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Additional authors

1. Delany, Hubert T
2. Fairley, James Alexander
3. Jenkins, Philip Merriman, 1898-1988
4. King, Woodie, Jr., 1937-
5. Meyer, Max, 1946-
6. Tate, DuDonna E. (DuDonna Elizabeth), 1916-2004
7. White, Walter
8. Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

Description

1. 4.8 lin. ft. (13 boxes)

Summary

1. This collection consists of correspondence, reports, speeches, minutes, notes, clippings and other material documenting Collymore's activities at the vanguard of civil rights in Westchester County, New York. There are files for all of the major organizations that Collymore was associated and held office with, among them: NAACP (White Plains Branch), including the nation-wide anti-lynching campaign that he worked on; the Colored Republicans Committee containing information on Black Republican activities and politics in Westchester County; the YMCA-White Plains; and White Plains Community Church (which he and his family integrated in 1927). There are also correspondence and miscellaneous documents that provide a glimpse into his personal and professional lives.

Subject

1. Collymore, Errold, 1892-1972. - [Browse in index]
2. Collymore, Errold Duncan. - [Browse in index]
3. Collymore, Magdalene Lewis. - [Browse in index]
4. Collymore, Errold Duncan Jr. - [Browse in index]
5. Collymore, Cynthia. - [Browse in index]
6. Collymore, James. - [Browse in index]
7. Collymore, Johnnie Nazarene Ewing. - [Browse in index]
8. United States. Federal Works Agency. - [Browse in index]
9. American Unitarian Association. - [Browse in index]
10. Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) - [Browse in index]
11. Howard University. - [Browse in index]
12. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. - [Browse in index]
13. National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. - [Browse in index]
14. United Colored Republican Clubs (White Plains, N.Y.) - [Browse in index]
15. Community Unitarian Church (White Plains, N.Y.) - [Browse in index]
16. White Plains Urban League. - [Browse in index]
17. White Plains YMCA. - [Browse in index]
18. African Americans in dentistry. - [Browse in index]
19. African American dentists. - [Browse in index]
20. African American theater. - [Browse in index]
21. African American theater -- New York (State) -- New York. - [Browse in index]
22. Amateur theater. - [Browse in index]
23. Caribbean Americans. - [Browse in index]
24. Civil rights. - [Browse in index]
25. Emigration and immigration. - [Browse in index]
26. Families, Black. - [Browse in index]
27. World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American. - [Browse in index]
28. African Americans -- Political activity. - [Browse in index]
29. African Americans in the performing arts. - [Browse in index]
30. African Americans -- Intellectual life. - [Browse in index]
31. Heads of state -- Caribbean Area. - [Browse in index]
32. Barbados -- Social life and customs. - [Browse in index]

Genre/Form

1. Radio scripts.
2. Manuscripts.
3. Theater programs.

Call number

1. Sc MG 888

Language

1. English

Source (note)

1. James L. Collymore

Biography (note)

1. Born in Barbados, Errold Collymore immigrated to the United States in 1912 and graduated from Howard University's dental school eleven years later. His subsequent struggle to rent an office in White Plains, New York compelled him into a life of civil rights activism which saw him organize a local NAACP chapter and become chairman of Westchester County's United Colored Republican Clubs. He was also involved with the YMCA and served on a number of committees concerned with housing equality and standards for Westchester County's Black residents. Attending to equality in the religious realm as well, Collymore and his family integrated the White Plains Community Church when they joined its congregation in 1927.

Source

1. James L. Collymore Gift July 2013 SCM 13-36

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Black author.