Inventory of the Joel E. Spingarn Papers 1934-1938
A Collection in the
Manuscripts and Rare Books Department
Collection Number Mss. Sm. Coll.
Spingarn
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
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College of William and Mary
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USA
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Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open to all researchers.
Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Preferred Citation
Joel E. Spingarn Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information
Gift: 17 items, 1964.
Biographical/Historical Information
Joel E. Spingarn was born May 17, 1875 in New York City. He received a doctorate from Columbia University. He was a professor at Columbia but left academic life in 1911. He was a poet, editor and critic as well as a social reformer. He was an early member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and he established the Spingarn Medal. He served as NAACP president in the 1930's. He died July 26, 1939.
Scope and Content Information
Includes letters to Spingarn, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from Lowell Thomas, Sumner Welles, Edward Steichen, Charles A. Beard, Henry F. Du Pont, H. L. Menchen and Owen Roberts concerning horticultural matters. Also includes correspondence, 1938, of Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr., Walter White, and Springarn concerning remarks made by William E. Borah concerning lynching.
Arrangement
The collection is mostly chronological.
Related Material
The main collections of Joel E. Spingarn papers are in the New York Public Library, Howard University, and in the James Weldon Johnson Collection at Yale University.There are also materials at the Library of Congress.
Index Terms
- Afro-Americans.
- Horticulture.
- Lynching--United States--History.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948.
- Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940.
- Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969.
- Fish, Hamilton, 1888
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880- 1956.
- Roberts, Owen J. (Owen Josephus), 1875-1955.
- Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973.
- Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981.
- Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961
- White, Walter Francis, 1893- 1955.
Subjects:
Persons
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948.
- Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940.
- Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969.
- Fish, Hamilton, 1888
- Joel E. Spingarn
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880- 1956.
- Roberts, Owen J. (Owen Josephus), 1875-1955.
- Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973.
- Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981.
- Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961
- White, Walter Francis, 1893- 1955.
Contents List
Attached are copies of letters from Fish to Walter White, Nat[io]n[a]l Assn. for Advancem[ent] of Col[ored] People, the reply of White and printed copy of remarks of Fish on "Senator Borah and the AntiLynching Bill "