“He is a quiet man. -- We are sitting in a shadowed room, cut off from the street noises, the afternoon’s light barely creeping through a doorway window. -- An upright piano, framed with pictures and musical scores, waits patiently across the...
libraries; civil rights; desegregation; African Americans; Haley, Mary T.;
A report submitted by Mary T. Haley on Sept. 29, 1958 about an incident that occurred a week earlier. -- Monday evening, Sept. 22, 1958 Time: approx. 7:30 P.M. -- 4 Negroes, 3 male, 1 female, high school or college age, came into the library at...
"In a half-century as a performing artist, Duke Ellington may never have played on a worse piano. He may never have had a smaller nor younger audience - so young that they probably did not know who Duke Ellington was. -- But his little...
Alexis Darusmont, Cincinatti, to Duke. Received payment. Would like statement of account so Sylvia can know how things stand. She may visit this country next year.
New Year's Party in 1963. According to notes on the back of the photo, "around the table are: Ida, Max, Colin, Sonny, Marion (Sonny's new wife), Myself, Lillian (Ida's daughter). I think it's a good picture but I don't know why everyone took...
Campaign material supporting Roosevelt's Democrats. Outlines improvements the Democrats have brought to the black community, via the Works Progress Administration, the National Youth Administration, housing changes, the Civilian Conservation...
Cole, Natalie; Gladys Knight and the Pips; Green, Al; jazz; Kool Jazz Festival; Mighty Clouds of Joy; music; Roy Ayers Ubiquity; Sylvers, the; Temptations, the;
“Al Green, Natalie Cole, the Sylvers, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Temptations and Roy Ayers Ubiquity were announced yesterday as the lineup for the Kool Jazz Festival July 8-9 in the Mid-South Coliseum. -- The...
clubs; family; Litty, Adele; Litty, Harry H.; mayors; social life;
Adele Litty was one of two daughters born to Harry H. Litty and his wife, Elizabeth Clarke Litty. Harry H. Litty served as the mayor of Memphis from 1917 to 1918. Adele was unmarried and rather shy, compared to her sister, Marion. Jimmy Blakely,...
The Ernest B. “Tony” Vacarro Collection contains mementos reflecting a career of more than thirty years as a reporter for the Associated Press. Photographs taken from Vaccaro’s scrapbook and from an album given to him when he retired as...
