Collection of material from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature, 1912-1964

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Summary

Abstract:
The collection consists of pamphlets, brochures, advertising material, and newspaper and periodical clippings related to African Americans.
Extent:
2.5 Linear Feet (5 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ephemera from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature (Collection 923). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of ephemera including pamphlets, photographs, programs, invitations, newspapers, and clippings related to African Americans, especially African American literature and the struggle for equality and civil rights. Notable items include single issues of early civil rights newspapers, promotional literature from the NAACP advocating membership, recruitment, and suffrage, and exhibition programs for African American artists.

Biographical / historical:

Arthur B. Spingarn was born on March 28, 1878 in New York City; AB (1897), AM (1899), and LL.B (1900), Columbia University; LL.D, Howard University, 1941; L.H.D., Long Island University, 1966. He began practicing law in 1900 and became chairman of the national legal committee, then vice-president (1911-40), and president (1940-66) of the NAACP. He collected books about African Americans and was a member of bibliographic societies in London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Virginia. He founded the Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature at Howard University before his death on December 1, 1971.

Acquisition information:
Items in this collection were removed from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature at Howard University.
Processing information:

Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.

Processed by Dennis Tyler with assistance from Laurel McPhee, Fall 2004.

We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special Collections.

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

Series I: Africa, 1932-1964.

Series II: Arts and culture, 1928-1963.

Series III: Civil rights, 1912-1964.

Series IV: Literature, 1943-1964.

Series V: Miscellaneous, 1930-1964.

Series VI: NAACP, 1914-1964.

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ephemera from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature (Collection 923). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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