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Spingarn (Arthur B.) collection of Negro Literature Ephemera
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Collection of material from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0923
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
(5 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1912-1964
Abstract: The collection consists of pamphlets, brochures, advertising material, and newspaper and periodical clippings related to African
Americans.
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.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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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.
[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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Items in this collection were removed from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature at Howard University.
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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.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942328053606533
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.
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.
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.
Arthur Barnett Spingarn papers (Collection 1476). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- History -- Sources.
Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971.