Guide to the J. Herman Blake Papers
Elizabeth Saetern, Irene Reti, Kate Dundon
University of California, Santa Cruz
2019
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz 95064
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: J. Herman Blake papers
Creator:
Blake, J. Herman
Identifier/Call Number: MS.415
Physical Description:
12 Linear Feet
(13 boxes)
Physical Description:
0.29 GB
(11 digital files)
Date (inclusive): 1949-2018
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research. Audiovisual media is unavailable until reformatted.
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Preferred Citation
J. Herman Blake papers. MS 415. Special Collections and Archives, University Library,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Biographical / Historical
John Herman Blake was born in Mount Vernon, New York on March 15, 1934. After serving in
the U.S. Army during the Korean War, J. Herman Blake earned his B.A. degree in sociology
from New York University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of
California at Berkeley. In 1966, Blake was recruited by Founding Chancellor Dean McHenry to
teach sociology at Cowell College at the newly opened University of California, Santa Cruz.
He became the first African American on the University of California Santa Cruz faculty and
remained at UCSC for eighteen years. Dr. Blake is beloved at UCSC, both as a charismatic,
rigorous, and brilliant teacher/mentor and as the visionary leader who founded UCSC's
seventh college, Oakes, and served as its first provost. Oakes College emerged from a larger
history of grassroots education in transformational politics in the United States centered
in the Citizenship School Movement in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and the Highlander
Folk School in Appalachia.
After leaving UC Santa Cruz, Blake served as the President of Tougaloo College until 1987;
held positions at Swarthmore College; served as the Vice Chancellor at Indiana University;
and was the Director of African American Studies at Iowa State University. In 2008, the
Medical University of South Carolina appointed Blake as the first Humanities Scholar in
Residence. He retired from the Medical University of South Carolina in December of 2014.
Throughout his career, Dr. Blake has focused on students of color in higher education, urban
militants in the African American community, and social change and community development in
rural and urban African American communities. His publications include over fifty
full-length contributions and a book, the autobiography of Huey P. Newton,
Revolutionary Suicide. He has been awarded six honorary degrees and two
presidential medals.
Professor Blake has devoted much of his life to preserving Gullah culture. He was the
founding director of the Sea Islands Institute at the University of South Carolina,
Beaufort, and formerly served as the Executive Director of the Gullah Geechee Cultural
Heritage Corridor.
Content Description
Collection includes writings, speeches, correspondence, photographs, administrative
records, research files, and audio recordings that document Blake's involvement in the
founding of Oakes College at UC Santa Cruz and his research on marginalized students in
higher education and the South Carolina Sea Islands.
Related Materials
J. Herman Blake and Emily L. Moore papers (Manuscript Collection No. 1357) at Emory
University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Faculty papers
Photographs
Series 1: Biographical
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Box 1, Folder 2
Undergraduate Records
1955-1959
Box 1, Folder 3
The Panel of Americans
1958-1959
Box 1, Folder 4
Newspaper Articles
1958-1969
Box 1, Folder 5
Graduate School Selection Ticket of Admission, Semester Report
1959-1963
Box 1, Folder 6
Programs, Presentations
1959-1968
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 1, Folder 7
Acceptance Letters
1960-1963
Box 1, Folder 8
"Soothsayer" Anthony and Cleopatra photographs
1963
Box 1, Folder 9
Graduate School
1960-1967
Box 1, Folder 10
Peace Corps Training Project India 7
1964
Box 1, Folder 11
Speech: Thoughts on Organizing the Poor
1966 June
Box 1, Folder 12
Awards, University of California - Berkeley Transcripts
1966-1999
Box 1, Folder 13
Harvard IEM Award, Conferences and Presentations on Survival of Black People
and Stats in the City
1967, 1979
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 1, Folder 14
Original Speech Delivered by James Foreman
1969 September
Box 1, Folder 15
Publications, Brochure, News Clippings on Presentations
1974-1993
Box 1, Folder 16
Edward Carrillo drawing of Blake
1983
Box 1, Folder 17
Rewards, Certificate of Appreciation, Honorary Degree
1985-2018
Box 1, Folder 18
Photograph of Blake and Nancy Reagan
1987
Box 1, Folder 19
Honorary Degree, California School of Professional Psychology
1988-1991
Box 1, Folder 20
Honorary Degree, St. Lawrence University
1993
Box 1, Folder 21
Honorary Degree University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1994
Box 1, Folder 22
Honorary degree photographs
1993-1994
Box 1, Folder 23
Memorial of Orville B. Luster, "How Things Look to Us" report
2005
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 1, Folder 24
Introduction to MUSC President R. Greenberg
undated
Box 1, Folder 25
Revolutionary Memorial Services pamphlet for George Jackson, Field Marshall,
Black Panther Party
undated
Box 1, Folder 26
Photographs: Dr. Saint Clair Drake with Blake
undated
Box 1, Folder 27
Photographs: The Education Center of North Richmond
undated
Box 1, Folder 28
Photographs: miscellaneous Blake
1987, undated
Box 13, Folder Unknown
Awards, "Toward Academic Excellence" event poster
1984-1987
Series 2: Correspondence and Subject Files
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 1, Folder 30
Academic/Scholarly Correspondence (1 of 2)
1962-1975
Box 1, Folder 31
Academic/Scholarly Correspondence (2 of 2)
1962-1975
Box 1, Folder 32
Astin, Alexander W.
1992-1996
Box 2, Folder 39
Baldwin, James Tribute to
undated
Box 1, Folder 33
Barber, Edwin: W.W. Norton and Company
1989
Box 1, Folder 34
Bennett, Lerone: Indiana University
1993-1995
Box 1, Folder 35
Blake, Donald F.: Student Letters
1980-1981
Box 1, Folder 36
Blauner, Robert
1994-1997
Box 1, Folder 37
Blumer, Herbery: Robert G. McGuire Memorial
1963 February
Box 1, Folder 38
"Born Since Peace Declare", "Undergraduate Education for a Diverse Student
Body", Death of Alex Haley and Asa Hilliard
1983-1992
Box 1, Folder 39
Brooks, Gwendolyn
1991-1994
Box 1, Folder 40
Brown, Milicent E.
1993-1994
Box 1, Folder 41
Brown, Milicent: Interview with Herbert Fielding
1993 July
Box 1, Folder 42
Campos, Louie
2011-2012
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 1, Folder 44
Cayton, Horace R.
1966-1970
Box 1, Folder 45
Chater, Shirley S.: Commissioner of Social Security
1996
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 1, Folder 46
Chickering, Arthur
1995-1997
Box 1, Folder 47
Cleaver, Eldridge
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 48
Coleman, Lerita M.
1993-1994
Box 1, Folder 49
Confirmation Copy of Message, Blake's Condolences
1985
Box 1, Folder 50
Daufuskie Letters
1982-1983
Box 1, Folder 51
Dimaio, Debra: Oprah Winfrey Show
undated
Box 1, Folder 52
Ehrlich, Thomas: President of Indiana University
1993
Box 1, Folder 53
Engelharat, Sara L.
1980 December
Box 1, Folder 55
Evans, Mari: Daufuskie Island Poems 1973-1978
1981
Box 1, Folder 56
Geisel, Audrey: Dr. Seuss Enterprises
1993 August
Box 1, Folder 57
Gordon C. Dewey
1960 August
Box 1, Folder 58
Greenwood, MRC: University of California, Santa Cruz Chancellor
1998
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 1, Folder 59
Gutman, Herb
1974 December
Box 1, Folder 60
Guyer, David and Carol Guyer
1983-1995
Box 1, Folder 61
Haley, Alex: Kinte Library Project
1975 November
Box 1, Folder 62
Haley, Alex: Letters to Blake
1971 September
Box 1, Folder 63
Haley, Alex: Memorial-Tribute
1992
Box 1, Folder 64
Haley, Alex: Personal Letters-Telegram
1970-1991
Box 1, Folder 65
Haley, Alex: Pictures and Dedication of Oakes College
undated
Box 1, Folder 66
Haley, Alex: Tribute
1992
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 1, Folder 67
Haley, Alex: Tribute, Auction
1992
Box 1, Folder 68
Hate Mail, Congratulatory
1967-1968
Box 1, Folder 69
Hate Mail, Congratulatory, Questions
1967-1968
Box 1, Folder 70
Healey, Donna: Extramural Educational and Community Services Program
Report
1972-1973
Box 1, Folder 71
Heath, Shirley B.: Stanford University
1999
Box 2, Folder 1
Herman Blake's Inauguration (1 of 2)
1985
Box 2, Folder 2
Herman Blake's Inauguration (2 of 2)
1985
Box 2, Folder 3
Horace, Charles: President of the African Culture Class in Soledad,
California
1966
Box 2, Folder 5
Jones, Marion D.: Payments
1976
Box 2, Folder 6
Journal of Negro Education TRIO Programs, Guest Editor
1997-1998
Box 2, Folder 7
Kawaoka, Maureen I.
1994-1997
Box 2, Folder 9
Kaiser Foundation Minorities in the Health Professions - Report, Consultant -
J Herman Blake
1985-1987
Box 2, Folder 11
Lang, Eugene M.
2004 September
Box 2, Folder 12
Ledet, Janina: Poetry, Student at University of California, Santa
Cruz
1977
Box 2, Folder 14
Lilly Endowment : Consultant (Education Division) Black Colleges -
Evaluation
1988-1989
Box 2, Folder 15
Lilly Endowment Workshop
1991
Box 2, Folder 16
Limerick, Patricia
1995 May
Box 2, Folder 18
Massiah, Louis: Producer of "Eyes on the Prize"
1989 July
Box 2, Folder 19
McGuire, Robert G. III, "Stream of Consciousness"
undated
Box 2, Folder 20
McHenry, Dean E.
1972-1997
Box 2, Folder 21
Melson, Gloria B.: Poetry, Student at Mills College
1970
Box 2, Folder 22
Minority Achievement Program Report of Association of American
Colleges
1984-1985
Box 2, Folder 25
Morgan, Virginia B.: Letter - Edisto Island Self Development of People
Incorporated
1992
Box 2, Folder 26
Nicholas, Patricia C.
1981
Box 2, Folder 27
Pifer, Allen: President of Carnegie Corporation
undated
Box 2, Folder 29
Rickford, John R.
1986-1997
Box 2, Folder 30
Riesman, David: Harvard University
1983
Box 2, Folder 31
Robinson, Bernice: "Growing Up"
undated
Box 2, Folder 32
Sinsheimer, Robert: Former Chancellor of University of California, Santa
Cruz
1983
Box 2, Folder 34
Smith, Roger Guenveur
1997
Box 2, Folder 35
Stanford/UCSC: Annuity/Acquisitions
2015
Box 2, Folder 36
Swarthmore College, "My Assimilation in the North as a Southern Black
Female"
1989
Box 2, Folder 37
Sweeney, Jane
1982
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 2, Folder 40
Warren, Rueben C.: Associate Director for Minority Health
1993
Box 2, Folder 41
Wilkerson, Margaret B.
1990-1994
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 2, Folder 42
Wright, Stephan J.: President of Fisk University
1959-1987
Series 3: Writings
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Box 2, Folder 44
Concluding Thoughts on The Panel of Americans, Negro Church
1959
Box 2, Folder 45
Birth Control Policy in Japan
1959 January
Box 2, Folder 46
Changing Family Life in New Guinea
1959 May
Box 2, Folder 47
Rural-Urban Fertility in Mexico
1960
Box 2, Folder 48
Rural-Urban Fertility in Mexico (graded)
1960
Box 2, Folder 49
College Professors and Loyalty Oaths
1961 May
Box 2, Folder 50
Urban Growth in Mexico 1930-1960
1962 January
Box 2, Folder 51
The Family in Mexico
1962 January
Box 2, Folder 52
The Family in Mexico (graded)
1962 January
Box 2, Folder 53
Social Structure and Fertility
1962 June
Box 2, Folder 54
The Mexican Revolution of 1910
1962 October
Box 2, Folder 55
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 (graded)
1962 October
Box 2, Folder 56
Graduate Paper: The Blackways of Kent, A Critique
1962 November
Box 2, Folder 57
Socialization and Negro Personality
1963 January
Box 2, Folder 58
Talcott Parsons' Theory of Value-Orientations (graded)
1963 January
Box 2, Folder 59
Collective Behavior and Social Change
1963 June
Box 2, Folder 60
Collective Behavior and Social Change (graded)
1963 June
Box 2, Folder 61
Value Orientations and Social Change
1964 January
Box 2, Folder 62
Value Orientations and Social Change (graded)
1964 January
Box 2, Folder 63
Application for Appointment as a Kent Fellow
1964
Box 2, Folder 64
Graduate Writings: Infant Mortality and Child-Women Ratio in Urban
Mexico
1964 December
Box 2, Folder 66
Dissertation Instructions/Agreements
1971
Box 2, Folder 67
Doctoral Dissertation (1 of 2)
undated
Box 2, Folder 68
Doctoral Dissertation (2 of 2)
undated
Box 3, Folder 1
Papers Written for Speeches (1 of 2)
1960s
Box 3, Folder 2
Papers Written for Speeches (2 of 2)
1960s
Box 3, Folder 3
Negro Social Movement
1965
Box 3, Folder 4
Black Nationalism in America
1965 August
Box 3, Folder 5
"They Say It's Goin' Aroun'"
1966 September
Box 3, Folder 6
Speeches and Presentations
1966-1990
Box 3, Folder 7
"The Black University and its Community"
1968 January
Box 3, Folder 8
"In Memory of Our Departed Brother and Leader: Martin Luther King
Jr."
1968 April
Box 3, Folder 13
"Goin' Down Slow"
1969 September
Box 3, Folder 14
Citizenship Participation Democracy and Social Change
1969 December
Box 3, Folder 15
"Horace Roscoe Cayton, Jr.: Soul Most Precious in a Land Most
Strange"
1970 February
Box 3, Folder 16
Interview with James Carr
1970 June
Box 3, Folder 17
James Carr: "Thoughts Upon Release From Seven Years of
Incarceration"
1970 July
Box 3, Folder 18
"Beyond Affirmative Action"
1977
Box 3, Folder 19
"Doctors Can't Do Me No Good"
1977 May
Box 3, Folder 20
"Through the Hourglass"
1980
Box 3, Folder 21
"Day-Clean" on Daufuskie
1980 October
Box 3, Folder 22
"The Day the Old Men Stumbled"
1980 December
Box 3, Folder 23
"A Tribute to Septima Poinsette Clark, The Promise of Generations",
Interview
1980-1981
Box 3, Folder 25
Review of Making Ends Meet
1981
Box 3, Folder 27
Demographic Change and Curriculum "New" Students in Higher
Education
1982 August
Box 3, Folder 28
Beyond Civility: Human Relations and the Academy
1982 November
Box 3, Folder 29
Presentations/Speeches
1985-1990
Box 3, Folder 30
Black Colleges: A National Resource Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Fall '86
1986
Box 3, Folder 31
"The Black College and the Church in the New Coming Age"
1986 November
Box 3, Folder 32
"Black Colleges: A National Resource", Tougaloo News, "Closer Look at Student
Retention"
1986-2001
Box 3, Folder 33
Creating Climates of Excellence with Diverse Students
1988 January
Box 3, Folder 34
The Challenge of Diversity
1989
Box 3, Folder 35
Africans in Afro-America
1989 October
Box 3, Folder 36
"Access + Quality = Equity, The Iupui Equation"
1989 October
Box 3, Folder 37
Africans in Afro-America: Journal of Negro History
1989-1998
Box 3, Folder 38
Creating Community: Goals and Challenges
1990 March
Box 3, Folder 39
Letter from Bill May about copies of "Ethics in Higher Education", "The
Challenges of Diversity"
1990
Box 3, Folder 40
Manchester Commencement
1991
Box 3, Folder 41
77th Annual Meeting of the Association of American College "Campus Values and
the New Diversity"
1991 January
Box 3, Folder 42
"Diversity and Community: The Role of Liberal Education"
1991 May
Box 3, Folder 43
Letter from Clarence, Rotary Club of Indianapolis Luncheon
1991-1992
Box 3, Folder 44
Lilly Endowment Workshop on the Liberal Arts
1993 June
Box 3, Folder 45
Warriors: African-American Women
1994 May
Box 3, Folder 47
Contract. "Lilacs" - Our Mother's Spirits: Death of Mothers and the Grief of
Men
1997
Box 3, Folder 48
Speech: Northwest United Methodist Church
1997 October
Box 3, Folder 49
Agenda with Elder Rush, David Fredricks, and Arthur Cribbs
1998
Box 3, Folder 50
Journal of Negro Education, Guest Editor's comments
1998
Box 3, Folder 51
A Celebration of the Life of Dean McHenry, Remarks by Blake, "Bicoastal
Reflection"
1998, 2015
Box 3, Folder 52
The Color Line: The Enduring Challenge in Higher Education
circa 1999
Box 3, Folder 53
Joint Presentations: Black and Moore
2000-2002
Box 3, Folder 54
The Red Top Community Johns Island, South Carolina
2006 May
Box 3, Folder 55
Author's Proof - "The Caged Panther: Prison Years of Huey P.
Newton"
2011
Box 3, Folder 56
Tribute to Andrew Billingsley: Howard University
2016
Box 3, Folder 57
Beyond Equity in the 80s
undated
Box 3, Folder 58
The Challenge of Our Past, The Promise of Our Future
undated
Box 3, Folder 59
Modernization and Culture
undated
Box 3, Folder 61
Draft: Idea - Emotion
undated
Box 3, Folder 62
The Black Experience in the United States of America
undated
Box 3, Folder 63
Martin Luther King: Reflections on a Dreamer
undated
Box 3, Folder 64
Higher Learning and the Hood
undated
Box 3, Folder 65
Harlem: The Future as Tragedy
undated
Box 3, Folder 66
The Negative Self Image
undated
Box 3, Folder 67
Black Colleges: Ports of Entry-Gateways to Success
undated
Box 3, Folder 68
untitled (service learning, higher education, community)
undated
Series 4: Research
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Some files may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Technical limitations
may hinder the Library's ability to provide access to some digital files. Access to
digital files on original carriers is prohibited; users must request to view access
copies. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access to digital
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Subseries 1: Kinte Library Project
Arrangement
Arranged in order original to creator.
Scope and Contents
Includes files on the Kinte Library Project, a collaboration between Blake and author
Alex Haley to preserve historic records and oral histories about life on the Sea
Islands of South Carolina.
Box 4, Folder 1
Oral History - USA Workshop Background Materials Appendix I
1974 June
Box 4, Folder 2
Kinte Library Project Oral History Workshop
1974 June
Physical Description: Open reel audiotape
Box 9, Folder 4
Presentation - Oral History, USA Kinte Library to Carnegie Corporation
Keynote
1974 January
Box 4, Folder 3
Oral History - USA Research Workshop, Raleigh, North Carolina
1974 June
Box 4, Folder 4
The Kinte Foundation (with copy and final report, letters)
1976
Box 4, Folder 5
Oral History - USA Research Workshop Pen Community Services, South
Carolina
1974
Box 4, Folder 6
Oral History USA - Kinte Proposal Editing Notes
undated
Box 4, Folder 7
Oral History - USA Correspondence Kinte Library Project
1974
Box 4, Folder 8
Oral History Project Reports
1974
Box 4, Folder 9
Leonard Jeffries, City College
undated
Box 4, Folder 10
Courtney Brown
1974
Scope and Contents
Includes audiocassette.
Box 4, Folder 12
Gift of Chaos, Unitarian Fellowship, Blackside Incorporated, Letter from
Michigan State University, "Generations of Warriors"
1965-1987
Box 4, Folder 13
Oral History - USA, Final Report
1976
Box 4, Folder 14
Final Phases - Oral History Project
1974
Box 4, Folder 15
Kinte Library Project Final Report to the Carnegie Corporation
1982
Box 4, Folder 16
Kinte library Project, Alex Haley
1974, 1988
Box 4, Folder 17
Tribute to Alex Haley
1992 February
Box 4, Folder 18
Kinte Library Project
1973-1974
Box 4, Folder 19
Alex Haley Photos/Tapes, Kinte Library Project
1973, 1976
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs and audiocassette.
Box 4, Folder 20
Letters - Kinte Library Project
1973
Box 4, Folder 21
Kinte Library Project Correspondence San Jose State University
1972-1975
Box 4, Folder 23
Letters about Kinte Library Project
1973-1976
Box 4, Folder 24
Letters about financial information on Kinte Library Project
1973-1975
Box 4, Folder 25
Staff Correspondence: Alex Haley
1972-1974
Box 4, Folder 26
Kinte Library Project: Overseas Survey Report
1973-1992
Box 5, Folder 1
Oral History Report
1973-1974
Box 5, Folder 2
Kinte Library Oral History
undated
Box 5, Folder 3
A Linguist Study of the English Used by New Orleans Speakers of
Creole
1969 August
Box 5, Folder 4
Kinte Library Project: Barker-Barbarin Family
1973-1974
Box 5, Folder 5
Kinte Library Project: General
1973
Box 5, Folder 6
Kinte Final Report: Black Societies' Contribution to the Survival and
Continuity of Afro American Culture
1974 October
Box 5, Folder 7
Kinte Library Project: "Lookin' For That Rock"
undated
Box 5, Folder 8
Financial Reports
1984-1989
Box 5, Folder 9
Dov Dublin: Oral History of the Life of Isaac Brown
undated
Box 5, Folder 11
Richard Tolliver
1972-1973
Box 5, Folder 12
The Family in New England
1974 October
Box 5, Folder 15
Kinte Library Project: Correspondence
1975
Box 5, Folder 16
Kinte Library Project: Letters, Correspondence
1975-1976
Box 5, Folder 17
Kinte Library Project: Procedures/Guidelines/Budget, Carnegie
Corporation
1972-1974
Box 5, Folder 18
Kinte Library Project: Administrative Staff, General
Correspondence
1973-1974
Box 5, Folder 19
Draft: Search for the Black Family in America Part 1 (1 of 2)
1976
Box 5, Folder 20
Draft: Search for the Black Family in America Part 1 (2 of 2)
1976
Box 5, Folder 21
Search for the Black Family Part 2 Civil War to 20th Century
undated
Box 5, Folder 22
Manuscript Collection in the Amistad Research Center
1974 January
Box 5, Folder 23
Unidentified typescript (1 of 2)
undated
Box 5, Folder 24
Unidentified typescript (2 of 2)
undated
Box 6, Folder 1
Kinte Library Project: Aldridge Family, Amistad Research Center, A. Briscoe
Koger
1973
Box 6, Folder 2
Commercial Duplicating Services Receipt, Preservation of Weeksville and
Bedford, Akan Civilization
undated
Box 6, Folder 3
Manding Case Studies
undated
Box 6, Folder 4
Manding Civilization: Bakri Sidibe, Comara Laye, and Ivan
Versertima
undated
Box 6, Folder 5
Kinte Report: Part 1
undated
Box 6, Folder 6
Brazil: Asa Davis
undated
Box 6, Folder 8
Kinte Library Project: Jamaica
undated
Box 6, Folder 9
Kinte Library Project: New York
1973-1974
Box 6, Folder 10
Diane Lewis and Eleanor Ramsey
1973-1974
Box 6, Folder 11
The Generations of Andrew Thompson and Silver Williamson
1972
Box 6, Folder 13
The Collected Papers of Solomon James Johnson
1973
Box 6, Folder 14
Noble Ancestry and Descendants (Spaulding Family)
1949
Box 6, Folder 15
The Exiles: Life and Culture in a Gullah Community
1973
Box 9, Folder 5
The Exiles, J. Herman Blake
1974
Subseries 2: Daufuskie Island
Conditions Governing Access
Digital files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading
room. Some files may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Technical
limitations may hinder the Library's ability to provide access to some digital files.
Access to digital files on original carriers is prohibited; users must request to view
access copies. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access
to digital files.
Scope and Contents
Includes files on Blake's long-term research on the history and culture of the Sea
Islands, particularly Daufuskie Island.
Arrangement
Arranged in order original to creator.
Box 6, Folder 16
Original Drafts: Daufuskie Islands, South Carolina
1968-1983
Box 6, Folder 17
Daufuskie: Frank Smith
1970
Box 6, Folder 18
The Gullah Community, Interview with Sam Gadsen, Mina Shaughnessy
Scholarship Application, Resume
1971-2011
Box 6, Folder 19
Daufuskie Project - Partial Interviews
1972
Box 6, Folder 20
Interviews: Mrs. Sarah Grant
1973 April
Box 6, Folder 21
Sea Islands as a Cultural Resource
1974
Box 6, Folder 23
Daufuskie: Property Letters
1980-1981
Box 6, Folder 24
Daufuskie Essays
1980-1983
Box 6, Folder 25
Daufuskie Clippings
1981-1982
Box 6, Folder 26
Interview: Emory Campbell, Hilton Head
1982 March
Box 6, Folder 29
The Sea Islands: A Select Biography
1995
Box 6, Folder 30
Speech: Moores, Ohio University HIV/AIDS and African Americans: The
Greatest Challenge Since Slavery
2001 February
Box 6, Folder 31
Interview: Emory Campbell, Penn Center
2002 September
Box 6, Folder 32
Sea Islands Institute: South Carolina - Beaufort
2005-2006
Box 6, Folder 34
Daufuskie Island Heirs' Property Seminar
2007
Box 6, Folder 35
Ervin Seminar Daufuskie Island Foundation
2008
Box 6, Folder 36
Joint Presentations - Moore and Blake MUSC
2009
Box 6, Folder 37
Gullah Geechee: Traditional Herbs, Seeds, and Roots
2018
Box 6, Folder 38
Address List - Residents and Former Residents Daufuskie
undated
Box 6, Folder 39
On Slavery Time on Daufuskie Island
undated
Box 6, Folder 40
Photographs of Daufuskie by Frederick Baldwin, UCSC Student Fundraising
Project
undated
Box 6, Folder 41
Lumina Foundation Board of Directors Daufuskie Islands
photographs
ms415_med_0001
2007
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Digital files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading
room. Some files may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Technical
limitations may hinder the Library's ability to provide access to some digital
files. Access to digital files on original carriers is prohibited; users must
request to view access copies. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance
to request access to digital files.
Scope and Contents
Includes digital photographs on one CD.
Box 6, Folder 42
Daufuskie Island photographs (1 of 2)
undated
Box 6, Folder 43
Daufuskie Island photographs (2 of 2)
circa 1977
Box 9, Folder 6
Danny Barker Interview
1973
Box 9, Folder 7
Slaughter Talking with Robinson on Daufuskie Island, Courtney
Brown
1973-1982
Subseries 3: Septima Clark
Biographical / Historical
Blake worked with Septima Clark on the board of Penn Center on Saint Helena Island,
and facilitated several visits to UCSC in which she spoke to students and produced
writings about her career.
Box 9, Folder 1
Septima Clark: interview transcripts, correspondence, notes, "Ready From
Within", photograph
1973-1996
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Box 9, Folder 2
Septima Clark: interview transcripts, correspondence, notes
1972-1981
Box 9, Folder 3
Septima Clark: A Fabulous Decade Montgomery to Memphis A Woman's
Viewpoint
Series 5: UCSC Oakes College
Subseries 1: Administrative files and Photographs
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Biographical / Historical
Oakes was founded in 1972 by Professors J. Herman Blake and Ralph C. Guzmán. It was
originally named College Seven.
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs, correspondence and administrative records that document Blake's
role in the development of Oakes College at UCSC, and the early history of the
College.
Box 7, Folder 1
Academic Plan, Academic Program, Faculty/Committee, Budgets
1973-1979
Box 7, Folder 2
Academic Program: Oakes
1977, 1980
Box 7, Folder 3
Appendix I: Status of the Evaluation of Teaching at UCSC
1973-1974
Box 7, Folder 4
Bakke vs. University of California: Crisis of American Will
1977 October
Box 7, Folder 5
Black Life at University of California, Santa Cruz
undated
Box 7, Folder 6
Blake: Oakes College
undated
Box 7, Folder 7
Booklets for Oakes College, and Extramural Education and Community Services
Program at Cowell College
undated
Box 7, Folder 8
Chancellor's Self Study
1976
Box 7, Folder 9
Clippings: Herman Blake, John San Miguel, Don Rothman
1974
Box 7, Folder 10
College 7 First Commencement, Oakes College Informative Booklet
1973
Box 7, Folder 11
Commencement Address
1981 June
Box 7, Folder 12
Committee on Ethnic Experience and Cultural Pluralism in
America
undated
Box 7, Folder 13
General correspondence
1978-1984
Box 7, Folder 14
Demographic Change and Curriculum: New Students in Higher
Education
1982
Box 7, Folder 15
Ed Dirks memorial service
1981
Box 7, Folder 17
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz: A Memorial
1970
Box 7, Folder 18
Extramural Education Program
1973
Box 7, Folder 19
Extramural Program
1977-1978
Box 7, Folder 20
Faculty Development AAHE
1975
Box 7, Folder 21
Faculty Mentors Program
1984
Box 7, Folder 22
FIPSE/Shaughnessy Grant
1983-1984
Box 7, Folder 23
First Commencement, Opening of College, Faculty, Financial Aid
1972-1976
Box 7, Folder 24
A General Statement of Philosophies and Programs at Oakes
College
undated
Box 7, Folder 25
Have You Thought About College Seven? pamphlet
undated
Box 7, Folder 26
Horace Roscoe Cayton, Jr. Soul Most Precious in a Land Most
Strange
1970
Box 7, Folder 27
Interview- Richard Younge
1973 June
Box 7, Folder 28
J Herman Blake Fellowship UCSC
2010
Box 7, Folder 30
Letter J Herman Blake: Why I Left UCSC
1996
Box 7, Folder 31
Letter: Curricula Development in Social Sciences
1982 November
Box 7, Folder 32
Moving on Up A Little Higher Campus Planning Workshop
Presentation
1975 July
Box 7, Folder 33
New Perspectives on the Black Family Heritage: Inaugural
Address
1976
Box 7, Folder 34
Oakes College Conference on Academic Programs
undated
Box 7, Folder 35
Oakes College Seminar Program
1982
Box 7, Folder 36
Oakes College: The Flower Blossoms
1984 April
Box 7, Folder 37
Oakes CORE Course
1982-1984
Box 7, Folder 38
Oakes Counseling Program
1973
Box 7, Folder 39
Oakes Faculty Papers
1975
Box 7, Folder 40
Oakes Periodicals
1983-1984
Box 7, Folder 41
Penn Center - Chairman of Board
1976
Box 7, Folder 42
Penn Center Draft - Missions and Goals
1978
Box 7, 13, Folder 43
Photographs: Herman Blake UCSC
1969, undated
Box 7, Folder 44
Photographs: Herman and Maria Blake: Oakes College and UCSC
undated
Box 7, Folder 45
Photographs: Howard Thurman, J. Herman Blake, Richard Townsend
1968
Box 7, Folder 46
Photographs: Oakes College students
1975, undated
Box 13, Folder Unknown
Photoalbum: A Dedication to Provost Herman Blake
1984
Box 13, Folder Unknown
Photoalbum: Oakes College buildings
1976
Box 13, Folder Unknown
Photo collage: Oakes College class of 1983 dedication to J. Herman
Blake
circa 1983
Box 7, Folder 47
Presentation - Agenda for Renewal of Liberal Education AAHE
1978 March
Box 7, Folder 48
Program Requirements
1974
Box 7, Folder 49
Programs, Services, Budget Information, Faculty
1975-1979
Box 7, Folder 50
Proposal to the Carnegie Corporation of New York for support of Oakes
College Support Service
1977 February
Box 7, Folder 51
Provost's Remarks Oakes Commencement
1982 June
Box 7, Folder 52
Reflections on Oakes College
1978
Box 7, Folder 53
Response to Black Community of Santa Cruz Demands for Black College at
UCSC
1968
Box 7, Folder 54
Rockefeller Proposal
1982-1983
Box 7, Folder 55
Smith Memorial Service: Address - John Dizikes
1995
Box 7, Folder 56
Statement: Philosophies and Programs - Oakes "College Seven"
1978
Box 7, Folder 58
The Beginnings of Oakes notes
undated
Box 7, Folder 59
Transcript of discussion with Blake and UCSC students in Beaufort
County
1971
Box 7, Folder 60
UCSC Academic Advising Study
1975
Box 7, Folder 61
UCSC Chancellor's Distinguished Seminar Series
1995
Box 7, Folder 62
Undergraduate Education at University of California, Draft Paper with
Notes, Final Paper
1976 March
Box 7, Folder 63
William Doyle to Dean McHenry Letter of Recommendation, Promotion -
Professor
1973
Subseries 2: Through the Hourglass, Darkly
Arrangement
Interviews arranged alphabetically.
Biographical / Historical
Blake co-authored the unpublished manuscript
Through the Hourglass,
Darkly
, in 1980 with Ron Saufley and Kathryn Cowan.
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts and interview transcripts for the manuscript,
Through the
Hourglass, Darkly
. Also includes subsequent related materials.
Box 8, Folder 1
Chapters on Early Faculty and Who They Were Drafts
1983-1984
Box 8, Folder 2
Faculty Interviews - Ron (Originals) (1 of 2)
1983
Box 8, Folder 3
Faculty Interviews - Ron (Originals) (2 of 2)
1983
Box 8, Folder 5
The Basis for College Response: New Students at the University, The Flower
Blossoms, Time of Innocence
1984
Box 8, Folder 6
The First Two Years, Historical Context: UCSC or UC or "The Empire Strikes
Back', Time of Innocence (Drafts)
1984
Box 8, Folder 7
Through the Hour Glass (Darkly) draft
1979
Box 8, Folder 8
Through the Hour Glass (Darkly) second draft
1980
Box 8, Folder 9
Alcevedo, Marie
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 11
Alexander, Chris
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 13
Aranda, Richard
1978-1989
Box 8, Folder 14
Arruiza, Daniel
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 22
Cuadraz, Gloria
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 30
Griffen, Joette
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 31
Henderson, Cassandra
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 32
Hernandez, Ernie
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 39
Magana, Vacilia
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 41
Martinez, Ofelia
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 43
McKenzie, Michelle
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 46
Noguchi, Eileen
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 52
Robinson, Jackie
1978-1979
Box 8, Folder 53
Rodriguez, Jesse
1977-1979
Box 8, Folder 55
Rubalcava, Margaret
1978-1979
Series 6: Media
Conditions Governing Access
Audiovisual media is unavailable until reformatted. Contact Special Collections in
advance for information regarding access. Digital files are available in the UCSC
Special Collections and Archives reading room. Some files may require reformatting
before they can be accessed. Technical limitations may hinder the Library's ability to
provide access to some digital files. Access to digital files on original carriers is
prohibited; users must request to view access copies. Contact Special Collections and
Archives in advance to request access to digital files.
Scope and Contents
Includes audio recordings of Blake's lectures and research-related recordings.
Numbering schema is original to creator.
Arrangement
Arranged by format.
Box 10
Roots Discussion Tape Program II "The Middle Passage" Dub of Master
(L1)
no date
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Oakes College Graduation (L21)
no date
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
College 7 Workshop Tape II (L24)
no date
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Merrill 101: Bob Edgar, Reuden Greenberg, Mike RotKin on counterculture
(L26)
1971 November
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
College 7 Workshop Tape I (L27)
no date
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Lateline Broadcast Nationally Radio Australian Broadcasting Commission Sydney
(L31)
no date
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Christmas Eve Service Poitiers Installation (L36)
1954 December
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
LeRoi James in LA (L37)
1967
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Herman Blake Merrill College Nite "We come from a distance: a philosophy of
the black experience" (L38)
1971
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Alex Haley (Smith copy) (L40)
no date
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Rev. Dotson Session IV (M2)
1970 September
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Rev. Dotson Session 2 Tape #2 (M3)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Discussion - Jimmy Scott and Communications Group people Tape 1
(M5)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Film Project Discussion Reel 2 (M6)
1970 June
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Black Brother Decelle Place - San Francisco Part A (M10)
1970 October
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Black Brother Decelle Place - San Francisco Part B (M9)
1970 October
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Black Brother Decelle Place - San Francisco Part C (M11)
1970 October
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
South Pacific Studies Conference Tape 1 (M22)
undated
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Black Community Survival Conference Oakland (M23)
1972 March
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
H. Blake and J. Scott Discussion of Film and Religious Community
(M27)
1970 July
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 10
Conference of Black Studies Directors, Institute of the Black World, Atlanta,
Georgia (M34)
1969 November
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Side 1: Interview with Leola Carr, sister of Huey P. Newton, Side 2: Huey
Newton, Woolsey Hall, Yale University (M37)
ms0415_rec_0002
1970 July - 1971 January
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Access
This tape has been digitized and is available upon request. Contact Special
Collections and Archives to request access.
Box 11
Seabright Baptist Church Reactions to videos Tape 1 (M40)
1970 September
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Herman Blake, Scott Religious Project Tape 2 (M41)
1970 July
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Prayers for Jimmy Scott's Black Church (M42)
undated
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Reactions to Video tape, Of Sunday School and Religious Services
(M43)
1970 September
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Play Discussion Film Discussion (M44)
1970 July
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Herman Blake and Huey P. Newton (M45)
1971 November
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson Session IV (M49)
1970 September
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson Session III Tape 2 (M50)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson - Session 2 Tape #4 (M51)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Stevenson College Night - John Rickford and Frank Smith (M52)
undated
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
H. Blake and J. Scott discussion of film and religious community
(M54)
1970 July
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson Session 2 Tape 3 (M56)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson Session 2 Tape 2 (M57)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson Session 2 Tape 4 (M59)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson Session III Tape 1 (M64)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Black Brother De Celle San Francisco Part A (M66)
1970 October
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson - Session 2 Tape #3 (M67)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson Discussion - People and Film Group Reel #1(M68)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Professor Benjamin University of Mass Historian Junior Leadership Ticktalk
(M69)
1970 June
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
N. Richmond, J. Scott (M70)
1970 July
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
RS 21 - Huey P. Newton (M74) ms0415_rec_0001
1971 March
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Access
This tape has been digitized and is available upon request. Contact Special
Collections and Archives to request access.
Box 11
Reverend Dobson - Discussion - People and Film Group Reel #2
(M76)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Rev Dotson Session 2 Tape 1 (M77)
1970 August
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
J. Herman Blake, provost Oakes College, professor of Sociology at UCSC
(M91)
1976 May
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Alex Haley at College 7 (M92)
1973 April
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
Side 1 + 2: Discussion with students in Beaufort County (M107)
1971 April
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 11
The Black Experience Tape 3 (M110)
1972 January
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel
audiotape
Box 12
City Club of Portland
1993 October
Physical Description: VHS
Box 12
AAHE Awards Black Profile
1997 March
Physical Description: VHS
Box 12
African and African American Studies Learning Expedition to the Sea Islands
Usher University, Penn Center Performance
1999 March
Physical Description: VHS
Box 12
Interview with Malcolm X ms415_med_0002
October 1963
Physical Description: 1 DVD, 1 VHS
Conditions Governing Access
Digital files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading
room. Some files may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Technical
limitations may hinder the Library's ability to provide access to some digital files.
Access to digital files on original carriers is prohibited; users must request to view
access copies. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access
to digital files.
Existence and Location of Copies
This video is available in the UCSC Library Digital Scholarship Commons under call
number DVD8114 and Special Collections under call number VT1646.
Box 12
Daufuskie Island Cynthia Bryson of New York City (C3)
1974 August
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Brown Daufuskie Island South Carolina (C7)
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Goodbye from Daufuskie (C10)
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Flossie and Suzie Washington, Sara H Grant (C14)
1968 December
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Larry, RJ and Mrs. Byron (C16)
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Spirituals with Mrs. Bryan, Sara Grant, Lillian Stafford (C19)
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Georgia Sea... (C20)
1959
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
#1 Douglas Brown (C21)
1968
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
#3 Albertha Thomas (C23)
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Herman Blake on Elders in Residence Radio Program, Interviewed by Eleanor
Meyer, Lenore Farrell, and Marco Meyer KZSC (C28)
1983 May
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
#4 Blossom and Josephine Robinson (C30)
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
"Helping Admins./Teachers Understand Facts about Dialects" Blake, Garcia,
Scott, Sledd (C32)
1975 March
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
"Helping Admins./Teachers Understand Facts about Dialects" Blake, Garcia,
Scott, Sledd (C34)
1975 March
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Ruth Boyd Reid and Mary Hundley (C37)
1974 June
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
104 Luis Valdez (C41)
1982 December
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Mother's Day Program, cont'd - race relations - Johnny Johnson
(C48)
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Herbert Stafford (C49)
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
J. Herman Blake (UC Santa Cruz) UC Audio News Service (C60)
1976 May
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Mrs. Sarah Grant, Holmes Sylvia and Lillian Stafford (C64)
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Brown University (C69)
1980 May
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
J. Herman Blake, UCSC, second availability, new hypothesis, UC Audio news
service
1976 May
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Alex Haley Memorial Danforth Chapel
1992 February
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
ACAD Luncheon Address Tape 27
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Rosa Brisbane: On Slavery Time - edited Excerpt 1
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
Rosa Brisbane Excerpt 2
undated
Physical Description: Audiocassette
Box 12
NPR - Gullah Peoples
2000 August
Physical Description: Audiocassette