Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. .8 lin. ft. (2 boxes)

Summary

1. Buster Miller Scrapbooks (5 volumes) contain mostly clippings about blacks in sports, particularly Negro National League (baseball), boxing, tennis, collegiate athletics and football, 1938-1942. Also included are ticket stubs, correspondence with college athletic departments regarding black student athletes, writings including several write-ups on Black jockeys and a compilation of important American racing stakes won by Black jockeys, and printed matter.

Subject

1. African American athletes
2. African Americans > Press coverage
3. Track and field athletes > United States
4. Sportswriters > United States
5. African American jockeys
6. Miller, Buster
7. Discrimination in sports > United States
8. African American journalists > New York (State) > New York
9. African Americans > Sports
10. Black author
11. Sports journalism > United States
12. Negro National League
13. Scrapbooks
14. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
15. African Americans in mass media
16. African American sportswriters > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

1. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 529

Source (note)

1. Unknown

Biography (note)

1. Grover C. "Buster" Miller was a sports reporter who worked for The New York Age and whose columns included "Sports Parade" and "Sports of the Age." In 1938, he was credited as a guest columnist and from 1939 onwards as the sports editor.

Author

1. Miller, Buster.

Title

1. Buster Miller scrapbooks, 1938-1942.

Biography

1. Grover C. "Buster" Miller was a sports reporter who worked for The New York Age and whose columns included "Sports Parade" and "Sports of the Age." In 1938, he was credited as a guest columnist and from 1939 onwards as the sports editor.

Source

1. Unknown Gift 1991 SCM 91-72

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Black author.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 529