University of Virginia Library

558a. GEORGE SAMUEL SCHUYLER COLLECTION

3 items, ca. 1932, 1934, ca. 1966
Manuscript by African-American writer and journalist George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977), on Dr. Robert Weaver (b. 1907) and the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Weaver was the first black to serve in the cabinet of a US president. Also present is a small memorandum book, 1932, containing Schuyler's notes on cannibalism and lycanthropy, "When Man Eats Man," and a blank memorandum book "Plots / Articles, Sketches,"1934.
(Barrett Library Acc. 11071)