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Description

1. 1 volume (48 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1913-1934) is about author, educator, civil rights activist, and secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People James Weldon Johnson and contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings in this scrapbook are primarily reviews of Johnson's books, including Black Manhattan, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, St. Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day, Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson, God's Trombones, Negro Americans: What Now?, and The Book of American Negro Poetry, for which he served as editor. Additional topics include his retirement from the NAACP, teaching appointments at Fisk University and New York University, speaking engagements, and articles authored by Johnson with regards to the emancipation of slaves.
2. Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Interstate Tattler (New York), Louisiana Weekly, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier, as well as Literary Digest, New York Herald Tribune, New York Sun, and New York Times. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Uniform title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Johnson, James Weldon
2. Boston chronicle
3. Chicago bee
4. Interstate tattler
5. Louisiana weekly
6. New York Amsterdam news
7. Norfolk journal and guide
8. Philadelphia tribune

Subject

1. Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
2. Fisk University
3. James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild
4. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
5. New York University
6. African American authors
7. African Americans -- Books and reading
8. African Americans -- Civil rights
9. Spingarn Medal

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Johnson, James Weldon)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
2. The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for this volume are AJ, CMN, EMN, JC, MS, and WA.
3. Initials MS likely belong to M. Starke, who clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 8

Cite as (note)

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography (note)

1. The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance (note)

1. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960.

Title

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Johnson, James Weldon.

Production

1. 1913-1934.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Restricted access

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 8

Cite as:

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography

1. The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance

1. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960.

Spine title

1. Johnson, James Weldon

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.
5. Boston chronicle
6. Chicago bee
7. Interstate tattler
8. Louisiana weekly
9. New York Amsterdam news
10. Norfolk journal and guide
11. Philadelphia tribune

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Johnson, James Weldon)