Reminiscences of Jean Blackwell Hutson, 1978

Biographical Note

Librarian; interviewee married John O. Hutson

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Maryland; radical and black student politics, 1930s; positions with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: curator (1948-72), Chief Librarian from 1972; role of Schomburg Center in Harlem Renaissance; associations with Arthur Schomburg, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Paul Robeson

Subjects

• African American authors.
• African American librarians--Interviews.
• African Americans--Library resources.
• African Americans and libraries.
• American literature--African American authors.
• Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Jones, Barbara, interviewer.
• New York (N.Y.)--Libraries.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
• Women librarians--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984