Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Communism.

Publication

1923-1941.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

2 volumes (51; 52 leaves) : $b illustrations ; $c 31 cm

Summary

• These scrapbooks (1923-1941) are about African American participation in the Communist party and contain ephemera and clippings from a variety of African American and mainstream newspapers. Earlier articles in these scrapbooks are critical of African Americans' support of the Communist party, but ease off as time passes. There is significant coverage of the arrest, conviction, appeal, and release of labor organizer Angelo Herndon, accused of insurrection, as well as activist and community organizer James W. Ford's vice presidential candidacies and speaking tours. Other topics include communism in Harlem, House Un-American Activities hearings, fair hiring practices, the National Textile Workers Union, the rights allowed to African Americans through the Communist party, segregation of draftees, the Loray Mill strike and murder trial, and plans for the development of an independent African American republic.
• The publications represented include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Guardian, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New Age Dispatch (Los Angeles), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus, as well as Christian Science Monitor (Boston), Daily Worker (New York City), and New York Times. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Uniform Title

• Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
• Chicago defender.
• New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
• Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative Title

• Communism
• Boston guardian
• Chicago bee
• Chicago whip
• Louisiana weekly
• Negro world
• New age dispatch
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• St. Louis argus

Subjects

• Loray Mill Strike, 1929
• United States > Congress > House > Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1934)
• Browder, Earl, 1891-1973
• Willkie, Wendell L (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944
• Memorial Day Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1937
• Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• Discrimination in employment > African Americans > 20th century
• Gordon, Eugene, 1891-1974
• Foster, William Z., 1881-1961
• African American communists
• Winston, Henry, 1911-1986
• Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
• Scrapbooks
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Negro bill of rights
• National Textile Workers Union (U.S.)
• Amter, I (Israel), 1881-1954
• Seymour, Whitney North, 1901-1984
• Ford, James W., 1893-1957
• Civil rights > United States > 20th century
• American Negro Labor Congress
• Young Communist League of the U.S
• Yokinen, August

Genre/Form

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks.

Note

• Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
• The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for these volumes are AJ, AVR, CMN, EJ, EW, GG, JC, LS, MB, MN, MPT, MS, MW, RS, VK, and WA.
• Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson and MS likely belong to M. Starke, both of whom clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker, RS likely belong to Ruby Scott, Clerk-Typist, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, assigned to the 135th St. branch through the Works Progress Administration.
• For information on Angelo Herndon's death, see the scrapbook entitled Georgia (Sc Micro R-707 r. 5)

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 3

Cite As (note)

• Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of Use (note)

• Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

• The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance (note)

• The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960

Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Communism)

OCLC

1099537481

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Communism.

Production

1923-1941.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Restricted Access

Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 3

Cite As:

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms Of Use

Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance

The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960

Spine Title

Communism

Added Title

Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)

Chicago defender.

New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)

Pittsburgh courier.

Boston guardian

Chicago bee

Chicago whip

Louisiana weekly

Negro world

New age dispatch

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Communism)