Colored memories [electronic resource] : a biographer's quest for the elusive Lester A. Walton / Susan Curtis.
By: Curtis, Susan.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc
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Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008Description: xiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Walton, Lester A., 1882-1965 | African Americans -- Biography | African American journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | Theater critics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies | Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies | Biography -- Research -- United States -- Case studies | New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | United States -- Race relations -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 070.92 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index.
"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.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.