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Description

1. 3 lin. ft. (7 boxes)

Summary

1. The Earl Conrad/Harriet Tubman Research Materials represents the research process used in the production of the book by Earl Conrad on the life and activities of Harriet Tubman (c.1821-1913).

Subject

1. Underground railroad
2. Abolitionists
3. African American women > History
4. Conrad, Earl
5. Antislavery movements
6. Fugitive slaves > United States
7. African American women abolitionists
8. Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913
9. African American abolitionists
10. Slaves > Emancipation > United States

Note

1. Sc MG 15
2. Microfilm copy available from Scholarly Resources Inc., 104 Greenhill Ave., Wilmington, DE 19805-1897.
3. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division and are described separately.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Reproduction (note)

1. Microfilm.

Biography (note)

1. Earl Conrad (1912-1986), journalist and author, wrote about African Americans and race relations among other topics. A native of Auburn, New York, Conrad's early work dealt with New York City. Early in his professional career he served as the Harlem bureau chief for the "Chicago Defender."

Processing action (note)

1. Surveyed
2. Cataloging updated

Author

1. Conrad, Earl.

Title

1. Harriet Tubman research material, 1839-1941.

Reproduction

1. Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, marketed by Scholarly Resources Inc., 1971. 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (*ZZ-10609)

Access

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Biography

1. Earl Conrad (1912-1986), journalist and author, wrote about African Americans and race relations among other topics. A native of Auburn, New York, Conrad's early work dealt with New York City. Early in his professional career he served as the Harlem bureau chief for the "Chicago Defender."
2. In 1943, Conrad wrote "Harriet Tubman" (1943), which documents the courageous life of the self-emancipated African American who served as a civil war nurse, spy, and social reformer, and led 300 persons from southern slavery to free northern territories via the Underground Railroad. In 1950, Conrad authored another successful book entitled Scottsboro Boys which depicted the 1931 case involving nine young black men who were accused and convicted of allegedly raping two white women riding on a freight train they all had illegally boarded.
3. Conrad's later works were criticized for their misrepresentation of African-American culture and community. "The Premier" (1963), a novel about "a black nationalist who dreams of establishing a Central Plains Republic in the western United States," was condemned for its presentation of blacks and the Muslim movement. "The Invention of the Negro" (1966) was written in an attempt to "examine the ways in which white institutions and leadership created the race problem in America." William Lorenz Katz of the Saturday Review stated, "[The Invention of the Negro] frequently breathes with the anger of James Baldwin, but it lacks his logic and clarity." Earl Conrad died in 1986.

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