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Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola papers
- Title
- Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola papers, 1928-1933.
- Author
- LoBagola, Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn, 1877-1947.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 142 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Folder 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 142 Folder 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Folder 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 142 Folder 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- 2 folders.
- Summary
- Correspondence between LoBagola and his agent, James B. Pond, contracts, clippings, advertisements, and a typescript of a lecture entitled "My Religion," about his experience as a Jew.
- Subjects
- Black people > United States > Public opinion
- Black people > Religion
- African American entertainers
- Curiosities and wonders > Africa
- Jews > Conversion to Christianity
- LoBagola, Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn, 1877-1947
- Black Hebrews > Biography
- Africa > Civilization > Study and teaching
- Letters
- Black author
- Jews > Africa > Biography
- Africa > Social life and customs > Study and teaching
- Pond, James B (James Burton), 1889-1961
- African American Jews > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Letters.
- Source (note)
- University Place Book Shop
- Biography (note)
- Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola, an African American, was born Joseph Howard Lee in 1887 in Baltimore, Maryland. As early as 1907 he was using the name "LoBagola," claiming that he was from the French Sudan, and was on the lecture circuit speaking about African customs and his claims that he was a Black Jew. In 1930 he published, "LoBagola : An African Savage's Own Story," which was translated and sold in a number of European countries, and "The Folk Tales of a Savage." LoBagola died in 1947 while in Attica Prison, having been arrested and imprisoned several times for petty theft and sexual crimes.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 142
- OCLC
- 122597284
- Author
- LoBagola, Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn, 1877-1947.
- Title
- Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola papers, 1928-1933.
- Biography
- Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola, an African American, was born Joseph Howard Lee in 1887 in Baltimore, Maryland. As early as 1907 he was using the name "LoBagola," claiming that he was from the French Sudan, and was on the lecture circuit speaking about African customs and his claims that he was a Black Jew. In 1930 he published, "LoBagola : An African Savage's Own Story," which was translated and sold in a number of European countries, and "The Folk Tales of a Savage." LoBagola died in 1947 while in Attica Prison, having been arrested and imprisoned several times for petty theft and sexual crimes.
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