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...
Description:
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994., Curtwright, Wesley., Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974., Ellison, Ralph., Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979., Handy, W. C. 1873-1958. (William Christopher),, Hill, Abram, 1910-1986., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., McKay, Claude, 1890-1948., Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985., Poston, Ted, 1906-1974., Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976., and United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors, African Americans, Social life and customs, Antislavery movements, Authors, American, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
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...
Description:
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994., Curtwright, Wesley., Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974., Ellison, Ralph., Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979., Handy, W. C. 1873-1958. (William Christopher),, Hill, Abram, 1910-1986., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., McKay, Claude, 1890-1948., Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985., Poston, Ted, 1906-1974., Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976., and United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors, African Americans, Social life and customs, Antislavery movements, Authors, American, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Photograph portrait of African American author James Baldwin by Anthony Barboza, 1975. The photograph belongs to Barboza's Black Borders series of portraits of Black artists
Description:
Anthony Barboza (1944-) is an African American photographer, historian, artist, and writer. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and moved to New York City to study photography. In 1963, he joined the Kamoinge Workshop photography collective, an...
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 and Barboza, Anthony, 1944-
Subject (Topic):
African American authors, African American photographers, and Authors
African American arts, American literature, African American authors, History and criticism, Literature, Black authors, African American musicians, and Musicians, Black
Holograph manuscript, corrected, of a memoir by a young African-American, circa 1858. The memoir documents the major events in Reed's life leading up to and including incarcerations in the New York House of Refuge, the first juvenile reformatory in th...
Description:
Austin Reed, born circa 1823 in Rochester, New York, wrote under the pseudonym "Rob. Reed."
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and New York (State)
Subject (Name):
Reed, Austin, 1823?-., Auburn Correctional Facility., and House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American authors, American literature, Authors, American, Juvenile detention homes, Prisoners' writings, American, and Prisons
