African American communists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Horace R. Cayton Papers
Collection
Identifier: harsh-1983-03
Abstract
Horace Cayton (1903-1970) was a Black sociologist, co-author of Black Metropolis and director of Chicago’s Parkway Community House in the 1940s. His papers consist of correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, subject research files, memorabilia and oral history recordings. In the last years of his life, Cayton conducted research, including interviews, on the life of his friend and noted author, Richard Wright. Housed with Cayton’s...
Dates:
1866-2007
Chicago Public Library, George Cleveland Hall Branch Archives
Collection
Identifier: harsh-1932-01
Abstract
The Hall Branch is named for George Cleveland Hall, African American physician, Chicago Public Library board member and a founding member of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, who campaigned tirelessly for a full-service library in Bronzeville neighborhood. Hall Branch, headed by Vivian G. Harsh from 1932 to 1958, was a leading cultural institution during the Black Chicago Renaissance. The archives include administrative records, programs, correspondence, photographs,...
Dates:
1930-1975.
Homer Smith Papers
File
Identifier: harsh-1994-06
Abstract
Homer Smith’s memoir, Black Man in Red Russia, was published and promoted by Johnson Publishing Company in 1964. The collection includes an unpublished manuscript by Smith highlighting his life in Ethiopia in the mid-twentieth century.
Dates:
1957-1964