Finding Aid to the Black Scholar Records BANC MSS 92/750 c
Marjorie Bryer
The Bancroft Library
2022
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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
.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research, with the exception of born-digital materials.
Accruals
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).
Organizational History
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Black Scholar records, BANC MSS 92/750c,The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Lisa M. Monhoff in 2020 and Marjorie Bryer in 2022.
Related Collections
Robert L. Allen papers, 1962-2015 (BANC MSS 2017/193)
Nathan and Julia Hare papers, 1950-2010 (BANC MSS 2014/173)
Content Description
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.
Conditions Governing Use
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
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.
Series 1.
Robert Chrisman Files
1969-2006
Physical Description: Cartons 1-7; Carton 8, folders 1-4; Carton 30, folders 1-32
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, writings, and materials about trips to New York, Angola, and Cuba.
Correspondence
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence in A-Z files was sorted by year. Most letters were filed by last name or organization, but some were filed
according to subject matter. There is correspondence about managing the journal and about contemporary issues. Correspondence
files contain ephemera, newspaper clippings, publications, and subject file materials. Some correspondence about advertising
and subscription ad exchanges, permissions, reprints, requests for materials, and acceptance and rejection letters were filed
separately, but many are in the A-Z correspondence files. Both Chrisman and Robert Allen served as editors of the journal,
so there is likely overlap with Allen's correspondence. There are also letters to Hare and to and from Associate Editor Janice
Bevien and Managing Editor, JoNina Abron. Individual correspondents were listed when they were called out in the initial donors
or when they had multiple exchanges with The Black Scholar. Please note that correspondence can be found in other series.
carton 1, folder 1-13
"A"
approximately 1970-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Robert Allen, African News, American Committee on Africa, and Sam Anderson. There is ephemera, issues
of Arm the Spirit: A Revolutionary Prisoners Newsletter, and letters from JoNina Abron prior to her tenure at The Black Scholar.
carton 1, folder 14-28
"B"
approximately 1970-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Amiri Baraka, Jimmie Beasley (with his writings and the newsletter, The Other Side), Shirley Better,
Roseann P. Bell, the Black Men's Conference/Melvin Black Human Rights Comm./Marvin X., Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, Julian
Bond, Walter Bremond (the National Black United Fund), Gwendolyn Brooks, Dennis Brutus, and Linda Burnham. There is also a
chapbook entitled Iyaric: A Brief Journey into Rastafari Word Sound by Iywata Farika Birhan.
carton 1, folder 29-35
"C"
1971-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Camp News, Bob Chaney, Tristam Coffin (the Washington Spectator), Johnetta Cole, Beverly Coleman, Bernard
Cushmeer (Truth Publications). There is correspondence to Nathan Hare and with Conyus Calhoun, who was later an advertising
manager and poetry editor at the journal.
carton 2, folder 1-6
"C"
approximately 1977-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Conyus Calhoun, Camp Pendleton (Legal Defense Fund, and Pendleton Papers 2), Coleman J. Chauncey, Chinweizu,
VéVé A. Clark, Johnetta Cole, and Jayne Cortez
carton 2, folder 7-17
"D"
approximately 1970-1985
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Angela Davis, B(ob) De Boer, Dimensions Dance Theatre, Tran Van Dinh [Van Dinh Tran], Directory of
Black Artists, Doubleday
carton 2, folder 18-26
"E"
1970-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Emeka Enterprises. There are materials re: the Lorenzo Komboa (Edward) Ervin Legal Defense Committee/Friends
of Lorenzo Ervin
carton 2, folder 27-36
"F"
1970-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include W.H. (Ping) Ferry (DJB Foundation) and Carol Bernstein Ferry, Charles Flewellynn, and Philip S. Foner.
There is a copy of James Forman's Control, Conflict and Change; the Five College Black Studies Newsletter (1974); Festal '75
(Deuxieme Festival Mondial des Arts Negro-Africains; and catalogs of books related to the world food supply and agribusiness
carton 2, folder 36-47
"G"
approximately 1970-1987
Scope and Content Note
Corresponents include Amy Jacques Garvey, Hermon George, Phaon Goldman (Sundiata), Gregory Griffin, The Guardian. There is
material from Jim Goodwin re: the Afro-American Studies Department at UC Berkeley; The Kingdom, a Poelogue, by Fiseo Gesinde;
and materials about Grenada
carton 2, folder 48-51
"H"
1969-1973
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include J.K. Hassan, Julia Hare, Nathan Hare, Lenneal J. Henderson, Charles P. Henry, Imamu Clyde Halisi. There
are also materials re: the women's newspaper Hussy
carton 3, folder 1-9
"H"
approximately 1974-1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Imamu Clyde Halisi, Juia Hare, Frederick D. Harper, Lenneal J. Henderson
carton 3, folder 11-14
"I"
1971-1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include International Publishers. There are also materials from the Inner City Cultural Center
carton 3, folder 15-24
"J"
1970-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents includes Lance Jeffers, Guy Johnson, Joyce Johnson, Gayl Jones, June Jordan, Grady Cecil Jordan, June Jordan.
There are also materials re: a National Conference on African American/Jewish American Relations (1982)
carton 3, folder 25-32
"K"
1970-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Mualana Ron Karenga, Richard C. Kiiski, John Oliver Killens, and Bowie Kuhn. Includes information about
KRE Radio, and correspondence about Gylan Kain
carton 3, folder 33-43
"L"
approximately 1969-1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Joyce A. Ladner, Pinkie Gordon Lane, Diane Lewis, and Samella Lewis
carton 3, folder 45
"Mc"
1971-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Earnest McBride and William H. McLendon
carton 4, folder 1-11
"M"
approximately 1970-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Mailing List Services, Clarence Major, the Hector Marroquin Defnese Committee, Julianne Malveaux, Manning
Marable, Marvin X, Bernie Mazel (B.L. Mazel, Inc.), Adam Miller, George B. Murphy (the Washington Afro American), and the
George B. Murphy Tribute Committee. There are articles for Publishers Weekly done in collaboration with the Minority Publishing
Committee of the Council on Interracial Books for Children; and materials about Mario Moorehead/United People's Party
carton 4, folder 12-20
"N"
approximately 1969-1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include National Black United Fund, Robert Nemiroff, and Abdin Noboa (Latino Institute). Includes Signs of
Soul, the National Black Sisters' Conference Newsletter (1972), an issue of Jes' Grew (the National Association of Third World
Writers), and materials related to other national African American organizations.
carton 4, folder 20-24
"O"
approximately 1969-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Earl Ofari, W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe, Alexander O'Neale, and Sondra O'Neal/Talladega Arts Festival
carton 4, folder 25-34
"P"
approximately 1969-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Louise Patterson and the William L. Patterson Foundation, Prescott Lists, Inc. Includes material re:
the Pan-African Congress, and the Journal of the Peoples College of Law.
carton 4, folder 35
"Q"
1971-1983
Scope and Content Note
Incudes thank you correspondence to donors that helped bring Magalys Quiala to the West Coast
carton 4, folder 36-44
"R"
approximately 1970-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Random House (one very brief exchange with Toni Morrison), Eugene Redmond (the Black Anthology Project
correspondence includes photo of Maya Angelou), Eugene Richardson, Billy Hands Robinson/the Billy Hands Robinson Legal Defense
Fund, Randall Robinson (Pan-African Liberation CommitteeTransAfrica), Martin Rosinski (Infonet Systems, Inc.), and Charles
H. Rowell. There is also some correspondence about, and subject file material related to, Paul Robeson
carton 5, folder 1-16
"S"
approximately 1969-1987I
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Andrew Salkey, Sonia Sanchez, Ann Allen Shockley, Irwin Silber, James G. Spady, Kevin Starr, Rosemary
Stevenson, Charles (Chuck) Stone (the Philadelphia Daily News), and the Studio Museum in Harlem. There's a memo from Pamela
J. Smith concerning an evaluation of the program of instruction at the College of Ethnic Studies, Western Washington State
College; photographs of Sylvester and Two Tons O'Fun; and writings by Albert Szymanski (including Racism, White Chauvinism
and the FBI: A Critique of Petty Bourgeois Moralism)
carton 5, folder 17-27
"T"
approximately 1969-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Clyde Taylor, Askia Muhammad Toure, Dempsey J. Travis (Sivart Mortgage Corporation/United Mortgage
Brokers of America/Urban Research Inst., Travis Realty Co.), Quincy Troupe, Dorothy Randall Tsuruta (with photograph), Darwin
T. Turner, and Robert Tyler. There are materials related to the Scott Joplin opera Treemonisha (1975)
carton 5, folder 28-31
"U"
approximately 1971-1983
Scope and Content Note
Includes a few issues of Ah Deh Up, a weekly publication of the United Peoples Party
carton 5, folder 32-34
"V"
1970-1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Vincent Van Bourg (Levy & Van Bourg). There is an issue of Voz Fronteriza (1979)
carton 6, folder 1-13
"W"
approximately 1969-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Charles A. Watkins, Nancy E. Weisberg, and William H. Wiggins, Jr. There are letters from the White
House (1977-1978); materials re: the Gibson-Justice case and The Wiz; and form letters sent to authors requesting their work
for The Black Scholar's Fine Arts issue
carton 6, folder 14
"X"
1974-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Xerox College Publishing and Xerox University Microfilms; there is one letter from Marvin X
carton 30, folder 1-14
A-Z, Unidentified, Form Letters, and Letters Answered - with Chrisman's Notes
1971-2006
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Robert Allen and Shahrazad Ali, Amiri Baraka. VéVé A. Clark, Johnetta Cole, Jayne Cortez, Gregory Griffin,
Nathan Hare, Charles P. Henry, Lance Jeffers, Guy Johnson, Pinkie Gordon Lane, and Twenty-First Century Books and Publications.
carton 6, folder 17-19
Letters of Acceptance for Publication
1978-1982, 1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes Derrick A. Bell, John H. Clark, Angela Yvonne Davis, Lance Jeffers, Kenneth A. McClane, Imari Abubakari Obadele,
and Hortense J. Spillers. Someone wrote "Bob Allen" on the folders, but most of the letters are from Associate Editor Janice
Bevien
carton 6, folder 20-21
Letters of Solicitation for Manuscripts
1971-1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes Houston A. Baker, Derrick A. Bell, Shirley Chisholm, Johnnetta B. Cole, Donn Granville Davis, Ellen Irene Diggs,
Jualynne [Elizabeth] Dodson, Robert Elliot Fox, Robert Garland, Frederick D. Harper, Solomon James Jones, Adam David Miller,
Alfred E. Osborne, and James B. (James Benjamin) Stewart
carton 30, folder 15
Letters of Solicitation for Special Issue, Funding Black Housing: Alternative Strategies
1979
carton 30, folder 16
Letters Promoting: Nathan Hare Article/Excerpts from Secret U.S. Memo re: Southern Africa
1972-1974
carton 6, folder 22-24
Requests for Book Reviews
1971-1981
carton 30, folder 17-19
Requests for Book Reviews
approximately 1985-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes Book Review Information and Response Forms; Requests [for reviews]; and Potential Reviewers
carton 6, folder 25-31
Requests for Reprint Permission
1972-1984
carton 30, folder 20
Reprint Permission
approximately 1981-1997
carton 6, folder 32-36
Requests for Review Copies
1972-1981
carton 7, folder 1-5
Requests for Subscription Exchange
1974-1982
Scope and Content Note
These are often addressed to the Circulation Department
carton 7, folder 6-24
Thank you letters, A-Z
1977-1981
Scope and Content Note
Most are from Associate Editor Janet Bevien or Editorial Aide Jacqueline Shinbrot
carton 30, folder 21
General Editorial - Transitions and Authors, Black World Foundation Organizational Chart
2007
carton 7, folder 25
Writings
approximately 1982-1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes poetry; Poetry Illustrated, v. 1, n.1l and a conference paper on nuclear policy, international debt, and the Third
World
carton 7, folder 26-29
Contemporary Black Thought, Edited by Robert Chrisman & Nathan Hare - Galleys
1973
carton 7, folder 30-36
Pan-Africanism, Edited by Robert Chrisman & Nathan Hare - Manuscript and Galleys
carton 30, folder 22
Trip to Chicago
1974-1976
carton 7, folder 38-39
Trip to Angola
1976-1978, 1988
carton 30, folder 23
Proposed Tour of Angola
1977
carton 7, folder 40-42
Trips to Cuba
approximately 1981-1985
carton 30, folder 24
Trips to Cuba - Seminar on the Situation of the Black, Chicano, Native American, Cuban and Puerto Rican Communities in the
United States - Paper by Maurice Jackson
November 1981
carton 30, folder 25
Event Invitations - Angolan/Cuban Artists - Cuba Raffle Tickets
1981-1982
carton 7, folder 43-45
Seminar on Angola (in Cuba)
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes a speech by Chrisman
carton 8, folder 1-2
Working Notes/Miscellaneous Notes and Addresses
approximately 1986
carton 30, folder 26-28
Chrisman's Meeting Notes, Miscellaneous Notes, Notebook (TBS Notes)
1976-2004
carton 30, folder 29-30
Dialogue of the Americas – Dialogos des las Americas: Managua, includes Robert Chrisman Statements/Speeches
1982
carton 8, folder 3
Biographic [sic] Information
1973-1979
carton 30, folder 31
Ph.D. Program, University of Michigan
1991
carton 30, folder 32
University of Nebraska, Department of Black Studies
2003
Series 2.
Programs
1969-2007
Physical Description: Carton 8, folders 4-50; Cartons 9-10; Carton 11, folders 1-29; Carton 30, folder 33-51; Carton 31, folders 1-44
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to the Black Scholar Press, the Prisoners Fund, the Speakers Bureau, and other Black Scholar projects
The Black Scholar Press, including Manuscripts Submitted
Scope and Content Note
The Black Scholar Press was formed in 1969 to publish "quality" books in the fields of art, culture, politics, and behavioral
science.
carton 8, folder 4
General Information
1978-1987
carton 30, folder 33
Book Publishing Program - A Proposal
May 1970
carton 30, folder 34-36
Press Activity, Publishing, and Fall Books
approximately 1983-1989
carton 8, folder 6-11
Black World Foundation Poetry Reading Series, includes Biographies, Working Files, Publicity
1978-1979
carton 30, folder 37
Black World Foundation Poetry Reading Series
1978
carton 8, folder 12
Federal Theater Project
approximately 1978
carton 8, folder 13-15
Poetry Readings
1978-1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes files re: Maya Angelou benefit peformance
carton 8, folder 18
Advertisement Design Copy
approximately 1980-1981
carton 8, folder 19-22
Chrisman, Robert, Children of Empire
1980-1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes publicity, publishing work file, art design, typescript
carton 8, folder 23-24
Chrisman, Robert, and Alice Walker (Editors), Casa de las Americas
1976-1977
Scope and Content Note
Casa de las Americas is a Cuban journal of the arts.
carton 30, folder 38-39
Crockett-Smith, D.L. (David Lionel) - Cowboy Amok, includes Uncorrected Galley Proofs
approximately 1986-1989
carton 8, folder 25
Eshleman, Clayton and Annette Smith [Aimé Césaire, the collected poetry]
1982
carton 8, folder 26
Guillén, Nicolás [Sunday Reading]
carton 30, folder 40-43
Henry, Charles P., Jesse Jackson: The Search for Common Ground
approximately 1988-1991
Scope and Content Note
One working title was The Search for Common Ground: Jesse Jackson's Campaigns for President. Also includes a slim folder related
to a Black Scholar Press book called Jesse Jackson: The New Black Politics
carton 8, folder 27
Jeffers, Lance [The Selected Poems of Lance Jeffers]
1983
carton 8, folder 28-29
Major, Clarence, [The Other Side of the Wall], and The Syncopated Cakewalk
1982, 1976
carton 30, folder 44-45
Major, Clarence, The Necessity of Van Gogh: Poems 1954-1979; and Party with Masks: Stories
1979-1981
carton 8, folder 30
McClane, Kenneth A., A Tree beyond Telling: Poems, Selected and New
carton 30, folder 46-47
McClane, Kenneth A., A Tree beyond Telling: Poems, Selected and New, includes Galleys
approximately 1983
carton 8, folder 31
McClane, Kenneth A.,While the Walls Seem Forever Rising: Poems, Selected and New
carton 30, folder 48
McClendon, William, Straight Ahead: Essays on the Struggles of Blacks in America, 1934-1994
approximately 1995
carton 8, folder 32-43
Morejón, Nancy, Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing
approximately 1983-1985
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials regarding her tour in the United States, correspondence, publishing work file, typescript, galleys, and
blurbs. In English and Spanish
carton 30, folder 49-51
Morejón, Nancy, Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing
1983-2006
Scope and Content Note
Includes a typescript, materials re: her book tour, correspondence, and an announcement of an award
carton 8, folder 44-47
Salkey, Andrew, In the Hills Where Her Dreams Live: Poems for Chile (1973-1979)
1979-1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes contract; publicity fyers for books by Salky, Sonia Sanchez, and Robert Staples; [typescript]; publishing work file;
and review response/promotional letters
carton 8, folder 48-50
Sanchez, Sonia, I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
1978-1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes publishing work file, promotional materials, reviews
carton 9, folder 1-2
Staples, Robert, Black Masculinity, Publishing Work File and Various Writings
approximately 1974-1988
Scope and Content Note
Writings include conference and student papers, a pilot project (Fatherhood and the Young Minority Male), and materials related
to The Urban Plantation: Racism and Colonialism in the Post Civil Rights Era
carton 31, folder 1
Staples, Robert, Manhood and Identity in Black America; Critical Essays on the Black Male Condition
carton 9, folder 3
Stuckey, Sterling, On Cultural Nihilism: The Case of Harold Cruse
approximately 1982
Prisoners Fund
Scope and Content Note
The project started with the April-May 1971 issue, which was devoted to Black prisoners. The Prisoners Fund provided Black
prisoners with free subscriptions and books. It also gave referrals to legal aid requests. Correspondence is arranged in chronological
order. A note in the initial donation said that "1986 correspondence from prisoners was pulled from Black Scholar press correspondence,"
but at least some letters from that year remain in the collection. Occasionally includes writings attached to letters.
carton 9, folder 5
General information
1971-1973
carton 9, folder 6
Reference
approximately 1972-1975
carton 31, folder 2
Eddings, Cynthia, Editorial Assistant - Correspondence with
1971
carton 9, folder 30-32
Subscription Cards
1972-1976
Speakers Bureau, includes Speech Engagement Files
Scope and Content Note
Includes articles by and about individual speakers, biographical material, contact lists, correspondence, financial and logistical
information, form letters, photographs, requests, and transcripts of speeches. Speech engagement files are arranged alphabetically
carton 9, folder 33
General information
approximately 1973-1974
carton 10, folder 1-9
Correspondence
1974-1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following correspondents: Julian Bond, Tom Bradley, Shirley Chisholm, Ossie Davis, Harry Edwards, and Charles
E. Owens
carton 31, folder 3
Ad/Correspondence
1975, 1989
carton 10, folder 10
Press Releases
approximately 1971-1986
carton 31, folder 4
Alexander, Margaret Walker
carton 10, folder 11
Allen, Robert
1973-1974, 1996
carton 31, folder 5
Baraka, Imamu Amiri (Everett LeRoi Jones)
1971-1974
carton 31, folder 6
Beckford, Ruth/Beckford Flier [sic]
approximately 1979
carton 31, folder 7
Brooks, Gwendolyn; Bullins, Ed; Burnham, Margaret Ann
approximately 1973-1974
carton 10, folder 14
Chrisman, Robert
1973-1983
carton 10, folder 15
Christmas, June Jackson
1973-1974
carton 31, folder 8
Cole, Johnetta
approximately 1978
carton 10, folder 20
Henderson, Lenneal J.
1973-1974
carton 10, folder 21
Hurst, Charles G., Jr.
1973
carton 31, folder 10-16
Jackson, Dr. James E.; Jordan, June; Karenga, Tiamoyo; Killens, John Oliver; Lane, Pinkie Gordon; Major, Clarence; and Marable,
Manning
approximately 1973-1979
carton 10, folder 23
Mayo, James Arthur
approximately 1974
carton 10, folder 24
Obadele, Imari Abubakari
approximately 1974
carton 31, folder 17
Poussaint, Alvin F., M.D.
1974
carton 10, folder 26-29
Rodriguez, Pedro Serviat
approximately 1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, speech transcripts (Spanish), biographical information, and tour contact list and notes
carton 31, folder 18
Rodriguez, Pedro Serviat
1979
carton 31, folder 19-20
Sanchez, Sonia; and Stone, Chuck
1973
carton 31, folder 22
Toure, Askia Muhammad
1973
carton 10, folder 33
Turner, James, includes a Copy of Shango
1973
carton 10, folder 36
Williams, A. Cecil
1971-1973
carton 31, folder 23-24
Wilson, Beth P.; and Young, Al
1980-1989
carton 10, folder 38-39
Confirmation and Follow-up Phone Calls
1972-1977
carton 31, folder 25
Confirmations and Form Letter
1976
carton 10, folder 40
Speech Agreements and Lists
1973-1974
carton 10, folder 41-42
Press Contact and Brochure Compilation
approximately 1973-74
carton 10, folder 43-45
Research on Promotion
approximately 1973-1974
carton 10, folder 46
Invoices and Payments
1973-1979
carton 11, folder 1
Author index Project
1982-1986
carton 31, folder 26-35
Indices
approximately 1974-1995
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following indexes: Volume 5 (Corrects), approximately 1974; Vols. 20-21, 1992; Vols. 1-12 Printout, 1993; Vols.
1-12: Author/Title Index (Uncorrected Galleys), 1993; Vols. 1-12: Subject Terms Most Frequently Assigned (Uncorrected Galleys),
1993; Vols. 1-21 (November 1969-Fall 1991), 1993; Annual Indexes (approximately 1984-1993), 1993; Vols. 1-12, 1969-1971, Revised
Copy, 1994-1995; and Complete Author Index/Partial Subject Index. There is a small amount of correspondence and memos.
carton 11, folder 2
Black Scholar Essay Contest
1971-1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes Billy Hands Robinson promotional correspondence, and a letter from Robinson
carton 11, folder 3
W.E.B. Du Bois Essay Awards
1974-1976
carton 31, folder 36
W.E.B. Du Bois Essay Awards - Letters
1975
carton 11, folder 4-14
Black Books Round-Up and Black Scholar Book Club
1969-1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes planning and general information, working files #2-#7 (Spring 1976-Spring 1981), and submissions. There is a copy
of '60 to '80: Songs for the Black Struggle, by Adisa Maina Omar
carton 31, folder 38-40
Black Books Round-Up and Black Scholar Book Club
1972-1994, 2007
Scope and Content Note
Includes plans and projections, order form, ads, correpsondence
carton 11, folder 15
Black Scholar Research Notes
carton 11, folder 16-18
Community Consortium/The Role of the Black Scholar in the Struggles of the Black Community
1971-1973
Scope and Content Note
Incldues transcriptions of talks by St. Clair Drake and Vincent Harding
carton 11, folder 19
Community Services: Marin County
1970-1978
carton 11, folder 20
Federal Theatre Project
1977-1978
carton 11, folder 21-22
Internship/Internship Paper by Cheryl Byron, includes Correspondence
1976-1978
carton 31, folder 40-43
1984: Making of a Black President Symposium
1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes speakers, press, outreach, photos, flyer, mailers, production tasks
carton 11, folder 23-27
Multi-Media Productions
approximately 1970-1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes general information, materials about film projects, reference materials, and a file on the television program, The
Struggle in Southern Africa. There is also an issue of Black Variety about the film Cleopatra Jones, and a pamphlet from the
film Black Roots (Impact Films)
carton 11, folder 28
Project to Defend Black Scholars and Scholarships
1977
carton 31, folder 44
Work Study Program, UC Berkeley
Series 3.
Robert Allen Files
1968-2007
Physical Description: Carton 11, folders 30-35; Cartons 12-22; Carton 23 folders 1-13; Carton 31, folders 45-57; Carton 32, folders 1-13; Cartons
33-35; Carton 36, folders 1-7; Oversize Folders 1-4
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, editorial management files, working documentation for Black Scholar issues, submissions for publication
(non-fiction and, poetry), prisoners' writing, and subject files.
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Both Allen and Chrisman served as editors. Some correspondence is to Allen, but more of it is just addressed, generally, to
The Black Scholar or to the Editor. Many letters are to and from Robert Chrisman, Allan Ross, Mary Ann Wells, Conyus Calhoun,
or Janice Bevien. Correspondence regarding ads can be found here and in the Editorial Management Files.
carton 13, folder 15-17
"XYZ," Unidentified
1970-1982
Editorial Management Files
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials related to advertising, copyright, editorials, and ideas. A lot of the correspondence about advertisments
and advertisment exchanges is to Chrisman, Marianne Hinkle, Allan Ross, Nathan Hare, and Mary Ann Wells. Allen did make notes
on advertising files. More files related to advertising can be found in Series 4, Office Background Files.
carton 13, folder 18-36
Advertisement Exchange Correspondence
September 1969-May 1973
carton 14, folder 1-19
Advertisement Exchange Correspondence
June 1973-1981
carton 14, folder 20-21
Advertisement Exchange for Black Books Round-Up
1975-1981
carton 14, folder 22
Advertisement Exchange - Promotional Form Letters
approximately 1978-1981
carton 14, folder 23-24
Affirmative Action Classified Ads, Research
approximately 1975-1978
Scope and Content Note
Includes a Report on the Status of Affirmative Action Personnel Programs at the University of California
carton 14, folder 25
Advertising Miscellaneous
approximately 1974-1994
carton 14, folder 26-33
Advertisements Published
1970-October 1971
carton 14, folder 34
Ad Billing Reports
1975-1976
carton 14, folder 35-42
Ad Payments Received
1971-1973
Arrangement
Divided by issue and arranged by invoice number
carton 15, folder 1-4
Ad Payments Received
1972-1973
Arrangement
Divided by issue and arranged by invoice number
carton 15, folder 5-9
Prospective Advertising Agencies
approximately 1971-1981
carton 15, folder 10-11
Ad Exchange Background Information and Notes
approximately 1973-1974
carton 15, folder 12-15
Copyrights - Applications, Certificates, Information
approximately 1974-1988
carton 15, folder 16
Editorial File/[Editorials]
approximately 1986-1988
carton 15, folder 17-25
Ideas, Notes, and Reference
approximately 1969-1983
Scope and Content Note
Ideas, editorial notes, reference materials, writings, and edits. Includes subject file material and editoral, story, and
issue ideas. Notes are predominantly to and from Allen and Chrisman, but there are some to Hare. Includes some newsletters
and other publications. There are files with editorial notes on Black Almanac, Black bookstores, Black cinema achievements,
and Black prisoners (including the Leavenworth Brothers).
carton 16, folder 1-10
Ideas, Notes, and Reference
approximately 1971-1983
Scope and Content Note
Ideas, editorial notes, reference materials, writings, and edits. Includes subject file material and editoral, story, and
issue ideas. Notes are predominantly to and from Allen and Chrisman, but there are some to Hare. Includes editoral notes and/or
reference materials on the following topics: prisons (with some newsletters, and publications); Black soldiers; electronic
media; oral history at The Bancroft Library; photographic use in promotion; and publishing
carton 16, folder 11
VIP Lists, includes Possible Contributing Authors
carton 16, folder 12-15
Catalogs
1973-1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following catalogs: 1973 Alternate Christmas, the Contemporary American Literature Review (Before Columbus Foundation),
and Publishers Weekly
Manuscripts
Scope and Content Note
The initial donation referred to these as "Manuscripts" that were published in The Black Scholar, so that designation was
maintained, but it is not completely accurate. These files are composed of the working documentation for various issues of
The Black Scholar. They include original manuscript submissions and typescripts but also revisions, correspondence, galleys,
and final mock-ups. Incoming and outgoing correspondence is primarily with Robert Chrisman, JoNina Abron, and Associate Editor
Frances M. Beal, and there are notes from Robert Allen. The issues were not always clearly labeled so some dates are approximate.
carton 31, folder 45
January 1971 Issue - Copied Pages
Scope and Content Note
Xerox of "Chapters from 'Earth-Being,' an Unpublished Autobiography" by Jean Toomer
carton 16, folder 16
October 1972 Issue - Working File
approximately 1972-1986
carton 16, folder 17
May/June 1973 Issue - Contributing Authors; and May 1974 Issue - Mock-Up
carton 16, folder 18
June 1975 Issue - Working File
carton 16, folder 19
March 1976 Issue - Working File
carton 16, folder 20
March 1977 Issue - Mss
approximately 1976-1977
carton 16, folder 21-25
[June] 1977 Issue - Report from Cuba - Mss
carton 32, folder 1-2
Summer 1977 Issue (Report from Cuba), Vol. 8, Issues 8-10 - Paste-Ups
carton 16, folder 26
September-December 1977 Issues - Working File
carton 16, folder 27-30
January-February 1978 Issue - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1974-1978
carton 16, folder 31-32
March 1978 issue - Working File, Mss
approximately 1975-1978
carton 17, folder 1-5
April 1978 Issue - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1973-1978
carton 17, folder 6-10
May-June 1978 Issue - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1976-1978
carton 17, folder 11-14
July-August 1978 Issue - Working File, Mss
carton 17, folder 15-16
September 1978 Issue (Africa in Struggle) - Mss, Dummy
carton 32, folder 3-9
November 1978 Issue (Black Literature - Poetry) - includes Mss
carton 31, folder 46
1978 Vol. 9 Issues 5, 6, 10 - Mss
carton 31, folder 47
January/February 1979 Issue - Dummy, Mss
carton 31, folder 48-49
Black Theatre Issue - Mss
1979
carton 17, folder 17-25
November-December 1979 Issue (Funding Black Housing: Alternative Strategies) - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
carton 31, folder 51
May-June 1980 Issue (Africa: The New Societies Issue), Materials re: Florence Tate and Prexy Nesbitt
1976-1981
carton 17, folder 26-27
September-October 1980 Issue - Mock-Up
carton 17, folder 28-29
[September-October] 1982 Issue - The Port Chicago Disaster - Working File, Mss
carton 31, folder 51
Africa Issue File
approximately 1982
carton 17, folder 30
September-October 1984 Issue (Jesse Jackson Campaign) - Mock-Up
carton 31, folder 52
September-October 1984 Issue (Jesse Jackson Campaign)
carton 18, folder 1-2
January-February 1985 Issue - Working File, Mss
approximately 1984
carton 18, folder 4-6
March-April 1985 Issue - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1983-1985
carton 18, folder 7-8
May-June 1985 Issue - Mss
carton 18, folder 9-11
September-October 1985 Issue - Working File, Mss
carton 18, folder 12
November-December 1985 Issue - Working File
carton 18, folder 13-15
March-April 1986 Issue - Working File, Mss
approximately 1980-1986
carton 18, folder 16-17
May-June 1986 Issue - Working File, Mss
approximately 1984-1986
carton 18, folder 18-22
July-August 1986 Issue (African Literature) - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1982-1986
carton 18, folder 23-27
September-October 1986 Issue - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1980-1986
carton 19, folder 1-3
November-December 1986 Issue - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1984-1986
carton 19, folder 4-8
January-February 1987 Issue - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1973-1986
carton 19, folder 9-13
March-April 1987 - Working File, Mss, Mock-Up
approximately 1985-1987
carton 19, folder 14-16
March-April 1987 - Working File, Mss
carton 19, folder 17-22
July-October 1987 Issue - Working File, Submissions for the Black Book Round-Up, Mss, Poetry Working File, Mock-Up
approximately 1985-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes a copy of thirteen frozen flamingoes by melba joyce boyd
carton 19, folder 23-28
November-December 1987 Issue - Background Information, Working File, Mss
carton 32, folder 10-11
November-December 1987 Issue - Mss, Mock-Up
carton 31, folder 53
Authors (Contributors), Volume 19, Issues 4-5 (Word within a Word)
1988-1989
carton 31, folder 54
Black Politics Issue, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 1989 – Materials on Jesse Jackson's 1984 Campaign
approximately 1988-1989
carton 31, folder 55
Letters to the Editor/Update/Status Report - January-February and March-April 1989 Issues
carton 31, folder 56
30th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution Issue, Vol. 20, Issues 5-6, 1989 - Notes
carton 31, folder 57
Black Cinema Issue, and Black Media II (Xerox of Cover)
1990, 2004
carton 31, folder 58
Hunger in Black America Issue - Covers, Mss
approximately 1990
carton 33, folder 1
Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Articles Submitted for Vol. 22, Issue 1-2 (The Clarence Thomas Confirmation, 1992)
1991
carton 33, folder 2
The Black Culture Issue, Vol. 22, Issue 4, 1992 - Covers
carton 33, folder 3
The Urban Crisis Issue, Vol. 23, Issue. 1, 1993 - Correspondence, Mss, Cover Art
carton 33, folder 4
Vol. 24, Issue 1, 1994 - Correspondence, Mss
1993-1994
carton 33, folder 5
Blacks and Social Policy Issue, Vol. 24, Issue 2, 1994 - Mss
carton 32, folder 12-13
The New South Africa, Vol. 24, Issue 3, 1994 - Galleys
carton 33, folder 6-16
The New South Africa, Vol. 24, Issue 3, 1994 - Mss, Galleys, Ads
approximately 1993-1994
carton 33, folder 17-18
Black Popular Movements Issue, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1994 (Mass Movements Issue)
carton 33, folder 19
TBS File - Various Issues, Vols. 24, 32, 33, 34
approximately 1995-2004
carton 33, folder 20
Black Election: 2000, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2001
carton 33, folder 21
2004/Future Issues, including Zimbabwe Issue - Working Files
2004-2006
oversize_folder 1-4
Artwork and Paste-Ups
Scope and Content Note
Oversize Folder 1B: "From Sharpesville to Soweto" poster used as cover art (May/June 1981), illustrations, correspondence
with Ife Ore of the African Heritage Library in Philadelphia about permission to publish the poster. There's also a watercolor
by E.F. Quinlan, 1975; a Joel Durham quote, 1972, signed ("The direction is unified & the technique is irrelevant"); and some
undated drawings.
Oversize Folder 2B: artwork (original and not) and paste-ups for covers, issues of The Black Scholar; also some text; brochures;
transparencies; photo of Jesse Jackson taken by John Jackson; Black artists on tour in Cuba, on tin, 1977; Black Scholar Book
Club stationary, 1971; issues featured include Black Political Economy, 1985; Christmas 1983; Black History Month, 1984; there
is an Elizabeth Catlett image from 1975
Oversize Folder 3A: includes a transparency: "Attica. Harlem. Quentin. Watts. A Brother Is a Brother Is a Brother Is a Brother;
and posters of pastel and pencil drawings, linocuts, woodcuts, lithographs, and silk screens by Herman Kofi Bailey, Elizabeth
Catlett, William H. Johnson, and Samella Lewis, approximately 1972-1976
Oversize Folder 4B: metal placard celebrating The Black Scholar's 18th Anniversary (it features various covers), 1987
Articles Submitted, 1971-2007
Arrangement
Submissions are primarily arranged alphabetically by the author's last name or the article title.
Scope and Content Note
Submissions for publication received by the Black Scholar, including articles; book, film, and record reviews; and poetry.
Notes that came with the initial donation suggested that most of this work remained unpublished, but that claim has not been
verified. These files also contain biographical material on the authors, and incoming and outgoing correspondence, the bulk
of which is to and from Chrisman, Bevien, Conyus, and Beale. There are memos from Chrisman to Robert Allen but only a few
letters to Allen. The subject files in this series also include articles submitted for publication.
carton 20, folder 1
Correspondence, A-Z
approximately 1975-1991
Scope and Content Note
Many letters are marked "returned"
carton 20, folder 2-4
"A"
Scope and Content Note
Amis, Lola Jones (1973); Amuta, Chidi (1985); Anthony, L. (undated)
carton 33, folder 21
"A"
Scope and Content Note
Abrams, Larry (approximately 1992); Agazie, Maxine (1985); Asukile, Thabiti Anyabwile (approximately 2000); Azikiwe, Abayomi
(2005)
carton 20, folder 5-13
"B"
Scope and Content Note
Baako, Kojo (1971); Bakewell, Danny J.X. (undated); Bailey, Ronald (1986); Barnes, Warren William (undated); Bowser, Kathryn
(1976); Branch, Kip (two articles, approximately 1976-1977); Bremond, Walter (undated); Browne, Robert S. (1977); Bryce, Herrington
J. (1974)
carton 33, folder 22
Brent, William Lee, Manuscript [Long Time Gone?]
1992
carton 33, folder 23-24
"B-C"
Scope and Content Note
Barkley, Daniel T. (1992); Barón-Fritts, Amanda (2003); Bates, Beth T. (undated); Boyd, Herb (undated); Building an African-American
Movement for Liberation in the 21st Century (2007); Cabral, Conference Story (2006); Clarke, Velta (2002)
carton 20, folder 14-20
"C"
Scope and Content Note
Campbell, Horace (3 articles, approximately 1974-1983); Carrington, Y'vonne (1970); Carson, T.H. (1976); Castro, Linda (1981);
Chappelle, Yvonne R. (1974); Clarke, Cheryl (1982); Coleman, Edwin L. (1974-77)
carton 20, folder 21-28
"D"
Scope and Contents
Dallman, Elaine (Poem, 1976); Davis, Angela Y. (1971); Davis, Angela Y. and Fania Davis (approximately 1985); Davis, J. Donn
(undated); Davis, King E. (approximately 1976); Demerson, Bamidele A. (1981);
Douglas, Pamela (1972); Draper, Theodore (1970-1971)
carton 33, folder 25
Davis, Henry Vance
Scope and Content Note
There's another submission from Vance in the TBS Reading File
carton 33, folder 26
"D"
Scope and Content Note
D'Andra Orey, Byron (2003); Davey, Joseph P. (undated); Duncan, Pamela E. (1991)
carton 20, folder 29-30
"E"
Scope and Content Note
Essayas, Abanet (1972); Evans, M. (Poems, 1977)
carton 33, folder 27
"E-F-G"
Scope and Content Note
Emeka, Mauris L. (1988); Ezenwa-Ohaeto, [Ngozi] (undated); Fella (cartoon, 1974); Floyd-Thomas, J.M. (2001); Gaffney, Floyd
(1982); Gettone, Vernon G. (undated); Gill, Glenda (1984)
carton 20, folder 31-32
"F"
Scope and Content Note
Farmer, George L. (1971); Fewell, Richard (Poem, 1981)
carton 20, folder 33-37
"G"
Scope and Content Note
Gaidi (undated); Gibbs, Michele D. (Granada in words and images, first edition, chapbook, 1981); Golden, Lily (1973); Gonzalez,
A. F. (1975); Grant, Daniel T. (Who Should Survive the Purge in American Education and WHY, first proof, 1976); Green, Johnny
L. (undated)
carton 20, folder 38-41
"H"
Scope and Content Note
Hall, Trevor Paul (approximately 1977); Hemenway, Robert (two articles, 1976); Hills, Patricia Liggins (1976); Hobbs, Sterling
X. (1974)
carton 33, folder 29-30
"H"
Scope and Content Note
Hall, Ronald E. (undated); Hampton, Gregory ([Octavia Butler article for 2002 Cultural Issue], 2000); Headley, Bernard D.
(various articles, 1982, 1985); Henry, Charles P. (article and review, approximately 1999); Holloway, Johnathan Scott (2000);
Hudson, Dr. Blaine J., and Dr. Esi Dogbe (2002)
carton 20, folder 42-47
"J"
Scope and Content Note
Jacobs, Paul (undated); Johnson, Robert L. (1976); Johnson, Roosevelt (1971); Jones, Edward L. (1971);
Jordan, June (1978); Joseph, James A. (1976)
carton 33, folder 31
"J"
Scope and Content Note
Jacobs, Glenn (1987); Johnson, Tekla Ali (approximately 2003)
carton 20, folder 48-49
"K"
Scope and Content Note
Karenga, M. Ron (In Love and in Struggle: Poems for Bold Hearts, typscript and letter, approximately 1976-1977); Kirton, Enid
(1976)
carton 33, folder 32
"K-L"
Scope and Contents
Kilson, Martin (various, 2000-2008); Koyana, Dr. Siphokazi and Rosemary Gray (2001); López, Nuria (2000)
carton 20, folder 50-51
"L"
Scope and Content Note
Latimer, Bettye (1973); Liddell, Hoover (undated)
carton 20, folder 52-60
"M and Mc"
Scope and Content Note
Magubane, Bernard (1976); Madhubuti, Hake R. (1977); McClendon, William H. (includes promotional material, 3 folders, 1980-1996);
McKissack, A.G. (1976); Miller, Adam David (1972-74); Moore, Charles (1964, 1972); Myers, Walter Dean (article published November/December
1978)
carton 33, folder 33-34
"M"
Scope and Content Note
Martin, Joseph D., Jr. (2001); Martin-Ogunsola, Dellia (2003); Messerschmidt, Jim (undated); Mosquera, Gerardo (undated);
Mumford, Clarence J. (1981)
carton 20, folder 61-64
"N"
Scope and Content Note
Nemiroff, Robert (includes Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out, 1972); Nichols, Calvin (1981); Norman, Alex J. (approximately 1975)
carton 33, folder 34
"N-O"
Scope and Content Note
Nash, Michael (book review, 2004); Oliver, Melvin L., and James H. Johnson, Jr. (1993)
carton 20, folder 65-67
"O"
Scope and Content Note
Oden, Stan (includes his column "The Dark Side," approximately 1968-1969, and a copy of the Black Panther Pary newspaper,
1976); Ogunyemi, Chikwenye (1986); Okonkwo, J. I. (undated)
carton 20, folder 68-70
"P"
Scope and Content Note
Palmer, Opal (poetry, script, stories, approximately 1981-81); Patterson, Mary Louise (book review, undated); Prince, C. S.
(for the Poetry Corner, 1982)
carton 33, folder 36
Piliasky, Monte (Multiple Submissions)
1992-1993
carton 33, folder 37
"P-Q"
Scope and Content Note
Phillips, Romeo Eldridge (undated); Pope, Jacquelyn (1993); ; Quaye, Randolph, K. (1993)
carton 21, folder 1-9
"R"
Scope and Content Note
Rangel, Charles B. (1975); Reed, Gail (undated); Reilly, Charles E. (1976); Rhett, Walter (approximately 1976); Rice, David
L. (includes poetry, correspondence, biographical information, issues of the Harambee Flame, 2 folders, 1977-1983); Rice,
Jon F. Jr. (1976); Richardson, Virgil (excerpts from "The Spookwaffe Diaries," typescript, 1976); Robinson, Nezzie (poetry,
approximately 1972-1973)
carton 33, folder 38
"R"
Scope and Content Note
Rivers, Jordan (undated); Rodney, [Eddi] (1992); Roe, D. (undated); Rojas, Frank (1985); Rutledge, Gregory E. (1998-1999)
carton 21, folder 10-24
"S"
Scope and Content Note
Shabazz, Khwaja A. (1980); Singal, Daniel C. (1974); Sales, William W. Jr. (1978); Salkey, Andrew (undated); Schneider, Marcia
(undated); Smith, Earl (1974); Smith, Mbembe Milton (1980); Smith, Willie J. (1976); Snyder, Paul (1976); Spady, James J.
(1978-79); Spain, Johnny Larry (1972); Spencer, Chauncey (1975); Stewart, John (undated); Stowe, Wendell L. (undated); Sutherland,
Bill (1976)
carton 34, folder 1
"S"
Scope and Content Note
Schoenhals, Kai (1984); Sexton, Jared (2007); "A Slice of the Pie: The Economic Roots of Black-Korean Conflict (undated);
Spingarn, Adena (undated)
carton 34, folder 2
Takara, Kathryn Waddell – Various
2000-2002
Scope and Content Note
At least one submission may have been published
carton 34, folder 3
"T"
Scope and Content Note
"There are many geneticist [sic] who refer to the black/white parentage of children as mulattos being a race in itself..."
(undated); Thrasher, Veronica J. (2002)
carton 34, folder 4
Vincent, Theodore G. (Ted) - Various
1988-1992, 2004
Scope and Contents
The Window of Opportunity may have been published (in vol. 22, issue 4)
carton 34, folder 5
White, Blake - Various
approximately 1984
carton 34, folder 6
"W"
Scope and Content Note
Wade-Lewis, Margaret (published article, 1993); Walker, Alice (Review of This Side of Glory, David Hilliard Autobiography,
undated); Welch, Daniel Patrick (1988); Whitfield, Duane W. (1989); Werner, Craig (1992); White, Lonnie (poem, undated); Wilson,
William O. (approximately 1986)
carton 21, folder 25-32
"V-W"
Scope and Content Note
Vundla, Mfundi M. (1976); Washington, J. Charles (1978); Watriss, Wendy (1977); Wiggins, William J., Jr. (undated); Williams,
John M. (1972); Wilson, Beth P. (1982); Wilson, Ernest J. (approximately 1972); Woodland, Vernice (1986)
carton 34, folder 7
"Z"
Scope and Content Note
Zaragoza, Federico Mayor – Interview with Fidel Castro (2000); Zwana, Japhet M. (undated)
carton 21, folder 33
A-Z and Unidentified, includes Fragments
approximately 1973-1976
carton 34, folder 8-9
TBS: Reading
Scope and Content Note
Submissions for staff to read/review. Includes correspondence and works by Ayisi, Eric Okyere (2003); "The Black Power Movement"
(2001); Boof, Kola (poem, undated); Copeland, Roy W. (2002); Fairfax, Colita Nichols (2002); Gite, C. (2002); Johnson, Brian
L. (2001); Kinshasa, Kwando M. (2002); Nieves, Khalil Ihsan (2001); Shore, Herbert (poem, story, undated); Simeon, Kersuze
(undated); Slaymaker, Bob (2003);
carton 21, folder 34-35
Hare, Nathan, Battle for Black Studies - Reviews of, and Other Book Reviews
1972-1975
carton 34, folder 10-12
Book Reviews, A-W, and List of Reviewers Who Got Complimentary Copies
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, essays, and film and LP reviews. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent/reviewer's last name. Includes
Alkalimat, Abdul (1986); Baker, Paul (undated); Beams, David W. (1985); Bell, Derrick (1987); the Black Belt Symphony (1986);
Brown, Beth (undated); Chinweizu (1987); Clark, VéVé A. (1988); Clay, Phillip L. (1987); Ford-Foster, Barbara (1987); Gomez,
Jewelle (1988); Henry, Samuel D. (1988); Jewell, Terri (1988); Johnson, Arthur J. (1988); Knight, W.H. (1987); Mars, Perry
(2000); Martin, S.R., Jr. (1987); Mazama, Ama (1994); Michigan State University Press (2003); Nash, Michael (2001); Pearse,
Toks G. (1987); Pitt, Keary (undated); Ravell, James J. (approximately 1986); Shropshire, Kenneth L. (1988); Smith, Earl (2004);
Schwendinger, Bob (approximately 1988); Tembo, Mwizinge S. (1988); Williams, John (1987); Wilson, Sule Greg (1988); Woodward,
Michael D. (approximately 1987); Wright, Sanford (1988)
Poetry Submitted, approximately 1971-2004
carton 21, folder 36-42
"A-E"
Scope and Content Note
Ashanti, Asa (1976); Boyd, Melba Joyce (1981); Bragg, Linda B. (1974-1976); Condit, David L. (undated);
Daoda, Tonieh (undated); Ellison, Rhoygnette (1971); Emenari, Lofton A. (1987)
carton 21, folder 43-50
"H-R"
Scope and Content Note
Harden, M. Romaine (1980-1982); Henderson, Safiya (Sharon) (1975-1976); Jeffers, Lance (undated); Kein, Sybil (1977-1978);
Lee, Gladys M. (1982); Miller, Adam David (1972-1976); Pannell, Joseph C. (Yusuf) (1970); Rowell, Charles H. (1979-1980)
carton 21, folder 51-56
"S-Z"; Miscellaneous A-Z; and Unidentified
1971-1986
Scope and Content Note
Sanchez, Sonia (some published, 1977, undated); Vaughan, Celestine E. (1971); Welch, Leona (approximately 1971-1972); Zacro,
Cyn (1973-1977); A-Z (1971-1986)
carton 34, folder 13-14
Poetry Submissions
Scope and Content Note
Includes Adisa, Opal Palmer (1994); Crockett-Smith, D.L. (translating Garcia-Lorca, 1999); Hord, Fred L. (1998); Jackson,
Murray (2000); Lane, Pinkie Gordon (1999-2000). There's a folder of poems that were rejected (with correspondence, June 2004)
Prisoners' Writing
Scope and Content Note
Includes some letters to Nathan Hare
carton 21, folder 57
"A-Z"
1972
Scope and Content Note
Includes an October 1972 issue of "The Puppet String," a newsletter published by the residents of the State Correctional Institution
at Muncy, Pennsylvania.
carton 21, folder 58-63
Essays and Stories
Scope and Content Note
Includes Admad, Muhammud, Pan-African Party and the Art of Struggle [1973]; Duren, Robert L., Jr.. No Fair Trial for Angela
(1972); Johnson, David, Leadership and Revolution in Reality (1972); Kelley, Anne (1976); Packwood, Harold E., Stories (1972);
Rice, David, Back to the Feet of the Master (1975)
carton 21, folder 64
Poems by Black Prisoners, A-Z
1971-1975
carton 21, folder 65-73
Poems
Scope and Content Note
Includes Brown, Howard (1972, undated); Collins, Pauline (1972); Horace, Charles Jr. (1971); Hunter, Johnny F. (1971); Johnson,
Dennis Alvin (1971, undated); Ratton (1972); Richter, Andrew, editor, Through the Wall: Prison Correspondence (1974-1975);
Smith, Earnest L. (1974); Zulu, Kurelu (1972)
Subject Files
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Content Note
May include manuscripts submitted or accepted for publication. Some are more like topics under consideration for stories (or
the story ideas found in Robert Allen's editorial management files: Ideas, Notes, and Reference, in Cartons 15-16). Includes
newspaper clippings, publications, and correspondence, most of which is with Robert Chrisman.
carton 34, folder 15-22
"A"
Scope and Contents
Abortion, 1987; Affirmative Action, 1989-1995; Africa, 1987-1989; African Literature, 1988-1989; AIDS, approximately 1988-1989;
Amnesty International – Rice-Poindexter Case, 1981-1982; Apartheid/Anti-Apartheid, 1988-1989; Art, Black, 1989 ("Art for Life,
an Essay, and Year 2000, a Poem," by Kalamu Ya Salaam, Keynote Address)
carton 34, folder 24-29
"B"
Scope and Content Note
Biography, 1987; Biological Engineering, 1987; Blacks against Contra Aid (BACA), approximately 1988; Blacks in Business, approximately
1986; Blacks in Canada, 1987; Brazil, 1988
carton 34, folder 29-35
"C"
Scope and Content Note
Includes Campus Activism, 1995; Caribbean, 1988; Census/Population, 1988; Central America, approximately 1984; Child, Black,
1987-1989; Crime, 1982-1987
carton 22, folder 1
Color Purple
approximately 1987
carton 22, folder 2
Cuba
approximately 1981-1984
carton 34, folder 36-40
Cuba Issue; and Cuba/Cuban Conference – Slavery [Wald]
1985-1989
carton 34, folder 41-45
"D"
Scope and Content Note
Includes Death Penalty, approximately 1987; Dialogue of the Americas – Dialogos des las Americas - addresses (contact information),
undated; Disabled, 1988; Domestic Violence, 1984; Drugs, 1989
carton 34, folder 46
El Salvador - Juan Antonio
approximately 1981
carton 34, folder 47-49
"E"
Scope and Content Note
Economic Issues, approximately 1984-1988; Education, approximately 1977-1989
carton 34, folder 50-52
"F"
Scope and Content Note
Family, Black, 1985; FESPAC Work File (Pan African Festival of Arts and Culture), 1988; Fiction – Born Only Once – Joseph
B. Diescho, typescript, 1987
carton 22, folder 8-9
Grenada - Government Information Service News Releases
1982-1983
carton 22, folder 10
Guyana
1973-1983
Scope and Content Note
Note on folder indicates The Black Scholar was interested in setting up a regional office in Guyana
carton 22, folder 12
Housing, including Litigation Case in Marin
1974-1982
carton 35, folder 2-8
"H"
Scope and Content Note
Harambee Flame (Journal), 1987; Health, Black, includes cancer, approximately 1978-1988; History, Black, 1975-1989; Housing,
1985-1989; Hunger, 1988; Hunger – Africa, 1988
carton 35, folder 9-11
"I"
Scope and Content Note
Ideas, approximately 1988; The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2006; International Organization of Journalists, 1986
carton 22, folder 15
Kissinger, Henry A.
1975-1976
carton 35, folder 12-14
"K"
Scope and Content Note
Includes Katrina Clips, approximately 2005-2007; King Assassination
carton 35, folder 15-18
"L"
Scope and Contents
Includes Labor, 1983; Law, 1987-1988; Liberation Movement, Black, 1986-1988; Library of Congress - Blacks, approximately 1986
carton 22, folder 17
Marxism vs. Nationalism
1980
carton 22, folder 18
MOVE (Philadelphia Bombing Incident)
1986-1989
carton 35, folder 19-23
"M"
Scope and Content Note
Media, 1988; Men, Black, approximately 1984-1987; Middle East, 1988; Military, approximately 1984-1988; Music, 1988-1989
carton 35, folder 24-25
"N-O"
Scope and Content Note
Nicagragua, 1987; Oil – Iraq, 2007
carton 22, folder 20-31
Prison cases
1968-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes General (1972); Black Liberation Army (1971-1974); Guyton, Tyrone (1976); Johnson, Kenneth (1976); Leavenworth brothers
(Howard Moore, Jr., Odell Bennett) (1974); Marshall, Gary C. (1981-1983); Neville, Rosana (1983); Port Chicago Mutiny, includes
benefit and Robert Allen's article (1982-1991); San Quentin Six (1974-1976); Wood, Dale (1968-1971). Includes news clippings
and newsletters.
carton 35, folder 26-28
Prisoner – Political/Prisoners, Black, includes various Spear & Shield Publications
1985-1989
carton 35, folder 29-32
"P"
Scope and Content Note
Includes Peace, 1988; Press (Black press, contacts, press packets), approximately 1984-1987; Psychology, Black, 1989; Pulitzer,
Black Writers, 1988
carton 22, folder 32
Repressive Legislation, includes Refugee Acts
1980-1983
carton 35, folder 33-37
"R"
Scope and Content Note
Racism, and White Racism, 1987-1989, undated; Red Bass Magazine – Jay Murphy – NEA Grant, 1987-1988; Reed College, 1974; Republic
of New Afrika, 1986; Research on Africa, 1987; Right-Wing, approximately 1987
carton 22, folder 33-36
South Africa, includes Newsletters and United Nations Publications
approximately 1974-1983
carton 35, folder 38-42
"S"
Scope and Content Note
Sisters in Support of South Africa (SASA) (includes a copy of a Gloria I. Joseph and Audre Lorde article); Slave Routes: The
Long Memory, Symposium, 1999; [Social Security], Volume 35, No. 1, 2004; Spelman College, 1988 (includes publications); Sports/Black
Sports Issue, approximately 1986-1989
carton 35, folder 43-44
"T"
Scope and Content Note
Theater, Black approximately 1987-1989; Third World Debt, 1985-1989
carton 36, folder 1-2
United Nations, including UN Day, UN: WCAR (World Council Around Racism)
approximately 1982-2002
carton 36, folder 3-5
V-W
Scope and Content Note
Voting Rights, 1986; Women, approximately 1987-1988; Women, Black, approximately 1987-1989
carton 36, folder 6-7
Y-Z
Scope and Content Note
Yari, Yari Workfile, includes Yari Yari Pamberi, materials re: Jayne Cortez, 2004; Zimbabwe, approximately 1998-2007
carton 22, folder 38
Research Reference - News Releases, Newsletters, and Brochures from Various Organizations
1971-1975
carton 23, folder 1-13
Research Reference - News Releases, Newsletters, and Brochures from Various Organizations
approximately 1976-May 1985
Series 4.
Office Background files
1955-2007
Physical Description: Carton 23, folders 14-38; Cartons 24-29; Carton 36, folders 8-44; Carton 37; Carton 38, folders 1-36
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content Note
Includes Personality files and Administrative (business and office management) files. There are records related to the Black
World Foundation, fundraising, community organizations, conferences, and publishing houses.
Personality Files
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by name
Scope and Content Note
These were described in the initial donation as "Profiles of individuals important within the black community or to the Black
Scholar organization. Prominent scholars, writers, artists, revolutionaries and politicians are included in these files."
Includes correspondence, newsclippings, and photographs. People listed individually in the initial donation are listed separately
here, even if their files are slim.
carton 23, folder 15
Ahmad, Akbar Muhammad
approximately 1972-1982
carton 23, folder 16
Angelou, Maya
approximately 1973-1981
carton 23, folder 17
Aptheker, Herbert
approximately 1970-1983
carton 23, folder 18
Ashe, Arthur
approximately 1975-1985
carton 23, folder 19
Baldwin, James
approximately 1976-1988
carton 23, folder 20-21
Baraka, Imanu Amiri
approximately 1972-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes writings related to the Congress of African People, and Reflections of the Sun by the Afrikan Free School, Inc.
carton 23, folder 30
Catlett Elizabeth
1978-1980
carton 23, folder 32
Chisholm, Shirley
1972-1974
carton 23, folder 33
Clarke, John Henrik
1975-1983
carton 23, folder 34-35
Cleaver, Eldridge
approximately 1971-1982
carton 23, folder 36-37
Cole, Johnetta B., includes Inauguration
approximately 1971-1984, 2006
carton 24, folder 3
Dellums, Ron
approximately 1972-1989
carton 24, folder 5
Du Bois, David G.
1971-1978
carton 24, folder 6
Du Bois, Shirley
approximately 1958-1977
carton 36, folder 8
D-Y
Scope and Content Note
Douglas, Emory (undated); Du Bois, W.E.B. (UMass Press, undated); Edwards, Mel (1988); Farrakhan, Minister Louis (1996); Hare,
Nathan and Julia (1987); Newport, Gus (approximately 1983-1986); Rojas, Don (1988); West, Cornel (1993); White, Joe (1994);
Yahweh, Ben (1992)
carton 24, folder 13
Gwaltney, John L.
1977-1981
carton 24, folder 16
Hansberry, Lorraine/Lorraine Hansberry-Robert Nemiroff, includes Celebration of Life for Nemiroff
1982-1991
carton 24, folder 24
Jackson, Angela
approximately 1977-1979
carton 24, folder 28
Karenga, Maulana Ron
approximately 1974-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes the pamphlet, The Roots of the US-Panther Conflict: The Perverse and Deadly Games Police Play
carton 24, folder 29
Kaufman, Robert
1976-1983
carton 24, folder 33
Lee, Barbara
approximately 1980
carton 24, folder 36
Magee, Ruchell
approximately 1973
carton 24, folder 37
Maher, Gaeage B. Muetse
1981
carton 24, folder 38-39
Majors, Clarence, includes The History of Rape: Poems
approximately 1973-1983
carton 24, folder 40
Majors, Reggie W.
1981-1982
carton 24, folder 43
Manning, Marable
1982-1984
carton 24, folder 45-46
Marshall, William
approximately 1969-1985
carton 24, folder 48
Neyrere, Mwalimu Julius K.
1977-1980
carton 24, folder 49-55
Obadele, Imari (and RNA-11)
approximately 1968-1980
carton 24, folder 56
O'Neal, Mary
approximately 1979-1984
carton 24, folder 58
Pascal, Andrew G.
1970-1971
carton 24, folder 59
Patterson, William L.
1970-1980
carton 24, folder 61
Reed, Ishmael, includes the Poem Petite Kid Everett
1975-1980
carton 24, folder 62
Robinson, William H. ("Hands")
1971-1981
carton 25, folder 1-2
Rodney, Walter
1975-1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes a copy of the ACLM (Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement) publication, Outlet (1980)
carton 25, folder 3
Rowell, Charles H.
1980-1982
carton 36, folder 11
Scott, Patricia Scott, includes a 1991 Interview
1987-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes compact audiocassette tape
carton 25, folder 5
Seale, Bobby
approximately 1972
carton 25, folder 9
Sostre, Martin
approximately 1971-1972
carton 25, folder 10
Spillers, Hortense
1972-1977
carton 25, folder 11
Staples, Robert
1969-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes Black Male/Female Relationships, Vol. 1., No. 1, 1979
carton 25, folder 12
Strickland, William L.
1978-1981
carton 25, folder 14
Thomas, Joyce Carol
approximately 1982
carton 25, folder 15-16
Toure, Sekou
approximately 1965-1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes a copy of the pamphlet L'O.U.A. Vaincra (The O.U.A. will win!), 1965; and an issue of Horoya Hebdo, 1970
carton 36, folder 12
Troupe, Quincy
approximately 1989-1991
carton 25, folder 20
Walker, Alice
approximately 1973-1983
carton 25, folder 21
Walker, Margaret
approximately 1980
carton 25, folder 25
Names in the News
1973-1975
carton 25, folder 26
Biographies, Miscellaneous
approximately 1976-1987
Administrative Files (Business and Office Management Files)
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content Note
Includes the General Manager's files
carton 25, folder 27-28
Correspondence and Memoranda
1971-1986
carton 36, folder 13
Memos, Message and Invoice Forms
approximately 1974-1988
carton 36, folder 14
Black Scholar Stationary, Letterheads, Business Cards, Change of Address
approximately 1981-2004, undated
carton 25, folder 30
Staff Meetings
approximately 1981-1988
carton 25, folder 31
Retreat Discussion Summary
1975
carton 25, folder 32
Advisory Board Correspondence
1978, 1994
carton 36, folder 15-16
Advisory Board Correspondence and General Info re: Dr. Nathan Hare Resignation
approximately 1974-1981
carton 25, folder 33
General information, including Hare's Resignation, Black Scholar History, and Info for Authors
approximately 1971-1979, 2006
carton 25, folder 34
Black Scholar Cultural Center, includes Budget Proposal
1985
carton 25, folder 35-36
Office Leasing (Black World Foundation); and Office Building Search
1980-1981
carton 36, folder 17
Office Leasing, and Storage
1971-1974
carton 25, folder 37
Filing System
approximately 1974-1976
Scope and Content Note
Note on folder says "original filing scheme used at BSP"
General Manager - Circulation
carton 25, folder 38-39
Circulation General Information and Reports
approximately 1975-1981
carton 25, folder 40
Production schedule
approximately 1985-1986
carton 25, folder 41
Subscription Rate
approximately 1979-1980
carton 36, folder 18
Circulation and Subscription Materials
1971-2004
carton 25, folder 43
Circulation Distributors
1981, 1985-1986
carton 25, folder 44-51
Subscription Agencies
Scope and Content Note
Includes folders for Benjamin and Company, 1982-1983; Carol Enters List Co., correspondence, orders and invoices 1978-1986;
Information Services, 1975-1977; Cancellation and Refund Requests, 1978-1980, Return Requests, 1978-1979
carton 25, folder 52
Book Contract, including Agreement Forms
1978-1982
carton 25, folder 53-54
Promotion
approximately 1979-1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes promotional materials for The Color Purple, and Black Masculinity; and reference materials for promotion
carton 36, folder 20-27
Advertising, Press Releases, and Promotion
1969-1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence from Tim Marshall, who was the Director of Promotions and the Director of the Speakers Bureau; announcements
for the Maya Angelou benefit, poetry readings, and a reading with Alice Walker and Tillie Olsen; an advertising kit; an affirmative
action memo; and ideas for promotions (some from other presses)
carton 25, folder 55
Periodical Exhibits
1975-1977
carton 26, folder 1
Indexing and Directory listing for TBS
1976-1984
carton 36, folder 28
Bowker Serial Directories
1988
carton 26, folder 2-5
Subscriptions
Scope and Content Note
Includes complimentary subscriptions, 1975-1980; subscriptions at premiums, 1976; subscriptions, approximately 1986
carton 26, folder 7
Customer Service
approximately 1980
carton 26, folder 9-12
Art and Design
Scope and Content Note
Includes general information, 1972-77; subscription cards and subscription renewal cards, [1986], undated; typesetting, approximately
1977; and printing style, undated
carton 36, folder 29-31
Art and Design
Scope and Content Note
Includes suppliers; samples; and Burning Spear Graphics, 1984
General Manager - Operational
carton 26, folder 13
Management (Reference)
1986
carton 26, folder 14-16
Personnel, includes Job Descriptions, Hiring, and Hiring for Internship Program
approximately 1970-1982
carton 36, folder 32
Personnel
1981-1997
Scope and Content Note
Includes cover letters, job priorities for Eileen, staff memo
carton 36, folder 33
[Office Procedures Notebooks]
approximately 1982
General Manager - Financial
carton 26, folder 17-25
Financial Papers
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following files: Income and Expenses, 1979-1982; Budget, 1984-1986; General Ledger and Charts of Accounts, 1985-1986;
Balance Sheet/Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, 1981-1986; Income Statement January 1986; Cash Flow, 1985; Payroll
System and Payroll, approximately 1969-1971, 1981-1986; Advertising Reports, 1981-1986; Miscellaneous, includes loan, returned
check records, 1979-1983
carton 36, folder 34-45
Financial Records
Scope and Content Note
There is overlap with Black World Foundation files. Includes the following files: Miscellaneous (tax exemption, bookeeping,
Berkeley Computer invoices, outflow), 1967-1985; Wells Fargo Loan, Application Form, 1980-1983; Accounts Payable, Income,
etc., approximately 1981-1985; Black Scholar Business, includes a publishing agreement, 1987-2003; 1989 TBS Finance; Pro Quest,
1990-2006; Midwest Office Operating Expenses, 1994-1995; Expenses, 2002; Contract Fees, 2002-2003; Financials, 2002-August
2004
carton 37, folder 1-9
Financial Records
Scope and Content Note
Includes Appendix I - Profit and Loss, 2004 Boiler Plate, 2004; Library Databases, 2004; List Rental, 2004; Telephone, 2004;
Akeelah and the Bee – Product Placement, 2005; VNP Audit, 2005; Profit and Loss/Advertising Billing Reports, 2007; Gale Group
Agreement (undated)
carton 26, folder 26
Postal Service (Part of Circulation)
1971-1987
carton 37, folder 10-12
Postal Info/Post Office Records; Celebrate African American History with Stamps
approximately 1981-1998
carton 26, folder 27-28
Direct Mailing Campaign, and Direct Mailing - Reference
1983-1986
carton 37, folder 13-41
Direct Mailing Campaigns
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following campaigns and folders: Anti-Apartheid Support Network Mailing, 1986; Black [Professors] Letter; Dennis
Brutus Test Mailing and List, 1983; Christmas Mailing, 1983; Ron Dellums Mailing, 1983; Expire Mailing, 1984; Friends of the
Black Scholar (letters, foundation proposal, responses and renewals, building fund, layout and type, and to do), approximately
1982-1993;
Holiday Mailing, approximately 1982-1984; Libraries, 1984; List Info, approximately 1981-1984;
Kenneth McClane Letter (re: A Tree Beyond Telling), 1984; Needs, approximately 1984; Renewal Letter, 1984; Renewal Letters,
1984; Outreach File - Tentative Topic List, 1989; Samples, approximately 1975-1984; [Subscriptions/Direct Mail Correspondence],
1982, 2003-2004; Summer 1984; Direct Mail, 1982-1988. Includes requests from prisoners and students. There's also a letter
to women's bookstores, 1986.
carton 26, folder 29-37
Mailing List Development
approximately 1970-1983
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence; the Educational Directory; Encore; England; Prescott List, Inc.; list rental/exchange; and reference
for mailing list development
carton 26, folder 38-40
Computer Operation Information, includes Inexpensive Software, Inputting
approximately 1984-1986
carton 37, folder 43
Business/Computer, includes a Manual for the Mod Key 16
1985-1988
carton 26, folder 41
Telephone Operation Information
1981-1986
carton 37, folder 44
Phones
approximately 1982-1985
carton 26, folder 44
Financial Statements
1976-1977, 1986
carton 37, folder 45
Memos, Correspondence, Administrative Records
approximately 1970-1982
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents and subjects include the Black Law Journal, a Black Studies Consortium, standard release Forms, a file jacket
list for program development, a board meeting, the resource library, and Robert Allen's resignation
carton 37, folder 46-48
Tax-Exempt Status, IRS/Work Study, Taxes
1972-1991
carton 37, folder 49
Grants
approximately 1975-1977
carton 37, folder 50-52
By-Laws, Articles of Incorporation, Certificate of Amendment of the Articles of Incorporation
approximately 1981-2004
carton 37, folder 53
Proposed Chart of Accounts, Chart of Accounts (Denise Curtis)
1985-1986
carton 37, folder 55
Employment Guidelines and House Rules (for the Black World Foundation and the Black Scholar)
approximately 1988
carton 37, folder 56-57
Indiana University Press, includes Publishing Agreement, and University of California Press Proposal
1990-1991
carton 37, folder 58-59
FOIA Requests (for the Black World Foundation and The Black Scholar)
approximately 1993
carton 37, folder 60-64
University of Nebraska Press
2001-2004
Scope and Content Note
Includes publishing agreement, advertising and financials
carton 38, folder 1-10
University of Nebraska Press
Scope and Content Note
Manit Kaur was the Journals Manager. Includes their files and reports on financials, production, and subscriptions; their
e-mails with Robert Chrisman; agendas/meetings, including Dunham contract talk; grievances; and a severance audit. Subsequent
files may also relate to The Black World Foundation's relationship to the University of Nebraska Press
carton 38, folder 11
Legal – Silk, Adler & Colvin
2003
carton 38, folder 14
New TBS Material (as on 6/1/05)
2004-2005
carton 38, folder 15-16
Trademark Application and Certificate of Registration
2005
carton 38, folder 17-18
TBS/BWF Notes/Meetings, includes reports from Chrisman, Financials
2005-2006
carton 27, folder 2
California Arts Council
1974-1976
carton 27, folder 3-5
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines - Correspondence, Grant Application, and General Info
1972-1983
carton 38, folder 20
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, includes Board, Executive/Personnel Committees
1983-1988
carton 27, folder 6
Ford Foundation
1971-1983
carton 27, folder 7
Institute for the Study of Social Change, Berkeley, California
1979-1980
carton 27, folder 8
L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation
1985-1986
carton 27, folder 9-14
Marin County Office of Employment and Training - Public Service and Employment Program
1977-1981
Scope and Content Note
Note on folder says "see also programs series." Includes correspondence, budget, and financial reports
carton 38, folder 21
Marin County Office of Employment and Training - Public Service and Employment Program
1978-1979
carton 38, folder 22
San Francisco Foundation
1984
carton 27, folder 15
Third World Fund
1975-1977
carton 27, folder 16-17
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), includes Housing Finance Mechanism
1979-1980
carton 38, folder 23
Vanguard Public Foundation
approximately 2000
carton 27, folder 19-22
Research on Possible Funding Agencies; Research on Fund Raising; Fundraising Mailing Agency
1967-1983
carton 38, folder 24-28
Grant Requests, Proposals, Grants and Fundraising Material, Charities
1972-1989
Community Organizations and Institutions
Scope and Content Note
Also includes government agencies. Organizations are local, national, and international. Includes publications and correspondence
with, and on behalf of, groups.
carton 27, folder 23
Affirmative Action Association
1984-1985
carton 27, folder 24
African American Heritage Studies Program
1980
carton 27, folder 25
Alliance Against Women's Oppression
1983-1984
carton 27, folder 26
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
1986-1987
carton 27, folder 27
American Institute for Marxist Studies
1973-1985
carton 27, folder 28
American Library Association
1973-1975
carton 27, folder 29
The American Writers Congress
1981
carton 27, folder 30
Association of American Publishers
1977-1978
carton 27, folder 31
Before Columbus Foundation - American Book Award
1980-1982
carton 27, folder 32
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
1975-1980
carton 27, folder 34
Black Survival and Development Forum
1974
carton 27, folder 35
California Legislative Black Caucus
1972
carton 27, folder 36
Caribbean Education Project
1982
carton 27, folder 37
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
1982
carton 27, folder 38
Center for Cuban Studies
1976-1983
carton 27, folder 41
Combined Book Exhibit, Inc.
1973
carton 27, folder 42
Conference of Non-Aligned Nations
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Black Americans and the Nonaligned Movements" by Robert Chrisman
carton 27, folder 43
Congressional Black Caucus
approximately 1971-1986
carton 28, folder 1
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
1977-1978
carton 28, folder 2
Crossroads Africa
1979-1980
carton 28, folder 3
Democratic Workers Party
1982-1983
carton 28, folder 4
Drum Arts Centre
approximately 1977
carton 28, folder 5
Film Festival - Image of the Negro in American Films
1969
carton 28, folder 6
Independent Publishing Fund of the Americas
1977
carton 28, folder 7
Infonet Systems, Inc.
1974-1981
carton 28, folder 8
Institute for the Arts and Humanities
1977-1978
carton 28, folder 9
Institute for Food Development Policy
1981
carton 28, folder 10-11
Institute of the Black World
1971-1982
carton 28, folder 12
Institute of Human Values
approximately 1976-1978
carton 28, folder 13
International Labor Office
approximately 1982
carton 28, folder 14-15
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, Inc.
1972-1974
carton 28, folder 16-17
Joint Center for Political Studies
1974, 1985-1986
carton 28, folder 18
Liberation Information Distributing Co.: Litigation
1981-1983
carton 28, folder 19
Medgar Evers College
1986
carton 28, folder 20
Microfilming Corporation of America
1976-1983
carton 28, folder 21
Mozambique Film Project
1976
carton 28, folder 22
NAACP Legal and Education Fund
1982-1983
carton 28, folder 23
National Anti-Imperialist Conference
October 1973
carton 28, folder 24-31
National Black United Front
1975-1984
carton 28, folder 32
National Black United Fund
approximately 1977-1984
carton 28, folder 33
National Coalition to Support African Liberation
1978
carton 28, folder 34
National Conference of Black Lawyers
1983-1984
carton 28, folder 35
National Council for Black Studies
1981-1984, 1994
carton 29, folder 1-2
National Endowment for the Humanities
1974-1982
carton 29, folder 3
National H-Block-Armagh Committee
1969-1980
carton 29, folder 4
New Cross Massacre
1981-1982
carton 29, folder 5
Prison Law Project
1964-1978
carton 29, folder 6-7
Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee (PRCS)
approximately 1964-1978
carton 29, folder 8
Pull the Cover off Imperialism Project
1974-1975
carton 29, folder 10
Republic of New Afrika
1977-1981
carton 29, folder 11
San Francisco Carnival
1982
carton 29, folder 12
Seminar on Racism in The United States
1983
carton 29, folder 13
The Third World Writers, Thinkers and Scholars
1982
carton 29, folder 14
Tricontinental Film Center
1973-1978
carton 29, folder 15-16
United Front of Cairo, includes News Releases
approximately 1971-1972
carton 29, folder 17-21
United Nations, includes Correspondence, Reports, Publications, and Press Releases
1982-1983
carton 29, folder 22
United Negro College Fund
1980
carton 29, folder 23
United States Department of Energy
1982
carton 29, folder 24
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Catalogs
1981-1983
carton 29, folder 25
Venceremos Brigade
approximately 1975-1978
carton 29, folder 26
Miscellaneous Community Organizations and Institutions
approximately 1974-1983
carton 38, folder 29
Miscellaneous Community Organizations and Institutions
1971-2002
Scope and Content Note
Includes African American Heritage Studies Program; American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Assoc. Malienne pour le Rapprochement
des Noirs d'Amerique des Maliens; Black American Network for Disarmanent Peace and Justice (BANDPJ); Black Child Developoment
Institute; black look action committee; bread for the world; Communist Party USA; Community Development Center; Committees
of Correspondence Education Fund (dialogue & initiative); Dustboos; Friends of Chester Himes; Green Haven Correctional Facility
Black Studies Program; Greensboro Civil Rights Fund; Harambee Flame; Institute of International Education; Interracial Books
for Children; People's World; the Pushcart Foundation; San Francisco State School of Business; Self-Advancement Through Education
(S.A.T.E.); South African Military Refugee Aid Fund; United Black Workers (The Black Voice); Urban League
carton 38, folder 30-31
Glide Conference – Black Family and Crack Cocaine (National Conference), includes Compact Cassette Audiotape
1990
carton 38, folder 32
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. 56th Anniversary Convention
1971
carton 38, folder 33
Conferences - Various
approximately 1969-2002
Scope and Content Note
Includes National Association of Black Social Workers; Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treament: A Challenge to Human
Rights; a celebration of Robert Hayden's poetry; Men of Color Conference; International Conference of the African Presence
in America; North American Pan African Conference; People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions; A Malcom X festival
II; Symposium on Malcolm X; "Black is…whether you like it or not"
carton 29, folder 27
The Baker and Taylor Company
1980-1984
carton 29, folder 29-30
Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., includes Entries from Their Reprint Series in Black Studies
approximately 1972-1982
carton 29, folder 32
Doubleday
approximately 1972-1976
carton 29, folder 33
Edwards Brothers
1977-1984
carton 29, folder 34
Ginn Custom Publishing
1982-1983
carton 29, folder 35
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
approximately 1971-1972
carton 29, folder 36-37
McGraw-Hill Book Company
1972-1981
carton 29, folder 38
Parnassus Press (Herman Schein)
approximately 1955-1971
carton 29, folder 39
Publications Distribution Cooperative
1978
carton 29, folder 41
Printing companies, A-Z
approximately 1974-1983
carton 29, folder 42
List of Publishers and Miscellaneous Publishers and Journals
approximately 1969-1986
carton 38, folder 34
CRN (Cooperative Research Network) - Guide to Scholarly Publishing/Afro Scholar Newsletter
1992
carton 38, folder 35
Transaction Periodicals and Serials Catalog (Transaction Periodicals Consortium)
1984
Series 5.
Nathan Hare Files
approximately 1967-1974
Physical Description: Carton 3, folder 10; Carton 32, folders 14-26
Scope and Content Note
The majority of these files related to co-founder Nathan Hare came with the additions to the collection.
carton 32, folder 14-24
Correspondence, Submissions, Notes, Photographs
approximately 1968-1974
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
Scope and Content Note
Includes ephemera; selected works from West Mumia Cook (Mumia Abu-Jamal), 1970-1971; a photograph of Hare and a photograph
of an unidentified individual found in a 1971 correspondence file; typescripts from Ronald Walters, Chuck Stone, and Grant
G. Henry; a talk on sexual politics given by Gwen Patton (1971); The All African People's Alliance, University of Chicago
Chapter African (Black) Student Directory (1971). Some correspondence may be related to the Prison Fund.
carton 3, folder 10
Correspondence
approximately 1972
carton 32, folder 25-26
Articles on Black Studies
approximately 1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes publications and typescripts
Series 6.
Photographic and Audiovisual Materials
approximately 1974-1988
Physical Description: Carton 38, folders 37-53
Scope and Content Note
Includes black & white prints, contact sheets (proof sheets), negatives, and slides. There are some color snapshots and Polaroids.
Many were published in The Black Scholar. Some photographers are identified. Subjects include actors, authors, civil rights
leaders, political figure, and The Black Scholar leadership and staff. Photographic materials were already separted into folders;
some descriptions of materials were taken from notes that came with the donation. There are also two audiocassettes.
carton 38, folder 37
1974-1988
Scope and Contents
Black & white photos, contact sheets, and negatives. Includes the following subjects: the fifth anniversary retreat of the
Black World Foundation/Black Scholar (taken by Cleveland Glover, approximately 1974); Poet's Corner (taken by Dorthy Randall-Tsuruta);
Cuba Delegation, with Alice Walker, Robert Chrisman (1976); Andrew Salkey; Charles Rowell; Ernest Gaines; Robert Allen; the
Democratic National Convention, and Jesse Jackson (1988)
carton 38, folder 38
April 1975
Scope and Content Note
Black & white snapshots. Notes with collection say this was possibly an event with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
and Ralph Abernathy, but it looks like some are from the W.E.B. Du Bois Essay Awards. There are also photographs of bison
carton 38, folder 39
1975-1987
Scope and Content Note
Photos, negatives, and Polaroids. There are lack & white snapshots from Prague 1983 – the World Assembly for Peace and Life
against Nuclear War, from the April 1975 event [W.E.B. DuBois essay Awards?], and of Chrisman and Allen at an event with Ethel
Vandervall; color Polaroids of The Black Scholar booth at an event; color snapshots of a barbecue/outdoor party (1987) and
of a panel at a conference [with Allen and Chrisman?]; Reg Wilson stills from a theater production; and a signed headshot
of Anita Tucker
carton 38, folder 40
1977-1985
Scope and Content Note
Photographs and Slides with images/art by Irmagean, including "The Shore," 1977 and "Weeping Willow," 1985
carton 38, folder 41
Approximately 1977-1988
Scope and Content Note
Black & white headshots, stills, contact sheets, snapshots. Subjects include Arnold Rampersad; Langston Hughes (photo credited
to Morgan and Marvin Smith); Dinizulu and his African Dancers; Jesse Jackson; Sylvester; Lena Horne (photo credited to Sharon
C. Farmer); Ron Dellums; George Jackson; stills from Eyes on the Prize and Mississippi Burning; photos of art by Julius Lester
and Ruth Gibbs
carton 38, folder 42
Approximately 1980-1995
Scope and Content Note
Black & white photographs and contact sheets. Subjects include William Marshall (negative); Viva el 10 de Mayo; Fidel Castro,
Maurice Bishop, and Daniel Ortega [in Grenada?]; boats from the U.S. to Mariel Harbor; and March of the Pueblo. Subjects of
photograhs taken by Chrisman include Margarita Delgado, Amaryls Gonzalez, Pedro Serviat, Johnetta Cole, George Murphy, and
Reynaldo Garcia. There is a color snapshot [taken by Robert Allen] of Serviat with Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, President of the
Atlanta Board of Education. Other subjects include Alice Walker reading at a book party (photo credited to Nan E. Park, approximately
1980); JoNina Abron and Ronald Dellums. There is a postcard, "Sunshine Bracey," by Dawoud Bey (1995). Some photographs are
credited to Sud Smith, or to UPI
carton 38, folder 43
1980-1981, undated
Scope and Content Note
Folder labeled "Art Photographs" contains black & white prints, headshots, and stills of musicians, writers, productions,
and events. There are also some clippings from The Black Scholar and other periodicals. Subjects include Sylvester; Sonny
Rollins; "On the Right Track"; Toni Cade Bambara's keynote address at the Conference on Black South Literature and Art (audience
includes, among others, Andrew Young and Ossie Davis); Oscar Brown, Jr.; Ronald Reagan flanked by civil rights activists E.V.
Hill, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Reverend Hosea Williams, and Dr. William F. Burghardt; Toni Morrison; Sanford and Son; Norman
Lear; Michael Emeji, doctoral student from Nigeria; boxers at the Apache Center; Anheuser-Busch publicity photos (including
"This Bud's for UNCF, with Lou Rawls); Madge Sinclair; Bill Cosby with Dinah Shore. Some photographs, such as outdoor shots
of a house, animals, and a few men, seem older but most are from 1980-1981
carton 38, folder 44
Delegation to Cuba
1985
Scope and Content Note
Black & white photographs from the Delegation to Cuba, with Letter from [Jape]
carton 38, folder 45
1985
Scope and Content Note
Primarily black & white photographs from The National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Unión Nacional de Escritores y
Artistas de Cuba) (UNEAC) from January 1985. There are also some color snapshots from what looks like an art opening in June
1985. Subjects include children singing Nicolas Guillen's poetry; Nancy [Morejon]; Mildred; Audre Lorde; Alexis; Jayne [Cortez];
Verta Mae Grosvernor; Gloria Joseph; Vilma Espin; members of the Federation of Cuban Women; Mel; Alfredo Rostgaard; Rashidah
Ishmaili; Ted Joans; B.J. Ashanti; Raymond Patterson; Shirley Campbell; Maurice Kenny; Bob Rogers; Vivian Brown; Robert Chrisman.
Some UNEAC photos are credited to Pedro Beruvides
carton 38, folder 46
Ron Dellums Photos
approximately 1985
Scope and Content Note
Black & white prints, snapshots, and negatives [at an event for Dellums]. Subjects include Dellums, Nichelle Nichols, and
Levar Burton
carton 38, folder 47
Approximately 1985-1989
Scope and Content Note
Black & white prints of events, headshots, stills, and contact sheets. Photos credited to Kathy Sloane include Gary Delgado,
Alfredo DeAvila, MAAP Interns (Minority Activist Apprenticeship Program), and a press conference (1987). Other subject include
Black Is the Color, by Ruth Gibbs; Verta Mae Grosvenor, NPR (photo credited to Stan Barouh, 1989); attorney Tom Todd (1990);
a Maxell promotional photo of a Washington DC classroom for their program, "Computers and Space"; Morehouse College award
winners, including Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, and Hank Aaron; The African Portfolios, signed by Elisabeth Sunday (1989);
Harold Washington; NAACP Image Awards (includes Whitney Houston, Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Bryant Gumbel); Eddie Murphy;
Quincy [Troupe], Jayne [Cortez]; Howard; Nancy [Morejon], Pedro; Tato at the Schomburg Center (1985); and Latin American Book
Festival (photo credited to Marbeth). There are stills from a production with Esther Rolle and Danny Glover, and from Eyes
on the Prize; a snapshot from the 1988 Democratic National Convention; and a postcard for a photo exhibit by H.L. Keller (1987).
There is some overlap with the folder of UNEAC photographs
carton 38, folder 48
Approximately 1985
Scope and Content Note
Contact sheet, scraperboard art, negatives. These may be from Cuba
carton 38, folder 49
ANC-SWAPO Reception (Kathy Sloane Black & White Photographs)
1986
Scope and Content Note
Photos from a reception The Black Scholar hosted for African National Congress-South West African Peoples Organization (ANC-SWAPO)
delegates in 1986. Subjects include Z Paolo Jordan, Hinyangerwa Asheeke, Hidipo Hamuetenya, and Cheryl Johnson
carton 38, folder 50
1988
Scope and Content Note
Black & white negatives, prints, contact sheets. Subjects include Bill Cosby, Jesse Jackson, and the 1988 Democratic Convention
(there are LGBT activists and someone holding a sign re: the United Foods boycott at the convention). Some photos are credited
to Bud Smith and to UPI International
carton 38, folder 51
Negatives and Proof Sheets
Approximately 1988
Scope and Content Note
Black & white. Subjects include an office [The Black Scholar?]; the Democratic National Convention; and photos of clinics,
and posters for contraception in Spanish in [Cuba?]
carton 38, folder 52
Approximately 1988
Scope and Content Note
Black & white photgraphs and proof sheets. Subjects include the 1988 Democratic National Convention' amd [a cigar factory
in Cuba?]
Audiovisual Materials
Scope and Content Note
Three of the cassettes are stored and cataloged separately (Phonotape 2772 C: 1-3)
carton 38, folder 53
Compact Audiocassette Tapes
approximately 1988
Scope and Contents
Two tapes: one label reads, USSR [illegible], with a note that says, "/Ron Daniels starts here," January 20, 1988. The other
tape is unlabeled
cassette Phonotape 2772 C:1
cassette Phonotape 2772 C: 2
Interview with Ossie Davis
cassette Phonotape 2772 C: 3
"U.S. Politics and the Third World," Congressman Ron Dellums Speaking at the 4th Annual Unity Banquet (J.C.S.C.)
