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Negro Actors Guild of America records

Title
  1. Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk)
Author
  1. Negro Actors Guild of America, Inc

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Details

Description
  1. 20.8 lin. ft.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.
Subject
  1. Brewster, Townsend, 1924-
  2. Childress, Alice
  3. Gilbert, Mercedes
  4. Hunter, Eddie
  5. Whipper, Leigh R. 1877-1975
  6. Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
  7. Bush, Anita
  8. Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
  9. Freeman, Kenn
  10. Handy, W. C. 1873-1958
  11. Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992
  12. Razaf, Andy, 1895-1973
  13. Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
  14. Wallace, Emmett Babe, 1909-
  15. Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
  16. Negro Actors Guild
  17. Calypso (Music)
  18. American drama
  19. American drama -- African American authors
  20. African Americans -- Charities
  21. African American actors -- Societies, etc
  22. African Americans in the performing arts
  23. African Americans -- Music
  24. African American theater
  25. Vaudeville -- United States
  26. African American entertainers
Genre/Form
  1. Scripts.
Call number
  1. Sc MG 259
Note
  1. Plaster of Paris cast of Leigh Whipper transferred to Art and Artifacts Division.
  2. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
  3. Audiotapes of Executive Board meetings, 1975-1981, transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Access (note)
  1. Welfare Fund records restricted.
Terms of use (note)
  1. 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)
  1. Coles, Charles "Honi"
Biography (note)
  1. 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)
  1. Accessioned
  2. Surveyed
  3. Cataloging updated
  4. Processed
Author
  1. Negro Actors Guild of America, Inc.
Title
  1. Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk)
Access
  1. Welfare Fund records restricted.
Terms of use
  1. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  1. Sc MG 259
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