Research Catalog

Title

John Henrik Clarke papers, 1937-1996.

Author

Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998.

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Additional Authors

• Cromwell, Adelaide M.
• Diop, Cheikh Anta.
• Walker, Alice, 1944-
• Jackson, John G.
• Fuller, Hoyt, 1923-1981.
• Garvey, Amy Jacques.
• Skinner, Elliott P. (Elliott Percival), 1924-2007.
• Seifert, Charles C.
• Moore, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin)
• Mphahlele, Ezekiel.
• Diop, Alioune Oumy.
• Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984.
• Ofosu-Appiah, L. H.
• De Graft-Johnson, J.C. (John Coleman), 1919-
• Essien-Udom, E. U.
• Hansberry, William Leo.
• Lamming, George, 1927-2022.
• Sinnette, Calvin H.
• Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney.
• Ben Yehuda, Shaleak.
• Ben-Jochannan, Yosef.
• Hutchinson, Lionel.
• Chapman, Frank E.
• Freedomways Associates.
• African Heritage Studies Association.
• American Society of African Culture.
• Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
• Universal Ethiopian Students' Association.

Description

42.4 lin. ft. (30 cartons, 19 boxes).

Summary

Consisting mainly of correspondence, lecture notes, course outlines, writings, research material, organizational records and printed matter, the John Henrik Clarke papers are a unique archive for the study and interpretation of African and African American history during the second half of the 20th century.

Subjects

• Black people > Study and teaching
• Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
• Hunter College > Dept. of Black and Puerto Rican Studies
• Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998
• African Americans > Race identity
• African Americans > Relations with Cubans
• X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
• Africa > History > To 1945
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
• African American Jews
• African American historians
• African Americans > Study and teaching
• Styron, William, 1925-2006 > The confessions of Nat Turner
• African American wit and humor
• Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
• Black nationalism
• African American authors
• Afrocentrism
• HARYOU (Organization)
• African American intellectuals
• African American soldiers
• World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans
• Styron, William, 1925-2006 > Criticism and interpretation

Note

• Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
• Recordings transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

• Dr. John Henrik Clarke
• Clarke, John Henrik

Biography (note)

• Born in 1915, the oldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, John Henrik Clarke was a self-trained historian who edited and wrote over thirty books, and was a leading figure in the development of African heritage and Black studies programs nationwide.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned
• Cataloged
• Received

Call Number

Sc MG 572

OCLC

NYPW00-A12

Author

Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998.

Title

John Henrik Clarke papers, 1937-1996.

Biography

Born in 1915, the oldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, John Henrik Clarke was a self-trained historian who edited and wrote over thirty books, and was a leading figure in the development of African heritage and Black studies programs nationwide.

He was a co-founder of the "Harlem Quarterly" (1949-1951) and an associate editor of the journal "Freedomways". During the 1960s, he served as director of the African Heritage unit of the anti-poverty program Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU-ACT), and as special consultant and coordinator of the Columbia University-WCBS television series "Black Heritage." He joined the Department of Black and Puerto-Rican Studies at Hunter College in 1969. The founding president of the African Heritage Studies Association, he was a consultant to many projects, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Harlem On My Mind" and the Portal Press Springboards series, "The Negro in American History." He was awarded the Phelps-Stokes Fund's Aggrey Medal in 1994 for his role "as a public philosopher and relentless critic of injustice and inequality." John Henrik Clarke died in 1998.

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Added Author

Cromwell, Adelaide M.

Diop, Cheikh Anta.

Walker, Alice, 1944-

Jackson, John G.

Fuller, Hoyt, 1923-1981.

Garvey, Amy Jacques.

Skinner, Elliott P. (Elliott Percival), 1924-2007.

Seifert, Charles C.

Moore, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin)

Mphahlele, Ezekiel.

Diop, Alioune Oumy.

Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984.

Ofosu-Appiah, L. H.

De Graft-Johnson, J.C. (John Coleman), 1919-

Essien-Udom, E. U.

Hansberry, William Leo.

Lamming, George, 1927-2022.

Sinnette, Calvin H.

Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney.

Ben Yehuda, Shaleak.

Ben-Jochannan, Yosef.

Hutchinson, Lionel.

Chapman, Frank E.

Freedomways Associates.

African Heritage Studies Association.

American Society of African Culture.

Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Universal Ethiopian Students' Association.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 572