Research Catalog

Title

George W. Glover papers, 1873-1986.

Author

Glover, George Washington, 1888-1993.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

12 lin. ft.

Summary

Printed material relating to the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) including programs and playbills from NANM and other small groups; and annual breakfast, convention and conference materials, and other records of the New York and New Jersey chapters of NANM and the National Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. Other material relating to concert performances by black artists consisting primarily of programs and playbills, scrapbooks, and news clippings. Also programs, playbills, news clippings, newsletters, and financial reports pertaining to the Thomas Music Study Club, founded by Blanche K. Thomas, which was affiliated with NANM since 1946. Papers of Glover and his wife, Martha Seabrook Glover, contain personal and professional correspondence, and documents concerning the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Free-Masonry, the Oddfellows, the Republicans and Democratic parties, church groups, the A. Philip Randolph Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Fund, the Patriotic American Society, the Harlem Cultural Council, and news clippings about Glover. Also, personal papers of Martha Seabrook Glover relating to the Seabrook family.

Subjects

• Thomas, Blanche K., -1977
• African Americans > Music
• Glover, Martha Seabrook
• African American musicians > New Jersey
• Thomas Music Study Club
• African American freemasonry
• Glover, George Washington, 1888-1993
• National Association of Negro Musicians (U.S.)
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• A. Philip Randolph Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Fund
• Political parties > United States
• Scrapbooks
• African Americans > Religion
• Seabrook family
• Independent Order of Odd Fellows
• Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
• Patriotic American Society
• African American musicians > Societies, etc
• African Americans > Societies, etc
• Harlem Cultural Council
• Secret societies > United States
• United States > Social life and customs
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs
• African Americans > Scholarships, fellowships, etc
• African American musicians > New York (State)
• African Americans in the performing arts
• Associations, institutions, etc > African American membership
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Men > Societies and clubs
• Music > United States > Instruction and study
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• African Americans > Families
• Theater programs
• African Americans > History

Genre/Form

• Scrapbooks.
• Theater programs.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
• Audiotapes transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

• Glover, George Washington

Biography (note)

• Music and dance promoter, George Washington Glover was a founding member (1919) of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) which promoted the careers of black musicians and singers. Born in 1888 in Greenville, South Carolina, he migrated to New York City in 1907 where he helped popularize the cakewalk, a dance craze of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Glover served eighteen years as chairman of NANM's Department of National Exhibits and Archives. He was also a charter member of the Thomas Music Study Club which was organized by the composer and pianist Blanche K. Thomas.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned
• Surveyed and cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc MG 488

OCLC

NYPW89-A97

Author

Glover, George Washington, 1888-1993.

Title

George W. Glover papers, 1873-1986.

Biography

Music and dance promoter, George Washington Glover was a founding member (1919) of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) which promoted the careers of black musicians and singers. Born in 1888 in Greenville, South Carolina, he migrated to New York City in 1907 where he helped popularize the cakewalk, a dance craze of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Glover served eighteen years as chairman of NANM's Department of National Exhibits and Archives. He was also a charter member of the Thomas Music Study Club which was organized by the composer and pianist Blanche K. Thomas.

Glover had a lifelong interest in black history as reflected throughhis association with the Manhattan Branch of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. His efforts to publicize and advance cultural accomplishments of African Americans led to his work with the Thomas Music Study Club, the David I. Martin Music School, the Negro Actors Guild, the Harlem Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Schomburg Collection Endowment Fund. As a result of his contributions to the black community, Glover received many awards in music, black history and masonry. He died in New York City in 1993.

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Finding aid

LCCN

ms 82001358

Research Call Number

Sc MG 488