Author: Mackey, Howard H. Sr., 1901-1987
Title: Papers, 1925-1975
Description: 6 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American architect and educator; faculty member and head of the
Architectural Department and School of Architecture and Planning at
Howard University. Personal papers, correspondence, writings by
Mackey, documents concerning the Architectural Department and School
of Architecture and Planning at Howard University, project materials,
photographs, slides, architectural drawings, and site plans relating
to Mackey's activities at Howard and his career as a practicing
architect. Includes material concerning Mackey's work as an
architectural advisor to the governments of British Guiana and
Surinam and his service on the preparatory committee for the
1956 Conference on Town and Country Development Planning held in
Trinidad.
Gift of Howard Mackey, 1975.
Subjects: Afro-American architects -- Washington (D.C.). lcsh
Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (D.C.). lcsh
Architectural drawings. aat City planning -- Caribbean
Area.
Conference on Town and Country Development Planning for the Caribbean
(1956 : Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
Housing policy -- British Guiana.
Howard University. Architectural Dept.
Howard University. School of Architecture and Planning.
Rural development -- Caribbean Area.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
Control No.: DCLV96-A836
Author: Martin, Charles W., (1850-?)
Title: Papers, 1860-1865
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Soldier. Journal, volunteer lists, general and special orders, blank
forms, roll books, muster roll, forms for receipt of clothing,
hospital statements, death statements, and poll tax records of
colored people in Louisiana; returns of enlisted men in the company
of Norman R. Martin. Many are connected with "K" Company,
20th Regiment of the U.S. Army stationed in Louisiana during 1864
and 1865. Card index in the library.
Gift of Mrs. Martin, 1959.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry)
Blacks; Louisiana
Blacks; Medical affairs; Military affairs; Civil War
Civil War; Blacks; Troops
Civil War, 1861-1865; Campaigns and battles
Civil War, 1861-1865; Louisiana
Civil War, 1861-1865; Medical and sanitary affairs
Civil War, 1861-1865; Personal narratives
Civil War, 1861-1865; Registers of dead
Civil War, 1861-1865; Registers, lists, etc.
Civil War, 1861-1865; Supplies
Louisiana; Afro-Americans
Louisiana; History; Civil War, 1861-1865
Louisiana; Population elements; Blacks
Louisiana; Tax; Poll tax
Martin, Norman
Poll tax; Louisiana
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.74
Control No.: MS 62-4285
Author: Maryland War Bounty, 1816-1872
Title: Records
Description: 5 linear ft.
Notes: Military and other records, chiefly of Maryland blacks who enlisted
in the U.S. Army and Navy during the War of 1812 and Civil War,
and of nonresidents who enlisted in Maryland. Includes discharge
records, pension claims, bounty drafts, proofs of identity,
letters from survivors, death certificates, manumission records,
wills, indentures, and treasury notes.
Gift of Richard Hale, 1969.
Subjects: Blacks; Maryland
Blacks; Medical affairs; Hospitals; Civil War
Blacks; Medical affairs; Hospitals; War of 1812
Blacks; Medical affairs; Naval service
Bounties; Military; Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland
Bounties, Military; War of 1812; Maryland
Civil War; Blacks; Troops
Civil War, 1861-1865; Registers, lists, etc.; Maryland War Bounty
Records
Freedmen
Maryland; Civil War; Black troops
Maryland; History; War Bounty Records
Maryland; Slavery and slaves; Emancipation and manumission
Maryland; Slavery and slaves; Emancipation and manumission;
Revolution
Maryland; War of 1812; Black troops
Pensions; Military; Civil War, 1861-1865
Pensions; Military; War of 1812
Slavery and slaves; Emancipation and manumission; Maryland
Slavery in the United States; Emancipation
United States; Navy; Blacks
War of 1812; Registers, lists, etc.; Maryland War Bounty Records
War of 1812; Soldiers; Blacks
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.75
Control No.: MS 83.1246
Author: Matzeliger, Jan Earnst, 1852-1889
Title: Collection
Description; 4 linear ft.
Notes: Inventor. Includes research materials compiled by Sidney Kaplan,
for a biographical article about Matzeliger.
Subjects: Boots and shoes; Shoe lasting invention
Inventors; Matzeliger, Jan Earnst
Kaplan, Sidney
Patents; Shoe lasting invention
United Shoe Machinery Company Toe Lasting Machine
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.76
Author: Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Title: 1825-1972
Description: 4 linear ft.
Notes: Founded as Union Bethel A.M.E. Church; name changed 1881. Official
minutes (1838-1920s), indentures (1861-1892), certification of
elected trustees, church publications, notes on church history,
members, pastors, and organizations, and other records. Also
includes indentures endorsed by Frederick Douglass, and a volume
of minutes of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, from
October 15, 1895 to October 28, 1902.
See also Simms Family Papers.
Deposited by Josie Johnson, 1972.
Subjects: African Methodist Episcopal Church; Washington, D.C.
Bethel Literary and Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
Blacks; Churches and religious affairs; African Methodist Episcopal
Blacks; Washington, D.C.
Church records and registers; Washington, D.C.
Douglass, Frederick
History; Societies; Washington, D.C.
Simms family
Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.; Churches; Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal
Church
Washington, D.C.; Churches; Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal
Church
Washington, D.C; Churches and religious affairs; African Methodist
Episcopal
Washington, D.C; Population elements; Blacks
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.77
NUCMC #: MS 83-1247
Author: Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939
Title: Papers, 1900-1940
Description: 4 1/2 linear ft.
Notes: Author, educator, and scholar. Relates chiefly to Miller's efforts
to establish a National Negro Museum. Correspondents include
Edwin Embree, Lloyd Garrison, F. D. Patterson, Julius Rosenwald,
William G. Thirkield, and O. G. Villard. Also contains
biographical sketches of Miller, and obituaries, eulogies, funeral
information and correspondence related to the death of Kelly
Miller. Contains photographs, and numerous newspaper clippings
of Miller's writings.
Gift, 1957.
Subjects: Authors; Miller, Kelly
Blacks; Museums
Educators; Miller, Kelly
Embree, Edwin Rogers, 1883-1950
Garrison, Lloyd K. (Lloyd Kirkham), b. 1897
Howard University; Faculty; Miller, Kelly
Howard University; National Negro Museum
Museums; Blacks
Museums and galleries; Washington, D.C.; National Negro Museum,
Howard University
National Negro Museum (Proposed)
Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; 'Kelly Miller Writes About'
Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; 'Lest We Forget'
Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-
Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932
Thirkield, William G.
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949; As correspondent
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.78
NUCMC #: MS 62-4284
Author: Ming, William Robert, Jr., 1911-1973
Title: Papers, 1940-1973
Description: 11 linear ft.
Notes: Attorney and law professor. The papers primarily cover Mr. Ming’s
work at the law firm, McCoy, Ming & Black, as well as the legal
proceedings leading up to his incarceration in 1973. Mr. Ming was
prosecuted for tax evasion in 1970 for failing to file tax returns
from 1963-1966. Although back taxes and fines were paid, he
was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Mr. Ming’s appeals were
denied, and he began to serve his sentence in January 1973.
There is a significant amount of correspondence in these papers
from colleagues and friends writing on Ming’s behalf, urging
authorities to grant him parole and release from prison.
There are also several court cases documented in Ming’s papers. One significant
case is that of Heman Sweatt, an applicant to the University of Texas
School of Law who met all of the qualifications for admission but was
denied admission because of his race. There are also several cases with
which Ming was involved in his role as attorney for the Price Administration,
a federal agency.
Mr. Ming was quite active in veterans organizations, a result of his tenure
in the U.S. Army. Organizations with which Ming was associated, including
the American Veterans Committee and the World Veterans Organization, are
well-documented in the collection.
The papers were donated to MSRC in 1995 by George H. Gray, executor for the
estate of Mrs. Irvena H. Ming.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
Author: Mizell, Alfonce and Freddie Perren
Title: Collection
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Composers, arrangers. Contains seventeen musical scores arranged and
composed by Alfonce Mizell and Freddie Perren, primarily for the
Jackson Five. Also includes a photograph of Deke Richards.
Subjects: Composers; Mizell, Alfonce
Composers; Perren, Freddie
'Jackson Five' (singing group)
Perren, Freddie
Singers; 'Jackson Five'
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.79
Author: Moorland, Jesse Edward, 1863-1940
Title: Papers, 1790-1940
Description: 40 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American executive of the YMCA, trustee of Howard University,
minister, and collector of books relating to Afro-Americans.
Family and personal papers; general correspondence; speeches;
photographs; and correspondence, clippings, printed materials,
reports, and minutes relating to various organizations with
which Moorland was affiliated, particularly the Association for
the Study of Negro Life and History, Howard University, the
Moorland Foundation, the Nazarene Congregation Church in Brooklyn,
N.Y., the United War Work Campaign, the YMCA, the YMCA Colored
Men's Dept., the YMCA International Committee, and the YMCA
National Council. Correspondents include Albert Cassell, W.E.B.
Du Bois, James Stanley Durkee, William Leo Hansberry, William
Alphaeus Hunton, James Weldon Johnson, Mordecai W. Johnson, Alain
Locke, Kelly Miller, George Foster Peabody, Jean Toomer, Booker T.
Washington, Charles H. Wesley, Carter Godwin Woodson, and Max
Yergan.
Gift of Jesse Edward Moorland, 1941.
Subjects: Afro-American academic libraries -- Washington (D.C.)
Afro-American executives -- Washington (D.C.). lcsh
Afro-Americans -- Societies, etc.
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc.
Cassell, Albert Irvin, 1895-1969, correspondent.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963,
correspondent.
Durkee, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1866-1951, correspondent.
Hansberry, William Leo, correspondent.
Howard University. Moorland Foundation.
Hunton, Alphaeus, 1903-1970, correspondent.
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, correspondent.
Johnson, Mordecai W. (Mordecai Wyatt), 1890-1976, correspondent.
Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954, correspondent.
Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939, correspondent.
National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the
United States of America.
Nazarene Congregation Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938, correspondent.
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967, correspondent.
United War Work Campaign.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, correspondent.
Wesley, Charles H. (Charles Harris), 1891-1987, correspondent.
Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950, correspondent.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Men's Christian
associations.
Young Men's Christian associations -- United States.
Yergan, Max, 1894-1975, correspondent.
YMCA of the USA.
YMCA of the USA. Colored Men's Dept.
YMCA of the USA. International Committee.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.80
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A748
Author: Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, 1852-1925
Title: Collection, 1872-1937
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Assistant librarian, Library of Congress; bibliographer.
Correspondence (1911-1917); biographical notes on some of the
persons Murray intended to include in his Historical
and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race Throughout
the World (never completed); and clippings, programs,
invitations, photos, and other papers; together with
correspondence (1908-1937) and legal papers (1899-1937)of
Murray's wife, Anna Murray. Includes detailed biographical
notes on Benjamin Banneker, Charles E.M. Brooks, and Alexander
Hamilton; published letters to the editor from Murray concerning
the school policies of Roscoe C. Bruce, assistant superintendent
of schools in Washington; and U.S. Senate and local investigative
reports on Bruce. Mrs. Murray's correspondence, in particular,
reflects the Murrays' participation in Washington, D.C., social
and civic life.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Education; Washington, D.C.
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); History
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Washington, D.C.
Baird, Frank
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806
Biographies; Blacks
Blacks; Biographies
Blacks; History
Blacks; Washington, D.C.
Brooks, Charles E. M.
Bruce, Roscoe Conkling, 1879-1952
Education; Washington, D.C.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia
of the Colored Race Throughout the World
Evans, Anna
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804; Relating to
Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race Throughout
the World
Librarians; Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.
Murray, Anna Evans
Public schools; Washington, D.C.
School superintendents and principals; Washington, D.C.
United States; Congress; Senate; Investigations
United States; Library of Congress; Assistant librarian
Washington, D.C; Civic and community affairs
Washington, D.C; Education; Schools; Public
Washington, D.C; Population elements; Blacks
Washington, D.C.; Public schools; Bruce, Roscoe Conkling, Sr., assistant
superintendent
Washington, D.C; Social life and customs
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.81
NUCMC #: MS 83-1248
Author: Murray, Freeman Henry Morris, 1859-1950
Title: Papers, 1883-1916
Description: 1.5 linear ft.
Notes: Civil rights activist, publisher, author, editor, and printer, of
Washington, D.C. Contains correspondence, diaries (13 v.), mss.
of writings, newspaper columns by Murray, financial papers, clippings,
and other papers. Contains letters from William Monroe Trotter, John
Hope, Horace Bumstead, John Waldron, and Oswald Garrison Villard. Also
includes correspondence related to Murray's affiliation with The Horizon
and his research for his books. Much of the collection relates
to Murray's book, Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture (1916)
and to The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line, which he edited.
Includes material relating to the Niagara Movement, and diary (1 v.) of
Murray's wife, Laura Hamilton Murray.
Gift of Florence Murray, 1961.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); History
American Negro Academy, Washington, D.C.
Authors; Murray, Freeman Henry Morris
Blacks; Cultural affairs; Literature and literary affairs
Blacks; Mass communication; Periodicals
Columnists and columns
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
Editors; Murray, Freeman Henry Morris
Editors and editing; Periodicals; 19th and 20th centuries
Education; Washington, D.C.
Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture, by Freeman Henry Morris
Murray Fuller, Meta Warwick
The Horizon a Journal of the Color Line (Periodical)
Journalism; Blacks
Literature and literary affairs; Blacks
Murray, Laura Hamilton
Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; 'Chips from the Quarry'
Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; 'The Cynic Says'
Niagara Movement
Periodicals; Blacks
Photographs; Afro-Americans
Printers and printing; Washington, D.C.
Sculptors and sculpture; 19th and 20th centuries
Trotter, William
Washington, D.C; Business, industry and trade; Printers
Washington, D.C; Business, industry and trade; Publishers and publishing
Washington, D.C; Mass communication; Newspapers and journalism
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.82
NUCMC #: MS 83-1249
Author: Murray, Pauli 1910-1985
Title: Papers, 1943-1944
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Lawyer, author, educator, civil rights activist. Relates to Murray's
role as tactician and advisor to undergraduate activists during
the sit-in demonstrations of the Civil Rights Committee at Howard
University. Includes biographical data, letters, reports, minutes,
notes on tactics, address lists, press releases, newspaper clippings,
and notes relating to the activities of the Civil Rights Committee.
Subjects: Civil rights
Demonstrations; Washington, D.C.; Howard University
Howard University; Administration
Howard University; Civil Rights Committee
Howard University; Demonstrations
Howard University; Students; Political activity
Washington, D.C.; Demonstrations; Howard University
Washington, D.C.; Race relations
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.83
Author: Murray, Peter Marshall, 1888-1969
Title: Papers, 1910-1970
Description: 19.5 linear ft.
Notes: Gynecologist, of New York, N.Y., and trustee of Howard University.
Correspondence, articles, addresses, memoirs, biographical sketches,
press releases, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia,
photos and other papers; together with medical records of some of
Murray's patients and papers relating to his grandson, John Wallace
Murray, Jr. Much of the professional correspondence relates to the
National Medical Association, of which Murray was president.
Gift of Dr. Murray, 1967. Access restricted in part. Physician,
hospital administrator. Documents Murray's professional affiliations
with Howard University and numerous medical societies. Includes
correspondence, speeches, and memoirs. Also contains scrapbooks
documenting Murray's accomplishments and the establishment of Harlem
Hospital.
Subjects: Gynecology
Howard University; Faculty; Murray, Peter Marshall
Howard University; Students; Murray, Peter Marshall
Howard University; Trustees; Murray, Peter Marshall
Medical practice; 20th century; New York, N.Y.
Medical Society of the County of New York
Medicine; Organizations and societies
Medicine; Societies, etc.; National Medical Association
Medicine; Societies, etc.; New York
Murray, John Wallace
National Medical Association
National Medical Association; Murray, Peter Marshall, president
New York, N.Y; Medical affairs; Physicians' papers
New York State University; Trustees; Murray, Peter Marshall
Physicians; Murray, Peter Marshall
Washington University, Washington, D.C; Trustees
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.84
NUCMC #: MS 83-1250
Author: Mu-So-Lit Club, Washington, D.C.
Title: Records, 1915-1920
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Established by prominent Afro-American men of Washington, D.C. in
1905. Contains the minutes of Executive Board of Governors and
Permanent Quarters Committee, a brochure, and a newspaper clipping.
Also contains material related to a celebration of Frederick
Douglass's birthday.
Subjects: Afro-American men -- Washington (D.C.) -- Societies and clubs.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.85
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A718
Author: Mustapha, Jennie Elizabeth (Jennie Mustapha Tate)
1898-1992
Title: Papers, 1915-1992
Description: 2 linear ft.
Notes: Educator who spent most of her professional career as
an assistant principal at Cardozo Senior High School
in Washington, D.C. The collection contains much
information about Cardozo Senior High School from its
beginnings as the business department of Dunbar Senior
High School to its development as a full-fledged
secondary school in its own right. A controversial
decision that shook the city and caused broad
repercussions concerned Miss Mustapha’s invitation to
Pearl S. Buck to speak at the mid-year 1951 Cardozo
commencement program. Unknown to Miss Mustapha, Miss
Buck’s name was listed in the unevaluated files of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities. Not only was
Miss Mustapha forced to rescind the invitation by the
superintendent of schools, but she was also formally
reprimanded by him.
Following her retirement from Cardozo
High School, Miss Mustapha served as a missionary teacher
for twenty-two months at the American Collegiate Institute
in Izmir, Turkey. She returned to Washington, D.C. without
serving the minimum three-year term, having contracted
hepatitis and jaundice.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
Author: N.A.A.C.P.-District of Columbia Branch
Title: Collection, 1921-1949 (bulk 1939-1948)
Description: 38.5 linear ft.
Notes: Consists of organizational records: correspondence, reports,
minutes, financial papers, case files, broadsides, periodicals,
speeches, typescripts, news articles, and press releases.
Includes records of the Citizens Committee against Segregation
in Recreation and the Committee for Racial Democracy in the
Nation's Capital (later the Council for Civil Rights in the
Nation's Capital).
Subjects: Afro-Americans -- Civil rights -- Washington (D.C.)
Afro-Americans -- Segregation -- Washington (D.C.)
Afro-Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Societies, etc.
Case files. lcsh
Citizens Committee against Segregation in Recreation
(Washington, D.C.)
Committee for Racial Democracy in the Nation's Capital.
Council for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital.
Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.86
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A747
Author: Nickerson, Camille, 1882-1982
Title: Papers, 1927-1970s
Description: 10 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American musician, composer, and music faculty member, Howard
University (1926-1962). Personal papers, correspondence, music
programs (1927-1970), diaries (1937-1974), writings, musical
compositions and arrangements, photographs, printed matter, and a
scrapbook relating chiefly to Nickerson's career as a performer
and her interest in Afro-American music and the Creole folk songs
of Louisiana.
Gift of R. Louise Burge, 1983.
Subjects: Afro-American women composers -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Afro-American women musicians -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Afro-Americans -- Music. Folk songs, Creole -- Louisiana.
Howard University -- Faculty.
Diaries. lcsh Music. lcsh
Programs. aat Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (D.C.)
lcsh
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A913
Author: Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
Title: Papers, 1955-1987(bulk 1965-1974)
Description: 26 linear ft.
Notes: Teacher, prime minister of the Gold Coast and president of Ghana,
Pan-Africanist, and author. Correspondence, cables, speeches,
writings by and about Nkrumah as well as writings by others on
various other topics; organizational files; Ghanaian radio
reports (1966-1969), printed materials, clippings, photographs,
tapes, films, and other papers, relating to Nkrumah's life,
writings, and activities in Conakry, Guinea, following the 1966
coup in Ghana. Includes papers of Nkrumah's research assistant,
biographer, and literary executor, June Milne, and papers of
Nkrumah's associate, West Indian Pan-Africanist George Padmore,
compiled by Dorothy Padmore for her unpublished biography of
her husband. Correspondents include Grace and James Boggs,
Shirley Graham Du Bois, Julia Wright Herve, Reba Lewis, Dudley
Thompson, and Marvin Wachman. Gift of June Milne. Related
materials pertaining to Panaf Books, Ltd., publishers of
Nkrumah's books, have been removed from the collection and
stored and described separately. Access partially restricted.
Subjects: Africa -- Politics and government.
Anti-imperialist movements -- Africa.
Boggs, Grace Lee, correspondent.
Boggs, James, correspondent.
Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1906-1977, correspondent.
Ghana -- History -- 1957- Ghana -- History -- Coup d'âetat, 1966.
Ghana -- Politics and government -- To 1957.
Ghana -- Politics and government -- 1957-1979.
Herve, Julia Wright, correspondent.
Milne, June, 1920- Padmore, Dorothy.
Padmore, George, 1903-1959.
Pan-Africanism.
Presidents -- Ghana. lcsh
Prime ministers -- Ghana. lcsh
Refugees, Political -- Guinea -- Conakry. lcsh
Thompson, Dudley, correspondent.
Wachman, Marvin, 1917- , correspondent.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A890
Author: OG Omniun-Gatherum
Title: Collection, 1778-
Description: 17.5 linear ft.
Notes: Consists of mostly single item manuscript materials. A
compendium of materials ranging from: letters written
by John Brown and Marcus Garvey; articles and speeches
by Francis Grimke and W.E.B. Du Bois; scrapbooks by
Rev. John Mifflin Brown and Rev. William Henry Scott;
clippings on Civil War activities; poetry by Langston
Hughes and Countee Cullen; proofs and manuscripts of
writings by John Hope Franklin, Charles Wesley and
others. Also includes artifacts, broadsides, playbills,
programs, slave indentures, deeds of emancipation,
bills of sale, and receipts dating to the 18th century.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
Author: Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
Title: Letters, 1846-1856
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Abolitionist, theologian, Unitarian clergyman, publicist,
educator. Consists of twenty-one letters written to
abolitionist and politician Samuel Gridley Howe,
discussing politics, religion, and abolitionist activities.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.87
Author: Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893
Title: Papers, 1856-1878
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American senior bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church and president of Wilberforce University. A diary
recording Payne's activities during 1856; a journal relating
to his activities during 1877-1878; and a photostatic copy of
a letter written to the Reverend T.M.D. Ward in 1870.
Subjects: African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Bishops.
Afro-American clergy -- Washington (D.C.). lcsh
Bishops -- United States. lcsh
Diaries. lcsh
Ward, Thomas M. D., correspondent.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.88
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A592
Author: Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837-1921
Title: Papers, 1867-1873
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: State legislator, lieutenant governor, and Republican leader of
Louisiana. Correspondence, writings, speeches, clippings,
printed matter, and other papers, relating to Pinchback's
political career in Reconstruction Louisiana and his disputed
U.S. Senate seat (so-called "Louisiana Case," eventually denied
him); together with biographical sketch and minutes of Colored
Newspaper Men and Union Progressive Club.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States
of black African ancestry); Societies, etc.; Union
Progressive Club
Blacks; Mass communication; Newspapers and journalism
Blacks; Organizations and societies
Clubs; Blacks Colored Newspaper Men
Journalism; Blacks
Journalism; Societies, etc.; Colored Newspaper Men
Louisiana; Governors; Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Steward
Louisiana; History; Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Louisiana; Lieutenant governors; Pinchback, Pinckney Benton
Steward
Louisiana; Politics
Louisiana; Reconstruction (Post-Civil War period)
Louisiana; Senators; Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Steward
Paris, France; Medical affairs; Hospitals
Reconstruction (Post-Civil War period); Louisiana
Republican Party; Louisiana
Senators; Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Steward (Louisiana)
State legislators' papers; Louisiana
Union Progressive Club, New Orleans, La.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.89
NUCMC #: MS 83-1251
Author: Pittsburgh Courier
Title: Papers, 1946-1968
Description: 13 linear feet
Notes: The Papers of the Pittsburgh Courier Washington Bureau
document the relationship between the Washington branch
and the main office of the Courier in Pittsburgh.
Correspondence documents the inter-departmental relationships
of the Washington Bureau. Primary correspondents include
Washington Bureau Chiefs, Levi Jolley and Hugo Warren,
as well as Bookkeeper Josephine E. Lowery. Material also
documents the roles of the advertising, circulation, and
financial and legal departments of the Washington Bureau.
The bulk of the collection (9 1/2 linear feet) consists of
approximately 3,500 photographs from the 1940's to the
1960's documenting all aspects of African-American life
in Washington and across the Nation. Primary photographers
include Blackburn, Cabell, Harris, Pease, and Scurlock.
The photographs are arranged by subject including People,
Business, Education, Entertainment, Social Events, and Sports.
The bulk of the photographs are of entertainment figures and
include images of such notable performers as Louis Armstrong,
Duke Ellington, The Edward Sisters, Katherine Dunham, Ella
Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holliday, Dinah Washington,
and Muddy Waters.
Collection purchased after the Washington Bureau closed in the 1970's.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
Author: Pool, Rosey Eve, 1905-1971
Title: Papers, 1959-1967
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Author, educator, and editor of two anthologies of Afro-American
poetry; b. Amsterdam. Chiefly correspondence with established
and emerging Afro-American poets; together with personal papers.
Correspondents include Robert J. Abrams, Samuel W. Allen (writing
as Paul Vesey), Imamu Amiri Baraka (writing as LeRoi Jones),
Julian Bond, Arna Bontemps, Roscoe Lee Browne, John Henrik Clarke,
Owen Dodson, Mari Evans, Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, and Arthur B.
Spingarn.
Gifts of Rosey E. Pool, 1962, 1965, 1967.
Subjects: Abrams, Robert J., 1924- correspondent.
Allen, Samuel W., correspondent.
American poetry -- Afro-American authors.
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934- , correspondent.
Bond, Julian, 1940- , correspondent.
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973, correspondent.
Browne, Roscoe Lee, correspondent.
Clarke, John Henrik, 1915- , correspondent.
Evans, Mari, 1923- , correspondent.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, correspondent.
Petry, Ann Lane, 1911- , correspondent.
Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971, correspondent.
Women editors. lcsh
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.90
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A533
Author: Prattis, Percival Leroy, 1895-1980
Title: Papers, 1930s-1970s
Description: 18 linear ft.
Notes: In part, photocopies. Afro-American journalist, political
activist, and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, one
of the oldest Afro-American newspapers, from 1936-1961.
Personal papers, correspondence, articles, columns,
interviews, speeches, press releases, programs,
invitations, memorabilia, photographs, and scrapbooks
relating to Prattis's career as a journalist and his
interest in civil rights for Afro-Americans, black history,
race relations, and world peace. Includes records of the
Pittsburgh Courier and personal papers of former Courier
president and editor Robert L. Vann.
Subjects: Afro-American journalists -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh. lcsh.
Afro-Americans -- Civil rights.
Afro-Americans -- History.
Afro-Americans in the newspaper industry -- Pennsylvania --
Pittsburgh.
Black newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Newspaper editors -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh. lcsh
Pittsburgh courier (Pittsburgh, Pa. : 1910 : National ed.)
Pittsburgh courier (Pittsburgh, Pa. : 1955 : National ed.)
United States -- Race relations.
Vann, Robert L., 1887-1940.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.146
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A729
Author: Prometheans, Inc.
Title: Records 1942-1945
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Established in 1944 by surviving Afro-American combat soldiers of
the 92nd Infantry Division, who had met at the Howard University
detachment of the Army Specialized Training Program in 1943.
Correspondence, financial papers, constitution, application forms for membership, newsletters, postcards, and a photograph. Correspondents include
Merze Tate, first organizational coordinator of the Prometheans.
Gifts of Merze Tate, 1945 and 1950.
Subjects: Afro-American veterans -- Societies and clubs.
Tate, Merze, 1905-, correspondent.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 92nd -- Societies, etc.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.91
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A720
Author: Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, 1828-1904
Title: Collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1900.
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American minister, lyricist, and president of Howard
University, 1889-1903. Personal and family data,
correspondence, manuscript notes and poetry, sermons,
printed material, and a photograph; together with the
papers of Charles S. Syphax, a professor and dean at
Howard University, consisting of letters, applications,
and correspondence relating to his work at the university.
Subjects: Afro-American clergy. lcsh
Afro-American college presidents -- Washington (D.C.). lcsh
Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (D.C.). lcsh
Afro-American universities and colleges -- Washington (D.C.)
Lyricists. lcsh
Sermons, American. lcsh
Syphax, Charles S. (Charles Sumner)
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.92
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A605
Author: Ransom, Leon A. (Leon Andrew), 1900-1954
Title: Papers, 1936-1948
Description: 6 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American lawyer, educator, and faculty member of the Howard
University School of Law. Personal and family papers,
correspondence, writings, case files, correspondence and press
releases from the national headquarters and District of Columbia
Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, and clippings, relating chiefly to Ransom's legal career
and his involvement in civil rights cases concerning such issues
as discrimination in teachers' salaries, public transportation,
jury exclusion, and race riots. Includes materials concerning
Ransom's tenure at the Howard University School of Law and his
activities as founder of the Committee for Racial Democracy in
the Nation's Capital.
Gift of Mary Ransom Hunter, 1988.
Subjects: Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (D.C.). lcsh
Afro-American lawyers -- Washington (D.C.). lcsh
Afro-American teachers -- Salaries, etc.
Afro-Americans -- Civil rights.
Afro-Americans -- Education.
Afro-Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Case files. aat Legal documents. lcsh
Committee for Racial Democracy in the Nation's Capital.
Discrimination in employment -- United States.
Howard University. School of Law -- Faculty.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
District of Columbia Branch.
Segregation in education -- United States.
Segregation in transportation -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A842
Author: Rapier Family
Title: Papers, 1836-1883
Description: 2 linear ft.
Notes: Correspondence of James Thomas Rapier (1839-1884), U. S.
Representative from Alabama, John Rapier, Sr., John Rapier,
Jr., Richard Rapier, Henry R. Thomas, James P. Thomas,
and Sarah Thomas; diary (dating from 1857) of John H. Rapier,
journalist, surgeon, and world traveler, containing cash
accounts, clippings, and indications of letters written
and received; and a Rapier autobiography. Card index in the
library.
Gift, 1957.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.93
NUCMC #: MS 62-4283
Author: Razaf, Andy, 1895-1973
Title: Papers, 1913-1962
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American poet and lyricist. Correspondence, clippings,
photographs, printed material, programs, and memorabilia
relating to Razaf's career as a songwriter. Includes a
scrapbook and two bound volumes of songs by Razaf. Also
contains some a poem composed by his mother, Jennie Waller
Razaf, and a photograph of Will Marion Cook and William
Spiller.
Gift of Andy Razaf, 1962.
Subjects: Afro-American composers. lcsh
Afro-Americans -- Music.
Lyricists -- United States. lcsh
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.94
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A530
Author: Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, 1901-1980
Title: Collection, 1850-1980
Description: 9 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American psychologist, teacher, art instructor, actress,
dancer, and model. Diaries, correspondence, programs,
invitations, numerous photographs, drafts of an autobiography
entitled Tan Experience, artifacts, memorabilia, 27
cassette tapes, and transcripts relating to Reynolds's
activities in the United States, Europe, North Africa, and
particularly St. Croix, Virgin Islands, where she was manager
of the Virgin Islands. Correspondents include Ralph Bunche,
Langston Hughes, Man Ray, Ernest Schachtel, Kristians Tonny,
and Richard Wright.
Gift of Otey Scruggs. Access partially restricted.
Subjects: Afro-American college teachers -- Virgin Islands --
Saint Croix. lcsh
Afro-American psychologists -- Virgin Islands --
Saint Croix. lcsh
Afro-American women executives -- Virgin Islands --
Saint Croix. lcsh
Afro-Americans -- Virgin Islands -- Saint Croix.
Autobiographies. lcsh
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971, correspondent.
College of the Virgin Islands.
Diaries. lcsh
Employment services -- Virgin Islands -- Saint Croix.
Psychology -- Study and teaching -- Virgin Islands --
Saint Croix.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, correspondent.
Photographs. lcsh
Ray, Man, 1890-1976, correspondent.
Schachtel, Ernest G., correspondent.
Tonny, Kristians, 1907-1977, correspondent.
Transcripts. aat Afro-American women -- Virgin Islands --
Saint Croix.
Virgin Islands Employment Service.
Women psychologists -- Virgin Islands -- Saint Croix. lcsh
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960, correspondent.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.95
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A627
Author: Rillieux, Norbert, 1806-1894
Title: Collection, ca. 1957
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Biographical sketches, photostat copies of correspondence, and a
newspaper clipping relating to the Afro-American engineer
Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894), whose invention of an evaporating
apparatus revolutionized the international sugar manufacturing
industry.
Gift of Sidney Kaplan, 1957.
Subjects: Afro-American engineers. lcsh
Afro-American inventors. lcsh
Biography. lcsh
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.96
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A628
Author: Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
Title: Collection, 1907-1988
Description: 6 linear feet
Notes: Writings by and about the Afro-American actor, singer, scholar,
and political activist Paul Robeson, awards and tributes,
correspondence, photographs, typescripts and galley proofs for
Paul Robeson: the Great Forerunner, published by Freedomways
in 1977, Russian letters to Robeson from schoolchildren in the
Soviet Union (with English translations) congratulating Robeson
on his seventy-fifth birthday, documents relating to the Robeson
archives in Berlin and exhibitions about Robeson held at the
Academy of Arts in Berlin, posters, recordings, and films;
together with material related to Eslanda Goode Robeson
(1896-1965), chemist, anthropologist, and writer. Includes files
documenting the activities of the Ad Hoc Committee to Memorialize
Paul Robeson, Washington, D.C. Correspondents include William W.
Cardozo and Elizabeth Cardozo Nicholas.
Gift of George B. Murphy, Jr. Bust of Robeson donated by Russian
sculptress Hanya Batyi is in the repository's Museum Collection.
Subjects: Ad Hoc Committee to Memorialize Paul Robeson (Washington, D.C.)
Afro-American actors. lcsh
Afro-American anthropologists. lcsh
Afro-American women chemists. lcsh
Akademie der Kčunste (Berlin, Germany)
Cardozo, William W., correspondent.
Nicholas, Elizabeth Cardozo, correspondent.
Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A948
Author: Ruffin Family
Title: Papers, 1832-1936
Description: 1.5 linear ft.
Notes: Lawyer and judge. Correspondence, minutes of the Freedman's
Lincoln Memorial Association, genealogical and biographical
papers of the Ruffin family of Boston, and newspaper clippings
on Ruffin's appointment as judge and on his relationship to
the National Convention of Colored Men. Includes papers of
John Lewis Mostly relates to the professional and political
activities of George Lewis Ruffin, Boston lawyer, member of
the Massachusetts legislature, and municipal court judge.
Correspondents include Edward Wilmot Blyden, George Washington
Cable, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Archibald Grimké,
Wendell Phillips, Charles Lenox Remond, Florida Ruffin Ridley,
John S. Rock, and George W. Williams.
Gift, 1958.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.97
NUCMC #: MS 62-4282
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