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)