There was once a slave, 1947.

0.8 linear ft. (2 boxes)

English

Gift of Shirley Graham Du Bois, 1947.

Composer, vocalist, writer.

Material relating to Du Bois's biography of Frederick Douglass including six notebooks containing holograph research notes; two marked sets of galley proofs signed Shirley Graham; typescript of approximately 200 various pages of the work, annotated with editor's marks, with title page reading, "The North Star: The Story of Frederick Douglass," and "The Unquenchable Flame: Frederick Douglass and His World" written in pencil in an unidentified hand, and signed Shirley Graham; typescript of approximately 525 pages, annotated with editors marks in an unidentified hand; and a TLS dated 1947 May 20, from Muriel Johnstone of Julian Messner, Inc., Publishers to Carl Van Vechten regarding the material.

June 01, 2002

Shirley Graham Du Bois, There Was Once a Slave. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Shirley Graham Du Bois, There Was Once a Slave. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Biographies - United States.