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African American Music Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-007
Abstract
This collection contains sheet music, event programs, magazines, booklets, postcards, photographs, and other material related to African American musicians, composers, arrangers, and musical groups. This collection is mostly comprised of sheet music that falls under the sacred music genre such as gospels and spirituals, but also includes music in the blues genres. Also included in this collection are a few flyers and programs for events featuring African American musicians, booklets and...
Dates:
1871-1990; undated; Majority of material found within 1890-1945
Guardian Newspaper Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2009-008
Scope and Contents
The Guardian was established in 1948 by James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage, and John T. McManus, members of the Progressive Party, and originally called the publication the National Guardian. By the late 1960s, the older leadership of the paper found itself at odds with the younger, more leftist staff, and so in 1968 Aronson sold his shares of the paper to the staff, and the paper subsequently shortened its name to The Guardian. In the 1970s, the focus of the paper shifted from a general,...
Dates:
1968-1992
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- Communism -- United States -- Periodicals 1
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- French 1
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- Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983 1
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 1
- Europe, James Reese, 1881-1919 1
- Hall Johnson Choir 1
- Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 1
- Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954 1
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 1
- Jubilee Singers (Fisk University) 1
- Martin, Roberta, 1907-1969 1
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Scott, Hazel, 1920-1981 1
- Silber, Irwin, 1925-2010 1
- The Guardian 1
- Williams Jubilee Singers 1 ∧ less
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