Research Catalog
Negro Actors Guild of America records
- Title
- Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk)
- Author
- Negro Actors Guild of America, Inc.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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40 Items
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 259 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 259 Box 2 | 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 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 3 | 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 4 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 4 | 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 5 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 5 | 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 6 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 6 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Box 7 | Mixed material | Request in advance | SC MG 259 Box 7 | Offsite | |
Box 8 | Mixed material | Request in advance | SC MG 259 Box 8 | Offsite | |
Box 9 | Mixed material | Request in advance | SC MG 259 Box 9 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 10 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 10 | 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 11 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 11 | 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 21 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 21 | 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 22 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 22 | 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 27 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 27 | 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 28 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 28 | 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 29 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 29 | 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 30 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 30 | 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 31 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 31 | 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 32 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 32 | 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 34 | Mixed material | Use in library | SC MG 259 Box 34 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 20.8 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The Negro Actors Guild (NAG) records document the functions and activities of this professional organization. The collection is divided into six series and ten subseries.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.
- Subjects
- American drama
- Whipper, Leigh R (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975
- African American theater
- Childress, Alice
- African Americans > Music
- African American actors > Societies, etc
- American drama > African American authors
- Brewster, Townsend, 1924-
- Hunter, Eddie
- Razaf, Andy, 1895-1973
- African Americans > Charities
- Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
- African American entertainers
- Negro Actors Guild
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Gilbert, Mercedes
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
- Vaudeville > United States
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Scripts
- Bush, Anita
- Wallace, Emmett Babe, 1909-
- Freeman, Kenn
- Handy, W. C (William Christopher), 1873-1958
- Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
- Calypso (Music)
- Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Note
- Plaster of Paris cast of Leigh Whipper transferred to Art and Artifacts Division.
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Audiotapes of Executive Board meetings, 1975-1981, transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Access (note)
- Welfare Fund records restricted.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Welfare Fund records are closed until 2086. Researchers using executive board minutes must agree in writing not to publish names or other information identifying individual welfare fund applicants or recipients.
- Source (note)
- Coles, Charles "Honi"
- Biography (note)
- The Negro Actors Guild was established in 1936 in New York City as a welfare and benevolent organization for black performers. The Guild was composed of six committees: finance, administrative, membership, entertainment, sick and welfare, with an executive board to oversee the activities of the committees.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Surveyed
- Cataloging updated
- Processed
- Call Number
- Sc MG 259
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A163
- Author
- Negro Actors Guild of America, Inc.
- Title
- Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk)
- Access
- Welfare Fund records restricted.
- Terms Of Use
- Welfare Fund records are closed until 2086. Researchers using executive board minutes must agree in writing not to publish names or other information identifying individual welfare fund applicants or recipients.
- Biography
- The Negro Actors Guild was established in 1936 in New York City as a welfare and benevolent organization for black performers. The Guild was composed of six committees: finance, administrative, membership, entertainment, sick and welfare, with an executive board to oversee the activities of the committees.The finance committee kept records of all expenditures accrued; the administrative committee's duties were to oversee all office procedures; the membership committee sponsored drives, promoted goodwill among the members and was responsible for raising funds; and the entertainment committee organized and sponsored a wide variety of benefits and programs whose proceeds were used primarily to assist needy entertainers. Two other core committees were the sick committee which oversaw visitations of the sick in homes and hospitals, and the distribution of gifts; and the welfare committee, which carried out the primary aim and purpose of the Guild: to give financial aid to entertainers. The Negro Actors Guild also published a quarterly journal, "The Negro Actor" from 1938-1940, which was superceded by a monthly newsletter. The Guild collapsed in 1981 due to the mishandling of funds and factional infighting.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 259