Research Catalog
Cecil A. Walters collection
- Title
- Cecil A. Walters collection, 1924-1948.
- Author
- Walters, Cecil A.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 (Cecil A. Walters) | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 442 Box 1 (Cecil A. Walters) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Garvey, Amy Jacques.
- Description
- 1/4 linear inch (1 folder)
- Summary
- The Cecil Walters collection consists of seven (7) letters addressed to Walters. Among the correspondents is Amy Jacques Garvey, widow of Marcus Garvey, founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association. The letters capture some of the internal conflicts for control of the organization after the death of its founder. There are three programs for events convened by the Universal African Nationalist Movement, Inc.; the 4th International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World, 1924, Convention Extraordinary, 1948, and American-West Indian Goodwill Flight Committee, n.d. Also included are two poems by Cecil Walters.
- Subjects
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York
- Back to Africa movement
- Walters, Cecil A
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Societies, etc
- Universal African Nationalist Movement
- Black nationalism
- Garvey, Amy Jacques
- African Americans > Colonization > Africa
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Universal Negro Improvement Association
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
- African Communities' League
- Letters
- Genre/Form
- Letters.
- Note
- Forms part of Universal Negro Improvement Association Miscellaneous Collections.
- Books and magazines transferred to General Research and Reference Division, and Black and Third World Periodicals (Additions 2).
- Sheet Music transferred to Sheet Music Collection.
- Source (note)
- Swann Galleries
- Biography (note)
- Cecil Walters was the first vice-president of the Universal African Nationalist Movement.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 442
- OCLC
- NYPG05-A10122
- Author
- Walters, Cecil A.
- Title
- Cecil A. Walters collection, 1924-1948.
- Biography
- Cecil Walters was the first vice-president of the Universal African Nationalist Movement.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Garvey, Amy Jacques.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 442