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Finding aid to the Claude Barnett research collection, ca. 1950-1970


Collection Summary


Collection Title: Claude Barnett Research Collection, ca. 1950-1970
Call number/identifier: 9
Origination: Claude Barnett
Extent: 141 boxes
Physical location: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
Languages: All materials are in English
Repository: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies , Evanston, IL

Abstract: Consists of newsclippings, photographs, and newsletters pertaining to African affairs during the 1950s and 1960s. The collection was assembled by Claude Barnett, director of the Associated Negro Press, a wire organization serving black American newspapers, and the World News Service, which provided similar service to African newspapers from 1960 until 1963.