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New York World's Fair Negro Week records
- Title
- New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940.
- Author
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
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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 42 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- .4 lin. ft.
- Summary
- Correspondence, press releases, speeches, exhibition material, pass and address lists, and financial records, relating to the planning and presentation of "Negro Week" at the New York World's Fair, 1940. Correspondents include Geraldyn Dismond (later Geraldyn Hodges Major) and T. Arnold Hill, both officials of the program. Also speeches by W.E.B. DuBois and L. D. Reddick relating to various aspects of black contributions to American culture.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Speeches.
- Source (note)
- Staff of "Negro Week"
- Biography (note)
- "Negro Week" was a program on the contributions of blacks to American culture held at the New York World's Fair in July 1940, and consisted of festivals, exhibitions, song and dance recitals, choral and symphonic music, concerts, religious services, guest speakers, and a children's program.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 42
- OCLC
- 122580393
- Conference
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940.
- Biography
- "Negro Week" was a program on the contributions of blacks to American culture held at the New York World's Fair in July 1940, and consisted of festivals, exhibitions, song and dance recitals, choral and symphonic music, concerts, religious services, guest speakers, and a children's program.
- Source
- Staff of "Negro Week" Gift 1940 SCM 77-68
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- Added Author
- Major, Gerri, 1894-1984.Hill, T. Arnold (Thomas Arnold), 1888-1947.Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 42