Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Black World Foundation (U.S.), creator.
- Abstract:
- The Black Scholar records contains administrative files; correspondence; editorial management files; financial records; materials related to programs (such as The Black Scholar Press and Speakers Bureau, and the Prisoners Fund); personality files; photographic and audiovisual materials; subject files and materials related to community organizations and institutions; working files for various issues of the journal; and writings, including submissions of articles and poetry. There are also materials related to the Black World Foundation, co-founders Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare, and co-editor Robert L. Allen.
- Extent:
- 48.1 linear feet (38 cartons, 4 oversize folders) and approximately 392 items approximately 362 5.25" floppy disks, one 8"x8" microdisk, approximately 16 3-1/2" floppy disks, eight CD-ROMs and five 88 MB 5.25" removable hard disk cartridges
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Black Scholar records, BANC MSS 92/750c,The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Black Scholar records contains administrative (business and office management) files; correspondence; editorial and general management files, including those related to circulation; financial records; materials related to programs, such as The Black Scholar Press and Speakers Bureau, and the Prisoners Fund; personality files; photographic and audiovisual materials; subject files and materials related to community organizations and institutions; working files for various issues of the journal; and writings, including submissions of articles and poetry to the journal. There are also materials related to the Black World Foundation, co-founders Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare, and co-editor Robert L. Allen.
The initial donation was divided into categories, and those – and the original order of those files - were maintained. Additions to the collection were integrated into those divisions intellectually. Original folder titles were also retained. The collection is divided into six series: Robert Chrisman Files; Programs; Robert Allen Files; Office Background Files; Nathan Hare Files; and Photographic and Audiovisual Materials.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research (TBS) is an interdisciplinary journal that addresses cultural, political, and social issues of concern to Black Americans and other peoples of African descent across the world. It is published by the Black World Foundation, a non-profit educational organization. TBS was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 by poet and scholar Dr. Robert Chrisman, sociologist and activist Dr. Nathan Hare, and printer Allan Ross. Both Chrisman and Hare participated in the 1968 strike that fought to establish a Black Studies department at San Francisco State University. Chrisman served as publisher of the journal and shared various editing duties with Dr. Robert L. Allen, Professor of African American and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Allen joined TBS in 1974, and Hare left in 1975. According to the journal's website, TBS relaunched with new editors in 2012, after Chrisman and Allen retired. For more information, see: https://www.theblackscholar.org/about-us
- Acquisition information:
- The Black Scholar records were given to The Bancroft Library between 1992 and 2013 by the Black World Foundation (via its representatives, Robert Chrisman, Robert Allen, and Laura Chrisman).
- Processing information:
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Arranged to the folder level.
Processed by Lisa M. Monhoff in 2020 and Marjorie Bryer in 2022.
- Accruals:
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Future additions are expected.
- Physical / technical requirements:
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Access to audio-visual materials may be restricted due to technical limitations.
- Physical location:
- Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Rules or conventions:
- DACS
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research, with the exception of born-digital materials.
- Terms of access:
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Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For additional information about the University of California, Berkeley Library's permissions policy please see: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/permissions-policies
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Black Scholar records, BANC MSS 92/750c,The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481