Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University
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Author | : Janet L. Sims-Wood |
Publisher | : American Heritage |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781626196445 |
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When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented her place as an immensely important figure in the preservation of African American history. Wesley's zeal for unearthing materials related to African American history earned her the name of Shopping Bag Lady." Join author, historian and former Howard University librarian Janet Sims-Wood as she charts the award-winning and distinguished career of an iconic archivist."
Author | : Dorothy Porter Wesley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Negro in the United States Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Identifies some 1,700 works about African Americans. Entries include full bibliographic information as well as Library of Congress call numbers and location in 11 major university libraries. Entries are arranged by subjects such as art, civil rights, folk tales, history, legal status, medicine, music, race relations, and regional studies. First published in 1970 by the Library of Congress.
Author | : Janet Sims-Wood |
Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540211200 |
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When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented her place as an immensely important figure in the preservation of African American history. Wesley's zeal for unearthing materials related to African American history earned her the name of Shopping Bag Lady." Join author, historian and former Howard University librarian Janet Sims-Wood as she charts the award-winning and distinguished career of an iconic archivist."
Author | : Zachery R. Williams |
Publisher | : University of Missouri |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-01-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780826218629 |
Download In Search of the Talented Tenth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From the 1920s through the 1970s, Howard University was home to America’s most renowned assemblage of black scholars. This book traces some of the personal and professional activities of this community of public intellectuals, demonstrating their scholar-activist nature and the myriad ways they influenced modern African American, African, and Africana policy studies. In Search of the Talented Tenth tells how individuals like Rayford Logan, E. Franklin Frazier, John Hope Franklin, Merze Tate, Charles Wesley, and Dorothy Porter left an indelible imprint on academia and black communities alike through their impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and women’s rights. Zachery Williams explores W. E. B. Du Bois’s Talented Tenth by describing the role of public intellectuals from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Power movement, in times as trying as the Jim Crow and Cold War eras. Williams first describes how the years 1890 to 1926 laid the foundation for Howard’s emergence as the “capstone of Negro education” during the administration of university president Mordecai Johnson. He offers a wide-ranging discussion of how the African American community of Washington, D.C., contributed to the dynamism and intellectual life of the university, and he delineates the ties that linked many faculty members to one another in ways that energized their intellectual growth and productivity as scholars. He also discusses the interaction of Howard’s intellectual community with those of the West Indies, Africa, and other places, showing the international impact of Howard’s intellectuals and the ways in which black and brown elites outside the United States stimulated the thought and scholarship of the Howard intellectuals. In Search of the Talented Tenth marks the first in-depth study of the intellectual activity of this community of scholars and further attests to the historic role of women faculty in shaping the university. It testifies to the impact of this group as a model against which the twenty-first century’s black public intellectuals can be measured.
Author | : Dorothy Porter |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780933121591 |
Download Early Negro Writing, 1760-1837 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Early Negro Writing, first published in 1971, Dorothy Porter presents a rare and indispensable collection of writings of literary, social, and historical importance. Most of the writings contained in this collection are no longer in print. In some cases, only one or two original copies are known to exist. Early Negro Writing is rich with narratives, poems, essays, and public addresses by many of Americas's early Black literary pioneers and champions of racial equality. Represented in this work are poems by Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley and a spiritual song by Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church. The essays in this collection document the fact that from the earliest days of this country, Black Americans have voiced their concerns on the subject of freedom, slavery, politics, morals, religion, education, emigration, and other issues. Confronted by an often hostile social environment Blacks learned quickly the value of mutual aid and fraternal organizations. Addresses by Masonic organizer and abolitionist Prince Hall and others highlight the importance of these early self-help efforts.
Author | : Janet Sims-Woods |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1625851790 |
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When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented her place as an immensely important figure in the preservation of African American history. Wesley's zeal for unearthing materials related to African American history earned her the name of "Shopping Bag Lady." Join author, historian and former Howard University librarian Janet Sims-Wood as she charts the award-winning and distinguished career of an iconic archivist.
Author | : William Cooper Nell |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574780192 |
Download William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For the first time, a biography of William Cooper Nell and a major portion of his articles for "The Liberator", "The National Anti-Slavery Standard", and "The North Star" have been published in a single volume. The book is the first to document the life and works of Nell and includes correspondence with many noted abolitionists such as Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass, Amy Kirby Post and Charles Sumner.
Author | : Jean-Christophe Cloutier |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0231550243 |
Download Shadow Archives Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts—including Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth—to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison, and provides a nuanced view of how archival methodology, access, and the power dynamics of acquisitions shape literary history. Shadow Archives argues that the notion of the archive is crucial to our understanding of postwar African American literary history. Cloutier combines his own experiences as a researcher and archivist with a theoretically rich account of the archive to offer a pioneering study of the importance of African American authors’ archival practices and how these shaped their writing. Given the lack of institutions dedicated to the black experience, the novel became an alternative site of historical preservation, a means to ensure both individual legacy and group survival. Such archivism manifests in the work of these authors through evolving lifecycles where documents undergo repurposing, revision, insertion, falsification, transformation, and fictionalization, sometimes across decades. An innovative interdisciplinary consideration of literary papers, Shadow Archives proposes new ways for literary scholars to engage with the archive.
Author | : Alain Locke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Amos Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Modern Negro Art Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A benchmark in African American art history, originally published in 1943, later reissued in 1969. The present edition adds a new introduction by David C. Driskell that places the book and Porter's work in context. With four color and 79 bandw illustrations on glossy stock. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR