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
Includes: notes by GW pertaining to BSF and various enclosures removed from original correspondence: one photograph, receipts, and manuscript: "Sequel for Lin Yu Tang" by BSF (n.d.) and Folder 1597 completely digitized
Subject (Topic):
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 17 | 373-380
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Includes typescript carbon review by Alain Locke of The Weary Blues enclosed with Hughes's letter of 1926 January 23; cancelled checks from CVV; postcard from Hughes, Fort Valley, Georgia, to CVV co-signed by Zora Neale Hurston, 1927 August 17; typescript carbon copy of contract between Hughes and Prentiss Taylor establishing The Golden Stair Press enclosed with Hughes's letter of 1931 September 8; "The Town of Scottsboro" typescript with autograph note to CVV dated 1932 January 2; typed letter, signed, from Arnold Gingrich, of Esquire magazine to Mark Lutz, dated 1934 January 4
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 29 | 514-520
Image Count:
68
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Folder 514 completely digitized.
Description:
See also: Photoduplicated letters from Johnson to CVV in Box 50
Subject (Topic):
African American artists--20th Century, African American authors--20th century, Artists--United States--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Authors--United States--20th century
Laura Riding letters to Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
13
Abstract:
Collection of letters to the Hutchinsons from Joan Junyer.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French., Laura Riding (1901-1991), poet., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Subject (Name):
Aldridge, John W., Graves, Robert, 1895-1985, Hodge, Alan, 1915-1979, Hutchinson, Dorothy, Hutchinson, Ward, Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960, Reeves, James, and Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century
Includes letter of introduction, carbon copy, from Knopf for Marie Picha to CVV (1930); third-party letters by and concerning Clement Richer, Anita Loos, Chester Himes, Edward Jablonski (1951-1954); notes from Margo Boucher, the Knopf's cook, to CVV (1954-1959)
Subject (Name):
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984, Marinoff, Fania, 1890-1971, and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964