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A man most himself : typescript, 1922-1997 (bulk 1970s)
BANC MSS 99/312 cz Box 1; BANC MSS 99/312 cz Box 2
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Title:
A man most himself : typescript, 1922-1997 (bulk 1970s)Creator/Contributor:
Nance, Ethel Ray, 1899-1992, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Walrond, Eric, 1898-1966Creator/Contributor:
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973Creator/Contributor:
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967Creator/Contributor:
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946Creator/Contributor:
White, Walter, 1893-1955Abstract:
Consists of typescript drafts of Ethel Ray Nance's autobiographical writings about her work with W.E.B. DuBois. Nance's original
draft includes letters and telegrams from DuBois mounted on paper and annotated with Nance's comments. These inserts also
include mounted photographs and clippings regarding DuBois and his circle. Nance's subsequent drafts contain duplicates of
the inserts and include page numbers, which trace her efforts to organize the drafts.
Collection also contains a few letters from Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Eric Walrond, and Walter White,
as well as some ephemera Nance collected about Hughes. Finally, the collection contains some biographical material about Nance,
including photocopies of clippings and "Ethel Ray Nance: A quiet heroine who fought incessantly for racial justice," by Heather
Elizabeth Bend.
Date:
1922 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Nance, Ethel Ray -- 1899-1992 -- Archives
Nance, Ethel Ray -- 1899-1992
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) -- 1868-1963
African Americans -- Biography
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Biography
Note:
Nance, Ethel Ray, 1899-1992. A man most himself, BANC MSS 99/312 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift; of Glenn Nance; August 1998.
In English.
Type:
biographyMemoirs.
Physical Description:
print
2 boxes (.8 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 99/312 cz Box 1
BANC MSS 99/312 cz Box 2