Research Catalog
Marie Joe Browne audio and moving image collection.
- Title
- Marie Joe Browne audio and moving image collection.
- Author
- Browne, Marie Joe, 1902-1999.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Summary
- The collection consists of 1 audio recording of popular songs and 2 moving image recordings from her personal collection. The holdings are available in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Biography (note)
- Marie Joe Browne (1902-1999) was an African-American dramatic artist, school secretary and a community volunteer. Browne was born in Richmond, Virginia to Joe and Lizz Browne. She lived most of her life in Boston, Massachusetts and relocated to St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1945, remaining there until her death. Browne received her dramatic training from Boston's Helen Boll's Dramatic Studio. At age 24 she made her debut as a monologist and received a very favorable response. During her career she recited the works of established "New Negro" writers and poets, including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and Countee Cullen. In 1945, Browne moved to St. Mary's County, Maryland, to work with the USO teaching home economics during World War II. After the war ended, Jarboesville School, where she taught, hired her as the school secretary. In 1954, she was employed by the Spring Ridge Middle School. She retired from there in 1974, at age 72.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Marie Joe Browne collection, 1868-1999. Papers can be found in the Manuscript & Rare Books Division (Sc MG 685)
- Call Number
- Sc MRIS Brown 2000-09
- OCLC
- 1164712887
- Author
- Browne, Marie Joe, 1902-1999.
- Title
- Marie Joe Browne audio and moving image collection.
- Biography
- Marie Joe Browne (1902-1999) was an African-American dramatic artist, school secretary and a community volunteer. Browne was born in Richmond, Virginia to Joe and Lizz Browne. She lived most of her life in Boston, Massachusetts and relocated to St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1945, remaining there until her death. Browne received her dramatic training from Boston's Helen Boll's Dramatic Studio. At age 24 she made her debut as a monologist and received a very favorable response. During her career she recited the works of established "New Negro" writers and poets, including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and Countee Cullen. In 1945, Browne moved to St. Mary's County, Maryland, to work with the USO teaching home economics during World War II. After the war ended, Jarboesville School, where she taught, hired her as the school secretary. In 1954, she was employed by the Spring Ridge Middle School. She retired from there in 1974, at age 72.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Marie Joe Browne collection, 1868-1999. Papers can be found in the Manuscript & Rare Books Division (Sc MG 685)
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Has Supplement:
- Contained in (manifestation) Browne, Marie Joe, 1902-1999. Marie Joe Browne collection, 1868-1999.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MRIS Brown 2000-09Sc MG 685