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Fight for freedom: the story of the NAACP

Published by W. W. Norton & Company. Signed on the front flyleaf by Hughes, who inscribed the copy to Raymond Johnson. Signed and inscribed 30 September 1962 on the inner back cover by Evangeline Upshur Truman in Little Rock, Arkansas. Foreword...

GLC06123

"American Mercury" [June 1947]

One issue of "The American Mercury" dated June 1947. Pencil notation on the cover reads, "P 706 Harlem's Aristocracy by Will Chasan." This essay is the only content of the publication. Article pertains to the history of the neighbhorhood, Sugar Hill...

GLC09640.281

Negro Digest [July 1943]

One issue of Negro Digest dated July 1943. African American authors illustrate the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes writings about Abraham Lincoln, Fiji, Harlem, segregation in Baltimore, a roundtable...

GLC09640.207

Jean Blackwell Hutson: An Appreciation

One pamphlet entitled, "Jean Blackwell Hutson: An Appreciation," dated March 25, 1984. Item details the history of Jean Blackwell Huston, and her work as Curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Includes the program for a day...

GLC09640.248

The Pamphlet Poets

One pamphlet entitled, "The Pamphlet Poets," dated 1927. Contains poems by Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer. Includes an introduction by Alain Locke.

GLC09640.251

The Crisis: 70th Anniversary: Part 1 [November 1980]

One issue of The Crisis dated November 1980. Item is a special issue commemorating the magazine's 70th anniverary. Essays reflect on significant moments in African American history through eras; the presence of white supremacy and response to the...

GLC09640.293

United Asia: The American Negro [Vol. 5, No. 3 (1953)]

One issue of United Asia dated 1953. The periodical is focused on the news related to Asians. This issue highlights the culture of race discrimination in the United States that the magazine states is slowing down their full potential to make...

GLC09640.314

"La Poesia Negra en America"

One anthology entitled, "La Poesia Negra en America," by Miguel Roman Perez Echavarria printed in 1946. Includes a foreward by Echavarria recounting the need for black poetry. Anthology features works by black poets from Cuba, Dominican Republic...

GLC09834

a part of the American harvest

This fundraising pamphlet for the United Negro College Fund is for ten percent of the educational budget of 1950. The projected budge to raise was $1.4 million. The inside of the brochure summarizes the number and types of professions financed by...

GLC09641.29

Common Ground [Autumn 1948]

One issue of Common Ground dated Autumn 1948. Features topics and authors of various cultures and backgrounds. Includes material related to prejudice expressed through poetry, essays, photographs of dock workers, segregation, and Puerto Rico's...

GLC09640.050