Joel E. Spingarn Papers, 1934-1938.

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Joel E. Spingarn Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Creator:
Joel E. Spingarn
Abstract:
Letters written to Joel E. Spingarn.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Joel E. Spingarn Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Includes letters to Spingarn, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from Lowell Thomas, Sumner Welles, Edward Steichen, Charles A. Beard, Henry F. Du Pont, H. L. Menchen and Owen Roberts concerning horticultural matters. Also includes correspondence, 1938, of Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr., Walter White, and Springarn concerning remarks made by William E. Borah concerning lynching.

Attached are copies of letters from Fish to Walter White, Nat[io]n[a]l Assn. for Advancem[ent] of Col[ored] People, the reply of White and printed copy of remarks of Fish on "Senator Borah and the AntiLynching Bill"

Biographical / historical:

Joel E. Spingarn was born May 17, 1875 in New York City. He received a doctorate from Columbia University. He was a professor at Columbia but left academic life in 1911. He was a poet, editor and critic as well as a social reformer. He was an early member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and he established the Spingarn Medal. He served as NAACP president in the 1930's. He died July 26, 1939.

Acquisition information:
Gift: 17 items, 1964.
Arrangement:

The collection is mostly chronological.

Physical description:
17 items.