mss0099_0853.xml Finding aid for Shine On, Eternal Light : hymncirca 1925-1930 University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
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Date encoded (2009 November 23) Finding aid encoded 2009 November 23 English Shine On, Eternal Light : hymncirca 1925-1930 Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
 Ford, Arnold Josiah, 1877-1935. Shine On, Eternal Light : a poem in seven stanzas [hymn]circa 1925-1930 MSS 099, F853 1 item (1 p.) This original mimeographed quarto sheet of music is a hymn by Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford, "Shine On, Eternal Light," circa 1925-1930. Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

Purchase, 2004.

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 Citation

MSS 099, F853, Arnold Josiah Ford, Shine On, Eternal Light : hymn, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

 Shelving Summary Box 59, F853: Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 manuscript boxes Processing

Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, November 2009.

 Biographical Note

Born in Barbados, Arnold Josiah Ford was one of the first black rabbis in the United States and an early leader of black Judaism in America. He was also the founder of the Beth B'nai Abraham Congregation at 29 West 131st Street in Harlem, New York City.

Ford was a musical director of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association and he wrote many of the pieces in The Universal Ethiopian Hymnal.

"Arnold Josiah Ford." Religious Leaders of America, 2nd ed. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed November 2009). "Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association." http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org (accessed November 2009).

 Scope and Content Note

This original mimeographed quarto sheet of music is a hymn by Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford, "Shine On, Eternal Light," circa 1925-1930. This hymn was written specifically for the Universal Negro Improvement Association and frequently was sung at UNIA meetings.

 Selected Search Terms Corporate NamesUniversal Negro Improvement Association--20th century--Sources. Topical Terms Hymns, English--Texts. Form/Genre Terms Hymns. Related Materials in this Repository

This item forms part of MSS 099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

 Detailed Contents List 59 F853 Shine On, Eternal Light : hymncirca 1925-1930