| LC control no. | n 50024551 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3537.P66 |
| Personal name heading | Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939 |
| Birth date | 1875-05-17 |
| Death date | 1939-07-26 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Teaching Criticism Civil rights |
| Affiliation | Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) Columbia University Harcourt Brace & Company National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Profession or occupation | Teachers Literary critics Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Author's Journal of comparative literature, 1903- English Wikipedia website, viewed Sept. 6, 2012 (Joel Elias Spingarn (May 17, 1875--July 26, 1939) was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist; born in New York City; grad. Columbia College in 1895; was professor of comparative literature at Columbia University from 1899 to 1911; In 1919 he was a co-founder of the publishing firm of Harcourt, Brace and Company; served as chairman of the NAACP's board from 1913 to 1919 and was active in other capacities until his death in 1939) The Spingarn Brothers, 2023: page viii (Joel Elias Spingarn) |
| Associated language | eng |
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