Professor Hamilton's Diary: March 15, 1935
He gets good news about his dissertation; 'De Lawd' goes home to the green pastures
It was a red letter day for Professor Hamilton. He received a letter from his dissertation advisor that he was submitting it to be published by the New York State Historical Association. Money would need to be raised to underwrite the cost but already $250 had been pledged.
I’ll tell you more about his dissertation as his work progresses, but I have read a copy and will say now that it is a marvel of dogged scholarship about the post-Revolutionary War rural printers and newspaper publishers in New York state.
The front page of the Reading Times today was dominated by a large picture and story about the passing of the noted African American actor Richard Berry Harrison. Paid subscribers can read on about this remarkable man, who mesmerized audiences in the Broadway production of The Green Pastures in his role as De Lawd. The 1932 photo of Harrison by Doris Ullman is part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, accessed via Wikimedia Commons.
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