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Alphaeus Hunton portrait collection
- Title
- Alphaeus Hunton portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1987>
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Hunton, Alphaeus | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Description
- 6 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm.
- Summary
- Individual and group portraits of political activist and educator Alphaeus Hunton.
- Subjects
- Olʹderogge, D. A (Dmitriĭ Alekseevich), 1903-1987
- Portrait photographs > 1980-1989
- African Americans > Civil rights
- African Americans > Political activity
- Statesmen > Africa
- Hunton, Alphaeus, 1903-1970
- Gelatin silver prints > 1980-1989
- Hunton, Dorothy
- Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1906-1977
- Civil rights > United States
- Powell, A. Clayton (Adam Clayton), 1865-1953
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
- Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
- Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
- Group portraits > 1980-1989
- Azikiwe, Nnamdi, 1904-1996
- Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965
- Bishop, Shelton Hale, 1889-1962
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1980-1989.
- Group portraits – 1980-1989.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1980-1989.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Photographs bear handwritten captions on verso.
- Biography (note)
- William Alphaeus Hunton, Jr. (1903-1970), son of YMCA executive William Alphaeus Hunton and activist Addie Waites Hunton, was a faculty member of Howard University (1926-1943); served, during the 1940s to 1950s, as an executive of the National Negro Congress and the Council of African Affairs; was an expert on African affairs and active opponent to the apartheid government in South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s; was questioned, harrassed, and jailed for contempt, by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for alledged subversive (i.e. Communist) activities (1951); and, during his final years, was either touring Africa, Europe and the Soviet Union or living, with his wife, Dorothy, in Africa.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Hunton, Alphaeus
- OCLC
- NYPG99-F209
- Title
- Alphaeus Hunton portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1987>
- Biography
- William Alphaeus Hunton, Jr. (1903-1970), son of YMCA executive William Alphaeus Hunton and activist Addie Waites Hunton, was a faculty member of Howard University (1926-1943); served, during the 1940s to 1950s, as an executive of the National Negro Congress and the Council of African Affairs; was an expert on African affairs and active opponent to the apartheid government in South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s; was questioned, harrassed, and jailed for contempt, by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for alledged subversive (i.e. Communist) activities (1951); and, during his final years, was either touring Africa, Europe and the Soviet Union or living, with his wife, Dorothy, in Africa. He also published "Decision in Africa: Sources of Current Conflict" in 1957 and assisted W.E.B. Du Bois on the never completed "Encyclopedia Africana" in the early 1960s.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives exist for some images.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Hunton, Alphaeus