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The "Amos 'n' Andy" radio program, 1928-1937 [microform] : its history, content, and social significance / by Dale Howard Ross.

Microform

1974.

1974

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro R-4198Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
Request for on-site use

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

The story of the Black man in radio; (WLIB) [by] Dr. G. K. Osei.

Book/Text

[London, Afrikan Publication Society, 1976]

1976

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 78-125Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Don't touch that dial! : Radio programming in American life, 1920-1960 / J. Fred MacDonald.

Book/Text

Chicago : Nelson-Hall, c1979.

1979

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 80-385Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Go tell it--Ben Hooks reports. [Debbie Allen, Ernesta Procope and the Inner City Broadcasting Company] [videorecording] / WDIV-TV, Detroit in cooperation with the NAACP ; produced and written by Ronald E. Johnson ; directed by Victor Horowitz.

Film, Slide, etc.

Detroit, Mich. : WDIV-TV, 1980-12.

1980

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual DVD-973Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Request appointment

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

Positively black. Radio in the black community/ WNBC-TV, New York ; produced by W. Chris Leonard ; directed by Harry J. McNeill.

VHS

New York : WNBC-TV, 1981-06-14.

1981

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-819 Part 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1500 Part 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

Black news (New York, N.Y.). Interview with Gil Noble [videorecording] / WNEW-TV, New York ; producer, Robert E. Martin ; director, Chet Lishawa.

Film, Slide, etc.

New York : WNEW-TV, 1981-06.

1981

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual VRB-308Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

The status of contemporary Black-oriented radio in the United States [microform] / Kathryn L. Alexander.

Microform

1981.

1981

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-5155Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

George H. Hill, the communicator's communicator : biobibliography / John H. Holmes.

Book/Text

Los Angeles, CA : Daystar Pub. Co., 1987.

1987

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 90-359Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Gerry Bledsoe portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<197-?>

1970-1979

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Bledsoe, GerryItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Vy Higginsen portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1960?-1988?>

1960-1988

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Higginsen, VyItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Frankie Crocker portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1970?-1989?>

1970-1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Crocker, FrankieItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Bob Howard portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1935?-1950?>

1935-1950

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Howard, BobItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Alma John portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1950?-1965?>

1950-1965

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo John, AlmaItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Hal Jackson portrait collection [graphic] / Aubrey S. Benners.

Picture

<1965?-1975?>

1965-1975

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Jackson, HalItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Eddie Green portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1930?-1950?>

1930-1950

1 item

Available online

NYPL Digital Collections
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Green, EddieItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Betty Granger portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1945?-1952?>

1945-1952

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Granger, BettyItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Malvin R. Goode portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1972.>

1972

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Goode, Malvin R.Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Gil Noble portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<198-?>

1980-1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Noble, GilItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Percy Sutton portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1960?-1989?>

1960-1989

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Sutton, Percy folder 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Sutton, Percy folder 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Wheelin' on Beale : how WDIA-Memphis became the nation's first all-Black radio station and created the sound that changed America / Louis Cantor.

Book/Text

New York : Pharos Books, c1992.

1992

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWGI 92-6036Item locationOffsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 92-150Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Bob Howard papers, 1927-1986.

Archival Mix

1927-1986

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 328 Box 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 328 Box 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 328 Box 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

New world a-coming : [a series of weekly broadcasts] / produced in the studios of station WMCA ; New York, March 5, 1944 [May 7? 1946].

Book/Text

[New York, 1944-46]

1944-1946

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc MG 60Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

Oral history interview with Malvin R. Goode, May 11, 1985 / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.

DVD

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.

1985-511

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1367 Disc 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1367 Disc 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

Oral history interview with Malvin R. Goode, May 7, 1985 / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.

DVD

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.

1985-507

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1366Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

Our voices. Black dj's from the early years of radio / Black Entertainment Television.

Film, Slide, etc.

United States : BET, 1989-10-26.

1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual VRA-86 Service copy Sc Visual VRB-1676 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-86Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

Oral history interview with Barry Mayo/ conducted by James Briggs Murray.

DVD

New York : Schomurg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.

1985-1203

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual DVD-1190 Disc 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual DVD-1190 Disc 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.

Alma John papers, 1955-1980.

Archival Mix

1955-1980

9 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc MG 135 oversized folder 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc MG 135 Box 8Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc MG 135 Box 7Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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John Marriott papers, 1933-1977.

Archival Mix

1933-1977

10 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 149 box 10Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 149 box 9Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 149 box 8Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Richard Durham's Destination freedom : scripts from radio's Black legacy, 1948-50 / edited by J. Fred Macdonald.

Book/Text

New York : Praeger, 1989.

1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 95-320Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Personalities [graphic] / A. Hansen.

Picture

[193-?-198-]

198-198

16 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Hansen (Personalities)Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Hansen (Personalities)Item locationOffsite

Available by appointment. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Hansen (Personalities)Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints. Please contact a librarian for assistance.

FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Barbara Mae Watson papers, 1929-1984.

Archival Mix

1929-1984

50 items

Collection information

Finding aid

The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections require an appointment to view and use on-site.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 421 Box 50Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 421 Box 49Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 421 Box 48Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

Rap whoz who : the world of rap music / Steve Stancell.

Book/Text

New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1996.

1996

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc *782.42-S (Stancell, S. Rap whoz who)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML400 .S77 1996Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music - Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

Pick a better country : an unassuming colored guy speaks his mind about America / Ken Hamblin.

Book/Text

New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 96-795Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

YBPC monthly newsletter [microform].

Microform

Jackson, MS : The Coalition

unknown-present

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Micro RS-1028 no. 21 (vol. 1, no. 2 (May 1959).Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Ser.-M .Y72 v. 1, no. 4, 7, 11; v. 2, no. 1, 1; v. 4, no. 14-17, 19-22, 25-26 (1983: Apr., July, Nov.; 1984: Jan., Apr.-June, Aug., Oct., Dec.; 1985: Jan., Mar.-Apr.)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Airwaves [microform]

Microform

New York, N.Y. : Airwaves

unknown-present

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall numberSc Ser.-M .A473 v. 2, no. 4, 9 (Oct. 1979, Mar. 1980)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro RS-995Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Legendary pioneers of Black radio / Gilbert A. Williams.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, 1998.

1998

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 98-1137Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWGI 00-2300Item locationOffsite

Broadcasting freedom : radio, war, and the politics of race, 1938-1948 / Barbara Dianne Savage.

Book/Text

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.

1999

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 99-1084Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 99-8370Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Canada Lee papers, 1912-1999 (bulk 1941-1952) [microform].

Microform

1912-1999

13 items

Collection information

Finding aid

The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections require an appointment to view and use on-site.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro R-6764 r. 13Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro R-6764 r. 12Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro R-6764 r. 11Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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You can't get there from here : the story of music industry promoter Vernice Watson's rise--from the radio kings of the 60s to the gospel explosion of the 90s / by Vernice Watson with Milton Allen.

Book/Text

Baltimore, MD : Verlen Publishing Company, c2000.

2000

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 01-1403Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

100 [percent] Black owned : a graphic autobiography of Chuck Johnson, No. 1 Black in communications.

Book/Text

[S.l. : s.n., between 2000 and 2002]

2000-2002

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 04-75Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Sealed with a kiss / Gwynne Forster.

Book/Text

New York, NY : Kensington Pub. Corp., c1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc C 03-87Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Radio Scripts collection, 1937-1966.

Archival Mix

1937-1966

6 items

Collection information

Finding aid

The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections require an appointment to view and use on-site.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 60 Box 6Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 60 Box 5Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 60 Box 4Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

Entrepreneurs of profit and pride : from Black-appeal to radio soul / Mark Newman.

Book/Text

New York : Praeger, 1988.

1988

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 89-88Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

Hilda Simms photograph collection [graphic].

Picture

[1918?]-[197-?]

1918-197

1 resource

Glenn T. Settle portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

[194-?]

194

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Settle, Glenn T.Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Radio and the struggle for civil rights in the South / by Brian Ward.

Book/Text

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.

2004

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 04-1371Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.