Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008. and The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Name):
United States.--Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors--20th century, African Americans--Social life and customs, Antislavery movements--United States, Authors, American--20th century, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
1) 19 page typescript of essay "A.R. and the Nineteenth Century," heavily edited and rewritten by Geldzahler in ink; 2) 28 page typescript with heavy edits and rewrites by Geldzahler in margin, some cutting and pasting; 3) 18 page onionskin carbon; 4) 9 8 x 10 b/w glossy photos of photographs by A.P.R.; 5) approximately 10 pages of typeset galleys of the essay, some corrections in pen.
Folder titled Indian Rights Association 1974-1980 completely digitized. Folder titled National Congress of American Indian Materials completely digitized. This box includes correspondence relating to the following organizations: Indian Rights Association,
Subject (Topic):
Civil rights workers--United States--20th Century, Civil rights workers--United States--Archives, Indians of North Americ, Indians of North America -- Civil rights, and Indians of North America--Government relations
Anne Forster Berkeley letters to William Samuel Johnson
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Approximately 12 letters from Anne Forster Berkeley to William Samuel Johnson, 1770-1771 and undated, concerning their mutual interest in mystical Christian doctrine and spirituality. Letters include and are accompanied by excerpts, copies and translations by Berkeley and others, chiefly in Berkeley's hand, of the writings of François Fénelon, Madame Guyon, and Nathaniel Hooke on subjects such as imputed righteousness, the use of adversity, inward Christianity, and aridity and coldness in prayer. Accompanied also by two letters from Berkeley's son George Berkeley to Samuel Johnson, father of William Samuel Johnson, 1755-1756; one letter from George Berkeley to William Samuel Johnson, 1780; and two copies of a printed leaflet containing predestinarian texts.
Description:
Anne Forster married Church of Ireland clergyman George Berkeley in 1728. The couple spent the early years of their marriage in Middletown, Rhode Island before returning to Ireland, where Berkeley was appointed Bishop of Cloyne in 1734. Four of their children survived to adulthood: Henry, George, William, and Julia. Anne Berkeley died at Langley, Kent, on 27 May 1786., Source unknown., and William Samuel Johnson (Yale 1744) was the son of clergyman Samuel Johnson of Stratford, Connecticut, a friend and follower of George Berkeley and president of Kings College from 1754-1763. William Samuel Johnson renewed his family's friendship with the Berkeley family while in London on legal buisness in 1767-1771. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1788 and in 1791 became president of Columbia University (formerly King's College). He retired in 1800 to live in Stratford until his death in 1819.
Subject (Name):
Berkeley, Anne Forster, 1700-1786 and Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819