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1. Drafts
- Published / Created:
- 1936, n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 40
- Collection Title:
- Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 13
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drafts
2. Drafts
- Creator:
- Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 40
- Collection Title:
- Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 7
- Image Count:
- 60
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drafts
3. Drafts [folder 5 of 5]
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 40
- Collection Title:
- Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 25
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drafts [folder 5 of 5]
4. Peterson, Dorothy
- Published / Created:
- 1941–1950
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 35 | 657-666
- Image Count:
- 628
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Includes original and carbon copies of letters to and/or from Madeline L. Aldridge, assistant to the editor of Opportunity (1941); Bernard Knollenberg (1942, 1944); and Sidney Peterson (1950); autograph and typescript carbon lists of pamphlets, magazines, letters, performance programs enclosed with letters from Peterson to CVV (1942); photograph of Peterson and her niece Jane White Peterson enclosed with letter from Peterson to CVV(1942)
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists--20th Century, Artists--United States--20th century, and Harlem Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Peterson, Dorothy
5. The Negro Theater Movement in New York
- Creator:
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 40
- Collection Title:
- Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 12
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Negro Theater Movement in New York