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Anne Wiggins Brown papers
Collection — Container: 14 items
Identifier: 057
Scope and Contents
The papers of Anne Wiggins Brown document her career as a singer, producer and stage director which spanned five decades. Brown was the original "Bess" in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The papers include personal and professional correspondence, photographs, financial records, musical scores, playbills, posters and other collected publications. A large majority of the collection is newspaper clippings. The correspondence dates from 1935 until 1998. The earliest correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1935-2002; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1991
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John Wesley Dobbs Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 122
Scope and Contents
The papers document the personal and professional lives of the John Wesley Dobbs family of Atlanta, Georgia. The key topics are civil rights, education, integration, race relations, and African American suffrage. The main strengths are the civil rights activities of the family as well as J.W. Dobb's tenure as Grand Master of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. The collection encompasses 5.8 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, sound recordings, speeches, and news...
Dates:
Created: 1873-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974
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Amistad Research Center
William Warfield papers
Collection — Container: 32 boxes
Identifier: 379
Scope and Contents
The William Warfield papers document Warfield's career as a bass baritone singer, actor, narrator, and professor. The collection consists of correspondence, financial documents, schedules, collected items, newspaper articles, and photographs spanning the years 1948 to 1990. The papers have been arranged into five series, which are arranged as follows: biographical information and correspondence, financial records, itineraries and schedules, collected items, and oversize items. The bulk of...
Dates:
Created: 1948-1990; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1980; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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- Clement, Josephine (Josephine Dobbs Clement), 1918-1998 1
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- Dobbs, John Wesley, 1882-1961 1
- Dobbs, Mattiwilda (Mattiwilda "Geekie" Dobbs Jazon), 1925-2015 1
- Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 1
- Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983 1
- Jackson, Irene (Irene "Renie" Dobbs Jackson), 1908-1999 1
- Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 1
- Jordan, Millicent (Millicent Dobbs Jordan), 1911-1991 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 1
- Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983 1
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