"Contemporary Life" in <em>The Florida Negro</em>
The section "Contemporary Life" found on pp. 18-21 of the manuscript copy of <a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/346094" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Florida Negro</em></a> <span>housed in the </span><span><span>State Archives of Florida (S1585) and available through the Florida Memory website of the State Library and Archives of Florida. <br /><br />This text mentions many of the individuals that figure in Muse's short biographies, including<span class="s1"> Zora Neale Hurston (see <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/49" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zora Neale Hurston</a>), </span></span></span>James Weldon Johnson, John <span><span class="s1">Rosamond Johnson</span></span>, and T. Thomas Fortune (see <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/70" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Weldon Johnson</a> and <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/71" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Fortune and James Weldon Johnson</a>). It also appears to allude to, without mentioning by name, the African American newspapers that Muse profiles (see <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/56" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Jacksonville Journal</em>, "Star Edition,"</a> <em><a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/55" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Jacksonville Advocate</a>, <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/54" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida Times-Union, </a></em><a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/54" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Star Edition,"</a> and <em><a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/53" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tattler</a></em>).
Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida
State Archives of Florida, manuscript of The Florida Negro, S1585
The Viola Muse Digital Edition, University of North Florida
c.1938
Savannah Almond (transcription, encoding, and edition)
Laura Heffernan (edition)
Tru Leverette (edition)
Clayton McCarl (edition)
Typed, four pages
EN
Unpublished typescript of historical monograph
fn-18-21
20th Century Florida
Thomas Fortune and James Weldon Johnson
African American writers of Jacksonville
<p>Biographical information on Thomas Fortune and James Weldon Johnson, with a discussion of "Lift Every Voice and Sing."</p>
<p>An author by the surname Richardson created this document, and Viola Muse added a few handwritten notes. Richardson is possibly the Federal Writers' Project fieldworker Martin Richardson (see, for instance, <a href="https://unfdhi.org/violamuse-editions/content/works-cited.xml#wpa-sn-vol3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Works Progress Administration Federal Writers’ Project, <em>Slave Narratives</em>, vol. 3,</a> p. 229). Another individual by that surname mentioned in this collection is Benjamin A. Richardson, the subject of three documents in the collection: <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin A. Richardson (1 of 3)</a>, <span><a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin A. Richardson (2 of 3)</a>, and <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/28" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin A. Richardson (3 of 3)</a>. Benjamin A. Richardson's education background suggests he could have been the author. However, the header on the document—which resembles the headers Muse herself included on many documents—may point to Martin Richardson as the more likely author.</span></p>
<p>Material from this document perhaps informed the section "Contemporary Life" found on pp. 18-21 of the manuscript copy of <em>The Florida </em><em>Negro</em> housed in the State Archives of Florida (S1585). See <a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Contemporary Life" in <em>The Florida Negro</em></a> (pp. 20-21).</p>
Richardson
Viola Muse
Jacksonville Historical Society, Viola Muse Collection, Folder 11, Item 3
The Viola Muse Digital Edition, University of North Florida
1936-1940
Melinda Peacock (document scanning)
Zariah Grant (transcription)
Amelia Dixon (encoding and edition)
Laura Heffernan (edition)
Tru Leverette (edition)
Clayton McCarl (edition)
Made public online with the permission of the Jacksonville Historical Society
<a href="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/70">James Weldon Johnson</a>
Typed with handwritten additions, three pages
EN
Biographical notes
Historical notes
jhs-195918-11-03
19th Century Florida
20th Century Florida