A - Miscellaneous
Ablex Publishing Corporation undated
The Academy of American Poets 1977-1986
African American Museum of Fine Arts 1992
B - Miscellaneous
Black Women and Music 1993
Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc. 1991-1994
Brown University 1978-1992
C - Miscellaneous
California Afro-American Museum 1993-1995
Callaloo 1989-1992
Chicago State University 1995
Colby College 1993-1995
Collegiate Press 1994-1998
A Companion to American Thought 1992-1993
D - Miscellaneous
DIA Center for the Arts 1993
Dorn, Bob 1991
Drew University 1991-1992
E - Miscellaneous
Eastern Washington University 1992
Eco Press 1991
Essence 1977-1990
F - Miscellaneous
Flanders, Barbara Kay 1993-1995
G - Miscellaneous
Gale Research Inc. 1987-1995
H - Miscellaneous
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers 1987-1993
Harcourt Brace Trade Publishers 1992-1999
Harvard University 1991-1994
Hatch Developmental Writing 1991-1999
Heyday Books 1998-1999
Hollins College 1993-1995
I - Miscellaneous
International Theatre Festival of Chicago 1992
J - Miscellaneous
James Madison University 1993-1994
Janklow and Nesbit Associates 1988-1994
K - Miscellaneous
L - Miscellaneous
M - Miscellaneous
N - Miscellaneous
Nimrod - University of Tulsa 1977
North County Public Radio 1995
Northern Kentucky University 1989
O - Miscellaneous
The Oxford Mark Twain 1994-1995
Oxford University Press 1994-1995
P - Miscellaneous
Pearce, Roy Harvey 1977-1983
R - Miscellaneous
Rabil Jr., Albert 1989-1992
S - Miscellaneous
San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture 1990-1992
San Diego Union 1985-1994
Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency 1983-1998
Scott Foresman 1994
Scripps College 1987-1992
Sisterfire 1993-1994
Southwest Review 1990
Spelman College 1993
Stanford University 1986-1995
Sweet Briar College 1992-1994
Symphony Space 1991
T - Miscellaneous
U - Miscellaneous
University of California, Berkeley 1990-1995
University of California, Irvine 1986-1991
University of California, Los Angeles 1990-1994
University of California Press 1993
University of California, San Diego 1974-1998
University of California, San Diego. Department of Literature 1975-1996
University of Ghana 1984
University of Illinois Press 1977-1992
University of Maryland, College Park 1993
University of Tennessee 1992-1993
University of Utah 1994-1998
University of Wisconsin 1987-1997
V - Miscellaneous
Viking Penguin Inc. 1989-1992
Virginia Commonwealth University 1993-1994
Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges 1992-1994
W - Miscellaneous
Walters, Wendy W. 1993-1995
Wesleyan University 1994
Wesleyan University Press 1975-1992
Wesling, Donald 1975-1987
William Morrow and Company, Inc. Publishers 1978-1999
Winkler Films 1987-1991
Y - Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
WRITINGS
The Peacock Poems - Drafts 1975, undated
Meanwhile in Another Part of the City... - Drafts
Complete sets of drafts 1992-1998
Part I. In the Inner City 1992
Part I. In the Inner City 1993-1998
Part II. In the District 1992-1997
Part III. The Tree-Line 1993-1994, undated
Part IV. A Quarter of the City 1992
OTHER WRITINGS
1920-1940: American Popular Culture Becomes American
Amah Ponders the Vernacular - Typescripts 1996-1997, and undated
Another Try at Pearl and Amah 1998
Billie's Blues: The Blues Singer as a Cultural Trope 1993
Black Feminist Aesthetics; or, Hearing the Voice of Black Female Authority
Black Women's Contributions to Blues Literature
The Blues Roots of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry
Chronicles of the Last Ice Age, Callaloo 1995
Double Jeopardy: Double Trick, The Status of Black Women at the Present Time 1974
The Dunbar Musical - Script
Eulogy of Rebecca Helen Thierry 1990
In Mamma's Garden
Juneteenth: The Bicentennial Poem 1977
Langston Hughes and the Negro Renaissance - Notes 1985
Liberation Narratives - Essay draft 1997
The Lion's History - Annotated drafts 1996
The Lost Nigger Expedition - Notes
Meditations on History
Miss Brown's Blues - Novel draft
Non-fiction original drafts - In Mamma's Garden, No Rest in My Slumber: Black Speech as Poetic Diction, The Legacy of Lust and License, Two Words on Music: Black Community, Touring Senegal, How Old White Boys Made Good, Don't Let Your Song Curb You! 1991
Oral History Project
Papa Dick and Sister Woman, Reflections on Women in the Fiction of Richard Wright 1982
The Quarters: Group Ethos and Historical Vision. Chapter 3
Regular Reefer - Annotated drafts 1976
The Reinvention of the Past History as Exile in the Third World Novel
Remembering Professor Sterling A. Brown, 1901-1989 1989
Returning to the Blues 1991
Saint James Infirmary - Draft summary
Scenes of Senegal 1989
A Sense of Place: Our Hill in the City
Short Story Collection
Six
Some Implications of Womanist Theory 1986
The Stevie Wonder Up Tight: A Story of the Early Sixties
Struggle in the Progressive Era 1900-1920
Tell Martha Not to Moan
Telling the Teller: Memoir and Story, The Amah Dean Project
The Thierrys of San Diego - Crawl Out Your Window 1987
The Verified Tongue: New and Selected Poems 1992
A Year on the Gold Coast - Notes and typescripts 1966
Reviews by Williams
Anonymous in America: A Review of 'From Leroi Jones to Amiri Baraka' and 'Baraka the Renegade and the Mask' 1980
Beloved by Toni Morrison 1987
Black Detective Tropes in the Movie "Cotton Comes to Harlem" 1997-1998
Blighted Hopes and Broken Dreams, review of Gloria Naylor's "The Men of Brewsters Place" 1998 April 1
Give Birth to Brightness: A Thematic Study in Neo-Black Literature 1972-1973
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany
The Jazz Singer, review of film
Paradise, by Toni Morrison 1998 January 15
"A Review of Onwuchekwa Jamie, Langston Hughes: An Introductory to the Poetry" 1976
Reviews of others' work, various 1983
Reviews of Williams' Work
Some One Sweet Angel Chile 1982
Reviews of Sherley Anne Williams' work 1982-1995
INTERVIEWS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
UC San Diego commencement address 1993 June 13
Endowing Our Future - Speech given at United Church of Christ 1997
Interview questions regarding Dessa Rose 1998-1999
Interview with Jean W. Ross, Gale-Research Company 1987 October 29
Interview with Sherley Williams in San Diego Writers Monthly 1991 June 1
New Vistas in Black Arts, Perpetuating Black Expressive Forms in the 80's
Our Story: History Through Children's Literature, National Museum of American History 1999
Readings and speaking engagements, Notes and contracts 1986-1987
Speeches - Notes 1986
Transcript of readings performed on and broadcast by WBAI/Pacifica radio 1987 October 16
Two Words on Music: Black Community 1992
Working Cotton Book tour 1993-1994
TEACHING MATERIALS
Undergraduate Courses
Literature/English 17, Afro-American Literature, and Introduction to Afro-American Literature
Literature/Writing 100, Beginning Fiction
Literature/General 173, The Black Detective: Contemporary Afro-American Mysteries 1997
Literature/English 183, Black Literature and the Movies - Course material & notes 1993-1994
Literature/General 187, The Bounded Space: Black Community in Black Popular Literature 1995
Literature/Writing 8A, The Craft of Fiction - Notes 1997
Literature/Society 142, Contemporary Black Literature 1975
Contemporary Afro-American Literature - Notes 1991
Contemporary Afro-American Poetry - Notes
Literature/Society 140, Development of Afro-American Literature 1977
Fiction in the Third World, and Literature/Society 22 1976
The Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940
Introduction to Literary Criticism - Notes 1973
Literature and the Blues
Literature/English 182B, Modern Afro-American Literature 1983
Literature/Writing 127, Non-Fiction Workshop: Writing About Literature 1998
Literature/English 182, Origins of Afro-American Literature - Notes
Literature/General 187, The Pan-African Historical Novel 1994
Literature/General 130, Pan-African Literature - Notes 1990
Literature/General 130, Pan-African Women Fiction Writers 1990
English 404: Poetry Writing Workshop/Creative Writing Workshop 1982
Prose Writing and Style undated
Literature/Writing 100, Short Fiction
Literature/Society 21 1977
Literature/Society 144 1975
Literature/English 185: Themes in Afro-American Literature: "The New World" According to Conde & Morrison 1998
English 90, Working Fiction - Stanford University 1995
English 102, Working Fiction 1994
Various lecture notes 1973-1974
Graduate Courses, Workshops and Professorships
Literature/Writing 280, Imaginative Writing: Fiction - Graduate workshops 1993
Black-Jewish Relations Working Group 1994
Statement of Proposed Activity, for teaching at the University of Ghana 1983
Visiting Professorship in India 1995
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Bibliographies 1988
Biographies
Curriculum vitae 1995
Early childhood stories
News articles regarding Williams' life, death and memorial 1977-1999
Photographs and contact sheets 1985
EVENTS
African-Americans and Europe, Film Festival and Theater Program, Paris 1992 February 6-8
African American Women's Conference 1993
Black Women Writers and the 'High Art' of Afro-American Letters - Proposal and outline 1997
Black Women Writers in Dialogue, Yale University 1982 April 16-18
Christian Education Board meeting 1998 March 1
Dessa Rose book signings 1986
The Dividing Line Symposium - The Legacy of the Doctrine of "Separate But Equal" and the Future of Civil Rights in California 1996 October 1
Events - Flyers and announcements 1982-1988
A Panel on Poetry and the Public Sphere: Literature Colloquium 1998 October 13
Performance of Letters From a New England Negro at the Oakland Ensemble Theatre 1985-1986
Requests for readings 1986-1992
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 1998
Seminar information 1992-1996
"Some Implications of Womanist Theory," presented at the African Literature Association Conference 1986 April 17
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
Biography of Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) 1971
Blues discographies
IAH News, Vol. 1, No. 1, Newsletter for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Howard University 1975
Literature research grant materials
Miscellaneous drafts, notes and manuscript reviews
Notes on "The Autobiography of Miss Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines" 1970-1975
"Some Notes on Cane"
Sherley Anne Williams, Live Audience. Almeta Speaks Regular Reefer, KPBS Broadcast 1977 March 26
Sherley Anne Williams memorial 1999 October 21
Sherley Anne Williams reading - Public Works 1993
Sunday Proceedings: Lisa Lowe - Provocateur, "We Wear the Hats Panel"