Research Catalog

Title

Alma John papers, 1955-1980.

Author

John, Alma, 1906-1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

John, Alma, 1906-1986.

Description

5.4 linear ft.

Summary

The collection consists of personal papers; diaries and datebooks, 1950-1980; correspondence, 1930s-1980s; radio scripts from Alma John's various shows on WWRL; typescripts and news clippings of her columns; and printed matter and newsletters from the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, the Black Nurse Association, and other African American nursing organizations.

Subjects

• Radio scripts
• African American nurses > United States
• African Americans in radio broadcasting
• John, Alma, 1906-1986
• African American women
• Radio programs > United States
• Diaries
• United States > Social life and customs
• Alma John Workshops Association
• National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
• Black Nurse Association
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs
• Nursing > United States
• African Americans and mass media

Genre/Form

• Radio scripts.
• Diaries.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
• Material transferred to Art and Artifacts Division.
• Records and film transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

• Alma John Estate

Biography (note)

• Radio talk show producer and registered nurse.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Accessioned
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc MG 135

OCLC

NYPW89-A123

Author

John, Alma, 1906-1986.

Title

Alma John papers, 1955-1980.

Biography

Radio talk show producer and registered nurse. Alma John became a registered nurse in 1929, working at Harlem Hospital. She later was appointed Director of the School for Practical Nurses at the Upper Manhattan Young Women's Christian Association, thereby becoming the first African American woman director of a school of practical nursing in New York State. As Executive Director of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, she hosted and wrote the scripts for the radio program, "Brown Women in White." In 1952, she got her first radio program on station WWRL, covering everything from religion to teenagers. Alma John later wrote a syndicated column that appeared in the African American press, and also hosted and and eventually produced the televison program "Black Pride."

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Added Author

John, Alma, 1906-1986.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 135