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The Redd Foxx encyclopedia of Black humor / Redd Foxx [i.e. J.E. Sanford] and Norma Miller.
- Text
- Pasadena, Calif. : W. Ritchie Press, [1977]
- 1977
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *792.2-F (Foxx, R. Redd Foxx encyclopedia of Black humor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 17-1638 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Childhood / Bill Cosby ; introduction by Alvin F. Poussaint.
- Text
- New York : Putnam, c1991.
- 1991
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-495 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Cosby, B) 91-9647 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Nipsey Russell portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1950?-1979?>
- 1950-1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Russell, Nipsey Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Whoopi Goldberg : entertainer / Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden.
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House, 1994.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 95-16 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bill Cosby : family funny man / Larry Kettelkamp.
- Text
- New York : J. Messner/Wanderer Books, c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 95-1175 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Pryor convictions, and other life sentences / Richard Pryor with Todd Gold.
- Text
- New York : Pantheon Books, c1995.
- 1995
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 95-334 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Pryor, R.) 95-9257 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Richard Pryor, Black and blue / Jeff Rovin.
- Text
- Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1984, c1983.
- 1984-1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 95-129 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bill Cosby : actor and comedian / Michael A. Schuman.
- Text
- Springfield, N.J. : Enslow Publishers, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 95-765 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bertice : the world according to me / Bertice Berry.
- Text
- New York : Scribner, c1996.
- 1996
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Berry, B.) 96-7329 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 96-77 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The greatest comedian on the American stage [microform] : a real life-story of Bert Williams, a Negro, who also has the distinction of being "the most modest actor in America".
- Text
- [S.l. : s.n., 1912]
- 1896
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-3653 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sinbad's guide to life : because I know everything / Sinbad with David Ritz.
- Text
- New York : Bantam Books, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-840 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Cosby : the life of a comedy legend / Ronald L. Smith.
- Text
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 97-580 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Book / Whoopi Goldberg.
- Text
- New York : R. Weisbach Books, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-2728 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Whoopi Goldberg : her journey from poverty to megastardom / James Robert Parish.
- Text
- Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1997.
- 1997
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Goldber, W.) 98-11982 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 98-117 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dolemite : the story of Rudy Ray Moore / David L. Shabazz & Julian L. D. Shabazz ; with the cooperation and assistance of Rudy Ray Moore.
- Text
- Clinton, SC : Awesome Records, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 98-2735 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Richard Pryor live in concert / directed by Jeff Margolis.
- Moving image
- [Place of publication not identified] : MPI Home Video, ©1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-329 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Richard Pryor, here and now / written and directed by Richard Pryor.
- Moving image
- Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Pictures Home Video, 1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-330 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
You so crazy / Martin Lawrence ; directed by Thomas Schlamme.
- Moving image
- New York, NY : HBO Home Video
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-447 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bill Cosby "himself" / directed by William H. Cosby, Jr.
- Moving image
- [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment : Fox Video, [1996]
- 1996-1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-448 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Urban jam!.
- Moving image
- United States : EI Independent Productions : Bundy Productions, ©1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-548 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Whoopi Goldberg : from street to stardom / Mary Agnes Adams.
- Text
- New York : Dillon Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 94-258 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Mantan Moreland portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [194-?]-1973.
- 197-1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Moreland, Mantan Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Flournoy Miller collection, 1928-1971 1941-1951.
- Mixed material
- 1928-1971
- 4 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/caf34e80-53f9-0137-abe2-07b5f4d020c4Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 599 Box 2 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 599 box 3 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 599 box 4 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Glenn and Jenkins scrapbook, 1922-1962 (bulk 1920-1930).
- Mixed material
- 1922-1962
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20861Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 599 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.
- Mixed material
- 1831-1993
- 44 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 599 Box 15 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 599 Box 16 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 599 Box 17 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Whoopi Goldberg / Ann Graham Gaines ; introduction by James Scott Brady.
- Text
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 01-1312 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Chris Rock / Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden.
- Text
- Philadelphia, PA : Chelsea House, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 02-19 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Whoopi Goldberg / Sandy Katz.
- Text
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 02-909 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A conversation with the Mann : a novel / John Ridley.
- Text
- New York : Warner Books, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-116 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Whoopi Goldberg (reviewer's reel) [videorecording] / [video prod. company] Broadway Video, Inc.
- Moving image
- New York, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 1845 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Jimmy Walker portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- 1968-[198-?]
- 1968-198
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Walker, Jimmy Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dancing in the dark / Caryl Phillips.
- Text
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005.
- 2005
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 06-564 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 06-596 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Entertainers [graphic].
- Still image
- [189-?]-[199-?]
- 199-199
- 4 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8015eec0-6d49-0138-9b22-7f329162b08eItem details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Entertainers box 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Entertainers box 3 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Entertainers box 4 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[Redd Foxx performance excerpt] [videorecording]
- Moving image
- New York, 1987.
- 1987
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 1146 Videocassette 1 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 1146 Videocassette 2 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Whoopi Goldberg : comedian and movie star / William Caper.
- Text
- Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 06-963 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Not a genuine black man, or, How I learned to be black in the lily-white suburbs / Brian Copeland.
- Text
- New York : Hyperion, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0702/2006041241.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 06-1307 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jokes my father never taught me : life, love, and loss with Richard Pryor / Rain Pryor with Cathy Crimmins.
- Text
- New York : Regan, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0710/2006047952.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 07-542 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Laughing mad : the Black comic persona in post-soul America / Bambi Haggins.
- Text
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
- 2007
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 07-389 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[Interview with Al Hirschfeld : raw footage] [2002-02-11] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
- Moving image
- New York, 2002.
- 2002-211
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 2128 Videocassette 1 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 2128 Videocassette 2 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
[Interview with Mel Watkins : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
- Moving image
- New York, 2002.
- 2002-1022
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 2135 Videocassette 1 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 2135 Videocassette 2 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Chris Rock : comedian and actor / Anne M. Todd.
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006007332.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 08-951 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Callus on my soul : a memoir / by Dick Gregory with Shelia P. Moses.
- Text
- New York : Dafina ; London : Turnaround, c2000.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 09-268 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Ernestine McClendon papers, 1958-1991.
- Mixed material
- 1958-1991
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21077Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 583 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Chris Rock / Stephen Feinstein.
- Text
- Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Elementary, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip083/2007044916.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 10-1231 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Real people television stills collection [graphic].
- Still image
- 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Television Stills Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Derby Day [sound recording] : Eubie Blake and Willie Glenn being interviewed.
- Audio
- 1960
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 36342 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Eubie Blake on "First Tuesday" [sound recording] : Eubie Blake - VOA [Voice of America studio] interview / Eubie Blake.
- Audio
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 36349 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Icons of African American comedy / Eddie Tafoya.
- Text
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, 2011.
- 2011
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 11-8647 Offsite Whoopi Goldberg on stage and screen / Lisa Pertillar Brevard.
- Text
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
- 2013
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Goldberg, W.) 13-3013 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 14-584 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The comedy of Dave Chappelle : critical essays / edited by K.A. Wisniewski.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.
- 2009
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 14-733 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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