Research Catalog

Title

Proceedings of the National Conference of Colored Men of the United States, held in the state capitol at Nashville, Tennessee, May 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1879.

Author

National Conference of Colored Men of the United States (1879 : Nashville, Tenn.)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Rufus H. Darby, steam power printer, 1879.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cromwell, John Wesley, 1846-1927
• Darby, Rufus H.

Description

107, [1] pages; 23 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• National Conference of Colored Men of the United States (1879 : Nashville, Tenn.)
• African Americans > Civil rights > Congresses
• African Americans > Social conditions > Congresses
• Congresses and conventions > Tennessee > Nashville
• African Americans > Civil rights > Societies, etc
• United States > Race relations > Congresses

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Compiled by J.W. Cromwell, secretary.
• "The theory and practice of American Christianity, by Rev. B.T. Tanner": p. 70-79. "The necessity of industrial and technical education for our youth, by J.W. Cromwell": p. 79-83. "Race unity ... by Ferdinand L. Barnett": p. 83-86.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "Loaned J.W. Cromwell." ; Inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; Copy one is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 323.173-N (National Conference of Colored Men of the United States. Proceedings)

OCLC

NYPG93-B49605

Conference

National Conference of Colored Men of the United States (1879 : Nashville, Tenn.)

Title

Proceedings of the National Conference of Colored Men of the United States, held in the state capitol at Nashville, Tennessee, May 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1879.

Publisher

Washington, D.C. : Rufus H. Darby, steam power printer, 1879.

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 6, page 4863, column 1, row 6

Provenance

Copy in Sc 323.173-N (accession no. B594305) inscribed: in ink on title page "Loaned J.W. Cromwell." ; Inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; Copy one is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

TThe Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has two copies of this item. Copy one is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. Copy two is a gift that is part of the Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division; probably added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian; Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. Imperfect: in library binding, with some pages torn, brittle, and loose.

Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-1470.

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Added Author

Cromwell, John Wesley, 1846-1927, compiler.

Darby, Rufus H., printer.

Cromwell, John Wesley, 1846-1927, former owner, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 323.173-N (National Conference of Colored Men of the United States. Proceedings)

Sc 323.173-N (National Conference of Colored Men of the United States. Proceedings)