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Title
Gwendolyn Brooks, 1946-1968
Alternative Title
Prominent Individuals featured in African American Periodicals
Date Created and/or Issued
[1946-1968]
1946/1968
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks, seated at a table in front of a bookcase.
Portraits and brief biographical notes on 16 influential African Americans in several professions. Left to right, and top to bottom: Composer-William Grant Still, Labor Leader-A. Philip Randolph, United States Congress Representative-Arthur Mitchell, Architect-Paul R. Williams, Baritone-Paul Robeson, Writer-Claude McKay, Soldier-Benjamin O. Davis, Contralto-Marian Anderson, Educator-Robert R. Moton, Writer-Langston Hughes, Tycoon-Charles C. Spaulding, Sociologist-W.E.B. Du Bois, Scientist-George Washington Carver, Communist-James Ford, Lawyer-Eunice [Carter] Smith, Musician-Edward K. “Duke” Ellington.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b16_f03_011.tif
ark:/21198/z1795nrs
Subject
African American authors
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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