Creator:
Fisher, W. W., fl. 1846.
Inclusive Dates:
1846- 1846
Abstract:
Letter from Reverend W. W. Fisher of Palmyra, New York, to E. B. Walsworth, giving
details of a brutal attack on a local mixed-race couple by one Schuyler Parshall and several accomplices.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Palmyra (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans
New York State
Hate crimes -- New York (State)
Interracial marriage -- New York (State)
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1846- 1846
Abstract:
Day-by-day accounts of the trial of William Freeman, accused of multiple murders in Upstate New York, one of the first American trials to employ the insanity defense. Freeman was prosecuted by John Van Buren, son of President Martin Van Buren, and defended by William Seward, later Secretary of State to President Abraham Lincoln.
Type of Material:
Newspapers.
Subject:
Rochester Daily Advertiser (Rochester, N.Y.)
African Americans
New York State
Insanity (Law) -- History -- 19th century.
Newspaper court reporting -- United States.
Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- Auburn.
Creator:
Walls, William Jacob, 1885-1975.
Inclusive Dates:
1898- 1977
Abstract:
Papers of the bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Conference proceedings, correspondence, personal material, photographs, printed material, and writings.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscript for publication.
Photographs.
Sermons.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Clergy.
Activism and social reform
African Americans
Church and clergy
New York State
African American bishops.
African American clergy.
African American Methodists.
African Americans -- Biography.
Christian education.
Civil rights workers.
Clergy -- United States.
Methodist conferences.
Methodists -- United States.
Sermons, American.
Creator:
Imes, William Lloyd, 1889-1986.
Inclusive Dates:
1881- 1980
Abstract:
Papers of the African-American clergyman. Correspondence, writings (including sermons by Imes and his father Benjamin A. Imes), memorabilia (including numerous small scrapbooks), and subject files.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Reviews (documents)
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts for publication.
Newsletters.
Scrapbooks.
Sermons.
Subject:
Church and clergy
African Americans
African American clergy.
African American Presbyterians.
African Americans -- Biography.
Presbyterians -- United States.
Sermons, American.
Creator:
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.
Inclusive Dates:
1916- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Authors.
Poets.
African Americans
Literature -- American Poetry
African American poets.
African Americans -- Biography.
American literature -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- African American authors.
Authors, American.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Wood, William, fl. 1841.
Inclusive Dates:
1841- 1841
Abstract:
Letter from William Wood of Manchester, England, to Peter Macy of Nantucket, Massachusetts, regarding the African American evangelist Zilpha Elaw.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Letters of recommendation.
Subject:
African Americans
Religion and philosophy
African American women evangelists.
African American women clergy -- History -- 19th century.
Women clergy -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Creator:
King, Willis J.
Inclusive Dates:
1922- 1965
Abstract:
Papers of the American clergyman, author (b. 1886).
King was elected bishop of the Methodist Church in Liberia. Collection includes correspondence, incoming and
outgoing (1949-1965); manuscript articles (1961-1965) and speeches (1952-1962); photographs and printed material
related to the Methodist Church.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
Speeches.
Clergy.
African Americans
Church and clergy
African American clergy.
African American Methodists.
African Americans -- Biography.
Clergy as authors.
Methodists -- United States.