L. S. Alexander Gumby collection of Negroiana, 1800-1981
88 linear feetA collection concerned with the various phases of black life in America, containing clippings, pamphlets, photographs, pictures, extracts from periodicals, and a representative group of approximately 350 letters, signatures, manuscripts, and documents. Among the letters are several each from Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Dumas, fils, William Lloyd Garrison, Claude McKay, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Mencken, William Pickens, Albert A. Smith, and Booker T. Washington. Also, eighteen slavery documents.
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- Baker, Josephine, 1906-19752
- Cullen, Countee, 1903-19462
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895✖[remove]2
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-18952
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-18792
- Gumby, L. S. Alexander, 1885-19612
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-18652
- Louis, Joe, 1914-19812
- McKay, Claude, 1890-19482
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-19562
- United States -- History2
- United States -- Social conditions✖[remove]2
- United States -- Social life and customs2