Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of material from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature,
Date (inclusive): 1912-1964
Collection number: 923
Extent:
5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Abstract: The collection consists of pamphlets, brochures, advertising material, and newspaper and periodical clippings related to African
Americans.
Language:
English
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Items in this collection were removed from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature at Howard University.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ephemera from the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature (Collection 923). Department
of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Biography
Arthur B. Spingarn was born on March 28, 1878 in New York City; AB (1897), AM (1899), and LL.B (1900), Columbia University;
LL.D, Howard University, 1941; L.H.D., Long Island University, 1966. He began practicing law in 1900 and became chairman of
the national legal committee, then vice-president (1911-40), and president (1940-66) of the NAACP. He collected books about
African Americans and was a member of bibliographic societies in London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Virginia. He founded the Spingarn
Collection of Negro Literature at Howard University before his death on December 1, 1971.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of ephemera including pamphlets, photographs, programs, invitations, newspapers, and clippings related
to African Americans, especially African American literature and the struggle for equality and civil rights. Notable items
include single issues of early civil rights newspapers, promotional literature from the NAACP advocating membership, recruitment,
and suffrage, and exhibition programs for African American artists.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Africa, 1932-1964.
- Arts and culture, 1928-1963.
- Civil rights, 1912-1964.
- Literature, 1943-1964.
- Miscellaneous, 1930-1963.
- NAACP, 1914-1964.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
African Americans--History--Sources.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971.
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