Research Catalog

Title

Errold D. Collymore papers, 1928-1999 (bulk 1929-1971).

Author

Collymore, Errold, 1892-1972.

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Additional Authors

• Delany, Hubert T.
• Fairley, James Alexander.
• Jenkins, Philip Merriman, 1898-1988.
• King, Woodie, Jr., 1937-
• Meyer, Max, 1946-
• Tate, DuDonna E. (DuDonna Elizabeth), 1916-2004.
• White, Walter.
• Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981.

Description

4.8 lin. ft. (13 boxes)

Summary

This collection consists of correspondence, reports, speeches, minutes, notes, clippings and other material documenting Collymore's activities at the vanguard of civil rights in Westchester County, New York. There are files for all of the major organizations that Collymore was associated and held office with, among them: NAACP (White Plains Branch), including the nation-wide anti-lynching campaign that he worked on; the Colored Republicans Committee containing information on Black Republican activities and politics in Westchester County; the YMCA-White Plains; and White Plains Community Church (which he and his family integrated in 1927). There are also correspondence and miscellaneous documents that provide a glimpse into his personal and professional lives.

Subjects

• African American theater
• African American dentists
• Collymore, Cynthia
• United Colored Republican Clubs (White Plains, N.Y.)
• Theater programs
• Civil rights
• United States > Federal Works Agency
• African Americans in dentistry
• Collymore, Magdalene Lewis
• Collymore, Johnnie Nazarene Ewing
• Collymore, Errold Duncan Jr
• African Americans > Political activity
• Emigration and immigration
• World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American
• White Plains Urban League
• Collymore, Errold, 1892-1972
• Collymore, Errold Duncan
• Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.)
• Manuscripts
• American Unitarian Association
• Radio scripts
• Howard University
• Community Unitarian Church (White Plains, N.Y.)
• African Americans in the performing arts
• National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
• Black author
• African American theater > New York (State) > New York
• Families, Black
• Barbados > Social life and customs
• Collymore, James
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• White Plains YMCA
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Heads of state > Caribbean Area
• Caribbean Americans
• Amateur theater

Genre/Form

• Radio scripts.
• Manuscripts.
• Theater programs.

Source (note)

• James L. Collymore

Biography (note)

• Born in Barbados, Errold Collymore immigrated to the United States in 1912 and graduated from Howard University's dental school eleven years later. His subsequent struggle to rent an office in White Plains, New York compelled him into a life of civil rights activism which saw him organize a local NAACP chapter and become chairman of Westchester County's United Colored Republican Clubs. He was also involved with the YMCA and served on a number of committees concerned with housing equality and standards for Westchester County's Black residents. Attending to equality in the religious realm as well, Collymore and his family integrated the White Plains Community Church when they joined its congregation in 1927.

Call Number

Sc MG 888

OCLC

883419690

Author

Collymore, Errold, 1892-1972.

Title

Errold D. Collymore papers, 1928-1999 (bulk 1929-1971).

Biography

Born in Barbados, Errold Collymore immigrated to the United States in 1912 and graduated from Howard University's dental school eleven years later. His subsequent struggle to rent an office in White Plains, New York compelled him into a life of civil rights activism which saw him organize a local NAACP chapter and become chairman of Westchester County's United Colored Republican Clubs. He was also involved with the YMCA and served on a number of committees concerned with housing equality and standards for Westchester County's Black residents. Attending to equality in the religious realm as well, Collymore and his family integrated the White Plains Community Church when they joined its congregation in 1927.

Source

James L. Collymore Gift July 2013 SCM 13-36

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Delany, Hubert T.

Fairley, James Alexander.

Jenkins, Philip Merriman, 1898-1988.

King, Woodie, Jr., 1937-

Meyer, Max, 1946-

Tate, DuDonna E. (DuDonna Elizabeth), 1916-2004.

White, Walter.

Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 888