Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1902 - 1967
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Countée Cullen papers
Collection — Container: Drawing of Cullen
Identifier: 111
Scope and Contents
The papers of poet and playwright Countee Cullen document his personal and professional lives, as well as his relations with leading writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance era. Among the papers, which measure 11.9 linear feet, are correspondence; accounts, records, documents, legal papers, and certificates; a fragmentary diary (1928); teaching plan books and other teaching records; writings, including, articles, a book review, letters to editors, juvenile novels, plays, poems, a...
Dates:
Created: 1900-1947; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Countée Cullen papers
Clifford V. Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: 473
Content Description
Clifford V. Johnson is the former Vice President for Development at Dillard University and Director of Development at the Amistad Research Center. He has also written short stories. His papers include three letters, one card, and a poem, entitled "The Backlash Blues" sent to Johnson from Langston Hughes. Johnson developed an acquaintance with Hughes in the mid 1960s when Johnson's short story "Old Blues Singers Never Die" was published in the anthology ...
Dates:
Other: 1964-1966
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Clifford V. Johnson papers
Saga of Shine collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2084
Scope and Contents
A collection of six typescript poems with a title page "Saga of Shine: Various Folk Versions of a Rhymed Negro Folk Poem as Collected by Langston Hughes, 1952-1955." Variously known as "Shine and the Titanic," "Shine on the Titanic," "Shine and the Great Titanic," or simply "Shine," this African American vernacular poem or toast, typically rhymed and often bawdy, involves a Black deckhand who swims to safety amidst the sinking of the ...
Dates:
Created: circa 1955; Other: Date acquired: 09/14/1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Saga of Shine collection
Hale Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: 667
Scope and Contents
The Hale Smith papers cover the length of Smith's musical career, documenting his education at the Cleveland Institute of Music; his early career in Cleveland, particularly with the Karamu Theatre; his move to New York where he worked the jazz circuit with Dizzy Gillepsie and Chico Hamilton before he settled into his career as a music editor, an educator, and a copyright specialist; and the relationships he developed over time up to shortly before his death. Hale Smith maintained a...
Dates:
Created: 1840-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Hale Smith papers
Howard Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: 358
Content Description
The papers primarily document the life of Howard Swanson and his contribution to classical music history. The papers are of interest for studying African American composers and more specifically Black scholars of operatic and classical music. Formats in the collection include correspondence, financial records, memorabilia and programs of Swanson’s performances. The bulk of the collection consists of sheet music manuscripts, including several unpublished works. Additionally, the papers...
Dates:
1933-1980, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Howard Swanson papers
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- African American composers 2
- African American musicians 2
- American poetry -- African American authors 2
- Photographs 2
- Sound recordings 2
- African American authors 1
- African American gays 1
- African American poets -- Archives 1
- African American singers -- opera 1
- African Americans -- Folklore 1
- Certificates 1
- Correspondence 1
- Cullen, Countée, 1903-1946 -- Archives 1
- Education 1
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 1
- Letters 1
- Letters to the editor 1
- News Clippings 1
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Archives 1
- Programs 1
- Race relations 1
- Racism -- United States 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Speeches 1
- Women 1 ∧ less
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