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Names
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 10
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 7
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973 5
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946 4
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 4
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Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 4
Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989 3
Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960 3
Jackman, Harold, 1901-1961 3
Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971 3
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc 2
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 2
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962 2
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 2
Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970 2
Dodson, Owen, 1914-1983 2
Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994 2
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 2
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
Johnson, Grace Nail, 1885-1976 2
Larsen, Nella, 1891-1964 2
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980 2
Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939 2
Viking Press 2
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998 2
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 2
White, Walter, 1893-1955 2
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981 2
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 2
Abrams, Mary 1
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers 1
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 1
Authors' League of America 1
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 1
Beach, Sylvia, 1887-1962 1
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 1
Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981 1
Berrigan, Ted, 1934-1983 1
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 1
Black, Algernon D. (Algernon David), 1900-1993 1
Bonds, Margaret, 1913-1972 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939 1
Bravard, Robert S. 1
Brawley, Benjamin, 1882-1939 1
Broadside Press 1
Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961 1
Brown, Joe C., 1908-1993 1
Brownlee, Frederick Leslie, 1883-1962 1
Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009 1
Bryan, Henry Lewis, 1853-1934 1
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971 1
Byfield, Robert S. (Robert Sigmund), 1896-1955 1
Cannon, Poppy 1
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004 1
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 1
Cohran, Phil, 1927-2017 1
Cousins, Norman, 1912-1990 1
Cowl, Carl 1
Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877 1
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 1
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 1
Dalrymple-Hollo, Jane 1
Decarnin, Camilla 1
Delany, Samuel R., 1942- 1
Denny, George V., Jr. (George Vernon), 1899-1959 1
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
Diop, Alioune Oumy 1
Disch, Thomas M., 1940-2008 1
Doubleday, Doran & Company 1
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 1
Dover, Cedric 1
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 1
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 1
Estimé, Dumarsais, 1900-1953 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Fauset, Jessie Redmon, 1882-1961 1
Fisk University 1
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 1
Ford Hall Forum 1
Ford, Charles Henri, 1908-2002 1
Ford, Henry, II, 1917-1987 1
Frick, Dorothy Peterson, 1897-1978 1
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 1
Green, Paul, 1894-1981 1
Guérin, Daniel, 1904-1988 1
Hacker, Marilyn, 1942- 1
Hacker-Delany, Iva 1
Halle, Louis Joseph, 1910-1998 1
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960 1
Harcourt Brace & Company 1
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 1
Hastie, William, 1904-1976 1
Haynes, Elizabeth Ross, 1883-1953 1
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Storage location
Stored onsite and offsite 12
Stored onsite 9
Stored offsite 5
 

Gwendolyn Bennett Papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 106
Scope and Contents: The collection provides evidence of the personal and professional life of Gwendolyn Bennett. The papers are comprised of correspondence, writings, and personal papers, which shed light into Bennett’s career as a writer and educator, as well as her private life, particularly her relationship with her parents.Correspondents include Langston Hughes, who accompanied his letters with four poems inscribed to Bennett: “Hotel Boy” (1926), “Stalingrad” (1942), “Goodmorning, Stalingrad”...
Dates: 1918-1976

Arna Bontemps Collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 6
Abstract:

The Arna Bontemps Collections contains writings and correspondence presented to the James Weldon Johnson Collection by Mr. Bontemps.

Dates: 1934-1957

William Stanley Braithwaite Papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 72
Abstract:

The William Stanley Braithwaite Papers document his personal and professional life and span the dates 1797 to 1942. The Papers contain correspondence, writings, and other papers, which provide evidence of Braithwaite's career as a writer, publisher, and anthologist. The Papers also includes third-party correspondence, notably, a letter from Sir Joseph Banks to J. Nicol from circa 1797.

Dates: 1797-1942, bulk 1830-1942

Joe C. Brown papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 376
Scope and Contents: The papers contain drafts, artwork, correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the life of Joe C. Brown. Correspondents include: South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus, Horace R. Cayton, publisher Dudley Randall, musician Phil Cohran, James W. Ivy, editor of The Crisis magazine, Beatrice M. Murphy, Harry Mark Petrakis, Constance Webb, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Operation Breadbasket. There is also one autograph manuscript draft of an outgoing...
Dates: 1933-1993

Countee Cullen Collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 7
Abstract:

Countee Cullen gained fame principally as a poet, during the Harlem Renaissance, and later taught in the New York City school system.

Dates: 1923-1946

Samuel R. Delany papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 184
Abstract: The collection consists of writings, correspondence, personal papers, printed material, photographs, artwork, professional papers, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other papers documenting the work and life of Samuel R. Delany. Writings include drafts, corrected proofs, and fragments of many of Delany's books, including The Einstein Intersection (New York : Ace Books, 1967), Dhalgren (New York : Bantam Books, 1975), and Phallos (Whitemore Lake : Bamberger Books, 2004)....
Dates: circa 1940-2019, undated

Owen Dodson collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 103
Scope and Contents:

The Owen Dodson Collection consists of correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, artwork, and posters that document the life and work of American playwright and poet Owen Dodson. The bulk of the material was created and accumulated by Owen Dodson in the course of his activities as an author and theater director, though portions of the collection were acquired from other sources.

Dates: 1896-1982, bulk 1936-1982

W. E. B. Du Bois Collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 8
Abstract:

The W. E. B. Du Bois Collection contains Correspondence, Writings, including drafts of Dusk of Dawn, and The World and Africa, and Subject Files.

Dates: 1889-1970

Chester Himes papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 42
Abstract: The Chester Himes Papers consist of original manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and artwork that document his long career as a writer. The manuscripts offer insight into Himes's creative process and many of them also represent the original versions and original titles for works that were later altered for publication. The bulk of the correspondence reveals Himes's relationship with the publishers and editors of his books and also offers a glimpse into the author's thoughts on his own...
Dates: 1936-1980

Anselm Hollo papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1701
Abstract: The Anselm Hollo Papers contains correspondence, subject files, writings, teaching files, personal and professional papers, artwork, printed materials, computer media, and audiovisual media by or relating to Anselm Hollo. Notable correspondents include John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Grenier, Langston Hughes, Gerrit Lansing, Ron Padgett, and John Taggart. Writings contain Hollo's translations of works by Ginsberg, Pentti Saarikoski, Dylan...
Dates: circa 1907-2013

Langston Hughes collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 28
Abstract: The Langston Hughes Collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, video recordings, electronic files, and other material documenting the life, work, and remembrance of Langston Hughes.Series I, Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel Gift, is organized into three subseries: Letters from Langston Hughes, Writings of Langston Hughes and Writings of Others. There are letters to Rhodehamel and holograph and typescript versions of poems for Dear Lovely Death.Series...
Dates: 1924-1969

Langston Hughes papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 26
Abstract:

The Langston Hughes Papers contain letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of the well-known African-American poet.

Dates: 1862-1980

Zora Neale Hurston Collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 9
Abstract:

The Zora Neale Hurston Collection contains Correspondence, Writings, including drafts of her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road, the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and a play written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, "Mule Bone," as well as a study of Hurston written in 1972 by Robert Hemenway.

Dates: 1930-1972

James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 49
Abstract: The James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers provide evidence of the personal and professional lives of James Weldon Johnson, Grace Nail Johnson, and to a lesser degree, the Johnson and Nail families, spanning the years 1850 to 2005, with the bulk of material dating between 1900 and 1976. The papers chronicle Johnson’s writing career and involvement in education, politics, and cultural affairs and consist of a variety of documents, including correspondence, writings, personal...
Dates: circa 1850-2005, bulk 1900-1976

James Weldon Johnson collection files

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 114
Abstract: The James Weldon Johnson Collection Files contain manuscript correspondence, literary works and other documents relating to African Americans, dating from 1809 to 1979. The collection contains several letters to James Weldon Johnson from aspiring poets asking for feedback on their writing. Correspondence sent to Langston Hughes, Harold Jackman, Grace Nail Johnson, and Carl Van Vechten is also prominent in the collection. The collection includes broadway actress Rose McClendon's scripts used...
Dates: 1809-1979

Compton Mackenzie papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1589
Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of writings, correspondence, scripts, personal papers, and clippings by or related to the life and work of Compton Mackenzie.

Dates: 1892-1982

Claude McKay collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 27
Abstract:

The Claude McKay Collection consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs and memorabilia documenting the life and work of Claude McKay.

Dates: 1853-1990, bulk 1922-1948

Dorothy Peterson collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 10
Abstract:

The Dorothy Peterson Collection contains Correspondence to Peterson from such persons as Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Carl Van Vechten, as well as Jerome Bowers Peterson memorabilia.

Dates: 1877-1966

Claudia Rankine papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 354
Abstract:

This collection contains materials including writings, drafts, syllabi, correspondence, printed material, photographs, research materials, personal papers, realia, electronic files, and other papers related to the life and work of Claudia Rankine. It includes materials related to many of her works including Citizen: An American Lyric, Just Us, along with extensive documentation of her work as an teacher at multiple institutions.

Dates: 1964-2021

Richard Slotkin papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2716
Abstract:

This collection documents the research and writing of Richard Slotkin chiefly related to his historical studies and works of historical fiction, 1959-circa 2012. Material includes his research notes, his typed drafts, and proofs of works. Other material includes Slotkin's course notes and papers from his doctoral work at Brown University.

Dates: 1959-circa 2019, bulk 1969-1999