Print shows a group of men gathered around a man reading a newspaper on the steps of the "American Hotel." An African American man and child also listen from the steps of the hotel. A woman is seen listening in through a window from inside the hotel. Various broadsides are posted on the building
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc50 853woz 01: On sheet 30.0 x 22.7 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc50 853woz 02: On sheet 31.7 x 23.8 cm., and BEIN BrSides Zc50 853woz 03: On sheet 28.5 x 21.9 cm. Written in pencil at bottom right of sheet: Proof before final lettering done.
Publisher:
D. Appleton & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Men, African Americans, and Mexican War, 1846-1848
Manuscript meeting minutes, 12 March 1900 to 19 March 1902
Description:
African-American women's organization, founded on 12 March 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut, when eighteen members elected officers, including Mrs. John Ross, Jr., President; Mrs. W. B. Johnson, Vice President; Mrs. Carrie Hickman and Mrs. Eugene Henderson, Secretaries; and Mrs. Ann S. Kinner, Treasurer. The club met weekly to discuss works by and about African-Americans and to plan community activities.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven
Subject (Name):
Women's 20th Century Club (New Haven, Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
African American women, Societies and clubs, African Americans, Societies, etc, and Women
Autograph letter, in Arabic Maghrabi script, conveying a greeting to Major John Owen in Raleigh, and consisting chiefly of quotations from the Qur'an and from treatises on Arabic grammar. Quotations from the Qur'an include: Sūrat al-Najm (21-23); Sūrat al-Masad (1-2); Sūrat al-Baqarah (285-286); Sūrat Fuṣṣilat (46); Sūrat 'Abasa (34-37); Sūrat al-Infiṭār (19); Sūrat al-Nabaʼ (40); Sūrat al-Mulk (1-13). Quotations from grammatical treatises include verses from Mulḥat al-iʻrāb (Ḥarīrī) and Alfīyat Ibn Mālik (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh). In the center of the first page, a geometric drawing encloses the Arabic text "Shaykh General Jim Owen," along with two unidentified words. In addition to the text relating to John and James Owen and the quotations, Said expresses a wish to see a place [Kaba?] in Africa and With cover letter, in English, from John Louis Taylor, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, dated Raleigh, North Carolina, 1819 October 10, to Francis Scott Key, George Town [Washington, DC]. Taylor describes Said's history and relationship with his owner James Owen, and requests Key's assistance in obtaining a translation of the enclosed manuscript. He also asks for Key's advice in obtaining an Arabic Bible for Said, and discusses his hope that Said could be persuaded to return to Africa with "the Colonization Society," likely the American Colonization Society, of which both Taylor and Key were members
Description:
Omar ibn Said, also known as Moro or Moreau, was a West African Muslim born and educated in the Futa Toro region on the Senegal River. He was sold into slavery in approximately 1807 and transported to the United States. From approximately 1810 until the end of his life, Said was owned by politician James Owen of Bladen County, North Carolina, brother of North Carolina Governor John Owen., In Arabic., Notes on Taylor letter: "Letter from Judge Taylor - enclosing an Arabic Amulet" ; "Judge Taylor's letter and mss to be sent to Dr Stuart, Andover" ; "To the Library of the Theol. Seminary from M. Stuart, 22 April 1837." Moses Stuart was Professor of Biblical Studies at Andover Theological Seminary from 1810 to 1848., Accompanied by a copy of The Missionary Herald (Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, April 1869) which includes an article, in English, "Arabic-Speaking Negro Mohammedans in Africa," by George E. Post, that discusses Said's manuscript, Taylor's letter, and subsequent events and writings by Said., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina., Africa., North Carolina, Cape Fear River Region., United States., Cape Fear River Region (N.C.), and United States
Subject (Name):
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843., Owen, James, 1784-1865., Owen, John, 1787-1841., Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Taylor, John Louis, 1769-1829., and American Colonization Society.
Subject (Topic):
African American Muslims, African Americans, Colonization, Arabic language, Grammar, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons' writings, American, and Race relations
BEIN JWJ W Op56 Copy 2: Bookplate: Carl Van Vechten. Autograph: Langston Hughes: 4:46., BEIN JWJ W Op56 Copy 2: Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten: 17:2; 18:2., 1923-July 1929 have subtitle: A journal of Negro life., Vols. 1-27, 1923-1949. 1v., and SML: Index to v. 1-27 is Kraus reprint 1971.
Pyramid Club (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.), author
Call Number:
JWJ A +998
Container / Volume:
1941-1947/1948
Image Count:
331
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Pictorial album
Description:
BEIN JWJ A +P998: Autograph: Dr. Langston Hughes: 1944 (page 42)., BEIN JWJ A +P998: From the Richard Merkin papers: 1945, 1947/1948., BEIN JWJ A +P998: Autograph: Dr. Leroy H. Jenkins, 1945: 1945 (cover)., BEIN JWJ A +P998: Stamp on covers: Dr. L.H. Jenkins, 2346 No. 25th St., Philadelphia: 1947/1948., October 1941; title from cover., and 1947-48.
Publisher:
Pyramid Club
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
Subject (Name):
Pyramid Club (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, African American men, Societies and clubs, and African American women
Title from caption below image; series title from heading above image., Prints in this series are based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia., Date of publication based on an American publication., Sixteen lines of text below title: One hundred dollar reward. O yes, know ye, all person, whereas on or about the 33d inst of ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Date of publication based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia.
Autograph manuscript letter from R. B. Robinson, editor and proprietor of The Kanawha Advance in Charleston, West Virginia, to Benjamin F. Jones, chairman of the Republican National Committee, dated 1884 September 22. Robinson asks for funds to support the publication of The Kanawha Advance, "the only colored newspaper in the state." Robinson also reports that the Democrats are gaining support among African Americans in Ohio and West Virginia ahead of the 1884 presidential election, but claims that a unified republican vote among West Virginia African Americans would secure the state for the party. Enclosed is a clipping from The Kanawha Advance dated 20 September 188[4] reporting on the first Colored Men of West Virginia state convention held in Charleston on 18 September, during which Robinson was appointed chairman of the State Executive Committee of the Colored Men of West Virginia
Description:
Robert B. Robinson was an African American newspaper owner and editor born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1848, to Reverend Robert H. Robinson (1824-1909) and Mary Ann Warwick Robinson (1832-1899). With his brother Magnus L. Robinson (1852-1918), he founded the The Virginia Post in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, Robinson managed the Virginia branch of The Washington Bee, and established The Kanawha Advance newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. Robinson was involved with the Republican Party and the Readjuster Party., Benjamin Franklin Jones (1824-1903) was an iron and steel industrialist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1884-1888., In English., and Accompanied by an envelope featuring manuscript notes about the letter in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
West Virginia., United States, and West Virginia
Subject (Name):
Jones, Benjamin F. 1824-1903. (Benjamin Franklin),, Robinson, R. B. 1848- (Robert B.),, Colored Men of West Virginia., and Republican National Committee (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
African American newspaper editors, African American newspapers, African Americans, Political activity, Presidents, Election, and Politics and government
National Conference on Equal Opportunity in Housing: Challenge to American Communities, (1963
Published / Created:
1963?]
Call Number:
E185.89 H6 N37 (LC)+ Oversize
Image Count:
72
Description:
Cover title: Equal opportunity in housing; challenge to American communities. and "Sponsored by the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing."
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Housing, and Discrimination in housing
Title from caption below image; series title above image., Date of publication based on publisher' s date of activity., Two lines of dialogue below other title: Romeo. How silber sweet, sounds lubber tongues by night like sorptest music to attending ears ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1831.
Publisher:
Pub. by W.H. Isaacs, Charles St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Afro-Americans, and Clothing & dress. |2 lctgm
For medium voice and piano., First line: De railroad bridge is a sad song in de air., Illustrated title page in brown, black, and white; design by Mordi depicts a Black man, with head thrown back, standing in the foreground; a railroad track winds to a country house in the distance., and Advertisement for "New songs by Jacques Wolfe" (with his portrait and musical excerpts) on p. [6].
Publisher:
Robbins Music Corp
Subject (Name):
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 and Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Subject (Topic):
Songs (Medium voice) with piano and African Americans
