LANGSTON HUGHES:

To appear on "APARTMENT 13" Program Friday - arrive 10.45 - 11 P.M.
Alan Douglas, host, (informal conversation type program).

Program is on WERE (radio) - broadcast from apartment at Holiday Inn
Motel - Euclid Ave. at 3614 Euclid Ave.

CORA G. NEWALD

P.S. I just heard he is having Malcolm Boyd on at 9 AM

HALL OF EDUCATION • NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR

FEATURES: DIALOGUES IN DEPTH • SCHOOL OF TOMORROW • SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY • MEDICINE AND HEALTH • YOUTH AND RECREATION

WORLD HEADQUARTERS: Coliseum Tower, Ten Columbus Circle, New York City 19, N.Y.

Telephone: JUdson 2-1540 • Cable Address: FAIRCONSUL NEWYORK

1964-1965

March 18, 1964

Mr. Langston Hughes
% Alfred A. Knopf
501 Madison Ave.
New York 22, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Upon the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the HALL OF EDUCATION, New York World's Fair, we are delighted to extend this invitation to you to participate in our featured educational presentation DIALOGUES IN DEPTH. I am enclosing herewith some descriptive material relating to this program together with a partial listing of the outstanding personalities whose acceptances we already have.

Through DIALOGUES IN DEPTH, we hope to present the thinking of the great minds and personalities of our time not only to millions of Fair visitors but to countless future generations as well.

As you are no doubt aware, the New York World's Fair will open in April, 1964 and close in October, 1965. During this history-making period we will be honored to have you as our guest at the HALL OF EDUCATION and to include you in our DIALOGUES IN DEPTH program.

We look forward to receiving your acceptance and will keep you closely informed of additional details as our planning proceeds.

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DIALOGUES IN DEPTH

of the

HALL OF EDUCATION

NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1964-1965

**PURPOSE:** The DIALOGUES IN DEPTH program has been developed as a unique audio-visual means of presenting the great minds and personalities of our time to 100 million World's Fair visitors, to world-wide television and film audiences and to future generations.

**PARTICIPANTS:** Invitations to participate will be sent to a carefully selected group of outstanding personalities. These will include the world's great minds in government, science, industry, medicine, art, theatre, and every other field of human endeavor.

**LOCATION:** The DIALOGUES IN DEPTH program will originate LIVE from the Demonstration Center of the HALL OF EDUCATION at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. Located between the IBM and AT&T Pavilions, facing the central Lagoon of Industry, the HALL OF EDUCATION is expected to attract visitors from all over the globe. From the soundproof, glass-enclosed, television-recording studio known as the Demonstration Center, millions of Fairgoers will witness the day-by-day compilation of history-in-the-making through DIALOGUES IN DEPTH.

**DIALOGUES:** Each DIALOGUE session will be scheduled at a day and hour convenient to the participants. No session will exceed two hours in duration. Each of the selected personalities will be interviewed in an informal manner by a leading scholar and guest moderator. While discussions will center upon areas within the specialization of the guests, other topics of universal interest will also be considered. The format will be informal and spontaneous. Esoteric subjects will be avoided, and emphasis will be given to the practical problems of today as they affect tomorrow.

**PERMANENT RECORD:** A permanent record of the DIALOGUES will be maintained through tape recordings. During and after the Fair, these tapes will be available to schools and colleges throughout the United States and abroad. In many instances, the DIALOGUES will be suitable for printing as permanent reference works. A complete set of tapes will be sent to the Library of Congress and other important archives.

**MASTER SCHEDULE:** Several months prior to the opening date of the Fair, a master schedule of appearances will be released to the press and to schools and colleges all over the world. This schedule will list the specific day and hour of each appearance, the topic to be discussed, along with the names of the scholar and guest moderator conducting the interview.

**FURTHER INFORMATION:** A specially trained staff will plan and implement the DIALOGUES IN DEPTH program, and assist the participants in making all necessary arrangements. For further details, please contact Dr. Nathan Dechter, Hall of Education, New York World's Fair 1964-1965, 10 Columbus Circle, New York 19, New York, NJ 08014.

© 1962 International Fair Consultants, Inc.

Louis R. Stamelman

BOARD OF EDUCATION

SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

Mr. Langston Hughes

W. Golston Leigh Incorp. (Manager)

521 5th Avenue

New York, 17

New York

Library
BOARD OF EDUCATION
SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL
NEWARK 8, NEW JERSEY

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Dodd, Mead & Company
432 Fourth Avenue
New York 16, New York

(Author--PLEASE FORWARD)

January 22, 1960

Dear Miss Schwartz:

I am glad the students of South Side High School will be considering the culture and achievements of the Negro in America during Negro History Week for we have been deeply involved with the history of this continent, all the way from Esteban in the 16th Century who, as an explorer, helped to open what is now our Southwest to European settlers, to Ralph Bunche at the United Nations. I hope the students will be interested and inspired by their discoveries.

With all good wishes to you and them,

BOARD OF EDUCATION
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

NEWARK 2, NEW JERSEY

345 HIGH STREET
ALBERT D. ANGELL, JR., PRINCIPAL

March 9, 1966

Mr. Langston Hughes
% Mr. Alfred A. Knopf
501 Madison Avenue
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Your name was suggested to me by Mr. Frank De Lisi, chairman of the English Department of Central High School.

The above person and I concur that one of our students shows a definite talent in the area of poetry. We believe that his poetry shows that he has keen insight, a wealth of feeling, and a special knack for expressing these thoughts in poetic form.

Pupils from Central High are drawn from the subcultured disadvantaged communities and when one pupil displays the sensitivity and creativity of Lacy Graves, we feel that we have an unusual young man in our midst. We therefore feel an obligation to bring recognition for future encouragement and development to this boy.

We would like someone with your good judgement who is not as close to Lacy and who would therefore be more objective, give us suggestions, criticisms, etc.

Enclosed are three of many poems composed by Lacy, plus a picture of the young man. We would appreciate your appraisal of these poems, plus any other assistance that you will extend to us.

LA:CG

March 10, 1966

Dear Miss Abulato!

You have indeed, I think, a talented pupil at Central High, Lacy Graves, who has very good sense of poetic rhyme and rhythm, whose thoughts are clear and well expressed. With tightening and a bit of editing, I find all three of the poems you sent me good, and I am grateful to you for letting me see them.

I am returning the manuscripts to him, c/o yourself, with the sort of revisions I would do on them if they were my own. In the case of his long poem, tell him that cutting as a rule never hurts anything--- better underwritten than overwritten. Even when excellent, there can be "too much of a good thing," as the saying goes.

At the moment I am very pressed, getting vaccination, shots, and visas preparatory to going to Africa for eight or ten weeks--- Senegal for the Dakar Festival, then Ethiopia, Kenya, etc., to read my poems to students. Otherwise, I would invite Lacy over to talk with me about his work. Perhaps, this could be in the summer when I get back, if he would care to drop me a line with his home address. I am sending him to Central High a book of my poems that he might like. Please give him all my good wishes.

March 23, 1966

Dear Mr. Young!

I am just about to take off this weekend for the Dakar Festival of the Arts in Senegal to be gone until June. And if present plans work out, I'll be going to Europe in the fall. So I regret I cannot now promise to come to Central next fall as I'm not sure I will be around. But I very much appreciate your kind invitation. And I've had a very nice letter from Lacy, beautiful, typed and well expressed. You must have some very good teachers in your school.

Williams *Institutional C. M. F. Church*

L. S. WHITE, MINISTER

218-220 WEST 130TH STREET
NEW YORK, 27. N. Y.

TELEPHONE: UNIVERSITY 4-0123

THOMAS J. PIERRE
CHAIRMAN TRUSTEE BOARD

R. J. COLLINS
TREASURER

D. LINCOLN REID
BUSINESS MANAGER

SHELTON G. SMITH
CHAIRMAN STEWARD BOARD

JAMES I. DOTSON
CHURCH CLERK

November 19, 1951

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I heard you speak at the Tea sponsored October 30th by the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning of which I am a new board member, and was tremendously delighted with your talk and poems on Harlem. Both were of special value to me in the preparation of a professional project in partial fulfillment for the Doctor of Education Degree at Teachers College of Columbia University.

The title of the project is: "Proposals for Developing a Program of Christian Education at Williams Institutional C. M. E. Church". Questions 1,2, and 3 in Part I of the attached questionnaire are particularly pertinent to Chapter 11 of the project "The Function of Williams Institutional C.M.E. Church in Her Immediate Urban Community". This letter comes as a request, please, to direct special attention to those questions.

Additionally, I should appreciate greatly the privilege of having an interview with you at your convenience to discuss further some of the problems of Harlem as you so well know them, also to secure your permission to use your poem "Dis-Harlem" in Chapter of my project.

November 26, 1951

Mrs. Captolia D. Newbern,
Williams Institutional Church,
220 West 130th Street,
New York 27, New York.

Dear Mrs. Newbern,

I'm just back from a Book Week lecture tour of the Carolinas,
and find your letter awaiting me.

I've returned your questionnaire under separate cover. And
would be happy to see almost anytime after this week (which
is pretty well booked up). In the afternoons you may phone
me at 8a. 2-1933 and we can set a time.

Certainly you may use any of my poems providing they're not
being reprinted for profit. In that case, of course, you'd
have get the permission of the book publishers.

NEWBURGH HOUSING AUTHORITY

1501 SMITH STREET NEWBURGH, NEW YORK

# 31 Clark St TELEPHONE 561-2066

AUTHORITY:

MOE KREISEL
CHAIRMAN

ERNEST M. LEVINSON
VICE-CHAIRMAN

CHARLES W. BECK
TREASURER

SAMUEL C. COLEMAN
SECRETARY

MADELINE SCANZANO
MEMBER

12th December

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Dear Langston: I've just sent your
NY Post columns
referring to Paris to my frater, Don
Adams, now a Malaga, Spain, resident.

And another anno we
are fast ending and as we head in another anno I would
pause to wish you continued Health and your zeal for life,
people, and travel.

During this anno I've worked like a demon
for 5,000 residents of this community who are classified as
"Non-Whites" despite my 60-odd anniversary and my income maker
as member of the NY State Labor Dept.

However, the highlight of '64 was the birth
of our granddaughter, Terri Lynne, and the advancement of our
youngest son, Lieut. Coleman as recorded by:

THE EVENING NEWS
Newburgh, N.Y.
Dec. 4, 1964

NEWBURGH SON RETURNS

It can be a matter of pride for any community to see one of its
young men go away to learn a profession and then return to show he
never has lost his concern over his home town's welfare.

This is the case with Rodney A. Coleman, a first lieutenant in
Uncle Sam's Air Force. He currently is on alert for shipment to the
Far East, and he will be taking with him the community concern and
best wishes that go overseas with every serviceman.

Lieut. Coleman will be remembered by those who saw Little League
baseball come to Newburgh. He was a star player in those days, and
later excelled at Newburgh Free Academy as an athlete and scholar.

Subsequently he studied architecture, emerging with a bachelor's
degree from the School of Engineering and Architecture, Howard
University. In 1962 Lieut. Coleman was one of 20 nation-wide seniors
to win American Institute of Architects' Scholarships, and he is
now an associate member of the AIA.

Throughout The New Year it is hoped for
you continued Health and contribution to
better inter-racial understanding and
co-operation.

MANAGEMENT:

N. Y. S. 60 A & B
ANNE F. BOURNE APARTMENTS
JOHN T. KENNEY APARTMENTS

N. Y. S. 111
RALPH E. DIEBOLD HOUSING PROJECT

CARL M. PENTZ
PROJECT MANAGER

LOUIS WERNER
COUNSEL

January 6, 1965

Dear Pat: [Newell]

I can't seem to catch you on the phone; and I'm not home much either these days---working outside the house trying to catch up on a long overdue deadline. But I hear tell you invited me for a drink after one of the performances of JERICO JIM CROW---only I didn't get the message until two days later! I was in Europe until shortly before the holidays. Had a wonderful trip, and am invited back again later this month to judge an Italian Film Festival. Hope I can clear up my work to go. (Wish I didn't have to work--and that my laurels were greenbacks!)....Best ever to you, and a Happy New Year.

MR LANGSTON HUGHES
20 EAST 127th St
New York City

Rev. Esther B. Newkirk

950 Union Avenue, Bronx 59, N. Y.

December 3, 1962.

Mr Langston Hughes
New York City

My dear Mr Hughes,

We, the Newkirk Singers, are being sponsored in a program at the Abyssinia Baptist Church, on Thursday December 13, at 8:30 P.M.

If at all possible, I would appreciate your attendance. You may wonder why. I would like you to hear this group that are comprised of my family, as we are trying to make our way up, and realizing you are connected with the program on T.V. Gospel Time, I thought you might be able to give us a hand.

Our repertoire is not completely made up of the usual 'GOSPEL' numbers, but we do, a variety of types, specializing in A'Capella.

Enclosed you will find a ticket. If for any reason you cannot attend, would you be so kind as to give it to some one that has the connections needed to help us go on, and up the ladder to success.

Thanking you in advance, and looking forward to seeing you, also praying for your continued success in your marvelous work, I remain as ever,

Respectfully yours,

In the Service of the Master,

Dec. 17, 1962

Dear Rev. Newkirk:

It was very kind of you to send me a ticket to your concert and I am very sorry that I could not attend. Certainly I hope that I shall have the pleasure of hearing your family soon.
Unfortunately, I have been in and out of town a great deal lately and so find it impossible to do all the things I should like.

I send you all my good wishes for future success and hope that you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

April 10, 1963

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Re: MANUSCRIPT TYPING

Please save this letter as it may prove valuable when you are
in need of the services of an EXPERT ELECTROMATIC TYPIST for
a professionally-typed manuscript.

I have completed numerous assignments for Publishers, Authors and Students in various fields; - literary, technical, scientific; theses, resumes, etc.

Some of the publishers I have worked for recently are:

ALFRED KNOPF, INC. - Books on Archaeology, Latin American Countries, National Parks. *

*You may please refer to Mrs. Sophie Wilkins or
Miss Coryn regarding the merits of my work for
that company.

HOLT, RINEHART & WINSTON - Books on Psychology, English Fundamentals, Statistics, Chemistry, an Index for revision of a book, and other assignments

GROSSET & DUNLAP, INC. - Book on Organic Chemistry, translation from the German of the Fischer Lexikon.**
**Referred to G & D by Mrs. S. Wilkins.

Also assignments from authors; - a full-length mystery novel; chapters on Shaw and Chekov, etc.

I can furnish highest references from satisfied clients and
samples of completed work. High-quality materials are
included in the estimate. Reasonable prices; price list upon
request. Pickup and delivery can be arranged.

Thank you for your courtesy.

PHONE: ESplanade 2-1392
before Noon or Evenings

Mr. James Langston Hughes
c/o Alfred Knopf, Inc.
501 Madison Avenue
New York 22, New York

April 3, 1962

Dear Mr. Newman:

I appreciate your kindness in sending me a copy of your collection of poems, GREEN HUNGER, and look forward to reading it as soon as time permits. At the moment, I am trying to complete many commitments that have been delayed by my frequent absences from New York--I just recently returned from Europe and Africa. In addition to my writing commitments, I have several conferences in connection with my BLACK NATIVITY which is scheduled for the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, in June, SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM which is being revived at a downtown off-Broadway theatre, and TAMBOURINES TO GLORY which the Theatre Guild swears to produce this fall. So you see, I don't have any time left for reading, at the moment.

I hope to, someday, get around to writing my own personal book of Harlem, and because of this will find additional pleasure and interest in meeting you and learning of your 40 years of Harlem experiences.

With cordial regards,

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Mr. Lungson Hughes
20 East 12th Street
New York 35, N.Y.

Sol Newman
116 Putnam Avenue
Hamden 17, Connecticut

17 November 1961

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Greetings once more from a man who once met you, collectively speaking, outside Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. I was in the same outfit as Bunny Rucker. From a man whose verse (Kids—They Are the Issue!) you were kind enough to comment; same chap to whom you so kindly sent a number of your amusing *Simple* columns from *The Defender*.

For these favors and kindnesses Mrs. Newman and the children join me in thanking you anew. And similarly for your very persuasive TV appearances.

But speaking of *Simple*, I wonder now if he might not help us persuade President Kennedy to name a Negro to the Supreme Court Bench when the next vacancy occurs?

Perhaps by (see enclosures) commenting on what the Attorney General is quoted as saying about a Negro President in thirty years?

Or in any other manner that you and Simple might care to choose? And, in view of the years of at least two members of the bench, as soon as is practical?

I am confident that you, sir, have your own ideas on the subject with respect to timing and tactics especially and I do want very much to hear them. So might I hope to hear from you when time permits?

Again greetings and thanks and when you are in this vicinity Mrs. Newman joins me in wishing very much that you would call.

With our best wishes for your continued success and very sincerely I remain,

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York 35, N.Y.

P.S. This very definitely is not part of an organized campaign although I certainly would not object to its becoming one.

Enclosures

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Sol Newman
116 Putnam Avenue
Hamden 17, Connecticut
Atwater 8-4836

Monday, 23 October 1961

Dr. Martin Luther King
Ebenezer Baptist Church
413 Auburn Avenue N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear D. King:

Mr. President,

Is it not self evident,
Sir, that a Negro on the Supreme Court bench
Must help entrench
Mr. Change in Race Relations?

This bit of verse (i) is by way of coming back to the few words you so kindly granted me amidst the crush in Rabbi Goldburg's study last Friday night following your magnificent sermon to our congregation. I write because my feeling is so strong that now is the time to start talking about the appointment of a Negro to the next vacancy in the Supreme Court.

I feel that this can be achieved provided always that, as in the case of the recent Department of Justice ruling ending segregation on interstate transportation, the administration is persuaded to see the wisdom in such an appointment. I do feel this so strongly that I venture to suggest the following:

That you, sir, write President Kennedy, if only to raise the possibility; that your letter be given the widest publicity—The New York Times; Negro, Religious and Labor press, the press associations etc. Here I am so audacious as to wish that you might deem it advisable to refer back to the Attorney General's quoted remarks on the possibility of a Negro President in thirty years.

Granted that this is thinking off the top of my head. This happens to old CIO organizers out of harness as long as I. Nonetheless not only do I feel that the suggestion is both valid and timely, but I also recall that back when we were organizing (previous to the time of the CIO piecard) sixteen hours a day seven days a week, there were occasions when the man on the bench would come up with a good idea: precisely because he had the time to think.

The letter is one thing. Then there could be committees, of law professors to start with perhaps. For instance at Yale there are individuals: Miss Marion Wright whom you greeted Friday night just after we spoke, and Professors Thomas I. Emerson and Fowler Harper; and doubtless others as well who might take soundings. And as at Yale at law and other schools around the nation. The same sort of thing might be going on at the same time within the commonalty as well. And feature articles? In the law reviews? Harper's? The Atlantic? By James Baldwin? To start with?

But this is all in the realm of conjecture and so it will remain unless someone is found to put the question to the nation. Dear me, if only you feel as I do that this "plateau" can be so much more easily achieved—true thanks to the struggles past, current and aborning—than most any other that comes to mind; then I would be certain that you will consult with your colleagues on the advisability and the tactic most appropriate.

In closing in place of thanking you for your time and for giving us the opportunity

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to hear you, for your continuing efforts in behalf of all of us, might I paraphrase
the late Charles Erwin Wilson, General Eisenhower's first Secretary of Defense, by
saying that what helps the Negro helps the Jew helps the nation?

(i) Credits: Jewish Currents, The Reconstructionist, Canadian Forum, Taxi Edition of The Transport Bulletin, CIO; New England edition The Shipyard Worker, CIO; Labor's Daily, quandom publication of the International Typographical Union; First Person, New Talent, Esquire.

copies to Miss Marion Wright and Professors Thomas I. Emerson and Fowler Harper of
the Yale Law School, Drawer 401 A, Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut

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Yale University
Law School
New Haven, Connecticut

FOWLER V. HARPER
Simeon E. Baldwin Professor

October 25, 1961

Mr. Sol Newman
116 Putnam Avenue
Hamden 17, Connecticut

Dear Mr. Newman:

I was delighted to receive a copy of your letter to Dr. King of Monday, October 23.

Some of us at the law school have been talking for several years about the desirability of the appointment of a negro to the Supreme Court of the United States. Indeed we have a candidate in the person of Judge William Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. Judge Hastie is qualified in every way for such an appointment. He is one of the most capable judges of the Federal Courts of Appeal. His age is right. He has had long experience as an appellate judge and as a Federal District Judge as well as executive experience as Governor of the Virgin Islands. Moreover, he is an extremely scholarly judge having once been a professor and dean of the Howard Law School.

It is my thought that the nature of the campaign should not be primarily focused on the idea of getting a negro on the bench. The thrust of the drive should be to get the best qualified person for the job and Hastie certainly ranks in the class of those best qualified. In other words, the stress should be on his eminent qualities rather than the fact that he is a negro.

The above thinking has been primarily in respect to the legal profession and particu-
larly the law teachers. I realize that political influences may very well be more
persuasive than the ability of the candidates. Thus, for general publicity among lay-
men, your idea of widespread articles in popular magazines and newspapers is probably
a valid one.

I think we will have no difficulty in organizing a committee of law teachers to recom-
mend Hastie for the first vacancy on the Court.

With kind regards, I am,
Cordially yours, Fowler Harper (signed) FVH:cyh