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Manuscripts/1. African American

 Record Group Term
Identifier: Manuscripts/1

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program records

 Collection
Identifier: A080
Overview The African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program (AAMARP) began in 1974 when Northeastern University provided studio space to artist Dana Chandler. Established officially in 1977, the program was the first African American artist-in-residence program in the United States, providing studio space on an annually renewable basis to visual artists. The first exhibition by African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program debuted at Boston City Hall in 1977. Between 1978 and 1988, the...
Dates: 1976-2003; Majority of material found within 1977-1988
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Dana C. Chandler, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: M156
Overview Dana C. Chandler, Jr., noted African American artist, activist, and educator, was born in Lynn, Mass. in 1941. He was educated in Boston Public Schools, and earned a B.S. in Teacher Education from the Massachusetts College of Art. Chandler participated in the black integrationist movement since his high school years. Chandler joined the black nationalist movement in the 1960s, after witnessing police brutality against a group of peaceful welfare protestors. Chandler has used his art to...
Dates: 1973-1991; Majority of material found within 1977-1979
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts records

 Collection
Identifier: M043
Overview

Founded by Elma Lewis in 1950, the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts was established to meet the social, cultural, and artistic needs of Boston's African American community. Lewis's goal was to foster the arts, not only in the local Roxbury-Dorchester community, but also in the African American community at large. The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts offered education in art, dance, drama, music, and costuming to pre-school children, school-aged children and adults.



Dates: 1954-1992
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

John Ross papers

 Collection
Identifier: M070
Overview John Andrew Ross was an accomplished African-American composer, organist, choral conductor, and jazz musician. Born in Boston on December 15, 1940, Ross became the music director at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in 1970. Working with the school and its parent organization, the National Center of Afro-American Artists, he lead two widely recognized music ensembles, the Voices of Black Persuasion and the Contra-Band. Starting in 1970, Ross became the musical director of the highly...
Dates: 1963-2006
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists records

 Collection
Identifier: M044
Overview

Established in 1969 as a division of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists is an art museum dedicated to the education, promotion, exhibition, and collection of African, Caribbean, and Afro-American fine arts worldwide.



Dates: 1966-1998
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

National Center of Afro-American Artists records

 Collection
Identifier: M042
Overview

The National Center of Afro-American Artists was founded by Elma Ina Lewis in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1968. The Center's founding was a response to concerns over a lack of a comprehensive, national institutional center for African American artists.



Dates: 1924-1998
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Ronald W. Bailey oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: M153
Overview In 1989 and 1990, Milton Derr, Mel King, and Byron Rushing, three prominent members of Boston's African American community, were interviewed about their lives and work in preparation for a book by Ronald W. Bailey with Diane Turner and Robert Hayden, entitled Lower Roxbury: A Community of Treasures in the City of Boston. Milton Derr, a painter, illustrator and retired teacher, was born in 1932 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He moved to Boston to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and...
Dates: 1989-1990
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

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