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  • A biographical study of the lives and contributions of two selected contemporary Black male dance artists - Arthur Mitchell and Alvin Ailey - in the idioms of ballet and modern dance, respectively.

    • Text
    • Denton, Tex., 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-2027Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Remembering Josephine Baker / by Stephen Papich.

    • Text
    • Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [c1976.]
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 78-86Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Destination freedom : dance anthropologist. (Radio program.)

    • Audio
    • Chicago : WMAQ, 1950.
    • 1950
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio Sc Audio C-407 Side 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Les mémoires de Joséphine Baker/ recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage; avec 30 dessins inédits de Paul Colin.

    • Text
    • Paris: Kra, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc B-Baker, J. (Baker, J. Memoires de Josephine Baker)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • [Duke Ellington] [sound recording] / Bunny Briggs.

    • Audio
    • [New York : Duke Ellington Society, New York Chapter, 1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio Sc Audio C-490 Side 1 Black dancerSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Dancing in the dark [microform] : the life and times of Margot Webb in Aframerican vaudeville of the swing era / Brenda Dixon-Stowell.

    • Text
    • 1981.
    • 1981
  • A biographical study of the lives and contributions of two selected contemporary Black male dance artists - Arthur Mitchell and Alvin Ailey - in the idioms of ballet and modern dance, respectively / by Jacqueline Quinn Moore Latham.

    • Text
    • 1973.
    • 1973-1974
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 85-187 pt. 1Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGY 87-2500 v. 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGY 87-2500 v. 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Dancing in the dark [microform] : the life and times of Margot Webb in Aframerican vaudeville of the swing era / by

    • Text
    • 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-4904Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Les mémoires de Joséphine Baker [microform] / recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage ; avec 30 dessins inédits de Paul Colin.

    • Text
    • Paris : Kra ; 1927.
    • 1927-1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZBD-457Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Sara Lou Harris portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1947?-1960?>
    • 1947-1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Harris, Sara LouSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • An Interview with Carmencita Romero.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-225 pt. 3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-225 pt. 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Black choreographers moving : a national dialogue / compiled by Halifu Osumare ; edited by Julinda Lewis-Ferguson.

    • Text
    • Berkeley, CA : Expansion Arts Services, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGS (U.S.) 92-489Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The dance [microform] : research studies / compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in New York City, for "Negroes of New York".

    • Text
    • [New York, 1936-1940]
    • 1936-1940
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-6544 r. 2Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • George A. and Maudelle Weston papers, 1919-1979.

    • Mixed material
    • 1919-1979
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20791
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 188 Box 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Fredi Washington papers, 1922-1981, 1922-1941 (bulk) [microform]

    • Mixed material
    • 1922-1981
    • 3 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/1742aa90-1b71-013c-0395-0242ac110002
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc Micro R-5002 r. 1Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc Micro R-5002 r. 2Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc Micro R-5002 r. 3Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Guinness who's who of rap, dance & techno / general editor, Colin Larkin.

    • Text
    • Enfield, Middlesex, England : Guinness, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 95-396Performing Arts Research Collections - Music - Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *LE 95-1736Offsite
  • Black women in America / edited by Kim Marie Vaz.

    • Text
    • Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1995.
    • 1994
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 95-57Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGTB (U.S.) 12-5864Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Interview with Margot Webb , 1978

    • Audio
    • 1978
    • 1978-417
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/02cfa7f0-c317-0133-d789-60f81dd2b63c
  • Interview with Lavinia Williams-Yarborough [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTL 4-415 discs 1-6Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Interview with Raven Wilkinson, 1977

    • Audio
    • 1977.
    • 1977-705
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/544b8f20-3b73-0134-b90f-60f81dd2b63c
  • Jim Crow.

    • Still image
    • [London] pub'd by Orlando Hodgsen [?] 111 Fleet Street, 1836.
    • 1836
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d52544c0-fcdb-0132-93f3-58d385a7bbd0
  • Interview with Lavinia Williams-Yarborough.

    • Text
    • 1976.
    • 1976
    • 5 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZMT 5-415 v. 3Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZMT 5-415 v. 4Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZMT 5-415 v. 5Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Dancing in the dark [microform] : the life and times of Margot Webb in Aframerican vaudeville of the swing era / Brenda Dixon-Stowell.

    • Text
    • 1981.
    • 1981
  • On the brink: DTH men in crisis.

    • Text
    • 1990
  • The Negro dance under European eyes.

    • Text
    • 1927
  • Cultural diversity in dance.

    • Text
    • 1995
  • Asadata Dafora papers, 1933-1963.

    • Mixed material
    • 1933-1963
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/f76a9680-10ca-0135-e410-43962e862982
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 48 Box 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Oral history interview with Donna Wood.

    • Moving image
    • 1992-625
    • 8 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1521 Disc 3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1521 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1521 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • "Ich tanze in die Erde und aus ihr heraus."

    • Text
    • 1995
  • The power of the drum.

    • Text
    • 1995
  • Black troupe's triumphs.

    • Text
    • 1975
  • Donald Eno Washington papers, 1968-2015

    • Mixed material
    • 1968-1993
    • 9 Items

    Available Online

    http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20816
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 495 Box 3Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 495 Box 2Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 495 Box 1Offsite
  • Alvin Ailey : an American visionary / issue editor, Muriel Topaz.

    • Text
    • Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 04-239Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Rewriting the body : Aida Overton Walker and the social formation of cakewalking.

    • Text
    • 1996
  • Swingin' at the Savoy : the memoir of a jazz dancer / Norma Miller with Evette Jensen.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGYB (Miller) 96-14715Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Florence Mills : remembering 'The little blackbird', part 1.

    • Text
    • Aranda, Australia : B. Egan, c1997.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 98-1216Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Classic Black : an exhibition and two free public programs.

    • Text
    • 1996
  • Aida Overton Walker : pioneer African American dancer and choreographer.

    • Text
    • 1994
  • Dancing towards the light : a survival technique at Vassar College.

    • Text
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZR (1990-1999)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Many blacks in ballet still face glass ceilings, expert says.

    • Text
    • 1997
  • Interview with Louis Johnson [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • [1968]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTC 3-1906Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Interview with Arthur Hall [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • [196-?]
    • 196
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTC 3-1896Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Classic Black (Exhibition : 1996) [clippings]

    • Text
    • 1996-
    • 1996-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZRPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Bell, Arthur [clippings]

    • Text
    • 1998-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZRPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Third world folk on a first world stage : a phenomenological study of participation and learning in the arts / by Carolyn Lee Cotton Seubert.

    • Text
    • 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 99-2532Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Hudgins, Johnny [clippings]

    • Text
    • [1926?]-
    • unknown-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZRPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Plenty of Good Women Dancers : African American Women Hoofers from Philadelphia (Exhibition) [clippings]

    • Text
    • 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZRPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Josephine Baker and La Revue nègre : Paul Colin's lithographs of Le tumulte noir in Paris, 1927 / [new text] with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Karen C.C. Dalton.

    • Text
    • New York : H.N. Abrams, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc+ G 98-126Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGYB+ (Baker) 98-12430Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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  • Interview with Arthur Bell [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • 1998.
    • 1998
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZMT 3-2140 (transcript)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Audio *MGZTC 3-2140 (sound cassette) reel 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Audio *MGZTC 3-2140 [sound cassette] reel 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Albert Evans : refined zest.

    • Text
    • 1998

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