stock research audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library
Sponsor
An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project.
Repository
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
Access to materials
Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.

Writer and historian Mildred Stock co-authored Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian (1958) about the Shakespearean actor. The collection consists of one radio interview about the book with Stock and Frederick O'Neal, the co-founder of the American Negro Theatre.

Biographical/historical information

Mildred Stock, born in New York in 1902, was a writer and historian. She co-authored Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian (1958) with British actor and theater producer Herbert Marshall. It was one of the first major biographies of Aldridge, the nineteenth century African American Shakespearean actor. Stock died circa 1980.

Scope and arrangement

The collection consists of a radio interview with Mildred Stock and Frederick O'Neal about the life of Ira Aldridge and Stock's book Ira Aldridge: the Negro Tragedian (1958). O'Neal was an actor and co-founder of the American Negro Theatre, located downstairs from the Schomburg collection at the 135th Street Branch library. He was also a labor leader in the performing arts. The interview was conducted by Dr. Eden Grey for the radio program Blueprints for Living, broadcast by WNCN, New York, New York.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Andrew Stock, 1980.

Processing information

Collection inventoried by Stacey Doyle Ference. Collection processed and described by Lyric Evans-Hunter, archivist; and Shola Lynch, curator. Finding aid published in 2024.

Separated material

See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Mildred Stock research collection, Sc MG 177.

See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Mildred Stock research photograph collection, Sc Photo Mildred Stock Research Collection.

Related Material

Stock, Mildred, and Herbert Marshall, Ira Aldridge: the Negro Tragedian (1958), Sc D 97-1633.

Using the collection

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Third Floor

Access to materials

Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.