April 11, 1962

Mrs. Edith Edelson
Nathan Hale School
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Dear Mrs. Edelson:

Mr. Hughes appreciates your kind invitation to your "Music Week" program based on his book, THE FIRST BOOK OF RHYTHMS. He is delighted that you are using his material and hopes that it will provide an enriching experience for your students.

Unfortunately, Mr. Hughes is scheduled to go to California in mid-April and will be returning only to pack for an African Writers Conference in Uganda. He regrets that he will be unable to attend your program and sends his best wishes to you and the student participants. If you have printed programs for the assembly, Mr. Hughes would appreciate your sending him six copies. He sends material to literary collections interested in his work.

The New York Chapter
of
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

A Non-Profit Association Dedicated to the Advancement of Television

54 WEST 40 STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10018

AREA CODE 212 LA 4-9666

OFFICERS

IRWIN SONNY FOX
PRESIDENT

CHARLES MOUNTAIN
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

PAUL TAUBMAN
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT

EVELYN F. BURKEY
SECRETARY

RICHARD R. RECTOR
TREASURER

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

MILDRED FREED ALBERG
FRAN ALLISON
ROBERT L. BENDICK
ZINA BETHUNE
ELINOR BUNIN
EVELYN F. BURKEY
EDWARD T. BURNS
WARREN CLYMER
ROY DANISH
DAVID DAVIDSON
ALBERT DECAPRIO
SAM COOK DIGGES
PETER DOHANOS
ROGER ENGLANDER
JACK FITZPATRICK
MICHAEL J. FOSTER
IRWIN SONNY FOX
JOHN O. GILBERT
IRVING GITLIN
BERNARD GREEN
RICHARD HANSER
SKITCH HENDERSON
MARTIN HOADE
CELESTE HOLM
JACK L. IRVING
ART JAMES
HUGH JAMES
HANK JONES
ARTHUR KENT
EDDY L. MANSON
CHARLES MOUNTAIN
BESS MYERSON
TERRY J. O'SULLIVAN
ALVIN H. PERLMUTTER
ALFRED L. PLANT
LEE POLK
GABE PRESSMAN
RICHARD R. RECTOR
PHILIP H. REISMAN, JR.
EDGAR J. SCHERICK
JAN SCOTT
JAMES STARBUCK
PAUL TAUBMAN
BURR TILLSTROM
PAUL TRIPP
RENEE VALENTE
MORT WERNER
IRENE WINDUST
PAUL F. WITTLIG

HONORARY GOVERNORS

FORMER PRESIDENTS

ROYAL E. BLAKEMAN
WALTER CRONKITE
BETTY FURNESS
MARK GOODSON
ROBERT F. LEWINE
ED SULLIVAN
HENRY S. WHITE

KENNETH LEEDOM
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
KENNETH R. WILSON
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

October 12, 1965

Mr. Langston Hughes
New York Post
75 West Street
New York, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We would be deeply honored to have you serve on a Blue Ribbon Panel to screen and judge nominations of program and individual achievements for Emmy Awards in New York area-produced television to help determine the winners. Our Board of Governors has unanimously elected to invite you to serve on this Panel because of your demonstrated achievements and sense of responsibility to the New York community.

The screenings for judging will be held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, October 25th through 28th, from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. You may elect to serve on either Monday and Tuesday evenings, or Wednesday and Thursday evenings. By dividing the screening sessions in this manner, we hope we are to some degree easing the burden on your valuable time.

There are approximately 16 hours of programs nominated and you would be called upon to screen and vote upon half of this product, or a total of eight hours.

The procedures for selection of nominees and winners of the coveted New York Area Emmy Award are as follows: Entries for nomination are made by the 2,000 professional members of the New York Chapter of the Television Academy and by the program departments of our local television stations. The Awards Committee screens all the entries and selects a slate of nominees in two broad areas - Program achievements and Individual achievements. The final selection of winners of the Emmy Award in these two areas is determined by a joint vote of the Blue Ribbon Panel and the Academy membership-at-large. Each group will have a 50 percent influence on the final outcome. The Awards will seek to single out those programs and individuals who have contributed not only to the excellence of television but also to an understanding of the significant issues facing the New York community.

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Members of the Panel will vote in secret on a ballot provided by Price Waterhouse & Company, Certified Public Accountants, who will tabulate the Panel's vote and the Membership's vote to determine the winners of the New York Area Emmy Awards.

The presentation of the Awards will be made at a luncheon in the New York Hilton Hotel on November 18th. Panel members are cordially invited to be the Academy's guests on this occasion.

We sincerely hope that you will be able to give us your valuable counsel and experience by serving on this Panel, and we would appreciate your letting us know which sessions you can attend so that we can finalize our screening plans.

For your convenience we have enclosed an RSVP Form and a return envelope. We look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.

ISF/sw

P.S. For your information we are also enclosing a list of nominees.

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES

New York Chapter
54 WEST 40th STREET
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018
(212) 524-9666

October 4, 1966

Mr. Langston Hughes
New York Post
75 West Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The screenings for judging will be held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, October 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th, from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. Based on our past experience, we expect to have between 16 and 20 hours of programs for judging, and we will later divide the programs into two groups, the first group to be screened on Monday and Tuesday evening, and the second group to be screened on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. We would appreciate your indicating to us your availability for any of these evenings.

OFFICERS

IRWIN SONNY FOX
President

CHARLES MOUNTAIN
First Vice-President

PAUL TAUBMAN
Second Vice-President

EVELYN F. BURKEY
Secretary

RICHARD R. RECTOR
Treasurer

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

MILDRED FREED ALBERG
FRAN ALLISON
CHUCK AUSTIN
ERIK BARNOUW
RALPH M. BARUCH
JACQUES BELASCO
ROBERT L. BENDICK
BILL BEUTEL
ELINOR BUNIN
EVELYN F. BURKEY
EDWARD T. BURNS
JIM CAMPBELL
WARREN CLYMER
ROY DANISH
ALBERT DeCAPRIO
SAM COOK DIGGES
PETER DOHANOS
ROGER ENGLANDER
JACK FITZPATRICK
IRWIN SONNY FOX
FRED FREED
LEWIS FREEDMAN
BERNARD GREEN
MARTHA GREENHOUSE
GEORGE A. HEINEMANN
SKITCH HENDERSON
CELESTE HOLM
JACK L. IRVING
ARTHUR KENT
CHUCK McCANN
CHARLES MOUNTAIN
BESS MYERSON
GLORIA OKON
ALVIN H. PERLMUTTER
ROBERT PICKETT
A. L. PLANT
LEE POLK
GABE PRESSMAN
RICHARD R. RECTOR
STEPHEN C. RIDDLEBERGER
EDGAR J. SCHERICK
DICK SCHNEIDER
JAN SCOTT
JOHN H. SECONDARI
JAMES STARBUCK
PAUL TAUBMAN
BURR TILLSTROM
PAUL TRIPP
IRENE WINDUST

HONORARY GOVERNORS
Former Presidents

KENNETH LEEDOM
Executive Director

KENNETH R. WILSON
Administrator

programs and individuals who have contributed not only to
the excellence of television but also to an understanding
of the significant issues facing the New York Community.

Members of the Panel will vote in secret on a ballot pro-
vided by Price Waterhouse & Company, Certified Public
accountants, who will tabulate the Panel's vote and the
Membership's vote to determine the winners of the New
York Area Emmy Awards.

ISF/sw
Enc.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

22nd annual national antiques show

FEBRUARY 22 TO MARCH 3, 1966

EXECUTIVE OFFICES: 97 DUANE STREET, NEW YORK 7 BEEKMAN 3-6010

Memo to Mr. Hughes:

I am enclosing a release on the great forthcoming National Antiques Show and also some tickets which I hope you use. Please let me know if you require more.

I thought this might suggest to you a story on the growing interest among all peoples in arts and antiques. We have a number of Negro antiques dealers among our exhibitors reflecting new career interests and a new buying audience.

Please do let me know if you require further information for coverage in your column.

Many thanks for your interest.

pearl winick

President
LEONORA PRITCHETT JOHN
Vice-President
DOROTHY HENDRICKSON

New York Branch
OF
National Association of College Women

Recording Secretary
MARGUERITE GILL
Corresponding Secretary
HILDA S. ALLEN
Treasurer
WILLIE L. CHURCHILL

20 Morningside AVE.,
New York 26,N.Y.

June 6,1943.

My dear Mr. Hughes,

Some time ago the Chairman of our program contacted you to find out if you would be able to appear on the Benefit program given for the Play School #68. The program will be given on Sunday June 13th from 4 to 7 pm, at the auditorium of P.S. 136v 135th Street and St. Nicholas Ave.

We know that you are very busy and will appreciate any
contribution that you can make to our program. May we hear
from you by return mail whether or not you will find it poss-
ible to appear, and what numbers you will perform? The program
goes to the printer on Tuesday June 8th.

I am enclosing a letter which will give you a statement
of the plans and purpose of our committee.

255 W. 108th St. #10F
NY, 25, N.Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes,

The National Association of College women have asked me to extend to you an invitation to present a program of your writings and music, performed by Margaret Bonds and myself, Jeni Estill.

The date is Saturday April 18, at 12 Noon in Yonkers, N.Y. The occasion will be the Eastern Division Convention Luncheon. The program will be forty minutes and preceed the speaker. The club has a budget of $75.00 Their theme is "Opening Doors To Human Dignity.

If you are available please write or phone me so that we three can discuss the contents of the program.

Also Best Wishes on your past birthday.

February 19, 1964

Dear Miss Estel:

I regret very much that I cannot accept
the kind of invitation of the National
Association of College to participate in
your program in Yonkers on April 18. I
have been invited to the Virgin Islands
for programs of my poems there in April,
so am not taking any Spring engagements
in the local area. But I am most grate-
ful to you for thinking of me.

147 Hauser Avenue, Yardville
Trenton, New Jersey

November 9, 1965

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Mr. Alfred A. Knopf
501 Madison Avenue
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I am writing to you on behalf of the Trenton Branch of the National Association of College Women, of which I am president. The purpose of this association is to promote a closer union and fellowship among college women for constructive work in education, civil activities, and in the field of human relations. We study generally educational conditions, we encourage high educational standards, and we attempt to arouse within college women a consciousness of their responsibility on the local, state, national, and international levels. Our national theme this year is "Women's Responsibility in the Great Society," and the Trenton branch for this year is directing its efforts to teenagers of Trenton and its townships.

Each year, we have a fund raising activity, the proceeds of which are used to supplement our scholarship fund. This scholarship, based on need and ability, is presented in June to a local girl graduate.

This year, we would like to plan a luncheon and are humbly requesting that you be our luncheon speaker. We had thought that the dates of April 23 or 30 might be especially good, but we would work with any date which you could fit into your busy schedule. We would be thrilled if you could find it possible to do this.

Would you let us know at your earliest convenience whether you can accept our invitation, whether the dates are suitable, and your fee. We would indeed consider this an honor.

at

November 19, 1965

Dear Mrs. Ballton:

I greatly regret that I cannot accept
the kind invitation of the Trenton Branch
of the National Association of College
Women to be a guest at your luncheon in
April. I am leaving in March for the
Dakar Festival of Negro Arts in Senegal,
and after that will be doing a rather long
tour of various African states reading my
poems to students, and so expect to be away
for several months. But I greatly appreci-
ate your thinking of me.

National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, Inc.

1790 BROADWAY

NEW YORK 19, N. Y.

Telephone
Circle 5-8000

President
Mrs. MABEL K. STAUPERS, R.N.
New York City

First Vice-President
Mrs. W. LUCILE Z. WILLIAMS, R.N.
Durham, N. C.

Second Vice-President
Mrs. VIOLA TURNER, R.N.
Charleston, S. C.

Recording Secretary
Mrs. UVA M. DERAMUS, R.N.
Cincinnati, Ohio

Financial Secretary
Miss WILLA O. EVANS, R.N.
Chicago, Ill.

Treasurer
Mrs. MARGUERETTE C. JACKSON, R.N.
New York City

Asst. Treasurer
Mrs. MYRTIS R. DAVIS, R.N.
New York City

Chairman Nominating Committee
Mrs. BESSIE L. BRUCE, R.N.
Kansas City, Mo.

REGIONAL PRESIDENTS

North Eastern Region
Mrs. LATIS M. CAMPBELL, R.N.
New York City

South Eastern Region
Mrs. ROSA MAE GODLEY, R.N.
Charlotte, N. C.

Southern Region
Mrs. JACQUELINE DAVIS, R.N.
Little Rock, Ark.

West Central Region
Mrs. JANE COLE, R.N.
Henderson, Ky.

South Western Region
Mrs. OVA LEWIS BROOKS, R.N.
Terrell, Texas

Education Committee
Mrs. ESTELLE M. OSBORNE, R.N.
New York City

Membership Committee
Mrs. IRIS G. BRICE, R.N.
New York City

Finance Committee
Miss MABEL C. NORTHCROSS, R.N.
St. Louis, Mo.

Legislative Committee
Mrs. MARION SEYMOUR, R.N.
Washington, D. C.

Publicity Committee
Mrs. GWENDOLYN BOURNE, R.N.
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Registrars
Mrs. URSULA JOHNSON BRACY, R.N.
St. Louis, Mo.

MISS EDITH NORMAN, R.N.
Nashville, Tenn.

Parliamentarian
Mrs. FRANCES F. GAINES, R.N.
Chicago, Ill.

December 19, 1950

Executive Secretary
MISS ALMA VESSELLS, R.N.

Mr. Langston Hughes
C/o Mrs. Toy Harper
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York, New York

My dear Langston:

By this time, you probably know that we are in
the process of having our national membership vote on
the termination of our forty two year old organization.

The action will be in line with the decision of
the nursing profession to reduce the number of national
groups from six to two.

Our Board of Directors has voted to recommend that
our members join with the majority.

Of course several formidable problems remain to
be solved, but it has become almost impossible to carry
on financially; hence, our decision will be both practi-
cal and wise at this time.

The progress, especially since 1942, has been hearten-
ing. Prior to that time, seventeen state nurses associa-
tions barred Negro nurses from membership; only fourteen
schools of nursing out of a total of 1172 admitted all
qualified students regardless of color; and the military
(army and navy) had no Negro nurses enrolled; and jobs
in hospitals and public health agencies on an integrated
basis were negligible.

Today many of our women are employed in institutions
and agencies throughout the country; 330 schools enroll
students; all but five State Nurses' Associations admit
Negro nurses; Louisiana just notified us last Thursday
that they have lowered the ban;*all Negro nurses can
join The American Nurses Association on an individual
basis; the remaining states are Georgia, Texas, Virginia,
South Carolina and The District of Columbia.

I am sure you are wondering why I've included so
many details. This is it, Langston, (smile) we are plan-
ning an historical journal commemorating our outstanding
contributions to the American scene, and in this connec-
tion, we were impelled to call upon your genius and busy

Mr. Langston Hughes

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December 19, 1950

schedule to ask you to put into poetry something of the
struggles of Negro women in nursing, their acheivements
and hopes for tomorrow.

Our Testimonial Dinner honoring some of those who
have helped us to further democracy in nursing, will take
place on Friday, January 26, 1951 at The Essex House, 160
Central Park South, at 7:30 p.m.

We do hope you will honor us with your presence on
that evening.

I almost forgot to mention that we have asked Mr.
Jack Blumstein to let us have space in one of his windows
to display a graphic tribute, and it would be wonderful to
include a "blow up" of the poem you will dedicate to us.

Best wishes for a joyous holiday season! For our
tired, sick world, wishes for a semblance of peace and
brotherhood.

avj/ceb

* Even though they may be barred by their state association,
they may still join the A N A individually.

January 2, 1951

Mrs. Alma Vessells John,
National Association of Colored
Graduate Nurses, Inc.,
1790 Broadway,
New York 19, New York.

Dear Alma,

I'd be delighted to attempt a poem for you and, if you
like, be present to read it at your Testimonial Dinner
at Essex House on Friday, January 26. Please let me know
by what date you will need the poem in order to use it in
the various ways you have indicated.

Happy New Year to you!

January 5, 1951

Dear Alma,

Enclosed is the poem. Let me know if it is O.K. If there are any serious inaccuracies, let me know and I can revise it.

I couldn't quite be sure about the Navy from the information you sent me so, in the first line of the 4th verse, if "Navy" isn't correct, just change that one word to "Air Force" or "Red Cross" or something that would be correct—and let me know what it is. But I am sending it on to you now to be sure it reaches you in time for your journal.

You didn't enclose the dinner invitation in your note (as it stated) but I'm sure it is coming. My aunt, Mrs. Toy Harper, who has several friends among the nurses, says that she, also, would like to attend, so may I bring her with me?

That was a most interesting little booklet you sent me about the history of the Association. Do you have any more such material on hand? If so, post it to me. Perhaps I could get a column for the DEFENDER out of it. Maybe send me some of the material going into the souvenir journal and I could time the piece to come out the week of the dinner.

Lots of good wishes to you, as ever,

1790 BROADWAY
NEW YORK 19, N. Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes
C/o Mrs. Toy Harper
20 East 127 Street
New York, New York

National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc.

Organized 1896

Affiliated with the
National Council of Women U.S.A., Inc. and International Council of Women of the World.
Maintains Frederick Douglass Memorial Home and Property.
Established National Scholarship Fund and National Headquarters.

Incorporated 1904

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WASHINGTON, D.C.

PHONE DEcator 2-8160

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
IRENE MCCOY GAINES

4534 Woodlawn Avenue Chicago 15, Illinois

April 2, 1956

Dear Lang,

I think of you more often than usual of late as I read the pro-
gressive reports from the southland and of the spirit of the new Negro
that is emerging there at long last.

Many of your beautiful and eloquent poems written fifteen to
twenty-five years ago are so timely and topical that persons reading
them for the first time would assume they were inspired by the current
active grass roots struggle for integration. However, those of us who
have thrilled to your poems for many years are re-reading them with nos-
talgic memories and renewed appreciation.

Lang, I want to do a feature on you for the upcoming edition of "National Notes", bi-annual publication of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. This Federation of which my mother is national president is organized in forty-four states, the District of Columbia, Alaska and Hawaii and has a membership of 100,000 Negro women.

It is my belief that a wider audience for your poems in the
south would communicate added and much needed inspiration, courage and
soul power to this new awakening down there.

Another motivation for writing this feature is to encourage
Federated women's clubs to book you for engagements. Please advise as
to particulars regarding your booking agent for speaking appearances
or whether interested groups should contact you direct or what.

I know that you have been speaking to some of these
groups from time to time in the past. I recall you once sent me a copy
of the souvenir program for such an affair. If possible, please send
me a list of the N.A.C.W.C. clubs that have booked you in the past.
I would like to mention these clubs, their presidents and program
chairmen in the article. Also include, if available, a one-column mat
of yourself.

Best Wishes and Regards,

GRACIE
STATION

N. A. A. N. A. C. M.

NATIONAL ASSN. for the ADVANCEMENT of NATIVE AMERICAN COMPOSERS and MUSICIANS

A Nationwide Organization of Prominent Native American Composers and Musicians to Promote AMERICAN MUSIC

Sponsoring Board

Howard Hanson, Composer
Dir. Eastman School, Un. of Rochester
Rochester, N. Y.

Wm. Grant Still
Composer

Los Angeles, Cal.

Wallingford Riegger
Composer

New York, N. Y.

Mrs. C. Arthur Bullock
President

Nat. Fed. of Music Clubs
Canton, Pa.

Arthur Fiedler
Conductor

Boston Pops Orchestra
Boston, Mass.

Leonard Rose
Cellist

Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.

Zenobia Perry
Composer

Central State College
Wilberforce, Ohio

H. Owen Reed
Department of Music

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Henri Deering
Concert Pianist

New York, N. Y.

John Brownlee
Director

Manhattan School of Music
New York, N. Y.

Eugene Conley
Tenor

North Texas State College
Denton, Texas

Newell H. Long
Composer-Teacher

Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Vincent Lopez
Pianist - Orchestra Leader
New York

Skitch Henderson
Television and Radio
New York, N. Y.

Thomas Scherman
Dir. Little Orchestra Society
New York, N. Y.

Milton Katims
Conductor Seattle Symphony Orch.
Seattle, Wash

Grace Castagnetta
Concert Pianist - Composer
Woodridge, N. J.

Carl Johnson
Composer - Pianist - Teacher
Cincinnati, Ohio

James Allan Dash,
Dir. All American Chorus
Upper Darby, Pa.

Edwyn Hames, Conductor
South Bend Symphony
South Bend, Indiana

Executive Director

KAROL FAHNESTOCK

Box 473
P. P. Station

RICHMOND, INDIANA

Sept. 20, 1963

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Perhaps you will remember me from Phila. where a few
years ago I set one of your poems to music and you later sent
me a copy (autographed) of your poem about when a man puts his
hand to the plow--etc.

During the summer here I attended some of the local NAACP meetings and participated in one of their marches. On Aug. 1st my car was dynamited in front of my house and a terrible threat was left on it and on Aug 6th, our door to our home was blown in and a terrible long letter left calling me a N----L-----C------- and threatening my life if I encouraged the Negro people. To date the ones who have done this have not been apprehended. The threats were not released to the press so I ask you not to devulhe them.

I am continuing my ideals for a better world and a
better society because that is the way I am built.

Our group of musicians have also given 22 Concerts of American Composers during the last couple weeks. On these programs we have presented over 350 new Compositions by over sixty American Composers and on Sept. 29th we are giving our third concert of a Summer Festival of American Music in Loveland, Ohio.

Tomorrow I am starting an our hours program(Sundays) on
an Ohio F,M, Station on American Composers.

I think more intelligen and progressive minds, both negro
and white should know of the situation my wife and I are in.

We are supposed to be protected but many nights I sit up
in the dark with a shotgun and pistol and guard our home til 1.
A.M. or 2.A.M.

We who are fighting for a better American and future need
to stand together more against those who use hate and ignorance
as their weapons.

American Composers Must Organize And Demand To Be Heard

N. A. A. N. A. C. M.

President

KAROL FAHNESTOCK

Box 473

P. P. Station

RICHMOND, INDIANA

Executive Board

Prof. Zenobia Perry, Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio; Helen S. Hartmeyer, Zanesville, Ohio; Garland Anderson, Richmond, Indiana; John Hartmeyer, Zanesville, Ohio; Prof. Leonides Sarakatsannis, Florida State College, Gainesville, Florida

Lovetta C. Manggrum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Sponsoring Board

Norman Dello Joio
Composer
New York

Theodore Lettvin
Concert Pianist
Cleveland Institute

Hon. Paul Douglas
Senator, Illinois

Leo Sowerby
Composer
American Conservatory of Music
Chicago, Illinois

Edwin Hughes
Executive Secretary
National Music Council
New York, N. Y.

Grace Castagnetta
Concert Pianist - Composer
Woodbridge, N. Y.

Nov. 17, 1963

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I don't know whether you remember me several years ago
in Phila. at the "Y" where I was a Sec. and while there I set one
of your poems to music?

Anyway I would like your advice?

I have always supported the NAACP and this summer when the
Local group had a series of meetings and Marches I attended and
I participated in one of the Marches through the business section
of Richmond here.

The next night after this march my car was dynaited in
front of our house and although I asked the Police for protection
none was given and six nights after our door to our home was blown
in and a long letter was left threatening my death within 24 hours
if I participated with negros in any kind of demonstration. or
"encouraged" them in any way.

Although the stories were in most of the papers in the
middle west on the front pages, the Local police asked me to keep
the threats out of the papers which I did.

Now after several months the Police and dectives tell me
they can't find the ones who did this. Semest

Sometimes I feel that they could do better than they are
doing but that there are reactionary fources in our community and
society which don't want to find the solution.

I think it would be a wonderful and good thing to find
the people who did this to me and to expose them. Could you advise
me. I have written to a couple Private Detective Agencies.

I could send you copies of the notes if you should care to
see them. They openly threaten to kill and are signed "Southern
white patriots"

I would like to see a few people get interested in such
things in the country and help me solve this.

N. A. A. N. A. C. M.

Sponsoring Board

Leonard Rose
Cellist

Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.

Zenobia Perry
Composer

East Lansing, Michigan

Albert DeVite
Composer-Publisher
Westbury, Long Island, N. Y.

John Brownlee
Director

Eugene Conley
Tenor

New York

New York, N. Y.

New York, N. Y.

Seattle, Wash

Woodridge, N. J.

James Allan Dash
Dir. All American Chorus
Upper Darby, Pa.

Clarence Cordrey
Composer-Pianist
Cincinnati, Ohio

Executive Director

KAROL FAHNESTOCK

Box 473
P. O. Station
RICHMOND, INDIANA

Aug. 12, 1964

Dear Langston Hughes:

Thank you for your letter concerning the song. I wrote a couple others from the poems "Love" and "Lament over Love" and one is in a four part Choral arrangement and it is at the Galaxy Music Publishers in N.Y. as they said they were interested in this type of Compositions.

I bet you don't remember me from Philadelphia around twenty years ago when I worked as a "Y" secretary and set your poem "Mighty Soviet Armies" to music?

I have written over two hundred songs alone since then and many are so good and have been sung in many concerts and by outstanding singers. Bother Jan Pierce anddq Eileen Farrell among other s have praised them.

Could you think about it once in a while and maybe give me an idea for a musical? I have been thinking along these lines for quite a while. I was reading some of the short stories in "An Anthology of American Negro Literature" the other night thinking maybe I could find a story or a plot that would make a good musical. I could sure write the music once I got started. Maybe you could give me an idea or more.

I have my music published by seven publishers now and have four radio programs on American Composers each week on four different radio stations. This weekend a group of us are giving our Annual Festival of American Music in Loveland, Ohio and then next week end also.

Last year I was the only non negro in Richmond to participate in demonstrations with the NAACP here and my car was dynamited one week and our house the next and I am still living under a death threat-You should see the letters I received-Some masterpieces of cold bladed death threats.

Loveland Summer American Music Festival — Nisbet Hall, Loveland, Ohio

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRAMATIC AND SPEECH ARTS

OFFICERS 1966-67

PRESIDENT
JOHN MARSHALL STEVENSON
A. & T. COLLEGE
GREENSBORO, N. C.

VICE PRESIDENT
EDWARD FISHER
JACKSON STATE COLLEGE (MISS.)

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
JOSEPH ADKINS
FORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE (GA.)

ASSISTANT SECRETARY
JOHN WESLEY
GRAMBLING COLLEGE (LA.)

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
WILLIAM RANDOLPH
A. & T. COLLEGE
GREENSBORO, N. C.

THIRD VICE PRESIDENT
JACQUELINE NICKSON
FLORIDA A. & M. UNIVERSITY
TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

FIELD REPRESENTATIVE
AND HONORARY PRESIDENT
S. RANDOLPH EDMONDS
FLORIDA A. & M. UNIVERSITY
TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

EDITOR NADSA ENCORE
CARLTON MOLETTE
FLORIDA A. & M. UNIVERSITY
TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

PUBLICITY DIRECTOR
ALLEN WILLIAMS
GRAMBLING COLLEGE (LA.)

MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN
WINONA L. FLETCHER
KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE
FRANKFORT, KY.

BUSINESS MANAGER &
PARLIAMENTARIAN
GEORGE WHITFIELD
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
BATON ROUGE, LA.

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES

SOUTHERN REGION
JANE RALEIGH
FAYETTEVILLE STATE COLLEGE (N.C.)

SOUTHWESTERN REGION
NEARI FRANCIOS
GRAMBLING COLLEGE (LA.)

SOUTH CENTRAL REGION
OLIVER JACKSON
JACKSON STATE COLLEGE (MISS.)

NORTH CENTRAL REGION
PATRICIA RUSSELL
KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE
FRANKFORT, KY.

NORTHEASTERN REGION

REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE
EDDIE JONES
GRAMBLING COLLEGE (LA.)

REGIONAL DIRECTORS

SOUTHEASTERN REGION
J. C. TAYLOR
PAINE COLLEGE
AUGUSTA, GA.

SOUTHWESTERN REGION
ALPHONSO SHERMAN
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
BATON ROUGE, LA.

SOUTH CENTRAL REGION
CARL SCHURR
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE (ALA.)

NORTH CENTRAL REGION
GLADYS FORDE
FISK UNIVERSITY
NASHVILLE, TENN.

NORTHEASTERN REGION
ALBERT DINKINS
912 WASHINGTON AVENUE
NORFOLK, VA.

November 11, 1966

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

Dear Langston:

We all were very sorry that you did not get to the
conference at Capahosic. We missed your presence.
I was told of the tremendous volume of work you have
ahead of you. We certainly would have liked to have
had you.

The conference went off very smoothly. I think we
accomplished a great deal. One of the main points
we wanted to get over is the fact that the cultural
life of Negroes is centered largely around schools,
colleges and universities. The government and the
foundations are supporting largely symphony orchestras,
community theatres, ballets, etc. This largely leaves
us out. So, unless some of the money is channeled to
our school cultural organizations, we will, for the
most part, be left out. We would thus end up being
more culturally deprived than ever. Fortunately, thanks
to Esther, Spelman had a project ready to submit. In
addition, there is support for a professional center
in New York. Other projects will also be submitted.

It may interest you to know that we are having tre-
mendous success with our verse choir. Your poems are
always big hits. You will find enclosed a couple of
our recent presentations.

With every good wish, I am

SRE/wan
Enclosure

Dr. M. A. Majors
311 E. Walnut Ave
Rochester, N.Y.

My Dear Brother Authors: The National Association of Negro Authors meets in Rochester, New York this 25th and 27th of each month. Our organization was organized by Frederick Douglass during the worlds Fair and Columbian Exposition in 1893. We are meeting in Rochester because it is the place where Douglass staged a warfare against Slavery.

and to help run the slaves across the American border into Canada. The program which is very huge is to be a memorial to Frederick Douglass and to Dr. Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and to salute with admiration Dr. Ralph Bu Bunch for his great World work, and the winning of the Nobel Prize.

The National Committee of the Republican party is going all out to make this memorial tribute the greatest incident in American life. This is in the name of our National Association of Negro Authors, a recognition of Negro intelligence, the most fetched effort to honor the Negro race. We want you to be present at this colloidal coming together of Negro intellectuals. A seat will be reserved on the platform for you. A seat in fact among the celebrities of the nation, Governors, senators, clergymen, college presidents, bishops, ambassadors, and notables.

We ask you to spread the joyful news of this nation-wide incident among your friends. Please write to us and let us know what you think, how you feel and id you will help us and the National Republican Executive Committee to stage this great event.

OFFICERS

SHELBY NICHOLS, PRESIDENT
6029 SO. RACINE AVE. NOR. 7053
BLANCHE W. PAGE, 1ST VICE PRES.
ESSIE WILSON, 2ND VICE PRES.
FLOY BURDETTE, RECORDING SEC.
ELNORA CLAYTOR, ASST. REC. SEC.
ROBERT MCKENZIE, COR. SEC.
GEORGE H. HUTCHISON,
FINANCIAL SEC. AND TREASURER
601 E. 36TH STREET, TEL., ATL. 2222

The Chicago Music Association
BRANCH OF THE
National Association of Negro Musicians

INC.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

April 7, 1942.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

GRACE TOMPKINS - BARKER
ESTELLA C. BONDS
ANITA PATTI BROWN
ALYCE L. MARTIN
GLADYS NELSON
WILLIAM ROBINSON
CARRIE SOUTH

A Presentation --

from the Chicago Music Association to
Mr. Langston Hughes
Honorary membership bestowed

Mr. President, members and distinguished guests and friends :--

It has been said, and perhaps truly, that " some men are
born great, others have greatness thrust upon them, and others
achieve greatness ".

You, Mr. Langston Hughes, our distinguished guest speaker and honoree on this auspicious occasion, have practically won world recognition and acclaim because of your achievement in the realm of literature.

Without the necessity of resorting to hyperbole, you have justly been designated as one to wear a laurel wreath of greatness.

You have contributed much to the enrichment, joy and happiness of millions now living and those yet unborn.

Literature like music should know no distinction of race or
pigment of skin, no boundary nor geographical limitations but
should have universal appeal and dissemination.

However, the people of your racial identity do take particular
pride in your ascendency to the heights. Their glory in the fact
that you are a part of them and that you have brought in ever
increasing measure, praise and honor for the group.

The Chicago Music Association, a branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., shall ever feel grateful to you for the intellectual feast you have served it, as well as for the opportunity to meet and get you personally under such the auspices. We shall be pleased to record this occasion as one deserving of SPECIAL MENTION.

In token of the esteem in which we hold you Mr. Hughes, because
of a justly earned fame, our Association through appropriate act-
ion, is happy to enroll your name upon it's HONOR roster and to
present you with a membership card in the organization. It's
best wishes are yours,

The Chicago Music Association

George H. Hutchison, C计.ter, Chr.

Shelby Nichols
President.

R. Hopkins
169-02105 Ave.
Jamaica, N.Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York, N.Y.

V. O. Shields
The New Carl Diton Branch
National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc.
268 EAST 4TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY 9, NEW YORK

Mr. L. Hughes

20 E. 127 th St.
N. Y. 35 N. Y.

Remember - Only you can

PREVENT

FOREST FIRES

PRESIDENT

VINCENT A. SHIELDS

VICE PRESIDENT

ALBERTA JACKSON

SECRETARY

ZADA WILSON

TREASURER

EVELYN WHITE

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

SADIE BATTLES

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

MARION ANDERSON

CARL R. DITON

C. CAMERON WHITE

ROSALIE PINCKNEY

MARY CARDWELL DAWSON

W. C. HANDY

ABBIE MITCHEL

Mr. Langston Hughes

20 E. 127 th St.

New York 35, N.Y.

My dear Mr. Hughes

I received your kind response and a copy of your latest craftmanship on Negro History.

I have purchased the Documentary recording based on the same.

I found this recording to be most interesting in other words a very good consice capsule story of the American Negro and his History.

With your permission I am desirious of this being put in use for our Annual Scholarship Benefit to be given in February 1956. (Negro History Week)

If possible our Club would like to procure of the following: Sidney Poitier as Narrator, Fred O' Neal as Booker T. Washington, and Abbie Mitchell as Harriet Tubman. Plus an extensive display of Mr. L. Hughes' works in a section of the auditorium to be known as the PoetsCorner with the Author in person. Can we do it?

ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR

MONTE NORRIS

October 3, 1955

Thanking you for your consideration

Yours truly
Vincent Shields

THE MU-TE-OR BRANCH
of the
National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc.,
Dudley M. Archer, Mus.B.,A.A.G.O., President
700 Marcy Avenue
Brooklyn 16, New York

January 14

1957

Dear Friend:

The Mu-Te-Or Branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., will present the Lincoln University Glee Club under the direction of Prof. Orrin Clayton Suthern II - Organist-Conductor, in concert on Friday, February 8th at 8:30 p.m., at the Church of the Holy Apostles - Ninth Avenue and 28th Street, New York. Since you are one of the Alumni, we feel sure that you will endorse the effort of Mu-Te-Or in presenting this nationally outstanding Glee Club of your Alma Mater in New York City.

Accordingly, we are mailing you two (2) patrons tickets.
These entitle you to seats specially reserved for the alumni and their
guests. Your name will also appear on the program. The deadline for
printing is Thursday, January 31st, therefore, your reply must reach
us before that date.

There will be a social hour immediately after the concert for a re-union of the alumni. Additional tickets may be obtained by calling or writing Dudley M. Archer (700 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn 16, N.Y.) at Ulster 7-1615 or Mr. George M. Hall, Jr., 360 W. 28th Street, New York City, - Chickering 4 - 3373. Kindly make checks or money orders payable to MU-TE-OR and mail to Miss M. Grace Sweeney - 1143 Carroll Street, Brooklyn 25, New York

We look forward with keen anticipation to your presence on
that evening.

DMA:AS

"BALLAD OF THE BROWN KING" on Honors Night Concert
Seminar on Words and Music, Libretoes, etc.
Possibly poetry reading with L. H. songs

THE 38TH ANNUAL CONVENTION AND 42nd ANNIVERSARY
OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEGRO MUSICIANS, Inc.

Kenneth Brown Billups, President

Convening in Chicago, August 20-25, 1961

Host: Chicago Music Association

Slogan: Music Makes For Harmony In Life

Convention Headquarters: Kam Temple, 50th St. at Drexel Blvd.

Theodore Charles Stone, General Chairman
4512 South Vincennes Avenue, Wagner 4-0145, Chicago 53

Miss Etta Moten, Honorary Chairman

KENNETH BROWN BILLUPS
President

LEROY H. BOYD
National Executive Secretary

Joey Adams
Miss Wilhelmina Adams
Miss Adele Addison
Bruno Aron
Miss Betty Allen
Hon. Joyce Phillips Austin
Mme. Rose E. Bampton
Samuel Barlow
Mr. and Mrs. Count Basie
Theodore Bikel
Harry Belafonte
Miss Lucy Brown
Miss Carol Brice
Dr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Bunche
Hon. Bessie Buchanan
Irving Burgie
Miss Margaret Bonds
Viola W. Bernard, M.D.
Hugh F. Butts, M.D.
Algernon D. Black
Atty. Maxwell T. Cohen
Nat King Cole
Miss Evelyn Cunninham
Mrs. Kate A. Casley
Miss Thelma Dailey
Miss Jean Dalrymple
Mrs. Louise Maxienne Dargans
John A. Davis, Ph.D.
Joseph E. Davis
Jerome A. Donson
Mrs. Arabella Denniston
Hon. Robert W. Dowling
Miss Mattjwilda Dobbs
Hugh Downs
Miss Katherine Dunham
Duke Ellington
Hy Faine
Milton Feist
Hilda O. Fortune, Ph.D.
Frederick Fox
William Feinberg
John Hope Franklin, Ph.D.
Gladya P. Graham, Ph.D.
Miss Odetta Gordon
Zelma George, Ph.D.
Atty. and Mrs. Maurice Greene
Mrs. Nora Douglas Holt
Miss Lena Horne
Roland Hayes
James Hicks
Hon. James Hudson
Langston Hughes, M.D.
Rev. Donald S. Harrington
John L. S. Holoman, Jr., M.D.
Lennie Hayton
Burl Ives
Miss Catherine Jarboro
Hon. Jacob K. Javits
Miss Theodate Johnson
Mrs. Alma Vessels John
Ulysses Kay
Hon. Kenneth B. Keating
William A. Kielmann
Mme. Lotte Lehmann
Henry Levine
Miss Vivea Lindsfors
Hon. Stanley H. Lowell
Mrs. Juanita Lockhart
Miss Geri Major
Miss Dorothy Maynor
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Montero
Dr. and Mrs. Peter M. Murray
Lonnie MacDonald, M.D.
Hon. Benjamin F. McLaurin
Peter Mennin, Ph.D.
Henry Lee Moon
Hon. Newbold Morris
Mrs. Helen R. Norvelle
Frederick O'Neal
Hon. Adam Clayton Powell
Dr. and Mrs. Levi Powell
Ted Poston
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Miss Evelyn L. Pittman
Willard Rhodes, Ph.D.
Alex Rosen, Ph.D.
Rev. and Mrs. James Robinson
Julius Rudel
William Grant Still
Seymour N. Siegel
George Shirley
Red Skelton
Mrs. Renee Sylvan
Hon. Arthur B. Spivak
Mrs. Nettie B. Smith
Noble Sissle
Hope Stevens, Esquire
Robert D. Out
James Truitt
Mrs. Yvonne Walker
Harry R. Wilson, Ph.D.
Miss Camilla Williams
Miss Mary Lou Williams
Herbert H. Wright
Leigh Whinner
William Warfield
Deborah Partridge Wolfe, Ph.D.
Atty. Ruth V. Washington
Paul Zuber

National Association Of Negro Musicians, Inc.

presents

SYMPHONY OF THE AIR, Conducted by LEONARD DePAUR,
in a Program Featuring Music by Composers of African Descent,
Benefit - Scholarship Fund

Honorary Chairmen

Dr. Buell G. Gallagher

Marian Anderson — Algernon D. Black — Mimi Benzell — John K. M. McCaffery

Leontyne Price — Hon. A. Philip Randolph — Ed Sullivan — Sophie Tucker

"Pride in a Cultural Heritage"

WILSON W. WOODBECK
National Public Relations
Director, General Chairman
231 West 149th Street
New York 39, New York
F Foundation 8-1462

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

It is with humility and great pride I write you. The National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., was organized forty years ago, and through the years has been dedicated to raising adequate funds for our worthy young musicians.

In keeping pace with the new world order in terms of equal opportunities for all qualified musicians, it is imperative that we step up our scholarship program to meet the challenge.

On Easter Sunday evening, April 18, 1965 the National Association of Negro Musicians will present their second annual scholarship concert at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, starring Miss Alpha Brawner, Dramatic Soprano and the world famous Winston-Salem State College Choir under the direction of Dr. James A. Dillard. On this occasion we honor ourselves as we honor Mr. Julius Rudel, general director of New York City Center, and Dr. Howard Thurman, University Minister-at-large, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

The committee of the above named organization shall be eternally grateful if you will do us the honor of serving as one of our Honorary Chairmen for this eminent concert. This will not involve you as we realize you are tremendously busy. However, we would love to have your photograph and statement for our Souvenir Journal. Please know your good name will only be used for the purpose mentioned. We will appreciate this unusual courtesy as we go to press before February 1st.

DAY LETTER

THEODORE CHARLES STONE, Chairman,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEGRO MUSICIANS
K. A. M. TEMPLE
50th STREET & DREXEL BOULEVARD,
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

AS A LYRICIST AND LIBRETTIST WHO HAS HAD THE HONOR OF
WORKING WITH VARIOUS NEGRO COMPOSERS AND WHOSE SONGS HAVE
BEEN SUNG BY MANY SINGERS MEMBERS OF YOUR ASSOCIATION I
SEND MY SINCEREST GREETINGS TO YOUR 38th ANNUAL CONVENTION
AND REGRET I CANNOT BE WITH YOU ON YOUR 40th ANNIVERSARY

LANGSTON HUGHES