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BANC MSS 92/750 c
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: The Black Scholar Records
Creator:
Black World Foundation (U.S.), creator.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 92/750 c
Physical Description:
48.1 linear feet
(38 cartons, 4 oversize folders)
Physical Description:
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
Date (inclusive): 1955-2008
Date (bulk): 1969- 2007
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.
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.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research, with the exception of born-digital materials.
Future additions are expected.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
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).
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
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Access to audio-visual materials may be restricted due to technical limitations.
[Identification of item], Black Scholar records, BANC MSS 92/750c,The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processed by Lisa M. Monhoff in 2020 and Marjorie Bryer in 2022.
Robert L. Allen papers, 1962-2015 (BANC MSS 2017/193)
Nathan and Julia Hare papers, 1950-2010 (BANC MSS 2014/173)
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.
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.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chrisman, Robert -- Archives.
Allen, Robert L., 1942- -- Archives.
Black World Foundation (U.S.) -- Archives.
Black Scholar Press
African Americans -- Social Conditions
African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- History.
African diaspora.