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THE CAROLIKA times SATURDAY, SEPT. 4, 1954
N. C. College Professor Has Large
Collection Of Negro Liferalure
Above is shown the cast of
the 2nd edition of THE BIG
GEST RHYTHM and BLUES
SHOW which will make a one
night stop at the RALEIGH
MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM on
Labor Day September 6. Thei
date in Raleigh will be a SHOW
and DANCE affair.
Co-starred in this second
edition of the RHYTHM^t. and
BLUES SHOW are Roy Hamil
ton, The Drifters, faye Adams.
The Counts, l,aVern BAKER,
Rusty Bryant and his Orchestra,
Lou Elliott, The Spaniels, Big
Maybelle and Erskine Hawkins
and his great Orchestra. For
this big Labor Day date, box-
office at the auditorium will
open at 8:15 PM with the doors
opening at 8:80. Dancing will
get underway at 9 PM. One
show and only one show will
be presented at 10 PM lasting
two and one ha^l hours with
dancing resuming after the
show.
THIS AND THAT IN DANVILLE
S«nd All News To CHARLES K. COLEBIAN
585 HOLBROOK STREET — DANVILLE, VIBGINIA
Mrs. Katie Hall spent the
day with her daughter and son-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. -Wesley
Stevens of Union Street recent
ly.
Cary Hall of the U. S. Army
is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Wesley Stevens of Union
Street.
Mrs. Anna V. Chaney and
Miss Mabel Brown of Bronx,
N. Y., have returned home after
visiting their nephew, Charles
K. Coleman and father, Charles
Brown of Doe Street. They were
accorded many social courtesies
by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cobbs
and Mrs. Cordelia Hardy. They
visited relatives in Yanceyville
and Reidsville, N. C. while on-
their annual vacation here.
The Sunbeam Circle of the
Vann Street Baptist Church
had a picnic party on Sunday,
Aug. 25., from 3:00 p.m. to
5:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Minnie Mporman. Present were
Loretta Booth, Walter Bran
don, Ann Stamps, Betty J. Mc
Laughlin. Barbara Lynn, Jean
ette Stamps, Barbara Stamps,
low Hospital.
Mrs. Willie Walker of Rich
mond and Danville motored to
Natural Bridge, Va., on last
Saturday.
Richardson Succeeds Byrd as
Principal at Gibson School
Curtis A. Richardson will
succeed John H. Byrd Jr., as
principal of Edwin A. Gibson
Slementary School this fall.
The announcement was made
by Supt. O. T. Bonner last
week. Richardson has been
principal at Grasty for the past
two years. The Gibson princi-
palship „was vacated recently
when Byrd was named succes
sor to C. D. Paige as principal
of John M. Langston High
School.
Shirley Johnson^ Curtis Nash,
Jimmy Booth, Ezell Barks
dale, Claude Scott, Dorothy
Stamps, Larry Lea, Carolyn
Lea, and Peggy Moorman. After
their luncheon, the group play
ed games under the direction
of Solomon Peavy, leader of Al-
magre Playground. Assisting
Mrs. Walter McLaughlin. Circle
Leader, were Misses Gloria
Johnson, Mattie Stamps, Eliza
beth Scott and Jessie Ann
Williams.
Danville Boxers Win in N. J.
Both Danville boxers won
their bouts in Asbury Park
New Jersey on last Saturday
night’s card. Willie “Gooch”
Wilson and Willie Smith both
out classed their opponents to
win unanimous decisions. Seve
ral local citizes saw the tele
vised bouts.
Miss Laverne Hankins of
Union Street is visiting her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin Edmonds of Washing
ton.
Drum and Bugle Corps
The crack Drum and Bugle
Corps of Waldon France Post
No. 29, American Legion,, left
for Washington to enter na
tional competition over the
weekend. They had an engage
ment at Father Divine’s Church
in Philadelphia before return
ing home on Wednesday. Led
■tiy j. H. Fuller and Charles'
Brooks, the following members
made the trip! Marjorettes
Alease, Mary, and Millie Cole
man, Jackie Miller, Lagatha
Stone, Amelia Hankins, Doris
Price, Dorothy Burrell, Bar
bara Kernodle, Dorothy and
Geraldine General; Captains
Alberta Bradnax-Hatchett, lea
ding sole buglist, and Harry
Johnson; Lieutenants James
Gunn, Aleexander Hargraves,
Loretta Anderson, Bobby
Smith, Kenneth Edmonds, Mat
tie Banks, Curtis Stephens,
Florence Stanfield, John Left-
ridge Jr., Sylvester Holland,
Roosevelt James, Christopher
Johnson, Jame» Wilson, Rich
ard Wilson, James Stroud, John
McClary,, Haywood Weather
ford, James Skipwith, Anna
McLaughlin, George Skipwith,
Eunice Terry, Wilbur Moore,
James Sydner, Henry Davis,
Lucious Mulley, William Hollo
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One of the most complete pri
vate collections of books by and
about Negroes is on the North
Carolina College campus—the
prized and “intimate” collec
tion of Dr. W. Edward Parrl-
son, chairman of the depart
ment of English.
For sevcial reasons Dr. Far
lisc.* regards his Collection as
‘priceless”. Jt contains at l^st
one original edition nearly 150
years old, the complete works of
several Negro authors, and a
number of books autographed
by their authors. Moreover, the
Colectio:i represents a hobby of
more than thirty year’» stand
ing.
' Combining scholarly research
in the field with his hobby of
collecting books, Dr. Farrlson
has published numerous articles
about Negroes and Negro litera
ture. “My interest in the poetry
and prose written by American
Negroes,” he says,” is only one
of my special interests and is a
part of my general interest" in
literature. It is essentially the
interest of the historian of lite
rature, whose functions, I be
lieve, is , first to inform him
self about what has been writ
ten, second, to evaluate it in the
light of its purpose and merits,
and third, to consider what are
now commonly called its “Im
plications”, whether social, mo
ral, or otherwise.
“As to taking the virritings of
American Negroes as a subject
for special study,, the basic
reason for doing that is the
same as it is for taking any
other phase of literature for
special study. It is simply to
provide for detailed considera
tion of what might • be hurried
over or unnoticed towards the
full integration of Negroes in
American life is the extensive
ignorance of Negroes and no-
Negroes about Negroes. The
study of the writings of Ameri
can Negroes can remove much
of this ignorance and can there
by promote,,, ,n,ot racial separa
tion, but national unity.”’
The Farrlson Collection con
sists of more than 500 books and
pamphlets written by and about
Negroes since 180|8. It includes
the complete published works
of Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
Charles W. Chesnutt, and
Frederick Douglas, and most of
the publications of Langston
Hughes. In addition, there are
numerous editions of periodi
cals, some no longer being pub
lished which contain uncol
lected short stories by such
authors as Paul Lawrence Dun
bar and Rudolph Fisher.
Among rare items in the Far-
rison Collec’tion are the bound
volumes of the “Anglo-Afri-
can” magazine, published in
1859; the first edition of Henri
Gregoires’ De La Litterature
des Negres, published in Paris
in 1808, the oldest book in the-
Collection; Rene Maran's first
novel, Batouala, translated froJn
the original French (1922); a
photostatic copy of William
Wells Brown’s Miralda^ or the
Beautiful Quadroon, ‘|nlblished
in the “Wee^lji A^glo-Affican”,
1860-61, but never published
in book form; and the Heartman
editions of Jupiter Hammon’s
poems and the poems and let
ters and a bibliography of
Phillis Wheatley,
Notable also is a copy of
Langston Hughes’ Dear Lovely
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Among interesting books by
white authors about Negroes
are Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin;
John Pierpont's Anti-Slavery
Poer.is, 1843; two copies of The
Liberty del:, published for the
Bostrfn Anti-Slavery Bazaar in
1842 and 1853; and Julia Grif
fith’s Autographs for Freedom,
1853-54. (JuUa Griffith was the
Englishwoman associated with
Frederick Douglas.)
The latest addition to the
Farrlson Collection is the first
edition - of Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s second novel—Drcod; A
tale of the Great Dismal
Swamp. Pu >lished in 1856, the
novel is in two volumes..
Widely r igarded as an au
thority in Negro literature, Dr.
Farrlson ,^ca;ae interested, in
the subject while he was a stu
dent at Lincoln University
(Pennsylvania) in the early
twenties. He began collecting
books at Lincoln. Over the
years he has had personal con
tact with r.iany of the authors
whose books are in his Collec
tion, inclucung Langston Hugh
es, Waring Cuney, William
Stanley Braithwaite, and Arna
Bontemps. Dr. Farrlson taught
Cuney at Lincoln, where he was
also a schoolmate of Langston
Hughes.
According to Dr. Farrison, the
costs of the items in his collec
tion have ranged from fifty
cents upwards. He regards as
his best bargain a copy of the
first edition of Josiah Henson’s
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
(1858), which he obtained
from a friend in Philadelphia
at a “reasonable price” after
several other ItjooH, dealers hed
quoted priqes of f&^.0(^ ,and
more.
Born the son of farm parents
in 1902 in Orangeburg County,
South Carolina, Dr. Farrison re
ceived his early training in the
public schools of Orangeburg
County and the city system of
Orangeburg. He later attended
the State Agricultural and Me
chanical College at Orangeburg
for high school and normal
training, and from there went
to Lincoln University in ^Pa.
Hfe was graduated magna cum
laude from Lincoln in 1926, re
ceived his master’s degree at
the University of Pennsylvania
in 1928, and received his Ph.D.
dogree at Ohio State Univer
sity in 1936.
Dr. Farrison has written ex
tensively about Negroes and
Negro litetature. Among his
published works on the subject
are: “Negro Scholarship”, The
Crisis, 1934; “The Phonology of
the Illiterate Negro Dialect of
Guilford County, North Caro
lina”, The Ohio State Univer
sity Press, 1937; “On Researches'
in Standard and Illiterate Eng
lish”, The Quarterly Review of
Higher Education Among Ne
groes. 1941; Booker T. Wash
ington; A Study in Educational
Leadership”, The South Atlan
tic Quarterly, July 1942; “The
Negro Population of Guilford
County,, North Carolina, Be
fore the Civil War”, The North
CaroHna Historical Review, 44;
William Wells Brown, Ameri
ca’s First Negro Man of Let
ters”, Phylon, The Atlanta Uni
versity Review of Race and Cul
ture, First Quarter, 1948; Willi
am Wells Brown, Social Re-
forhier”. The Journal of Negro
Education, vtdt; and “A Flight
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