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Author:

Curtis, Susan, 1956-

Title:

Colored memories : a biographer's quest for the elusive Lester A. Walton / Susan Curtis.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Walton, Lester A.,--1882-1965.
African Americans--Biography.
African American journalists--New York--New York--Biography.
Theater critics--New York--New York--Biography.
African Americans--New York--New York--Intellectual life--20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans--Race identity--Case studies.
Memory--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
United States--Race relations--Case studies.
Biography--Research--United States--Case studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index. Donated by the History Club Book-A-Thon in honor of Susan Curtis, Graceland University, 2008.

Summary:

"Explores the life of African American Lester A. Walton whose illustrious career spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century but who is now forgotten. Curtis explores the failure of collective memory and America's obsession with race as she explains how she discovered Walton and his place in history"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0826217869 (alk. paper)
9780826217868 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008006204

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)