Telegram from Charlotte Hawkins Brown to W. E. B. Du Bois Testimonial Dinner Committee

Item Information

Title:
Telegram from Charlotte Hawkins Brown to W. E. B. Du Bois Testimonial Dinner Committee
Description:
Addressed to Alice Crawford; regretting that an "important New York trustee threatens resignation" if she speaks at the birthday dinner; noting she cannot "risk school interest so near the end of my fiftieth year. Great fear of Communist influence."
Creator:
Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961
Addressee:
W. E. B. Du Bois Testimonial Dinner Committee
Date:
February 21, 1951
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Genre:
Telegrams
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 131 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 1A. Correspondence
Subjects:
Blacklisting, Labor
Anti-communist movements--United States
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)--1868-1963--Anniversaries, etc
Places:
United States
Extent:
1 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b131-i308
Terms of Use:
All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
Greensboro (N.C.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b131-i308