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1968WALTER-FILM004175No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Richard Wright playwright Vintage original 22 x 14" 56 x 36 cm. theatre window card poster with a few light diagonal scratches minor rubbing and wear at extreme edges VERY GOOD. New York: Negro Ensemble Company June 4-July 7 1968. <br /><br />Richard Wright adapted a play by French author Louis Sapin. This posthumous production occurred in the first season of the Negro Ensemble Company and appears to have been its first in New York City eight years after Wright's death. Moses Gunn made a strong impression in the lead role of "Daddy" an aging old drunk who may or may not be God. Negro Ensemble Co. books
1944WRCAM55481Detroit 1944. Illustrated broadside printed on thick cardstock 21 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches. Soiling chipping closed edge tears and creasing. Good condition. An extraordinary survival - a large-format illustrated fundraising poster for the Detroit chapter of the United Negro College Fund UNCF in the first year of the organization's existence. Though the poster is undated it likely emanates from 1944 the founding and initial fundraising year for UNCF when its national fundraising goal was $1.5 million and the number of schools involved with the group was twenty-seven. The fundraising "quota" for the Detroit area was $75000 as stated here. The poster is printed in brown and green urging potential donors to "help maintain 27 Negro Colleges." Three photographs are printed in brown in the middle of the poster showing a young African- American man in a laboratory "Training for Scientific Production in War and Peace" a young man on a tractor "Education in Action - Training for Food Production" and an image of several men standing on the steps of a government building captioned "Lord Halifax Observes Training for Leadership." Both national committee members including John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the local "Detroit Committee" are listed at the bottom just above a notice that "Workers are Needed" and listings of the address and phone number for the Detroit office. <br> <br> The United Negro College Fund was founded in 1944 to address inequities in higher education funding and opportunities for African-American youth by appealing to the "national conscience." The organization focused on private historically-black colleges and universities and initially sought funding solely from the African- American community. Over the last seventy- five years the organization has grown to assist almost forty schools of higher education and advocate for K-12 education and has raised more than $5 billion to help over half a million students earn college degrees. <br> <br> No copies of this fundraising poster are listed in OCLC nor in any source we can locate. It is a rare surviving artifact from the founding year of one of the most important organizations devoted to African- American higher education. Marybeth Gasman ENVISIONING BLACK COLLEGES: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2007. unknown books
2213Robinson was a baseball fan cofounder of the New York Black Yankees ball team which played in the Negro National League between 1936 and 1948. Co-founded by Robinson as the Harlem Black Bombers the team adopted the name Black Yankees in 1936. It wasn't until 1948 that Major League Baseball was officially desegregated. <br/><br/>The photograph Robinson mentions in this letter measures 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches and shows the famed dancer possibly dancing up the steps from the dugout. The dugout may be that of the Black Yankees. He thanks his correspondent for the photo. "I shall keep it for my private album - Well it looks as if we will have the World's Series right here again. Do hope I can be near enough to see one or two games." He signs "'Copesetically' Bill Robinson." With printed personalized transmittal envelope. The third game of the 1942 National Negro Leagues World Series was played in Yankee Stadium between the Kansas City Monarchs and the Homestead Grays. unknown books
