Application for Robert Tallant

Title: Application for Robert Tallant
Description: A 1946 and 1947 application file for Robert Tallant, a free lance writer and former editor of the Louisiana Writers Project. He requested 1,500 dollars in 1946 and 1947 to write a definitive book on the New Orleans Mardi Gras. Handwritten evaluations express some dissatisfaction with Voodoo and negro spiritualism topics, but acknowledge him as a successful writer.
Identifier: fisk_rf_ff_fge_380_3_00003
Subject: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Stevenson, Tallant, Robert, 1909-1957,
Extent: 4 pages
Language: eng
Date: 1942
Format: pdf
Type: Text
Source: Box 380, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, 1917-1948, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.
Publisher: John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.
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