Research Catalog

Title

David Levering Lewis "Voices from the Renaissance" collection, 1974-1977.

Author

Lewis, David Levering, 1936-

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Details

Additional Authors

• Abdul, Raoul.
• Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998.
• James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989.
• Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987.
• Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975.

Description

.2 linear feet

Summary

The David Levering Lewis "Voices from the Renaissance" Collection consists of forty-three summary transcripts of interviews Lewis conducted with individuals who were either active during the Harlem Renaissance period or who knew people who were Harlem Renaissance figures. The interviews were done for Lewis' book, "When Harlem was in Vogue" (1981). The transcriptions are impressionistic rather than verbatim, which Lewis prepared from the fifty-two audiotapes containing the interviews. Interviewees include Raoul Abdul, Wilhelmina Adams, Aaron Douglas, Jean Blackwell Hutson, C.L.R. James, Bruce Nugent and Leigh Whipper regarding their lives and about W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, J.A. Rogers, and Carl Van Vechten and his book, "Nigger Heaven."

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Rogers, J. A (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966
• Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
• Douglas, Aaron
• Adams, Wilhelmina F (Wilhelmina Ferris), -1987
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Black author
• Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History
• Harlem Renaissance
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History

Note

• Audiotapes transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

• Lewis, David Levering

Biography (note)

• David Levering Lewis is a Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and earlier taught American and African American history at the University of California, San Diego. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Lewis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk University, 1956; Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, 1958; and his Ph. D. degree from the London School of Economics in economic history, 1962. Lewis' research focuses on twentieth century African American history and comparative intellectual and cultural history as well as European and African history in the late nineteenth century. He is the author of "When Harlem was in Vogue" (1981).

Call Number

Sc MG 335

OCLC

122363964

Author

Lewis, David Levering, 1936-

Title

David Levering Lewis "Voices from the Renaissance" collection, 1974-1977.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

volume

Biography

David Levering Lewis is a Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and earlier taught American and African American history at the University of California, San Diego. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Lewis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk University, 1956; Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, 1958; and his Ph. D. degree from the London School of Economics in economic history, 1962. Lewis' research focuses on twentieth century African American history and comparative intellectual and cultural history as well as European and African history in the late nineteenth century. He is the author of "When Harlem was in Vogue" (1981).

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Abdul, Raoul.

Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998.

James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989.

Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987.

Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 335