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"History of the Negro in Music" program flyer presented by the Men's Club of the First AME Church, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains ephemera - such as flyers, leaflets, pamphlets, postcards, and programs - featuring performances, plays, Sunday morning services, and more.

Dates: undated

"Yo' Cain't Git Yo' Lodgin' Here," music by Edward Morris , 1928

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains sheet music primarily written, transcribed, and/or arranged by influential African American composers and musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Hazel Scott, James Reese Europe, H.T. Burleigh, and more. Influential non-African American composers - such as Noble Cain, Ernest R. Ball, Irving Mills, and more - are included in this series as well.

Dates: 1928

"Consecrated," music by Kenneth Morris , 1967

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains sheet music primarily written, transcribed, and/or arranged by influential African American composers and musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Hazel Scott, James Reese Europe, H.T. Burleigh, and more. Influential non-African American composers - such as Noble Cain, Ernest R. Ball, Irving Mills, and more - are included in this series as well.

Dates: 1967

"Negro Folk Songs," Hampton Series, No. 6716, Book 1, 1918

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains sheet music primarily written, transcribed, and/or arranged by influential African American composers and musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Hazel Scott, James Reese Europe, H.T. Burleigh, and more. Influential non-African American composers - such as Noble Cain, Ernest R. Ball, Irving Mills, and more - are included in this series as well.

Dates: 1918

Negro Songs: An Anthology, edited and introduction by Clement Wood, 1924

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains music books as well as hymnals and anthologies which compile spirituals, hymns, as well as other sacred music.

Dates: Copyright: 1924

"Lord Hear My Cry to Thee," music and lyrics by R. Patterson, 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains sheet music primarily written, transcribed, and/or arranged by influential African American composers and musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Hazel Scott, James Reese Europe, H.T. Burleigh, and more. Influential non-African American composers - such as Noble Cain, Ernest R. Ball, Irving Mills, and more - are included in this series as well.

Dates: 1965

"God's Trombones," music by Roy Ringwald, poems by James Weldon Johnson , 1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains sheet music primarily written, transcribed, and/or arranged by influential African American composers and musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Hazel Scott, James Reese Europe, H.T. Burleigh, and more. Influential non-African American composers - such as Noble Cain, Ernest R. Ball, Irving Mills, and more - are included in this series as well.

Dates: 1955

Paul Robeson ephemera, 1940-1949, 1955; undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents This file includes a concert flyer as part of the Long Beach Civic Concert Series (c. 1940-1941); a "Paul Robeson as Othello, The Moor of Venice" theater program (c. 1943-1944); a "Paul Robeson Sings at Town Hall" concert program (undated); a booklet entitled, "The Negro and Justice: A Plea for Earl Browder" by Dr. Max Yergan and Paul Robeson (1941); a series of statements presented before the House Committee on Un-American Activities by Lester B. Granger (executive director of the National...
Dates: 1940-1949, 1955; undated

"Boogie-Woogie," piano transcriptions by Hazel Scott, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains sheet music primarily written, transcribed, and/or arranged by influential African American composers and musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Hazel Scott, James Reese Europe, H.T. Burleigh, and more. Influential non-African American composers - such as Noble Cain, Ernest R. Ball, Irving Mills, and more - are included in this series as well.

Dates: 1943

Sing Out!, Vol, 8, No. 1, edited by Irwin Silber, spring 1958

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains music books as well as hymnals and anthologies which compile spirituals, hymns, as well as other sacred music.

Dates: spring 1958