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William Alphaeus Hunton papers
- Title
- William Alphaeus Hunton papers, 1926-1967.
- Author
- Hunton, Alphaeus, 1903-1970.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | r. 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc Micro R-5003 r. 3 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | r. 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc Micro R-5003 r. 2 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | r. 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc Micro R-5003 r. 1 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Additional Authors
- Hunton, Dorothy.
- Description
- 1 lin. ft.
- 3 microfilm reels.
- Summary
- Personal papers including biographical statements, and correspondence with other scholars and African political leaders including E.U. Essien, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, and Nnamdi Azikiwe of Eastern Nigeria. Correspondence, court summonses and subpoenas, petitions, press releases, and printed matter related to Hunton's imprisonment for refusing to submit the records of the Civil Rights Bail Fund to the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities. Other papers concern his teaching activities. Hunton's work for the Encyclopedia Africana Project is represented by administrative files, personnel records, correspondence with Dr. J. Yanney-Wilson, Secretary of the Ghana Academy of Sciences, area editors, and Africanist scholars, and minutes, administrative reports and memoranda. Correspondence with Kwame Nkrumah, 1962-1970; and a clipping file on Nkrumah. Material pertaining to the National Negro Congress consisting mainly of press releases and printed matter relating to the Labor Committee of the Washington Branch of the National Negro Congress, and to the Dies Committee allegation that Hunton was a communist. Hunton's involvement with the Council on African Affairs is represented by correspondence, administrative and financial records, legal and financial documents, and printed matter.
- Subjects
- National Negro Congress (U.S.)
- Hunton, Dorothy
- Black people > South Africa > Political activity
- Civil rights > United States
- Dies, Martin, 1900-1972
- Encyclopedia Africana project
- Hunton, Dorothy > Alphaeus Hunton": the unsung valiant
- Ghana Academy of Sciences
- Africa > Politics and government > 1945-1960
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964
- Ghana > Politics and government > 1957-1979
- African National Congress
- Civil Rights Bail Fund
- United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
- Kuanda, Kenneth D (Kenneth David), 1924-
- Council on African Affairs
- Black militant organizations > South Africa
- Nigeria > Politics and government > 1960-1975
- South Africa > Politics and government > 1948-1961
- African Americans > Political activity
- African Americans > Societies, etc
- United States > Politics and government > 1933-1953
- Black nationalism > South Africa
- Yanney-Wilson, J
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
- National Negro Congress (U.S.) > Washington Branch > Labor Committee
- Hunton, Alphaeus, 1903-1970
- Sisulu, Walter Max, 1912-
- Essien-Udom, E. U
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
- Azikiwe, Nnamdi, 1904-1996
- Governmental investigations > United States
- Civilization, African > Research
- United States > Congress > House > Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
- Political parties > South Africa
- Bunche, Ralph J (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Films transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Access (note)
- Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Collection available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Hunton, Dorothy
- Biography (note)
- William Alphaeus Hunton was an expert on Africa, political activist, administrator of the Council on African Affairs, 1943-1955, and the Encyclopedia Africana Project in Ghana, 1962-1966.
- Publications (note)
- "Alphaeus Hunton: The Unsung Valiant," Dorothy Hunton 1986.
- Processing Action (note)
- Surveyed
- Updated
- Call Number
- Sc Micro R-5003
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A115
- Author
- Hunton, Alphaeus, 1903-1970.
- Title
- William Alphaeus Hunton papers, 1926-1967.
- Access
- Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
- Additional Formats
- Collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library; call number Sc Micro R-5003.
- Biography
- William Alphaeus Hunton was an expert on Africa, political activist, administrator of the Council on African Affairs, 1943-1955, and the Encyclopedia Africana Project in Ghana, 1962-1966.
- Publications
- "Alphaeus Hunton: The Unsung Valiant," Dorothy Hunton 1986.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Encyclopedia Africana project.
- Added Author
- Hunton, Dorothy.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Micro R-5003