Research Catalog

  • How it feels to be free [electronic resource] : black women entertainers and the civil rights movement / Ruth Feldstein.

    • Text
    • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
    • 2013
    • 2 Resources

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  • Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora [electronic resource] : black women writing and performing / Mae G. Henderson.

    • Text
    • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 2 Resources

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  • Staging migrations toward an American West : from Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones / Marta Effinger-Crichlow.

    • Text
    • Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2014]
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 14-1653Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou : April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014.

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : Riverside Church, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 14-1648Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • In loving memory of Ruby Dee Davis : October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014.

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : Riverside Church, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 14-567Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Staging migrations toward an american west from ida b. wells to rhodessa jones.

    • Text
    • [Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified], 2014.
    • 2014
    • 2 Resources

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  • Nell Carter scrapbook collection, 1981-2003.

    • Mixed material
    • 1981-2003
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 904 box 3Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 904 box 2Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 904 box 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Carter, Nell, 1948-2003 (Singer) : clippings.

    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Sc VF: Part 3Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Tappin' at the Apollo : the African American female tap dance duo Salt and Pepper / Cheryl M. Willis.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
    • 2016-2016
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 16-162Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGY 17-1722Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Lady sings the blues / Billie Holiday with William Dufty.

    • Text
    • New York : Avon, 1976.
    • 1976-1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 16-6Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The evolution of Negro music / by Melville Charlton.

    • Text
    • [New York] : New York State Commission, National Negro Exposition, [1915?]
    • 1915
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 16-766Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mary Lou Williams "Music on My Mind" documentary collection.

    • Mixed material
    • 1910-1996
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 922 Box 3Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 922 Box 2Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material SC MG 922 Box 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Around the way girl : a memoir / Taraji P. Henson with Denene Millner.

    • Text
    • New York : 37 Ink/Atria, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 16-1785Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Joséphine Baker / dessiné par Catel Muller ; écrit par José-Louis Bocquet ; conseiller historique, Jean-Claude Bouillon-Baker.

    • Text
    • [Bruxelles] : Casterman, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 16-1751Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Moving performances [electronic resource] : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage / Jeanne Scheper.

    • Text
    • New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 2 Resources

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  • The little black book of backstage etiquette / by Brenda Braxton.

    • Text
    • [United States] : [publisher not identified], [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 20-3Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Queen Bey : a celebration of the power and creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter / edited by Veronica Chambers.

    • Text
    • New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019.
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 19-295Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Somebody's angel child; the story of Bessie Smith.

    • Text
    • New York, T. Y. Crowell Co. [c1969]
    • 1969
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc B-Smith, B. (Moore, C. Somebody's angel child)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J B Smith MOffsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J B Smith MOffsite
  • Tina Turner / Judy L. Hasday.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, [1999], c2000.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 03-1130Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Put your dreams first : handle your [entertainment] business / Thembisa S. Mshaka ; with a foreword by Vanessa Williams.

    • Text
    • New York : Business Plus, 2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 09-941Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • How it feels to be free : black women entertainers and the civil rights movement / Ruth Feldstein.

    • Text
    • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 14-84Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • American cocktail : a "colored girl" in the world / Anita Reynolds with Howard M. Miller ; edited and with introduction and notes by George Hutchinson ; foreword by Patricia Williams.

    • Text
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 14-1152Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Respect : the life of Aretha Franklin / David Ritz.

    • Text
    • New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 15-86Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Maya Angelou : her phenomenal life & poetic journey / from the editors of Essence.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Essence Books, an imprint of Time Home Entertainment Inc., [2014]
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 17-166Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The many faces of Josephine Baker : dancer, singer, activist, spy / Peggy Caravantes.

    • Text
    • Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 16-583Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage / Jeanne Scheper.

    • Text
    • New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 17-257Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Marie Joe Browne audio and moving image collection.

    • Mixed material
    • 1902-1999
  • Hilda Haynes moving image collection.

    • Moving image
    • 1932-1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc MIRS Haynes 1997-51Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Maxine Sullivan audio and moving image collection : 108 items.

    • Mixed material
    • [2007]
    • 1936-1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MIRS Sullivan 2007-11Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Helen Armstead-Johnson audio and moving image collection : 691 items.

    • Mixed material
    • 1831-1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MIRS Armstead-Johnson 1996-38Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Nat King Cole audio and moving image collection : 93 items.

    • Mixed material
    • [1996]
    • 1910-1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MIRS ColeSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Odetta audio and moving image : 188 items.

    • Mixed material
    • [1998]
    • 1960-1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MIRS Odetta 1998-47Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Sam Wooding audio and moving image collection : 40 items.

    • Mixed material
    • [2004]
    • 1921-1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MIRS Wooding 2004-08Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Maxine Sullivan jazz oral history project interview, Rutgers University.

    • Mixed material
    • 1980.
    • 1980-1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 918 box 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Brown sugar [electronic resource] : over one hundred years of America's Black female superstars / Donald Bogle.

    • Text
    • New York : Continuum, 2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Resource

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  • Ida Roley photograph collection.

    • Still image
    • [between 1920 and 1929?]
    • 1920-1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Ida Roley CollectionSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Eartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white / Kitt Shapiro and Patricia Weiss Levy.

    • Text
    • New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
    • 2021
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 22-149Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 22-24Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • I feel love : Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and how they reinvented music / Dave Thompson.

    • Text
    • Guilford, Connecticut : Backbeat Books, [2021]
    • 2021
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 22-27Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 22-14Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Care free Black girls : a celebration of Black women in popular culture / Zeba Blay.

    • Text
    • New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2021.
    • 2021-2021
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 22-38Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays / Phoebe Robinson.

    • Text
    • [New York, New York] : Tiny Reparations Books, [2021]
    • 2021
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 22-118Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • [Photographs] / Arnold Hinton.

    • Still image
    • 1963-1977.
    • 1963-1977
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Portfolio (Hinton, A.) Box 2Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Portfolio (Hinton, A.) Box 1Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Edouard Plummer collection.

    • Still image
    • [between 1950 and 2003?]
    • 200-200
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Eduoard Plummer Collection Box 2Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Eduoard Plummer Collection Box 1Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • See me naked : Black women defining pleasure in the interwar era / Tara T. Green.

    • Text
    • New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
    • 2022
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 22-519Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 22-87Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Black icons in herstory / illustrated by Monica Ahanonu ; written by Darian Symoné Harvin.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, California : Chronicle Chroma, [2022]
    • 2022-2022
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 23-577Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Brown sugar : over one hundred years of America's Black female superstars / Donald Bogle.

    • Text
    • New York : Continuum, 2007.
    • 2007
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PN2286 .B6 2007Off-site
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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PN2286 .B6 2007Off-site
  • American cocktail : a "colored girl" in the world / Anita Reynolds with Howard M. Miller ; edited and with introduction and notes by George Hutchinson ; foreword by Patricia Williams.

    • Text
    • Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E185.97.R49 A3 2014Off-site
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  • Firebird: ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird / Misty Copeland ; illustrated by Christopher Myers.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014]
    • 2014-2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PZ7.C7887 Fir 2014Off-site
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  • Respect : the life of Aretha Franklin / David Ritz.

    • Text
    • New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML420.F778 R57 2014Off-site
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