Reminiscences of George Samuel Schuyler, 1960

Biographical Note

Author, journalist; interviewee d.1977

Scope and Contents

Background, childhood, and education in Syracuse; job discrimination; enlistment United States Army, 1912; military transports, commission, segregation within armed forces; government civil service, 1919; Harlem; Marcus Garvey; THE MESSENGER; PITTSBURGH COURIER; magazine supplement, Chicago; differences among Negro leaders; southern travels; Socialist Party activities; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; THE CRISIS; Negroes in politics; housing; interracial marriage; Liberia; consumer cooperatives; Ethiopia; American Negroes in World War II; race relations in Latin America; Negro journalism; Negroes and Jews; Negroes and Communist Party; National Negro Congress; March on Washington; impressions of Benjamin Davis, A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen, James W. Ivy, James Weldon Johnson, Roy Wilkins, H.L. Mencken, Walter White

Subjects

• African American authors--Interviews.
• African American journalists--Interviews.
• African American newspapers.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• African American soldiers.
• Ingersoll, William T., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977--Interviews.
• Socialist Party of the United States of America.
• United States--Race relations.
• World War, 1939-1945--African Americans.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972