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Mordecai P. Montgomery collection
- Title
- Mordecai P. Montgomery collection, 1957--[ca. 1988].
- Author
- Montgomery, Mordecai Philip, 1880-1956.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 513 box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- .2 lin. ft. (1/2 archival box)
- Summary
- The Mordecai P. Montgomery Collection consists principally of an unpublished manuscript, "Shining in Death," authored by Montgomery, about a Canadian Black man and his struggle to become an actor in New York; the time period is from the second half of the nineteenth century until the Depression. The collection also includes a folder of letters and a reminiscence by Edward P. Gottlieb, the donor, regarding Montgomery. The letters are from Gottlieb to a publisher/editor, and to author Toni Morrison, seeking to get the manuscript read and published following Montgomery's death.
- Subjects
- Source (note)
- Edward P. Gottlieb
- Biography (note)
- Mordecai Philip Montgomery was a long-time member of the Socialist Party of New York. Montgomery was born in 1880 in Fayette, Alabama, and worked as a Pullman porter, then for the Works Progress Administration, and in his later years, was a messenger in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. He died in 1956 in New York City.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 513
- OCLC
- 643126917
- Author
- Montgomery, Mordecai Philip, 1880-1956.
- Title
- Mordecai P. Montgomery collection, 1957--[ca. 1988].
- Biography
- Mordecai Philip Montgomery was a long-time member of the Socialist Party of New York. Montgomery was born in 1880 in Fayette, Alabama, and worked as a Pullman porter, then for the Works Progress Administration, and in his later years, was a messenger in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. He died in 1956 in New York City.
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- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Montgomery, Mordecai Philip, 1880-1956. Shining in death.Gottlieb, Edward P.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 513