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Mary McLeod Bethune papers
Collection — Box: 3
Identifier: 046
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of outgoing and incoming correspondence. Primary correspondents include John Hope, Frank S. Horne, Mary W. Ovington, William Pickens, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., John J. Tigert, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, and Plummer Bernard Young. The correspondence is chiefly invitations to speak and letters of congratulations to Bethune after being named the recipient of the 21st Joel E. Spingarn Medal. This includes a congratulatory telegram from Herbert Hoover,...
Dates:
Created: 1923-1942; Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1936; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1969
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Amistad Research Center
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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