Fellowship application of Pearl Eileene Primus

Item

Title
Fellowship application of Pearl Eileene Primus
Description
An application from Pearl Eileene Primus for a fellowship in Dancing. Ms. Primus was a Dancer at the time of this application. Her plan of work was to interpret James Weldon Johnsons Gods Trombones through the medium of the dance, and to express the poem Go Down Death as adynamic and hypnotic story of people in search of comfort for their grief. The grant was sought from June 1948 through June 1949 . The training in Anthropology would be done under the supervision of Ms. Gene Weltfish at Columbia University.
Identifier
fisk_rf_ff_fge_383_4_00005
Historical Demographic Term
Negro
Subject
Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Primus, Pearl Eileene, 1919-1994, Spencer, Kenneth, 1911-1964,
Extent
4 pages
Language
eng
Date
1947/1949
Format
pdf
Type
Text
Source
Box 383, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, 1917-1948, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.
Publisher
John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.
Rights
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Fellowship Fund Section
Fellowship General
Item sets
Fellowship Fund