| LC control no. | n 50018733 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6005.U6 |
| Personal name heading | Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 |
| Variant(s) | Fairbairn, Nancy Cunard, 1896-1965 |
| Birth date | 1896-03-10 |
| Death date | 1965-03-16 |
| Field of activity | Black nationalism |
| Affiliation | Hours Press |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists |
| Found in | Her Negro anthology ... 1934. Oxford Companion to Black British History, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cunard, Nancy; journalist, civil liberties activist, black nationalist; born 10 March 1896; became a well-known figure in the London modernist movement and a controversial advocate of black emancipation in the United States and Africa (1930s); had a publishing company, the Hours Press; travelled to America to make contact with black intellectuals (1931); reported from Geneva on the League of Nations debates on Abyssinia; worked in Spain, covering the Civil War for Associated Negro Press, Manchester Guardian, Sylvia Pankhurst's New Times and Ethiopian News (late 1930s); a trip to the Caribbean led to her internment on Ellis Island (1938); her wartime activities included a spell in London, translating for the Free French and co-writing The White Man's Duty; died 16 March 1965) |
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