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OPPORTUNITY

JOURNAL OF NEGRO LIFE
Published by THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
1133 BROADWAY. NEW YORK CITY

Office of the
Editor

December 6, 1941

Dear Dorothy:

Mrs. Carter telephoned a day or so ago that you were inquiring about the possibility of obtaining bound volumes of OPPORTUNITY for 1924 and 1925.

I am sorry that these are not available. Our supply has been exhausted so that the earliest copy now on hand is 1930--and only one of that issue. We have from 1931 through 1940 and, of course, will have 1941 early in 1942.

Miss Dorothy Peterson
380 Monroe Street
Brooklyn, New York

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PAMPHLETS, LETTERS etc.

Lynching America's National Disgrace by James Weldon Johnson,
Reprint from Current History Jan. 1924.

"He Came to His Death at the Hands of Parties Unknown" Broadside
with illustration of Lynching Party issued by Nat. Asso. for Ad-
vancement of Colored People, May 1936.

Report of First International Conference of Negro Workers at Hamburg, Germany, July 1930.

Negro Workers and the Imperialist War by George Padmore, Pub.by
Int. Trade Union Com. of Negro Workers, Hamburg, Germany, 1931.

The Civil Rights Law, a lecture by John Mercer Langston, U.S.
Minister and Consul General to Hayti, Oct. 1884.

Les Antilles Social and Literary, Monthly publication, Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Nov. 1907. (En français)

Ist die Wahrheit aus dem Lande Geflohen, religious controversial
tract printed in German) by Simon Crutcher, 1908?

Chinese vs. Negroes as American Citizens by Samuel R. Scottron,
member of Brooklyn School Board, Sep. 1999, on colonization in
South America.

Americans Moore of Life Among the American Freedmen, by Edward
W. Williams, 1886.

Treatise on Larceny of Dogs, by D. Augustus Straker before
Detroit College of Law, pub. 1893.

A Study of Violent Deaths registered In Atlanta, Birmingham,
Memphis and New Orleans for years 1921 and 1922. Most striking
feature low per cent. colored suicides-- high per cent, col-
ored homicides.

Native African Races and Culture, by James Weldon Johnson,
Occasional Papers of John F. Slater Fund No. 25, 1927.

Black Opals (Christmas 1927) Magazine "Hail Negro Youth".
Folry and articles by Jessie Fauset and others.

Early Negro Education in West Virginia, by Carter G. Woodson, West Va. Coil. Inst. Bulletin Dec. 1921.

The Work of Colored Women, compiled by Jane Olcott, YWCA, 1919.

A Black Man in a White World, by E. Frederic Morrow, in The
Sowdoin Quill Jan. 1930

The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman, address by Victoria
Earle Matthews at annual Convention of Society of Christian
Endeavor, San Francisco, July 1897.

Homes of the Freed by Rosa B. Cooley, 1926. The oncoming of three
generations of women from the plantation street of slavery days.

["LETTERS & PAMPHLETS - CLIPPINGS", "John Mercer Langston, US Minister to Haiti, rep. to Congress\n4th dist. Va, Pres. Virginia Nor. & Coll. Inst., To T. Thomas\nFortine, May 2, 1947.", "Archibald Johnson, native African and British barrister, to\nthe New York Age, July 15, 1929, Covering expulsion of\nBolshevik agent from Abyssinia.", "MANHATTAN Medical Society (Exec.Com.) New York City. Open\nletter to Pres. "ulius Rosenwald Fund, Chicago, on subject\nNational Hospital program for Negroes, Jan. 28, 1931.", "Peter Marshall Murray, M.D. pamphlet reprint from Bulletin\nAm. Hosp. Asso. for July 1930, on Hospital Provision for\nthe Negro Race.", "Rev. James M. Boddy, to The New York Age, Feb. 16, 1931, on\ncurious facts about Negro in American history.", "Henry Ch. Rosemond, Publiciste, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to\nN.Y. Age, Feb. 10, 1931, Concerning President Stenio Vincent.", "Arthur Barclay, President of Republic of Liberia, to T. McCants\nStewart, counselor at Law (sometim Chief Justice of Supreme\ncourt of Liberia. Concerning article on \"Liberia and Her\n\" native Population.\"", "American Mercury press release Apr. 23, 1928, \"article by James\nWeldon Johnson, \"A Negro Looks at Race Prejudice.\nSame, Nov. 24, 1928, \"The Dilemma of the Negro Author.\"", "The American Mercury, Dec. 1927, Article by George S. Schuyler\n\"Our White Folks.\"", "The Southern Workman, Nov. 1934, article by Rose Henderson on\n\"The Schomburg Collection of Negro History and Literature\"", "The Chicago Race Riots, pamphlet by Carl Sandburg (pub. 1919)\nIntroductory note by Walter Lippman.", "Hanover or the Persecution of the Lowly, pamphlet by Jack Thorne,\na story of the Wilmington (N.C.) Massacre. Date 1899?", "Missing Pages in American History, pamphlet by Laura E. Wilkes.\nRevealing services of Negroes in early wars of USA. 1641--1865\nCopyrighted 1929.", "Health and Physique of the Negro American, a Social Study Made un-\nder the direction of Atlanta Univ. Atlanta Univ. Pub'ns 1906.", "Frederick Douglass, an address by Hon. John G. Dancy at unveiling\nof Douglass monument at Rochester, N.Y. Sept. 1898.\nBROOKFARM", "Report of The Third Annual Convention of the National Negro Bus\niness League at Richmond, Va. August 1902."]

PAMPHLETS-- MAGAZINES, etc.

Native African Races and Culture, by James Weldon Johnson, Occasional Papers No.25, John F.Slater Fund, 1927.

Final Report of the Colored Advisory Commission, Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster, 1927. Am. Red Cross.

The Negro as a Soldier and a Sailor, Remarks by Hon. Murray Hulbert of N.Y. in House of Representatives on a bill &c. (HR 17183) to prevent the enlistment of Negroes etc. 1916.

The Southern Workman, editorial The Cancer of Lynching and other articles, Feb. 1934.

The A.M.E.Church Review, Official Statement of the Sixth Economic Conference- An Address to the Methodists of the World. Jan. 1932

Depression Intensifies the Race Problem, issued by Stabilization Fund of Commis'sn on Interracial Cooperation, 1931.

Race, a Quarterly magazine containing articles by Alaine Locke and Langston Hughes, Ralph J.Bunche, 1936.

Report of Investigation, Dept. of Justice, Puerto Rico, In the Matter of the death of Narciso Villanueva, 1913. (Charges ag against police.)

Report of the U.S. Commission on Education in Haiti, (R.R.Moton chairman) Oct. 1930.

Centennial Service of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief, June 1908.

The National Urban League Comes of Age, Annual Report 1930

Pictorial Results of Doing the Gospel, by the Foreign Mission Board, National Baptist Convention, 1918?

The Yoruba Country, Its People, Customs and Missions, by Rev. Samuel G.Pinnock, Baptist missionary(white) West Africa.

How Unemployment Affects Negroes, a Statement covering principal cities in the nation, by Nat. Urban League, March 1931.

Negro Hospitals, A Compilation of Available Statistics, published by Julius Rosenwald Fund, Feb. 1931.

Interracial Cooperation, A Study of the Various Agencies working in the Field of Racial Welfare, pub. by War Work Council YMCA 1920.

Appeal by Francis from Judgments In District Court, Virgin Islands, involving charges of criminal libel and Contempt of court. Oct. Term 1925.

Chart Presentation, Fifty Years Progress Negro Business, 1867-1917, by Monroe N Work, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

Mr, Carl M. Vechten
101 Central Park West
Manhattan.

380 Monroe Street,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dear Carlo,

I have already written to Mr. Knollenberg suggesting Monday
the 17th at about two o'clock and I will let you know what he writes.

Here are some more things that I have unearthed and also a list of
new material from J. B. P.

1) Program of Bassa Moona, African Drama done by Federal Theatre

2) Program of Legal Murder, play based on The Scottsboro Case, at the President Theatre

3) Program of Hedgerow Theatre presenting One Way To Heaven by Countee Cullen

4) Program of Chicago Opera Company giving Gala Performance at Hippodrome, with 3rd Act from Aida, Caterina Jarboro singing Aida

5) Photograph of Little Joe Byrd of The Green Pastures

6) Another Inter-State Tatler --Feb. 21, 1930

7) Program of Concert at Town Hall, April 19, 1941, by Caterina Jarboro

8) Program of Second Annual Memorial Services of Negro Actors Guild on Easter Sunday, April 9th, 1939.

9) Program of Exhibition of Haitian Paintings by Aaron Douglas at A. C. A. Gallery on April 2 to 15, 1939

10) Program at Mecca Auditorium by Aeolian Opera Ass'n. Double Bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and The Emperor Jones

11) Letter from God when He was on the road in Washington

12) 2 copies of Challenge Winter and Summer numbers of 1934

13) Letters (of no importance) from Edward II and Tom Mabry and Elizabeth H
Hull, also a very lengthy correspondence (partly quite interesting)
from Loren Mozley.

More notes of this kind are likely to come in from time to time. I
wish I could get it all done at once but there seem to be any number of
places where things have been hidden or just stored.

Love,

380 Monroe Street,
Brooklyn,

Dearest Carlo,

The photographs of Jimmy Davis arrived this morning and I
am delighted with them. I think I forgot to thank you for the post card
of him that came in your last or next to the last letter. I also forgot
to tell you that last time Langston was over here he had with him a book
called The Red Decade which he left here by mistake and which he asked me
to return to you and which I will. I'm sorry I have forgotten it up till now
and also that I didn't mention that it was here.

Langston says in his letter to me that Jimmy Davis is now in an
Aviation unit at Dow Field at Bangor, Maine. That sounds very good, don't
you think so?

I have found a letter from Max Ewing, not a very important one,
which you may have if you wish and I am enclosing it.

This is my morning came a letter from Mr. Knollenberg confirming
his secretary's letter of Monday which I had already answered.

I have a book of Three Plays for the Negro Theatre, Granny Maumee,
Rider of Dreams and Simon, the Cyrenean by Ridgley Torrence and also a
book entitled Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro by Willis
Richardson and also a copy of Goat Alley, all of which you probably have,
but in case you haven't, of course you may have these.

Mr. P. received a letter from Mr. Knollenberg today together with
acknowledgment of his contribution to Yale and he is so pleased with the
letter, which is a beautiful one, that he has started working again for Yale
and tomorrow we are ransacking the cellar for "a little yellow trunk" that
he insists has a lot of old things that you may want. You will hear more
of this.

I have a copy of Interracial Review for March, 1940 with an art-
icle by John E. Nail and George Streator called "Rehabilitate Harlem".
Whenever I say "I have" I mean "Do you want?" I also have an invitation
from Langston to the private presentation of Death in Harlem on Wednesday,
July 8, 1942, which you did not attend but which I did. I have an article from
Time of September, 1958 on a race topic with the photograph of Lobbyist
Walter Francis White.

That is all for the moment. I go to New Haven on Monday at 9,
and will see you Tuesday at the Canteen. Pray for me!

Lots of love,

PAMPHLETS... MAGAZINE ARTICLES etc.

The Black Regime at Dharasana (A brief survey of the Dharasana
Raid) Published by Gujerat Provincial Congress Committee,
Ahmedabad, India. (Letter says: "Deprived of Age.") 1930

An Appeal to My Fellow Citizens by Thos. J.R.Faulkner, calling
for reform of Election methods in Liberia. Dec. 1926.

Is Liberia a Slave State? Series of articles by George A. Schuyler in N.Y. Evening Post. 1931

Harlem Has a Little Bank ( called Peoples Credit Union ) by
C. Benjamin Curley.

How We Reopened Our Bank (Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co.) by
Richard H. Bowling, Southern Workman, 1931.

Credit For Government of Liberia, Hearings before Com. on Ways
and Means, House Rep. March 1922.

A Negro to His Critics, by Claude McKay, in N.Y. Herald Tribune
Books section. Mar. 6, 1932.

Solving America's Race Problem, by Walter White, in The Nation
Jan. 9, 1929.

Harlem's Health, by Peter Marshall Murray, M.D. reprint from
Hospital Social Service 1930.

The Development of Home Economics in Negro Schools, by R. S.
Wilkinson. Reprint Jour. Home Economics Jun. 1926.

African View of Lynching, reprint from The Gold Coast Times,
Cape Coast, West Africa, of Ed. from N.Y. Age 1926.

Scottsboro and the Nice People, by Eugene Goraon, Press service
Int. Labor Defense. 1931.

History of the Negro in Pharmacy, by Mozeila E. Lewis, in the
American Druggist for Aug. 1923.

A pioneer Newspaper (The New York Age) by William E. Clark in the
Southern Workman, Jan. 1923.

Administration of Natives (Cape Colony, South Africa) Debate of
bill in Parliament reported in Cape Times, Jun. 16, 1927.

The Death Detail, by William Pickens, advance sheets of article
on Trial and Execution of thirteen Negro Soldiers at Fort
Sam Houston, Tex. for The World Tomorrow April 1930.

The Attitude of Life Insurance Companies Toward Negroes, by Harry
H.Pace, in Southern Workman, Jan. 1928.

The National Classified Negro Business Directory, 19107

The Supreme Court of American Woodmen (Fraternal Benefit Society)
Leaflet with Financial statement 1922.

Committee for Improving Industrial Condition of the Negro in New
York--Introductory

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101 Central Park West
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380 Monroe Street,
Brooklyn, New York.

Dear Arlo, I really haven't written you a
real letter since THE DINNER and I'd better
correct that right now. Your cards arrived this
week with the info about Channing Hare for which I thank you
and request for what I said to McKelvey when he shot his
trial balloon. I said nothing at all and looked at him the
same way I look at children in school who haven't studied
their lessons and are trying to bluff the teacher. But ab-
solutely no answer, so he could only draw on his imagination
for what he might regard as an answer, and since he is a
lawyer he probably has the whole thing solved (correctly or
incorrectly) in his own mind.

Your special delivery arrived this morning and I am
glad you liked the material. About the "All-American Front".
I cannot remember why we included it unless there was a men-
tion of the Negro problem or else an article by a Negro, or
else I may have swept it up by mistake while I was making my
big haul. Yes, I have the photographs and
will send them soon. I wanted to put
notes on them before sending them.

During the Christmas holidays I plan to work at the Canteen on some evenings early in the week like Tuesday (your night still, I hope) and Wednesday etc., and that will leave me free on Saturday to invite the Nails over for dinner on a Saturday night which is best for him, and then I will find about the Robert E. Lee material and other things in Jack's files. I know he has some letters from Florence Mills which he will not even bring home for fear his wife will see them which he has promised me for the collection.

I also plan to do some other scouting for the Yale Collection during the holidays and I will let you know about after it has been done. One item includes a visit to Cecil Mack's to look over some of his theatrical material but I have to get Harold to help me on that.

I had not mentioned your broadcast because I am so furious that I did not know about it beforehand so I could listen to you. Besides I heard you broadcast on the night of the opening of Black Beth in the lobby of the Lafayette Theatre which was your debut. Elizabeth wrote me that she had heard this latest broadcast and that it was wonderful and that made me even madder than I had heard you.

DRP

Today I am going to spend the afternoon at
the special library that Columbia University
maintains for its students of Library Service
I have discovered that on Sunday afternoons it
is very quiet up there and one can work in comparative peace
so I plan to do an exhaustive piece of work up there on
pseudonymous and anonymous books which is what we are study-
ing now. The work (all of it) is simply fascinating and I
love every bit of it. I am the only one in the class who
has never been absent, even though my friends will open their
exhibits on a Tuesday and such things. The teacher (even
though a Southerner and a woman) is terribly nice to me and
helps me every time I ask a question although I have heard he
be awfully mean to some of them with their silly questions and
say: "Are you back again?" or something of the sort.

Roberta Bosley has been very nice about ordering books
for me that I need for studying, as they are very hard to get
except for such Sunday afternoons as I can spend over at the
Columbia Library. Did you know that about
a week ago her mother and Step-

380 Monroe Street,
Brooklyn, New York.
December 16th.

Dear Carlo,

No, of course I haven't a new
typewriter; they're on some sort of a list and you can't
buy them. I've had this one for ages but I seldom use
it for letters because I can write a letter by hand in
half the time it takes me to even put the paper in the
typewriter, but when I am writing long and hard letters
(such as to Mr. K.) then I keep on using it for the easy
letters too.

I have been trying (in vain, I must admit) to get
some information from some friends of mine in Philadel-
phia about a Canteen for Negro soldiers that was supposed
to open there and also get an invitation for Mark Lutz
to attend the opening but it seems that they never raised
enough money to open it. So that is that. It is better,
I think, not to have a separate one except from the sol-
diers' point of view, and they are made welcome at the
Stage Door, I hear.

Roberta is married to a young man by the name of
Ted Hubert, and he was at your dinner.

Will you PLEASE let me know when your next radio
appearance is going to take place. I hear that both you
and Fania are making a dual appearance soon. I muST lis-
ten to that and see who does most of the talking.

Don't be brusk with me at the Canteen (or anywhere)
or I will cry.

My brother's picture on the card today was beauti-
ful. I shall always love that one.

CHURCH
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380 Monroe Street
Brooklyn, N. Y.

January 8th.

Dear Carlo,

I want to write and ask you something which I hope you won't misunderstand, but I'm sure you won't, so this is what it is. Long ago I had a friend whose name is Helen Boardman and who has had a rather tragic life. During the last War she was working with the Red Cross and discovered that they were very unfair in the use of their funds for Negroes in flood areas and other situations of distress and she gave information concerning their unfairness to DuBois and to the Crisis and there was a great deal of publicity about it which the Red Cross did not like and they made it their business to track down the informer and have had her black listed as far as jobs are concerned ever since so she has never been able to keep a job or make a living and her life has been very difficult. At one time when I was over on Second Avenue she lived with me and many people that I knew have helped her out from time to time. She eventually got work on the Writers' Project of the W. P. A., Negro Division and did a great deal of work on the early history of Negroes in New York City. When she used to come over here to dinner, she and my father used to have conversations about things about Negroes in New York that I had never even heard of and she is very well informed. Well, recently she has had even more trouble than usual and although she is housed at the moment with some Negro friends and has a chance to go on with a book she is doing on some subject about Negroes, it seems that she wants to sell her collection of Negro books and she has written to me to find out what she can do with them. Neither my father nor I can buy them, I am not suggesting that you buy them (please believe me), but I was wondering whether Yale would buy them for the J. W. J. Collection. I have her letter including the list of books and the price she would like to get for them ready to send you, but then I thought that I would ex-

plain a little about her first. Then if you want to see her
list of books I can send it to you. Some of them are quite
valuable and all of them have been chosen with very good
sense and taste, in the way that people with very little
money but with a great love for something have to pick out
the thing that will be of greatest value because they can-
not have a quantity of it. Will you let me know what you
think about this on Sunday?

I have found a copy of O'Briens Selections of the Best Short Stories of the year (1926) with Arthur Huff Fauset's Symphonesque in it which I am saving for Yale unless it is already there. Also Vera has given me a copy of the Negro Question in the United States by James S. Allen for Yale and as I have already told you I have M. A.'s program of Monday night for you.

I shall see Frankie Bourne at the S.D.C. tomorrow
night and will get his address for you. Will bring it with
me on Sunday. I feel as if I were making a debut on Sun-
day, I am so excited about it.

I am making out library cards tonight like crazy.
They are such fun to do.

I never neglect you, dear: the only two nights that
I have been at home this week I have written to you im-
mediately, but it has been one of those weks!

Much love,

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