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Buster Miller scrapbooks
- Title
- Buster Miller scrapbooks, 1938-1942.
- Author
- Miller, Buster.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 529 Box 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. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 529 Box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- .8 lin. ft. (2 boxes)
- Summary
- Buster Miller Scrapbooks (5 volumes) contain mostly clippings about blacks in sports, particularly Negro National League (baseball), boxing, tennis, collegiate athletics and football, 1938-1942. Also included are ticket stubs, correspondence with college athletic departments regarding black student athletes, writings including several write-ups on Black jockeys and a compilation of important American racing stakes won by Black jockeys, and printed matter.
- Subjects
- African American athletes
- African Americans > Press coverage
- Track and field athletes > United States
- Sportswriters > United States
- African American jockeys
- Miller, Buster
- Discrimination in sports > United States
- African American journalists > New York (State) > New York
- African Americans > Sports
- Black author
- Sports journalism > United States
- Negro National League
- Scrapbooks
- New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
- African Americans in mass media
- African American sportswriters > New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Source (note)
- Unknown
- Biography (note)
- Grover C. "Buster" Miller was a sports reporter who worked for The New York Age and whose columns included "Sports Parade" and "Sports of the Age." In 1938, he was credited as a guest columnist and from 1939 onwards as the sports editor.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 529
- OCLC
- 426148951
- Author
- Miller, Buster.
- Title
- Buster Miller scrapbooks, 1938-1942.
- Biography
- Grover C. "Buster" Miller was a sports reporter who worked for The New York Age and whose columns included "Sports Parade" and "Sports of the Age." In 1938, he was credited as a guest columnist and from 1939 onwards as the sports editor.
- Source
- Unknown Gift 1991 SCM 91-72
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 529