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William Alphaeus Hunton papers

Title
William Alphaeus Hunton papers, 1926-1967.
Author
Hunton, Alphaeus, 1903-1970.
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r. 3Mixed materialUse in library Sc Micro R-5003 r. 3Schomburg 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.
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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.
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Local Subject
Encyclopedia Africana project.
Added Author
Hunton, Dorothy.
Research Call Number
Sc Micro R-5003
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