Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 6 of 6

Dick Russell papers

 Collection
Identifier: M191
Overview

Author Dick Russell published the book, Black Genius to highlight the achievements of prominent African Americans throughout American history. The collection is comprised of his research for the book. Russell currently lives in Massachusetts.



Dates: 1806-2009; Majority of material found within 1995-1997

Elma Ina Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: M038
Overview

Elma Lewis was born on September 15, 1921 in Boston, Mass. She taught dance, drama, and speech therapy, and established the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in 1950, the National Center of Afro-American Artists in 1968, and the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in 1969.



Dates: 1917-1998

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

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

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

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

Filtered By

  • Names: Lewis, Elma X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
African American artists -- Massachusetts -- Boston 4
African Americans -- Education -- Massachusetts -- Boston 4
African American arts -- Massachusetts -- Boston 3
African American theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston 3
Art centers -- Massachusetts -- Boston 3
∨ more  
Names
Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts 4
National Center of Afro-American Artists 4
National Center of Afro-American Artists. Museum 4
Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists 2
Aldridge, Ira 1
∨ more
Alejandro (sp?) 1
Alexander-Minter, Rae 1
Anderson, Marian 1
Armstrong, Louis 1
Armstrong, William H. T. 1
Ashe, Arthur 1
Avery, Byllye 1
Baker, Mildred 1
Baldwin, James 1
Banneker, Benjamin 1
Bearden, Romare 1
Bell, Derrick A. 1
Bethune, Mary McLeod 1
Bey, Andrew W. 1
Biggers, John Thomas 1
Blight, David W. 1
Blind Tom 1
Breed, Charles 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn 1
Brown, Jim 1
Brown, Tony R. 1
Campbell, Anthony C. 1
Carmichael, Stokely 1
Carter, Benny 1
Catlett, Elizabeth 1
Cave, Vernal G. 1
Chandler, Dana, Jr. 1
Chisholm, Shirley 1
Cole, Johnnetta B. 1
Coltrane, John 1
Cone, James H. 1
Cook, Will Marion 1
Cosby, Bill 1
Counter, Allen 1
Crouch, Stanley 1
Davidson, Charles 1
Davis, Miles B. 1
Dial, Thornton 1
Doby, Larry 1
Douglass, Frederick 1
Drew, Charles 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1
Duncanson, Robert S. 1
Edelman, Marian Wright 1
Ellington, Duke 1
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 1
Ellison, Ralph 1
Elma Lewis School for the Fine Arts 1
Fitzgerald, Ellen 1
Floyd, Virginia D. 1
Fortune, Timothy Thomas 1
Franklin, Aretha 1
Fuller, Meta Warrick 1
Gaither, Barry 1
Gaither, Edmund Barry, 1944- 1
Gaston, Arthur George 1
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 1
Giovanni, Nikki 1
Gloster, Hugh 1
Gomes, Peter J. 1
Goodnight, Paul 1
Graves, Earl G. 1
Green, Elijah J. 1
Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor 1
Hall, Virginia 1
Hamilton, Ruth 1
Hampton, Lionel 1
Handy, William C. 1
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins 1
Harper, Michael S. 1
Havens, Richie 1
Hayes, Chuck 1
Hayes, Lawrence 1
Heath, Gordon 1
Henry, Aaron 1
Henson, Matthew Alexander 1
Hershey, Alfred Day 1
Holiday, Billie 1
Hooks, Bell 1
Houston, Charles Hamilton 1
Jackson, Rebecca Cox 1
Jarrett, Keith 1
Johnson, Helen 1
Johnson, James Weldon 1
Johnson, John H. 1
Johnson, Robert L. 1
Jones, Lois Mailou 1
Jones, Lou 1
Just, Ernest Everett 1
Keckley, Elizabeth 1
Kilgore, Thomas 1
Kincaid, Jamaica 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Latimer, Lewis Howard 1
+ ∧ less