Negro Actors Guild of America records
- Title
- Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk)
- Author
Collection information
The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections require an appointment to view and use on-site.
Items in the library and off-site
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Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 38 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 38 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 36 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 36 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 33 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 33 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 26 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 26 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 25 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 25 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 24 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 24 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 23 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 23 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 20 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 20 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 19 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 19 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 18 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 18 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 17 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 17 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 16 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 16 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 15 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 15 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 14 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 14 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 13 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 13 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 12 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 259 Box 12 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 40 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSC MG 259 Box 40 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 39 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSC MG 259 Box 39 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 37 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSC MG 259 Box 37 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 35 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSC MG 259 Box 35 | Item locationSchomburg 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.
- Subject
- Brewster, Townsend, 1924-
- Childress, Alice
- Gilbert, Mercedes
- Hunter, Eddie
- Whipper, Leigh R. 1877-1975
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
- Bush, Anita
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Freeman, Kenn
- Handy, W. C. 1873-1958
- Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992
- Razaf, Andy, 1895-1973
- Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
- Wallace, Emmett Babe, 1909-
- Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
- Negro Actors Guild
- Calypso (Music)
- American drama
- American drama -- African American authors
- African Americans -- Charities
- African American actors -- Societies, etc
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African Americans -- Music
- African American theater
- Vaudeville -- United States
- African American entertainers
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Call number
- Sc MG 259
- 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
- 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.
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- Research call number
- Sc MG 259