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Call No.: MC 476
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS, 1896-1977
Title: Papers, 1865-1998 (inclusive), 1905-1975 (bulk)
Quantity: 44 file boxes, 2 folio boxes, 1 folio+ box, 1.5 linear ft. of photographs, 24 folio folders, 24 folio+ folders, 8 oversize folders
Abstract: Papers of Shirley (Graham) Du Bois, African American writer, playwright, composer, biographer, teacher, civil rights and left-wing activist.

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BIOGRAPHY

Shirley (Graham) Du Bois was born November 11th in Indianapolis, Indiana; this much is known. The exact year of her birth, however, has been uncertain. At various times in her life, she asserted the year to be 1896, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1906, and 1907. Gerald Horne in his biography, Race Woman, states "she was born Lola Shirley Graham on 11 November 1896, but at points in her life she shaved as much as ten years from her true age (38)."

Her father, Rev. David A. Graham, was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church where her mother, Elizabeth Etta (Bell) Graham, was also active. DAG and EBG were married November 21, 1895, following the death of his first wife, Lorena Mason. While references in the collection are often elusive and contradictory, it is most likely that DAG had three sons with LMG, and five children with EBG: Lola (Shirley), David A.(born 1900), Lorenz B. (born 1902), Aurelius R.("William," born 1907), and Orval B. (born 1913?). DAG had assignments in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit, Tennessee, Colorado Springs, Louisiana, Spokane, and Seattle before being appointed President of Monrovia College in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1926. Upon his return to the United States in ca. 1930, he and EBG lived in Indiana, Michigan, and Minnesota, among other places. A deeply religious man, he was also somewhat of a firebrand as a minister; his sermons were often political in nature and touched on such topics as the N.A.A.C.P. and the struggle for civil rights. His outspoken manner may have contributed to his being required to move so often throughout his ministerial career. A brother-in-law, Bishop W. Sampson Brooks, was a prominent figure in the A.M.E. Church.

With her family's frequent moves, it was difficult for Shirley to keep up in school, but she did graduate from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Washington, in 1915. In 1918 she married Shadrach McCants. They had two sons: Robert (born 1923), and David (born 1925). Although SGD usually claimed that she was widowed shortly after David's birth, she actually obtained a divorce in Portland, Oregon, in 1927. Her children were raised largely by her mother.

Now calling herself Shirley McCanns, SGD attended classes at the Howard University School of Music (1927-1928), the Institute of Musical Arts in New York City (1929), and the Sorbonne (1929-1930). During this period she traveled extensively, and also taught music at Morgan College (now Morgan State University) in Baltimore, and served as a music librarian at Howard. She entered Oberlin College in 1931 to study music, receiving her A.B. degree in 1934 and a master's in music the following year. She taught fine arts at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial Normal School for Negroes (now Tennessee State) from 1935 to 1936; this experience seems to have soured her on a career in teaching. Always intending to continue her intellectual pursuits, she continued to study, taking classes at Yale and New York universities in the 1940s; she came close to completing her doctorate in English and education at NYU.

SGD's employment path was as varied and hectic as her educational one. In 1932, while still a student at Oberlin, her musical drama Tom-Tom premiered at the summer festival, "Stadium Opera," in Cleveland, Ohio. The work was hailed as "not only great in conception and splendidly executed, but that it was a new opera. Something different from what has preceded it in history." Following her year of teaching at Tennessee Agricultural in Nashville, she was appointed by the Illinois Federal Theatre Project as director-supervisor of Federal Theatre #3, the "Negro Unit" of the Chicago Federal Theatre, where she put on wildly successful productions, such as Little Black Sambo and Swing Mikado. She founded, with her brother Bill, the Graham Artists Bureau in Chicago with the purpose of securing bookings for African American artists. From 1941 to 1943 SGD worked for the USO, directing operations for Negro troops at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. Beginning in 1943 she began serving as a field secretary for the N.A.A.C.P. Her volunteer activities included serving as a trustee of the Rosenberg Children's Trust Fund and starting a fund for financial aid for singer Hope Foye.

In 1944 her son Robert died in a military hospital; throughout her life, SGD harbored feelings that the military was responsible for his death, due to lack of care afforded him on account of his race.

Throughout her career, SGD was a prolific writer. Well known for her many juvenile and adult biographies on the lives of great leaders, she wrote not only about famous African American figures such as George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass and Paul Robeson, but also about Gamal Nasser, Julius Nyerere and Pocahontas. In the late 1940s SGD got a Guggenheim grant to write extensively on the life of Anne Newport Royall (1769-1854), a newspaper woman who gained notoriety by traveling extensively throughout the country publishing her shrewd observations on the "history, life and manners" of many major cities and towns. This work was never published. Her memoir of WEBD, His Day Is Marching On, was published in 1971.

An avid writer and speaker, SGD also gave innumerable speeches and published articles on a variety of subjects throughout her life. Articles such as "Minorities in China," and "We Too Want Peace," a reflection on women and world peace published in Soviet Women, are examples of the global issues SGD tried to address throughout her career. In 1961, she founded the civil rights magazine, Freedomways, and became head editor. SGD also wrote on such topics as Ghana, Egypt and the Middle East, African unity, the People's Republic of China, and American-Soviet relations.

Her romantic life was checkered; after the dissolution of her marriage to McCants, she had a number of romantic interests, some of which are documented in the collection. There is evidence that she was engaged to Joseph Himes in 1932, although she broke off the relationship soon afterwards. Her romantic involvement with W.E.B. Du Bois seems to have begun in the mid or late 1930s; certainly by 1941 their relationship was no longer platonic. Following the death of WEBD's first wife, Nina, in October 1950, he and SGD were married February 27, 1951. Together, the Du Boises worked tirelessly to improve the lot of underrepresented groups in the United States, increasingly through their involvement in left causes and groups, probably including the Communist Party of the U.S.A. Shortly after their wedding in 1951, WEBD was indicted for "un-American" activities. Although WEBD was acquitted for insufficient evidence, the Du Boises were frustrated with lack of progress in the United States. After being harassed endlessly by U.S. officials, they decided to emigrate to Ghana in 1961, where WEBD was invited to create the multi-volume Encyclopedia Africana, a work that was not completed until recent years.

After his death in 1963, SGD worked for some time developing the field of telecommunications in Ghana with Ghana Television. This work included not only developing facilities such as studio space, but also training technicians and other staff, and developing a national infrastructure to handle the new communications medium. After the coup in 1966 that resulted in the unseating of Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, SGD moved to Cairo where she lived with her son, David (Graham) Du Bois. SGD continued to devote herself to causes of liberation, of African peoples, women, African Americans, and people of color worldwide. She died of cancer in Beijing in 1977.

For further biographical information, see Gerald Horne, Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois (2000).

The following is a short bibliography of SGD's books in chronological order:

• George Washington Carver, Scientist. (co-written with George Dewey Lipscomb) New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1944
• Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World. New York: Julian Messner, 1946
• There Once Was a Slave...the Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass. New York: Julian Messner, 1947
• "Naiveté, the Story of Anne Royall" unpublished, c.1947
• Your Most Humble Servant. New York: Julian Messner, 1949
• The Story of Phillis Wheatley. New York: Julian Messner, 1949
• Jean Baptiste du Sable: Founder of Chicago. New York: Julian Messner, 1953
• The Story of Pocahontas, 1953
• Booker T. Washington; Educator of Hand, Head and Heart. New York: Julian Messner, 1955
• His Day Is Marching On. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971
• Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile; A Biography. New York: Third Press, 1972
• Zulu Heart. New York: Third Press, 1974
• Julius K. Nyerere, Teacher of Africa. New York: Julian Messner, 1975

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection is divided into five series.

Series I, Personal and Biographical (#1.1-9.3), is divided into seven subseries.

Subseries A, Biographical information (#1.1-2.3f+), includes autobiographical/biographical sketches, drivers license, scrapbooks, clippings, awards, household information, etc.

Subseries B, Education (#2.4o-4.4), consists of class notebooks, etc.

Subseries C, Travel (#4.5-5.6), includes passports, notes, and diaries.

Subseries D, Date books (#5.7v-6.7v), is arranged chronologically.

Subseries E, Correspondence with suitors (#6.8-7.2), is arranged chronologically.

Subseries F, Financial (#7.3-7.15), includes passbooks, statements, etc.

Subseries G, Clippings and Other Material Collected by SGD (#7.16-9.3), covers subjects of interest to SGD and is arranged by mostly topic.

Series II, Family (#9.4-15.5f), is divided into four subseries. See Graham family genealogical chart at the end of this finding aid. Information for the chart was gathered from papers and photographs in the collection.

Graham family genealogy, 1827-1977

Subseries A, Parents (#9.4-11.10), includes Reverend D.A. Graham's sermons, writings, correspondence and biographical information. Also includes Etta Bell Graham's scrapbooks, correspondence with her children, and biographical information.

Subseries B, Brothers (#11.11-12.3), mainly consists of correspondence between SGD and her four brothers. Also includes writings by brothers Lorenz Bell Graham and Orval Graham.

Subseries C, Sons (#12.4-13.15), consists of correspondence between SGD and Robert McCanns and David Graham.

Subseries D, W.E.B. Du Bois (#13.16-15.5f), includes publicity, articles, clippings, scrapbook, celebration and memorial programs, and correspondence with SGD and publishers re: WEBD bibliography.

Series III, General Correspondence (#15.6-22.18), spans 1926-1975 and concerns financial matters, legal issues, personal schedules, travel, appointments and volunteer activities, Ghana TV (see also Series IV, Subseries H), W.E.B. clubs of America, "repatriation" of Americans to Ghana, and WEBD's work. Also included is correspondence with friends. The series includes outgoing ts. letters from SGD as well as many incoming ones. Correspondents include: Herbert and Bettina Aptheker, Frederick Artz, Josephine Baker, Cedric Belfrage, Brindley Benn, Arna Bontemps, Stokely Carmichael , Edward Dickinson, Hallie Flanagan, Philip Foner, Vincent and Vivian Hallinan, Vincent Harding, Nathan Hare, William Hastie, Lawrence Hautz, Bernard Jaffe, George Kondolf, William P. Mahoney, Elizabeth Moos, Truman Nelson, Mary White Ovington, George Padmore, Paul and Eslanda Robeson, and Walter White. There is no correspondence in this series for 1976 to 1977.

Series IV, Work and Writings (#22.19-44.19f+), is divided into eight subseries.

Subseries A, Musical scores (#22.19-25.6f), also includes librettos, programs, scrapbook, etc.

Subseries B, Theater productions (#25.7-25.19, Folio Box 26), includes programs, reports, articles, and a scrapbook regarding SGD's work at the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Chicago Federal Theatre, 1931-1941.

Subseries C, Speeches (#25.20-28.18f), covers topics such as race relations in the United States, African-Asian relations, China, and Africa. Most are typescripts, but some are printed. The series includes programs, research materials, itineraries, correspondence, flyers, clippings, etc.

Subseries D, Articles (#29.1-31.20), covers the same topics as the Speeches subseries. Includes both typescript and printed articles published in mainly political journals and magazines, including the New World Review,Political Affairs,Freedomways, and Africa and the World.

Subseries E, Nonfiction books (#32.1-40.15), includes correspondence, drafts, notes, clippings, etc., regarding her biographical writings. Also included are four drafts of her work on Anne Newport Royall with different titles: "Naiveté," "Anne Royall's United States," "The Verdict," and "Royal Anne: The Woman in the Case." "Naiveté" appears to be the most complete and was bound with brads into three separate books each with its own cover.

Subseries F, Fiction works (#40.16-41.5), includes a draft of the novel Zulu Heart, and some short stories and poems.

Subseries G, Plays (#41.6-42.19), includes clippings, contracts, programs, notes, and scripts.

Subseries H, Other work (#42.20v-44.19f+), documents her work with the USO, NAACP, Rosenberg and other trusts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Ghana TV.

Series V, Photographs, (#PD.9-116), was originally broadly organized by David Graham Du Bois. Those that had been pulled for Race Woman were reintegrated into the collection. Although most photographs in the collection were unidentified, attempts have been made to identify people and events wherever possible. The series is divided into five subseries.

Subseries A, Portraits, family and friends (#PD.9-45).

Subseries B, Family photo albums (#PD.46-65), consists of four photograph albums which have been disbound and put into folders. Photographs found slipped between pages are marked with the page number where they were originally found and put into a folder following the album itself. Photographs found at the back or between blank pages were put into separate folders. In #PD.57-58, entire pages of photographs came loose as they were being processed. These photographs were numbered sequentially as they were originally found. As there are many duplicate photographs amongst all of the albums, at the front of the first folder of each album is a notation of duplicates.

Subseries C, Work and writings (#PD.66-79b).

Subseries D, Ghana (#PD.80-91).

Subseries E, International events and trips (#PD.92-116) includes Paris, Nigeria, Egypt, Berlin, China, Japan, etc.

Folder headings are those of the archivist unless otherwise noted; headings by either SGD or DGD are in quotations.

Abbreviations

Initials	Name
DAG	David A. Graham
EBG	Etta Bell Graham
SGD	Shirley Graham Du Bois
WEBD	W.E.B. Du Bois
DGD	David Graham Du Bois ("Graham")

INVENTORY

• Series I. PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
  • Subseries A. Biographical Information
    • 1.1. Autobiographical and biographical sketches, 1946-1950, n.d.
    • 1.2. Oral history transcript, 1971
    • 1.3. Driver's license, store "courtesy card," 1941, n.d.
    • 1.4-1.5. Clippings re: SGD, 1962-1975, n.d.
    • 1.6f. Clippings re: SGD, 1962-1975, n.d.
    • 1.7f+. Clippings re: SGD, 1962-1975, n.d.
    • 1.8. SGD scrapbook, 1927-1930, n.d. Mostly photocopies of #1.9f-1.11f
    • 1.9f-1.11f. SGD scrapbook (disassembled original) 1927-1930, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #1.8
    • 1.12-1.14 SGD scrapbook, 1939-1951, n.d. Mostly photocopies of #1.19f+-1.20o; includes clippings, correspondence, programs re: SGD writings, wedding, politics, awards, and music.
      Also reference copy of photograph in #1.12; original in #PD.1.
    • 1.15-1.17 Loose items from #1.19f+-1.20o
    • 1.18f+. Loose items from #1.19f+-1.20o
    • 1.19f+. SGD scrapbook (disassembled original) 1939-1951, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #1.12-1.14.
    • 1.20o. SGD scrapbook, (disassembled original) 1939-1951, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #1.12-1.14.
    • 1.21. "Ghanaian Handcraft," scrapbook of blank notecards with African graphics, photographs, 1963, n.d.
    • 1.22. Piano recital program, 1916
    • 1.23. Photocopy of #1.24
    • 1.24. SGD and Shadrach Thomas McCants marriage certificate, 1918.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #1.23.
    • 1.25. Health: correspondence, diets, reports, 1953-1974
    • 1.26. Copper printing plate, "Mrs. W.E.B. du Bois," n.d.
    • 1.27. Registered voter I.D. card, 1957
    • 1.28. Awards: citation, certificates, programs, invitation, 1935-1951; includes photocopy of #1.29f.
    • 1.29f. Award certificate, "Committee for Negroes in the Arts, 1950."
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #1.28.
    • 1.30f. Award: Institute of Race Relations, 1947
    • 1.31f. Award certificate, "United Negro and Allied Veterans of America" in recognition for There Once Was a Slave, n.d.
    • 1.32m. Plaque, "Afro-American Award," n.d.; photograph of SGD on metal plaque, c. 1920s.
    • 1.33. "SGD cemetery deed:" correspondence, deed, brochures, receipts, 1946-1954. Includes documents re: plot of William B. Graham.
    • 1.34. Re: property owned by SGD (insurance, rental, sale); includes correspondence notes, plans, 1951-1961.
    • 2.1-2.2. Household effects: shipping and storage (lists, documents, correspondence), 1966-1969, n.d.
    • 2.3f+. Household effects: shipping and storage (lists, documents, correspondence), 1966-1969, n.d.
  • Subseries B. Education
    • 2.4o. Diplomas: Nashville Public School, Grammar Department, June 7, 1911; Clarksville High School, May 24, 1911.
    • 2.5f+. Diplomas: Lewis & Clark High School, June 11, 1915; Lewis & Clark High School Typewriting Proficiency Certificate, Jan. 19, 1915.
    • 2.6-2.10. Class notebook: Biology I, Morgan State summer course, 1931
    • 2.11. Oberlin College Conservatory: course catalogs, 1930-1932
    • 2.12. Oberlin College, notes on others' theses re: Negro music, 1924, 1934
    • 2.13. Oberlin College: student essays, 1934-1935
    • 2.14. Oberlin College: Honors Day and Commencement, 1934-1935; includes programs, clippings.
    • 2.15. Oberlin College: B.A. and M.A. certificates, 1934-1935
    • 2.16v. Oberlin College: "Hi-O-Hi" yearbook,1933.
      Includes reference copy of photograph of classmate?; original in #PD.1.
    • 3.1v. Oberlin College: "Hi-O-Hi" yearbook,1935
    • 3.2. Oberlin College: 1934 "Class Letter," n.d.
    • 3.3. Yale: Class notes, public relations, 1943
    • 3.4. NYU transcripts, 1944-1945
    • 3.5-3.9. NYU: SGD's class notebook (disassembled), 1944-1945; includes history and principles courses.
    • 3.10. NYU class notebook (disassembled), "Nature of Language," 1945-1946; includes syllabus.
    • 3.11. NYU class notebook (disassembled), "Nature of Language," 1945-1946
    • 3.12-4.1. NYU class papers, (ts.), 1944-1946, n.d.
      (6 folders)
    • 4.2. "A Critical Study of 'The Good Earth'" (ts.), Drama 136, 1938
    • 4.3. "A Brief Survey of Dialects in Dramatic Dialogue" (ts.), Drama 136, 1938
    • 4.4. Arabic class notes, 1969
  • Subseries C. Travel
    • 4.5. Souvenir postcard, schedule of ships, 1926-1927
    • 4.6. "Passport, 1960-61": correspondence, receipts, applications re: passports (U.S., Tanzania, Guinea, 1952-1975); includes cancelled U.S. passport.
      Also reference copy of 1971 "Certificate of Identity," with photograph; original in fragile file.
    • 4.7. U.S. passport, 1960
    • 4.8. Passports: Ghana (1963), Guinea (1966)
    • 4.9. Passport, Guinea, (1970)
    • 4.10. Passport, Tanzania, 1972
    • 4.11-4.13 "Visa refusal, 1970;" includes correspondence, travel documents, press releases, petitions.
    • 4.14. "Clippings, visa refusal, 1970"
    • 4.15f. Other travel documents, 1974-1976, n.d.
    • 4.16. Mostly copies of 4.15f.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.1.
    • 4.17. Travel notes: Liberia, London, 1928?
    • 4.18. Nigeria, 1960: inauguration of Nnamdi Azikiwe. Includes invitations, notes, speech, programs.
    • 4.19. China visit, 1967: travel diary (ts. notes) re: national minorities
    • 4.20v. Travel diary, China, 1967
    • 4.21v. Travel diary, China, 1967-1968
    • 4.22. Loose items from #4.21v
    • 5.1v. Travel diary, China, 1974
    • 5.2. Correspondence, program re: China visit, 1974 (25th anniversary of National Day).
    • 5.3. Visit to China, 1974: envelope, "For Mrs. Du Bois," photograph, menu, souvenir items, mostly in Chinese.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.1.
    • 5.4v. Travel diary, China, n.d.
    • 5.5. Loose items from #5.4v
    • 5.6. Travel notes, Sudan, n.d.
  • Subseries D. Date Books
    • 5.7v. Date book, 1949
    • 5.8v. Date book, 1950
    • 5.9v. Date book, 1951
    • 5.10. Date books, 1952-1953
      (2 volumes)
    • 5.11. Date books, 1954-1955
      (2 volumes)
    • 5.12v. Date book, 1956
    • 5.13v. Date book, 1957
    • 5.14. Date book, 1958
      (2 volumes)
    • 5.15. Date book, 1959
      (2 volumes)
    • 5.16. Date books, 1960, 1962
      (2 volumes)
    • 6.1v. Date book, 1964
    • 6.2v. Date book, 1965
    • 6.3v. Date book, 1966
    • 6.4v. Date book, 1968
    • 6.5v. Date books, 1970-1975
    • 6.6v. Date book, 1976
    • 6.7v. Rolodex/business cards, n.d.
  • Subseries E. Correspondence with Suitors
    • 6.8-6.12. Joseph Himes, 1932-1933.
      Includes reference copy of photograph in #6.10; original in #PD.1.
    • 7.1-7.2. Max Foresman, 1942-1943
  • Subseries F. Financial
    • 7.3. Passbook, documents re: accounts, Booker T. Washington Credit Union, 1941-1949
    • 7.4. "Shirley Household Account," 1951-1953
    • 7.5. Loose items from #7.4
    • 7.6-7.9. Swiss Bank Corporation/London statements, 1962-1978; includes correspondence.
    • 7.10f. Swiss Bank Corporation/London statements, 1962-1978
    • 7.11 Bank of Egypt, 1966-1967; includes checks/ register, statements, correspondence, receipts.
    • 7.12f+. Bank of Egypt, 1966-1967
    • 7.13. Geneva Bank: "Banque Pariente... (closed)" 1972-1974; includes correspondence, transfer documents, draft agreement forms re: Du Bois Publications.
    • 7.14. Other bank accounts, 1956-1968, n.d.; includes correspondence, statements, passbook.
    • 7.15. Other financial, 1934-1975; includes loans, income tax, reports, correspondence.
  • Subseries G. Clippings and Other Material Collected by SGD
    • 7.16-8.2. "Afro-Am History," 1943-1976; includes unpublished essays and lists (ts.); published articles, pamphlets.
      (3 folders)
    • 8.3. "Angela Davis," 1971-1973, n.d.; includes petition, flyers, pamphlets, correspondence.
    • 8.4. "Julius Kambarage Nyerere from the New Yorker," 1966
    • 8.5-8.6. "Nkrumah - Mats. Death," 1958-1972: clippings, speeches, pamphlets; includes photocopies of #8.7°.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.1.
    • 8.7°. "Nkrumah - Mats. Death," 1958-1972.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #8.5-8.6.
    • 8.8. "Ogi Egbunh," 1971; includes article and speech (ts.).
    • 8.9. "Sadat's Revolt," 1957; includes essay by Allan Wingate (ts.).
    • 8.10. Programs for national events, Republic of Ghana, 1960
    • 8.11. Case studies (ts.) re: African-Americans in Czechoslovakia, n.d.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.1.
    • 8.12-8.13 Published articles, essays by other authors, 1893-1975
    • 8.14. Speeches, essays (ts.) by other authors, 1968, n.d.
    • 8.15. Poems by other authors, 1962, n.d.
    • 8.16. Postcards of art by H. Kofi Bailey, n.d.
    • 8.17-8.18 Photocopies from #8.19°
    • 8.19°. Collected clippings: 1937-1967, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #8.17-8.18.
    • 8.20-8.25 Scrapbook of clippings, (photocopies; originals discarded), 1960-1961. Includes African politics, U.S. Civil Rights Museum, Cuba.
    • 9.1. Other documents (ts.), 1865, 1971, n.d.; includes 1940s photocopy of the appointment of William H. Kellogg to Commissary of Substance with rank of Captain signed by Abraham Lincoln.
    • 9.2f. Printed musical score by Meta Davis, n.d.
    • 9.3. Program from the play, "The Green Pastures," at the Mansfield Theatre, New York City,1930; includes inscription from "the escort."

• Series II. FAMILY
  • Subseries A. Parents
    • 9.4. Rev. D.A. Graham: biographical, 1936, n.d.; includes clippings.
      Also reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.2.
    • 9.5. Rev. D.A. Graham: biographical, 1927; includes passport.
    • 9.6f. Rev. D.A. Graham: visa, 1925
    • 9.7. Rev. D.A. Graham: correspondence with his children, 1920-1936, n.d.
    • 9.8. Rev. D.A. Graham: Crown Hill Cemetery, 1936-1948; includes correspondence, deed, receipts.
    • 9.9. Rev. D.A. Graham: work, 1904-1935, n.d.; includes correspondence, certificate of appointment.
    • 9.10. Rev. D.A. Graham: work, badge from 9th Session Indiana, Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church, Indianapolis,Sept. 25-29, 1935
    • 9.11. Rev. D.A. Graham: work, postcards of Monrovia College, Liberia, n.d.
      See also #PD.19 for other photograph postcards of Monrovia.
    • 9.12-9.16. Rev. D.A. Graham: sermons, 1912-1936, n.d.
    • 9.17. Rev. D.A. Graham: writings, 1916-1930, n.d.
    • 9.18. Rev. D.A. Graham: "Ethics of the Pulpit and Pastorate," (ts.) n.d.
    • 9.19. Rev. D.A. Graham: collected works of other authors, 1928, n.d.; includes clippings, notes, hymns (ts.).
    • 9.20-9.25 Etta Bell Graham: Photocopies of #10f+.1.
    • 9.26-9.27 Etta Bell Graham: loose items from #10f+.1; includes photocopies.
      Also reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.3f+.
    • 10f+.1. Etta Bell Graham: family scrapbook (original) 1894-1951, n.d.; includes clippings, photographs, cards, mementos.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #9.20-9.25.
    • 9.28-9.29. Etta Bell Graham, "Mamma's Scrapbook," (disassembled, photocopies), 1910-1936, n.d.; includes clippings, telegrams.
    • 11.1. Etta Bell Graham: family, 1851, 1943; includes Indiana "Certificate of Registration" for entitlement to residency of Lucy Ann Graham, DAG's mother; obituary for Cora Bell Grissom, EBG's sister.
    • 11.2. Etta Bell Graham: biographical, 1885-1952, n.d.; includes obituary, clippings, school program.
    • 11.3. Etta Bell Graham: marriage, 1895-1936; includes clippings, guest book, invitations.
    • 11.4-11.6. Etta Bell Graham: correspondence with sons, 1920-1952, n.d.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.4.
    • 11.7. Etta Bell Graham: correspondence with SGD ("Lola"), 1927-1940, n.d.
    • 11.8. Etta Bell Graham: other correspondence, 1926-1952, n.d.; includes letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt petitioning him to throw out indictment of WEBD.
    • 11.9. Etta Bell Graham: speeches and writings, 1936-1939, n.d.; includes SGD drawing, school? essay (ts.), clippings.
    • 11.10. Etta Bell Graham: collected materials, 1929-1937, n.d.; includes clippings, program.
  • Subseries B. Brothers
    • 11.11. Correspondence, 1920s-1930s
    • 11.12. Correspondence, 1940s
    • 11.13. Correspondence, 1950s
    • 11.4-11.16. Correspondence, 1960s
    • 11.17-11.19. Correspondence, 1970s
    • 11.20. "God Pickan," by Lorenz B. Graham (ts. play), n.d., re: missionaries in Liberia
    • 12.1-12.2. Childhood memoir by Orval Graham, (ts. and handwritten draft), n.d.
    • 12.3. Collected material, 1928-1979; includes correspondence, writings, clippings, programs.
  • Subseries C. Sons
    • 12.4. Correspondence with Robert, 1927-1929
    • 12.5-12.9 Correspondence with Robert, 1930-1939
    • 12.10-12.12. Correspondence with Robert, 1940-1943
    • 12.13. Correspondence with Robert, n.d.
    • 12.14. Letters to Robert, 1943-1944
    • 12.15. Robert: school grades, 1939
    • 12.16. Correspondence with DGD, 1929, 1945
    • 12.17-12.22. "DGD Letters, '39-'42": correspondence with DGD, 1928-1945
    • 12.23-12.24. "DGD Letters from China, '59-'60": correspondence with DGD, 1956-1974; includes letters from China, Egypt, Amsterdam, etc.
    • 13.1. Correspondence with DGD, 1936-1941; includes letters from Etta B. Graham to SGD.
    • 13.2. Correspondence with DGD, 1942
    • 13.3. Correspondence with DGD, 1943
    • 13.4-13.5. Correspondence with DGD, 1944
    • 13.6. Correspondence with DGD, 1945
    • 13.7. Letters to DGD from family, 1942
    • 13.8. Letters to DGD from friends, 1942, 1963, 1980
    • 13.9. Letters re: DGD's education at Oberlin College, 1942-1943
    • 13.10. DGD financial and educational records, 1943, 1956, 1960-1963, n.d.; includes grade school report card.
    • 13.11. "The Death of Nasser," article by DGD in The Black Scholar,1971
    • 13.12. Interview with Stokely Carmichael (ts. copy), n.d.
    • 13.13-13.15. Correspondence with DGD and Robert (or one unidentified son), 1933-1936, n.d.; includes holiday greeting cards.
  • Subseries D. W.E.B. Du Bois
    • 13.16. Biographical, 1957, n.d.; includes voter registration card, brief life chronology.
    • 13.17. Sketch of WEBD by Fred Allen, n.d.
    • 13.18-13.20. Publicity, 1957-1970, n.d.; includes articles, clippings, pamphlets, "W.E.B. Du Bois and His Monumental Literary Efforts," by SGD. Also photocopies from #13.21f+.
    • 13.21f+ Publicity, 1957-1970, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #13.18-13.20.
    • 13.22f-13.23f. Articles re: WEBD, 1958-1963, n.d.
    • 13.24v. Celebration volume on WEBD's life, n.d.
    • 14.1. Health, 1946-1958, n.d.; includes correspondence, reports, insurance information.
    • 14.2. Financial, 1961-1962; includes bank correspondence.
    • 14.3. Travel, 1960; includes deposition for passport request.
    • 14.4. "Tschaika" (motor vehicle information), 1961-1963; includes correspondence, receipts.
    • 14.5. Correspondence, re: other WEBD properties, 1951
    • 14.6. Letters to SGD, 1934-1936
    • 14.7-14.9 Letters to SGD, 1940-1949
    • 14.10. Letters to SGD, 1950-1955
    • 14.11. Letters from SGD, 1946-1962, n.d.
    • 14.12. Correspondence between SGD and Du Bois Williams, WEBD's granddaughter, 1951.
    • 14.13. Other correspondence, 1940-1963, n.d.
    • 14.14-14.15f+. Photocopies of #14.16°.
    • 14.16°. Wedding clippings, 1951.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE 14.14-14.15f+.
    • 14.17-14.20. Death: condolences and obituaries, 1963; includes letter from Ida Pruitt, messages from Chairman Mao Tse-tung,Nikita Khrushchev, et al.
    • 14.21-14.22. Speeches and writings, 1938-1962, n.d.
    • 14.23. "Trust," correspondence with Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited (KTO Press), publisher of The Collected Published Works of W.E.B. Du Bois,1971-1987; includes contract, invoices, notes, pamphlets.
    • 14.24. "Partington," correspondence with Paul Partington re: lack of foreign press translations in WEBD bibliography from KTO Press, 1973-1980
    • 14.25. Press release and program, re: International Peace Award, 1953.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.4.
    • 14.26. WEBD centennial celebration, 1968; includes clippings, photographs, speeches, and flyers.
    • 14.27-14.30. "Du Bois Memorial - Carnegie Hall," 1963-1964; includes clippings, pamphlets, flyer, tributes, radio script, letters from Elizabeth Moos, Ossie Davis, et al.
    • 14.31-14.33. "Site Dedication," ceremony dedicating WEBD birthplace in Great Barrington, Mass., 1967-1979; includes program, invitations, speech, clippings. Also photocopies of #14.34f+.
    • 14.34f+. "Site Dedication," ceremony dedicating WEBD birthplace in Great Barrington, Mass., 1967-1979.
      Fragile. CLOSED, USE #14.31-14.33.
    • 15.1-15.2. "Paper Dedication, UMass," re: WEBD archives, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1973-1980; includes SGD honorary doctoral degree, brochures, clippings, press packets, citation, speech.
      Also reference copy of photograph of SGD receiving degree; original in #PD.4.
    • 15.3f+. "Paper Dedication, UMass," re: WEBD archives, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1973-1980
    • 15.4. Photocopies of #15.5f
    • 15.5f. WEBD scrapbook: trip to Holland (disassembled original), 1958.
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.5-PD.6. Fragile. CLOSED. USE #15.4.

• Series III. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
  • 15.6. Correspondence, 1926-1928
  • 15.7. Correspondence, 1930
  • 15.8-15.9. Correspondence, 1931
  • 15.10-15.11. Correspondence, 1932
  • 15.12. Correspondence, 1933
  • 15.13-15.14. Correspondence, 1934
  • 15.15-15.16. Correspondence, 1935
  • 15.17. Correspondence, 1936
  • 15.18. Correspondence, 1937
  • 15.19-15.20. Correspondence, 1938
  • 15.21-15.24. Correspondence, 1939; includes Edward Dickinson, George Kondolf, director of the Chicago Federal Theatre, et al.
  • 16.1-16.2. Correspondence, 1940; includes Eslanda (Essie) Robeson, Ethel Waters, Edward Dickinson, George Kondolf, et al.
  • 16.3-16.4. Correspondence, 1941
  • 16.5-16.6. Correspondence, 1942.
    Includes reference copy of photograph in 16.5; original in #PD.7.
  • 16.7-16.8. Correspondence: 1943; includes Yvonne, SGD's daughter-in-law, re: Robert's sickness.
  • 16.9-16.11. Correspondence, 1944; includes letter to Henry Ford, Sr. re: George Washington Carver, correspondence with Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Robeson, et al.
  • 16.12. Correspondence, 1945
  • 16.13-16.15. Correspondence, 1946; includes Langston Hughes,Mark Twain Society re: honorary membership, et al.
  • 16.16-16.19. Correspondence, 1947; includes Langston Hughes,Carl Van Vechten (signed "Carlo"), et al.
  • 17.1-17.2. Correspondence, 1948; includes letter and article (ts.) from United Public Workers of America, re: fighting Jim Crow laws, etc.
  • 17.3. Correspondence, 1949
  • 17.4. Correspondence, 1950; includes Eslanda (Essie) Robeson, et al.
  • 17.5-17.7. Correspondence, "Trial," 1951, re: WEBD's indictment and trial.
  • 17.8-17.9. Correspondence, 1952; includes Howard Fast, et al.
  • 17.10-17.13. Correspondence, 1953; includes subpoena from the "Sub Committee on Investigation" signed by Joseph McCarthy.
  • 17.14-17.15. Correspondence, 1954
  • 17.16-17.17. Correspondence, 1955
  • 17.18. Correspondence, 1956
  • 17.19-17.20. Correspondence, 1957; includes Rockwell Kent,interview of WEBD and SGD (ts. edited).
  • 17.21. Correspondence, 1958
  • 17.22-17.23. Correspondence, 1959; includes Chu Po-shen and correspondence re: Du Boises' trip to Russia.
  • 18.1-18.2. Correspondence, 1960; includes "Agreement and Declaration of Trust" (ts. copy) re: making SGD trustee of the Louis E. Burnham estate; U.S. press release re: "Regulation of Travel by Soviet Citizens in the United States"; letter from Paul Partington; flyer for SGD talk at "Annual Rally for Peace and Friendship" at the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
    Also reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.7.
  • 18.3. Correspondence, 1961; includes uncataloged photograph of young Ghanaian boy in Du Boises' holiday card.
  • 18.4. Correspondence, 1962; includes Ben and Ethel Schub.
  • 18.5-18.8. Correspondence, 1963; includes correspondence re: death of WEBD, invitation to state banquet at the Imperial Palace of Ethiopia, uncataloged photographs of a collage of WEBD clippings.
    Also reference copies of photographs in #18.5; originals in #PD.7.
  • 18.9-18.13. Correspondence, 1964; includes Ossie Davis.
    Also reference copy of photograph in #18.9; original in #PD.7.
  • 18.14-18.16. Correspondence, 1965; includes Lil Landau.
  • 18.17. Photocopy of #18.18f.
  • 18.18f. Correspondence, 1965; includes clipping (original) with note from Langston Hughes,
    Fragile. CLOSED. USE #18.17.
  • 19.1-19.5. Correspondence, 1966; includes photocopy of WEBD short story, "On Being Crazy," correspondence with Josephine Baker, Ida Pruitt.
  • 19.6-19.8. Correspondence, 1967; includes Stokely Carmichael.
  • 19.9-19.10. Correspondence, 1968; includes Anna Louise Strong.
  • 19.11-19.14. Correspondence, 1969; includes Charlie Chaplin, SGD's statement in response to Martin Luther King's assassination.
  • 20.1-20.7. Correspondence, 1970; includes introduction to WEBD's The Negro by George Shepperton (ts.); publication and photocopy of declaration re: Fisk University student movement for a black university; article by SGD in opposition to advertisement, "An Appeal by Black Americans for United States Support to Israel" (ts.); selection from The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: "Negroes and Jews - The Two Nationalisms and The Bloc(ked) Plurality" by Harold Cruse (ts.).
  • 20.8-20.13. Correspondence, 1971.
    Includes reference copy of photograph of Garth Cate; original in #PD.7.
  • 20.14-20.18, 21.1-21.5. Correspondence, 1972; includes Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd. re: WEBD publication.
  • 21.6-21.14. Correspondence, 1973; includes statement from Obi B. Egbuna, "I am No Medusa on Ice," correspondence re: SGD's spring trip to the United States.
  • 21.15-22.4. Correspondence, 1974; includes "Where To - From Here," article by SGD (ts.), correspondence and "interview" with Abby Simon, daughter of Abbott Simon (ts.).
    (8 folders)
  • 22.5-22.11. Correspondence, 1975; includes flyer for SGD lecture, resignation of Nathan Hare from Black Scholar.
  • 22.12. Correspondence and poems by Margaret Burroughs,1977.
  • 22.13-22.14. Correspondence, n.d.
  • 22.15-22.18. Correspondence with Kwame Nkrumah, 1956-1971, n.d.

• Series IV. WORK AND WRITINGS
  • Subseries A. Musical Scores
    • 22.19-22.21. "Little Black Sambo," 1938-1941, n.d.; includes clippings, libretto, program, treatment.
    • 22.22. Photocopies of #22.23f.
    • 22.23f. "Little Black Sambo," musical score - copy #1, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #22.22.
    • 22.24-22.25. Photocopies of #22.26f.
    • 22.26f. "Little Black Sambo," musical score - copy #2, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #22.24-22.25.
    • 22.27. "Swing Mikado," clippings, 1938, n.d.
    • 23.1-23.2. "Tom-Tom," 1932-1980, n.d.; includes clippings, letter, flyer, programs.
    • 23.3 "Tom-Tom," published libretto (photocopy from The Roots of African American Drama), 1998
    • 23.4-23.5. "Tom-Tom," (ts. libretto), n.d. (two copies)
    • 23.6. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Overture (photocopy of #24f.1) n.d.
    • 23.7-23.8. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Act I (photocopy of #24f.2-24f.5) n.d.
    • 23.9. "Tom-Tom," musical score: "From Act I" (photocopy of #24f.6) n.d.
    • 23.10-23.12. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Act II (photocopy of #24f24f.7-24f.10) n.d.
    • 23.13. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Act II "No Time, Caberet [sic] Scene from the Opera," (photocopy of #24f.11) n.d.
    • 23.14. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Act II Chorus Score, (photocopy of #24f.12) n.d.
    • 23.15-23.18. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Act III, copy #1 (photocopy of #24f.13-24f.15) n.d.
    • 23.19-23.20. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Act III, copy #2 (photocopy of #24f.16-24f.19) n.d.
    • 23.21-23.23. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Act III, copy #3 (photocopy of #24f.20-24f.22) n.d.
    • 24f.1-24f.22. "Tom-Tom," musical score: Overture - Act III.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #23.6-23.23.
    • 25.1-25.2. Other music, 1916-1939, n.d.; includes librettos for "Deep Rivers: A Music Fantasy," published in Arts Quarterly, "Towards Freedom" (ts. synopsis of musical, "Mississippi Rainbow")
    • 25.3. Photocopies of #25.4f.
    • 25.4f. Other musical scores (original), n.d.; includes "Compensation," words by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, "Tenderly," words by Lorenz B. Graham, "Mississippi Rainbow." (see also #25.12v for "Mississippi Rainbow" weekly receipts)
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #25.3.
    • 25.5. Photocopies of #25.6f
    • 25.6f. Other musical scores, fragments, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #25.5.
  • Subseries B. Theater Productions
    • 25.7. Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Chicago Federal Theatre, 1937-1938, n.d.; includes group letter, literature, programs.
    • 25.8f. W.P.A. Federal Theatre, n.d.; includes national policy board agenda, summer theater report.
    • 25.9-25.10. "The Hairy Ape," by Eugene O'Neill, (ts.) adaptation by SGD for the Negro Unit of the Chicago Federal Theatre, n.d. (2 copies)
    • 25.11. Chicago Federal Theatre summer session, planning committee report, 1937; includes article, "Towards an American Theatre," by SGD in Arts Quarterly.
    • 25.12v. Daybook re: SGD's director-supervisor schedule at the Chicago Federal Theatre, Princess Theatre, 1936-1937; includes weekly receipts for SGD production, "Mississippi Rainbow."
    • 25.13. Programs: other SGD productions, 1931-1941
    • 25.14. Programs: others' productions, 1939
    • 25.15-25.19. Photocopies of #26f.
      See also subseries G.
    • 26f.1v. SGD scrapbook re: mostly SGD productions, 1932-1941, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #25.15-25.19.
  • Subseries C. Speeches
    • 25.20. Speeches, 1936-1938; includes "Shirley Graham Discusses the Negro Artist" (ts.).
    • 25.21-25.24. Speeches, 1941-1949, n.d.; includes "American All," "Women on the Frontier," "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," "There Once Was a Slave," speech delivered at the national founding convention of the Progressive Party."
    • 27.1-27.2. Speeches, 1944-1949, n.d.; includes invitations, programs.
    • 27.3-27.4. Speeches, 1950-1959, ts./printed; includes programs, article, invitations.
    • 27.5-27.6. Speeches, "1951 - First Defense Trip;" includes notes, clippings, flyers, invitations, itineraries, biographical information, correspondence.
      Also reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.8.
    • 27.7-27.8. Speeches, "1953 Lecture Tour;" includes itineraries, flyer, invitations, correspondence, press releases, biographical information, flower/gift cards.
    • 27.9-27.11. Speeches, "China visit - 1959," (ts. notes), photocopies of disassembled scrapbook of clippings in Chinese.
    • 27.12. Speeches, 1960-1961, (ts., printed) re: Africa, U.S. peace rally, China, women of Ghana.
    • 27.13. Speeches, "Lecture material - Marcy, 1961"; includes clippings, pamphlet, 1960-1961.
    • 27.14. Speeches, 1962-1964, (ts., printed)
    • 27.15. Speeches, 1965-1969, (ts., printed)
    • 27.16-27.17. Speeches, 1970
    • 27.18f+. Speeches, 1970
    • 28.1. Speeches, 1971; includes pen drawing of SGD by Harold S. Dorsey.
    • 28.2. Speeches, clippings re: speech at Harvard, 1971
    • 28.3. Speeches, radio interview with Esther Jackson et al., at Interchurch Center,New York City (ts. transcript), Feb. 1971
    • 28.4. Speeches, 1972-1974
    • 28.5. Speeches, letters from students re: speech at John S. Roberts Junior High School,New York City,1972.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.8.
    • 28.6. Speeches, "African Society," Sept. 1974, re: donating WEBD's "Collected Works"
    • 28.7-28.10. Speeches, 1975
    • 28.11. Speeches, 1976
    • 28.12. Speeches, "Chou [En-lai] Memorial," 1976; includes introduction (ts.), press release, clippings, program.
    • 28.13-28.17. Speeches, n.d.; includes photocopy of #28.18f.
    • 28.18f. "Now is the Time" poster for N.A.A.C.P. speech, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #28.13-28.17.
  • Subseries D. Articles
    • 29.1. "A Day at Hampstead," Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life,"1931
    • 29.2-29.5. SGD articles, 1943-1949; includes "We Hold These Truths" columns.
    • 29.6-29.10. SGD articles, 1951-1959
    • 29.11-29.19. SGD articles, 1960-1969
    • 29.20f+. SGD articles, 1960s
    • 29.21-30.4. SGD articles, Egyptian Gazette column, 1960s
      (7 folders)
    • 30.5-30.10. SGD articles, 1970-1979; includes ms. note from Averstone, editor of The Pan Africanist.
    • 30.11-31.15. SGD articles, n.d.; includes photocopy of #31.16f+.
      (21 folders)
    • 31.16f+. SGD articles, 1960, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #31.15
    • 31.17-31.20. Others' articles, 1962-1971; includes Richard P. Stevens, Herbert Aptheker, Gamal Abel Nasser.
  • Subseries E. Nonfiction Books
    • 32.1-32.4. Correspondence with publishers, 1946-1964, n.d.; includes clippings, invitations, contracts.
    • 44.20f+. Clippings from #32.1.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #32.1.
    • 32.5-32.6. Photocopies of #32.7f+
    • 32.7f+. SGD scrapbook: mostly clippings re: her books, 1943-1950, n.d.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #32.5-32.6.
    • 32.8. SGD book jackets
    • 32.9-32.11. The Third Press, 1971-1975; includes correspondence, catalogs, clippings, royalty statements.
    • 32.12f. SGD corrected page proof for Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile, selected pages.
      See also 32.10 for corresponding correspondence.
    • 32.13-32.17. George Washington Carver, Scientist: ts. draft, n.d.
    • 32.18. George Washington Carver, Scientist: copy of dedication, book list, clippings, n.d.
    • 32.19-32.20. George Washington Carver, Scientist: foreign book jackets, front matter
    • 32.21°. George Washington Carver, Scientist: foreign book jackets, front matter
    • 32.22. George Washington Carver, Scientist: adaptation for radio by American School of the Air (ts.), 1945
    • 32.23. "The Valkyrie," Somerville High School publication, Somerville, N.J.,Sept. 1914; includes athletic notes by Paul Robeson.
    • 32.24. Paul Robeson souvenir booklets, 1961-1964, n.d.
    • 32.25. Paul Robeson programs, 1930, n.d.; includes autographed playbill for Othello at the Savoy Theatre, London.
    • 32.26f. Paul Robeson birthday tribute, 1959, 1973
    • 32.27. Paul Robeson birthday tribute, (ts. draft), 1973
    • 32.28f. "I Know a Man," song written for Robeson by Lerman and Morgenstern, copy of score, n.d.
    • 32.29f+. Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World: book jacket, photocopies of front matter, from Norwegian edition, 1948
    • 32.30. Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World: photocopies of book cover, front matter, illustrations, from Swedish edition, 1950
    • 33.1-33.5. Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World: early incomplete draft (ts.), n.d
    • 33.6-33.12. Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World: ts. draft, 1945
    • 33.13. Correspondence, clippings, photocopies of #33.14f+ re: Paul Robeson, SGD's book, 1946-1973, n.d.
    • 33.14f+. "The Robeson Story," clipping from Freedom, April 1955.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #33.13.
    • 33.15. Other writings on Paul Robeson by SGD, c.1949
    • 33.16-34.5. There Once Was a Slave: ts. draft, n.d.
      (10 folders)
    • 34.6. There Once Was a Slave: etching of Frederick Douglass (copy), n.d.
    • 34.7f. There Once Was a Slave: pen and ink drawing of Frederick Douglass, n.d.
    • 34.8. There Once Was a Slave: photocopies of book jackets, front matter from various foreign editions, 1957-1962
    • 34.9f+. There Once Was a Slave: photocopies of book jackets, front matter from various foreign editions, 1957-1962
    • 34.10. There Once Was a Slave: clippings, 1947-1948, n.d.
    • 34.11. Other SGD writings on Frederick Douglass, n.d.
    • 34.12. Your Most Humble Servant: book jackets, front matter from various foreign editions, 1952, 1962
    • 34.13f+. Your Most Humble Servant: book jacket, n.d.
    • 34.14. Clippings, re: Your Most Humble Servant,1945-1950, n.d.; includes photocopy of #34.15f+
    • 34.15f+. "Your Most Humble Servant, Excerpts from the Thrilling Story of Benjamin Banneker's Life..." Feb. 1950; clipping of article by B.M. Phillips,African Magazine.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #34.14.
    • 34.16f+. The Story of Phillis Wheatley: book jacket, photocopies of front matter from German edition, 1957
    • 34.17-34.18. The Story of Phillis Wheatley: prepared radio script (ts.) from the Columbia Broadcasting System, Jan. 1949.
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.8.
    • 34.19. The Story of Phillis Wheatley,1949-1955, n.d; includes clippings, letter.
    • 34.20v. Jean Baptiste du Sable: Founder of Chicago: SGD notes, n.d.
    • 34.21. Jean Baptiste du Sable: Founder of Chicago,1953-1978, n.d.; includes clippings, correspondence.
    • 34.22. "The Marriage of Jean Baptise du Sable" (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 34.23°. Jean Baptiste du Sable: Founder of Chicago: corrected proofs, 1953
    • 34.24-34.26. "Cultural Division Materials," 1981-1982; includes proposal, treatment and promo segment for movie adaptation by Glenn Bruce of Jean Baptiste du Sable: Founder of Chicago.
    • 34.27. "Je Suis Pointe du Sable," by Steve Minium adaptation (ts. screenplay) of Jean Baptiste du Sable: Founder of Chicago, n.d.
    • 34.28-34.30. "Jean Baptiste de [sic] Sable," by Seymour Klein, adaptation (ts. screenplay) of Jean Baptiste du Sable: Founder of Chicago, n.d.
    • 35.1v. The Story of Pocahontas: SGD notes, n.d.
    • 35.2. The Story of Pocahontas,1954; includes clippings.
    • 35.3. The Story of Pocahontas: photocopy of cover, front matter, Italian edition, 1970
    • 35.4. Booker T. Washington; Educator of Hand, Head and Heart: clippings, ca. 1956
    • 35.5-35.12. His Day is Marching On, (original title, "Mine Eyes Have Seen") (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 35.13. His Day is Marching On,1971; includes clippings, press release, letters, book jacket.
    • 35.14-35.21. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile; A Biography: ts. draft, n.d.
    • 36.1. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile; A Biography: alternate chapters, n.d.
    • 36.2-36.3. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile; A Biography: research materials, 1959-1963, n.d.; includes articles, speeches.
    • 36.4-36.6. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile; A Biography: notes, n.d.
    • 36.7v-36.8v. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile; A Biography: notes, n.d.
    • 36.9-36.12. Julius K. Nyerere, Teacher of Africa: ts. draft, n.d.
    • 36.13v. Julius K. Nyerere, Teacher of Africa: notes, n.d.
    • 36.14. A Pictorial History of W.E.B. Du Bois: correspondence with Johnson Publishing Company,1975-1980
    • 37.1. Guggenheim application materials for book on Anne Royall, 1947-1948; includes award list, clipping.
    • 37.2-37.11. "Anne Royall's United States" (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 37.12-37.22. "Anne Royall's United States, Book II" (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 38.1-38.3. "Naiveté, Book I" (ts. draft), c. 1947
    • 38.4-38.7. "Naiveté, Book II" (ts. draft), c. 1947
    • 38.8-38.11. "Naiveté, Book III" (ts. draft), c. 1947
    • 38.12-39.8. "Royal Anne: The Woman in the Case" (ts. draft), n.d.
      (16 folders)
    • 39.9-39.15. Anne Royall (ts. notes), n.d.; includes complete parts of SGD ts. draft.
    • 39.16-39.20. Anne Royall "Her story as told in her writings" (ts. notes), n.d.
    • 39.21-39.26. Anne Royall, ts. notes re: Aaron Burr etc., 1948-1949, n.d.; includes clippings.
    • 40.1-40.15. "The Verdict" re: Anne Royall (ts. draft), n.d.
  • Subseries F. Fiction Works
    • 40.16. Poems by SGD?, (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 40.17. Poems by others, 1923, n.d; includes poem by Lorenz B. Graham.
    • 40.18. Selected poems of WEBD (ts. draft), front matter, ca. 1964
    • 40.19-40.26. Zulu Heart (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 41.1. "I Got Wings," short story (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 41.2. "Kawo: A Story of Africa" short story by SGD and Lorenz B. Graham (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 41.3. "Wings Over Jordon [sic]," short story (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 41.4. "Mary," "Tar," "Heaven Can Wait," short stories (ts. draft), n.d.
    • 41.5. Published short stories by SGD, 1943-1945
  • Subseries G. Plays
    • 41.6. "The Bannekers," prospectus for radio show (ts.) n.d.
    • 41.7. "The Bannekers," script for radio show (ts.) n.d.
    • 41.8-41.11. "Coal Dust," Acts I-III (ts.), n.d.
    • 21.12-41.14. "Coal Dust," Acts I-III (ts. draft with penciled changes), n.d.
    • 41.15. "Coal Dust," 1939, n.d.; includes clippings, program.
    • 41.16. "Da Sun of God: a music-play" (ts.), n.d.
    • 41.17. "Deep Rivers," radio "tone-poem" script, copy #1 (ts.), n.d.; includes foreword.
    • 41.18. "Deep Rivers," radio "tone-poem" script, copy #2 (ts.), n.d.
    • 41.19. Letter from Federal Theatre Project re: "Deep River," "Machine Dust," 1938
    • 41.20. "Dust to Earth," Act I (ts.), n.d.
    • 41.21. "Dust to Earth," Act II (ts.), n.d.
    • 41.22. "Dust to Earth," Act III (ts.), n.d.
    • 41.23. "Dust to Earth," notes taken at the "Forum" re: critiques of the play (ts.), Feb. 1940
    • 41.24. "Dust to Earth," 1941, n.d.; includes programs, clippings, contract.
    • 41.25-41.28. "Elijah's Ravens," Acts I-III, copy #1 (ts.), 1940
    • 41.29-41.32. "Elijah's Ravens," Acts I-III, copy #2 (ts.), 1940
    • 42.1-42.3. "Elijah's Ravens," Acts I-III, copy #3 (ts.), 1940
    • 42.4. "Elijah's Ravens," story line (ts.), n.d.
    • 42.5. "Elijah's Ravens," 1941, n.d.; includes programs, clippings.
    • 42.6. "Harlem U.S.A.," script by SGD? (ts.), 1950
    • 42.7. "I Gotta Home," 1940, n.d.; includes clippings, flyer.
    • 42.8. "It's Morning," copy #1 (ts.), n.d.
    • 42.9. "It's Morning," copy #2 (ts.), n.d.
    • 42.10. "It's Morning," copy #3 (ts.), n.d.
    • 42.11. "It's Morning," copy #4 (ts.), n.d.
    • 42.12. "Now is the Time" (ts.), n.d.
    • 42.13-42.14. "The Revolutionists," by SGD and Seldon Rodman, Acts I-III, copy #1 (ts.), n.d.
    • 42.15-42.17. "The Revolutionists," by SGD and Seldon Rodman, Acts I-III, copy #2 (ts.), n.d.; includes signatures of SGD and Margaret Christy.
    • 42.18. "The Shadow of Olive Trees" (ts.), n.d.
    • 42.19. Untitled script from YMCA camp (2 copies), 1942
  • Subseries H. Other Work
    • 42.20v. Notes: "Sudan '68," 1968
    • 42.21v. Notes, 1968, n.d.
    • 42.22v. Notes re: mostly addresses, 1971? n.d.
    • 42.23. Loose items from #42.22v
    • 43.1-43.2. Notes, n.d.
    • 43.3v. Notes, n.d.
    • 43.4. Removed from #43.3v
    • 43.5-43.7. Notes, n.d.
    • 43.8. Loose notes, n.d.
    • 43.9-43.14. USO at Ft. Huachuca, 1941-1943, n.d.; includes correspondence, reports, clippings, script, poems, programs, speech, contract.
      Also reference copy of photograph in #43.9; original in #PD.8.
    • 43.15-43.17. Sage and Sand, Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, Jan.-Mar. 1942
    • 43.18-43.20. N.A.A.C.P., 1943, n.d.; includes correspondence, memos, minutes.
      Also reference copy of photograph in #43.18; original in #PD.8.
    • 43.21. Progressive Party, 1948, 1952, n.d.; includes clipping, flyer, invitation.
    • 43.22-43.23. Rosenberg Children's Trust Fund, 1953-1955, n.d.; includes correspondence, legal documents, minutes, reports, photocopies of #43.24f+.
    • 43.24f+. Rosenberg Children's Trust Fund.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #43.22-43.23.
    • 43.25-43.27. Hope Foye Fund, 1954-1957, n.d.; includes correspondence, lists, program, financial, artist statement.
      Also reference copies of photographs in #43.27; originals in #PD.8.
    • 44.1. Asian and African Writing Conference, 1958; includes clipping.
    • 44.2. Negro Women's Emancipation Committee, 1960-1961, n.d.; includes correspondence, lists, statement of purpose, invitations.
    • 44.3v. UMass Amherst yearbook, 1975; includes SGD as guest faculty.
    • 44.4. Republican Spain, n.d.; includes clipping, program, press releases.
    • 44.5. Other work, 1936-1977, n.d.; includes clippings, contracts, press card, election ballot, pamphlet, program, report.
      Also reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.8.
    • 44.6. Ghana TV: "This is Ghana Television" (pamphlet), n.d.
    • 44.7. Ghana TV: reports, 1963, n.d.
    • 44.8. Ghana TV, 1964, n.d.; includes curriculum vitae, correspondence, minutes.
    • 44.9. Ghana TV: speeches, 1964, n.d.
    • 44.10. Ghana TV: clippings, 1964-1965, n.d.; includes photocopies of #44.11f+.
    • 44.11f+. Ghana TV: clippings.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #44.10.
    • 44.12-44.15. Ghana TV: "Mrs. Du Bois, Director of Television: Personal" (disassembled binder), 1964-1966; includes correspondence, SGD's schedule, WEBD's work, "repatriation" of Afro-Americans to Ghana.
    • 44.16. Ghana TV: "12 inch portable TV sets," 1965; includes correspondence, invoices re: Sanyo TVs sent to Ghana.
    • 44.17. Ghana TV: shipment of Sanyo television sets, 1965; includes correspondence, invoices, shipping documents.
    • 44.18. Ghana TV: trip to Japan, 1964; includes clippings, itineraries, correspondence, lists, receipts, report.
    • 44.19f+. Ghana TV: clippings of trip to Japan.
      Fragile. CLOSED. USE #44.18.

• Series V. PHOTOGRAPHS.
  FILED IN PHOTOGRAH DRAWER.
  • PD.1. Removed from #1.1, 2.16v, 4.16, 6.10, 8.6, 8.11
  • PD.2. Removed from #9.4
  • PD.3f. Removed from #9.27
  • PD.4. Removed from #11.4, 14.25, 15.2
  • PD.5-6. Removed from #15.5f
  • PD.7. Removed from #16.5, 18.2, 18.5, 18.9, 19.5, 20.13
  • PD.8. Removed from #27.5, 28.5, 34.18, 43.9, 43.18, 43.27, 44.5
  • Subseries A. Portraits, Family, Friends
    • PD.9. Portraits of SGD, 1896-c.1905
    • PD.10. Portraits of SGD, 1920s
    • PD.11. Portraits of SGD, 1930s
    • PD.12. Portraits of SGD, 1940s
    • PD.13. Portraits of SGD, c.1950s-1977, n.d.; includes SGD's funeral with family and friends.
    • PD.14. Snapshots of SGD, 1941-1976, n.d.
    • PD.15. Rev. D.A. Graham: portraits, c. 1880-c. 1930, n.d.
    • PD.16. Rev. D.A. Graham: Bethel A.M.E. Church, Spokane, Washington, c.1920s
    • PD.17. Rev. D.A. Graham: other A.M.E. congregations, n.d.
    • PD.18. Rev. D.A. Graham: conferences
    • PD.19. Rev. D.A. Graham: Monrovia College, Liberia; includes photo postcards.
    • PD.20f-21f. Rev. D.A. Graham: Monrovia College, Liberia.
    • PD.22. Etta Bell Graham: portraits, c. 1889-1936, n.d.; includes Graham family portrait.
    • PD.23. D.A. Graham, Jr., n.d.; includes portrait of Lorenz, snapshots of SGD with his wife Matryce and Bill's widow, Butch.
    • PD.24. Lorenz Bell Graham, 1902-1949, 1971-1975, n.d.; includes Ruth Morris Graham and children.
    • PD.25. Bill Graham, c. 1927-1965, n.d.
    • PD.26. Orval Graham, c. 1920s; includes uncataloged photographs of Orval’s children and their families, 1972-1973.
    • PD.27. Robert Graham McCanns, 1941, n.d.; includes early portrait of DGD.
    • PD.28. DGD, 1942, n.d.
    • PD.29. Other family members, c. 1880s,-c.1900s n.d.; includes portrait of Lucy Ann Graham,Cora Bell Grisson.
    • PD.30. Unidentified family, possibly portraits of Graham children, 1903, n.d.
    • PD.31. Unidentified family members, 1885-c. 1920s, c.1960s, n.d.
    • PD.32. WEBD: portraits and snapshots, c. 1908-1960, n.d.
    • PD.33. WEBD: portraits and snapshots with SGD, 1961, n.d.
    • PD.34. WEBD: family and friends, 1906-1907, n.d.
    • PD.35. WEBD: with Paul Robeson (slide), n.d.
    • PD.36. WEBD: speeches and events, 1918-1951, n.d.; includes "Conference of Negro Leaders" and "Second Defense, Los Angeles," uncataloged print of WEBD and R.R. Moton in front of statue of Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute.
    • PD.37. WEBD: "Defendants... Reunion, 1956;" includes photograph of Kyrie Elkin,Sylvia Soloff, Elizabeth Moos, Abbott Simon.
    • PD.38. WEBD: unidentified events, 1936-1945, 1961 n.d.
    • PD.39-40. WEBD: photo album from Drum Magazine,ca. 1960
    • PD.41. WEBD: death, 1963
    • PD.42. SGD friends, identified, 1927-1936, n.d.; includes Rachel Davis Du Bois,Charles Lampkin.
    • PD.43. SGD friends, identified, 1971-1972, n.d.; includes Hanna Reitsch, Coretta Scott King,Queen Mother Moore,Henry Frizell, Elizabeth Moos, Vivian Hallinan?
    • PD.44. SGD friends, unidentified, n.d.
    • PD.45. DGD friends, 1934, n.d.; includes portrait of SGD.
  • Subseries B. Family Photo Albums
    • PD.46. "Pages from Grandma's [Etta Bell Graham] Photo Album," n.d.
    • PD.47-48. Etta Bell Graham photo album, n.d.; includes mostly family photographs.
    • PD.49-50. Loose items removed from album #PD.47-48; includes Martha Bell Brooks, portrait of Lorenz in Monrovia, 1927.
    • PD.51-52. SGD photo album, 1937, n.d.; includes Langston Hughes, Hallie Flanagan (#PD.52-94), subjects "Baby Parade," (DGD, Robert) "Today He is a Man," Paris," "Morgan," "Oberlin," [Ft. Huachuca], [Chicago Federal State Theatre].
    • PD.53-54. Loose items removed from album #PD.51-52.
    • PD.55f. SGD photo album, n.d.; includes the Du Boises in Central Asia,Rome, Italy,Venice, Italy,Ghana.
    • PD.56. Loose items removed from album #PD.55f.
    • PD.57-58. SGD photo album, 1952-1957, n.d.; includes Lawrence Hautz, Du Boises' trips to Great Barrington, Mass.,Cape Cod.
    • PD.59-65. Loose photographs from photo album #PD.57-58; includes Bernard Jaffe (#PD.64), the DuBoises' trip to Great Barrington, Mass. (#PD.61).
  • Subseries C. Work and Writings
    • PD.66. SGD and Hall Johnson, choral director, n.d.; includes photo mechanical processed print.
    • PD.67. SGD in musical productions?, n.d.
    • PD.68. "Federal Theatre Photos," n.d.; includes Hallie Flanagan.
    • PD.69. SGD productions: "Elijah's Ravens," 1930, "Little Black Sambo, 1938
    • PD.70. SGD productions: "Dust to Earth," 1941, "Mississippi Rainbow," "Garden of Time," n.d.
    • PD.71. Unidentified productions, n.d.
    • PD.72. Paul Robeson, from Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World,1913-1942, n.d.
    • PD.73f. Essie Robeson, from Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World,1961
    • PD.74. Robeson family, from Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World,1945, n.d.
    • PD.75f. Frederick Douglass, from There Once was a Slave, n.d.
    • PD.76. Photographs used in Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile, n.d.
    • PD.77. Literary awards and publicity photographs, c. 1940-1950, n.d.
    • PD.78-79a. USO - Ft. Huachuca, early 1940s, n.d.
    • PD.79b. USO - Ft. Huachuca, n.d.
  • Subseries D. Ghana
    • PD.80. "Airport leaving for Ghana from New York City, Oct. 18, 1961"
    • PD.81. At home with friends, 1964, n.d.
    • PD.82. Ghana TV: event at the station, n.d.
    • PD.83-86. Ghana TV: trip to Japan, 1964
    • PD.87. Kwame Nkrumah, n.d.
    • PD.88. "Mom and Nkrumah in Guinea," n.d.
    • PD.89-90. Embassy events in Ghana, n.d.; includes foreign ambassadors to Ghana, Herbert and Fay Aptheker.
    • PD.91. Other events, 1960, n.d.; includes delegates from the Afro-American delegation, Vivian and Bill Graham at the president's home, WEBD receiving an honorary degree from the University of Ghana.
  • Subseries E. International Events and Trips
    (Grouped by DGD, arranged chronologically)
    • PD.92. "Mom in Paris," 1929, n.d.
    • PD.93. "Mom and W.E.B. in Paris" (and Denmark), 1949
    • PD.94. SGD and WEBD trips, 1953-1967; includes Coney Island,Cape Cod,Great Barrington, Mass.
    • PD.95. "S.S. Liberti - off for extended tour," Aug. 8, 1958
    • PD.96-98. "USSR and Eastern Europe pictures," 1958-1967, n.d.
    • PD.99-100. "Nnamdi Azikiwe inauguration, Nigeria, 1960
    • PD.101. "Afro-Asian Women's Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1961
    • PD.117. WEBD and SGD at Chinese Embassy, Cairo, Egypt, March 1962
    • PD.102. "Tien An Men reviewing stand," October 1, 1962
    • PD.103. "East Berlin, X-mas," 1966
    • PD.104-106. "China - Red Guard, 1967-1968;" includes 1959 visit with Chairman Mao Tse-tung (#PD.106).
    • PD.107. "Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization," 1968
    • PD.108. SGD speeches, 1971-1975, n.d.; includes John Henrik Clarke.
    • PD.109. SGD in China, c. 1970s
    • PD.110. "Mom in Dar es Salaam," 1971-1973
    • PD.111. "Mom in Cairo, 76 Nile Street," 1972-1974, n.d.
    • PD.112. Ambassador event at the home of the Abbasis, Aug. 21, 1974
    • PD.113. "Chinese Army Day Reception," Egypt, 1975
    • PD.114. Trip to Japan, 1975
    • PD.115 Event for Nikita Khrushchev, n.d.
    • PD.116. Unknown events, 1940, n.d.

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