Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred E. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 697
Scope and Content Note
The papers include personal and professional correspondence, reports, speeches, and press releases written by Smith while in government service, copies of many of Smith's columns and articles, material concerning the Capitol Press Club, photographs, and other items. Significant correspondents include: Mary McLeod Bethune Hattie Caraway Kenneth Clark W. Montague Cobb W. E. B. DuBois Langston Hughes...
Dates:
1920-1984
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Alfred E. Smith Papers
William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1125
Scope and Content Note
The careers of William Grant Still and Verna Arvey were far-reaching as they related to not only the emerging status of African-Americans in classical music, but also as they related to United States social history, race relations and politics. The William Grant Still and Verna Arvey collection contains materials that span the 20th century, and it serves as a rare testament to a period of time in which little documentation exists for African-Americans in American history. The...
Dates:
1880-1991