I have completed a draft of the book. I am most excited about the chapters concerning Harold’s community work and his relationship with the Negro Press. Let’s hope that the book will be published!
Author: DrJinHarlem
A graduate of Smith College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, I am a retired professor of English. My scholarship illuminates lesser known figures of the Harlem Renaissance. I reside in the south of France.
Harold Jackman the collector
The Harold Jackman Countee Cullen Memorial Collection, located at Clark Atlanta University, is Mr. Jackman’s greatest legacy. After giving invaluable assistance to Carl Van Vechten when he established the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at Yale, Harold Jackman decided in 1942 that there should be an archive related to Negro culture at an historically Black institution. The Harold Jackman Collection was born. After Countee Cullen’s death in 1946, the title of the collection was changed to the Countee Cullen Memorial Collection.
Holdings of the collection include correspondence from Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, and Countee Cullen.
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The Best Man: Harold Jackman and the Harlem Renaissance 