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BOX I:80-94 Part I: Organizations File, 1939-1994
Correspondence, reports, and printed matter relating to Ellison's participation in professional and social organizations as an officer, trustee, or advisor.
Arranged alphabetically by name of organization and chronologically therein.
BOX I:80 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y.
1964-1994
(6 folders)
BOX I:81 Undated
(2 folders)
American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 1955-1960, 1971-1986, 1992-1994
American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 1956
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1967-1969, 1976
American Scholar, 1955, 1961-1969, 1976-1981
Associated Councils of the Arts, 1965-1974
Association of American Publishers, 1979
Authors Guild, 1963-1973, 1984-1986
Authors League of America, 1939, 1974-1975, 1985-1988
Bennington College, Bennington, Vt., 1955-1959, 1967-1977, 1982-1989, 1994
(2 folders)
BOX I:82 Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Creative Arts Awards, 1971-1972
Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, 1965-1968
(2 folders)
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, N.Y., 1987-1993
Century Association
1954, 1964-1994
(5 folders)
BOX I:83 Undated
(2 folders)
Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam, 1967-1968
Citizens for Humphrey, 1963-1968
(2 folders)
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
1968-1974
(4 folders)
BOX I:84 1977-1994
(7 folders)
BOX I:85 Commission on Negro History and Culture, 1967-1968
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1975-1982, 1988-1990
Educational Broadcasting Corp., 1968-1979
Educational Development Center, Newton, Mass., 1968, 1974
Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1988-1993
Ford Foundation, 1958-1972, 1979-1984
Foundation for the Arts, Religion, and Culture, 1962-1970
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Centennial Commission, 1981-1984
Franklin Library, 1976-1986
(2 folders)
BOX I:86 Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., 1967-1988
Harlem School of the Arts, New York, N.Y., 1980-1993
Holy Land Conservation Fund, 1972-1973
Hudson Institute, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1970-1975, 1982-1991
Institute for Natural Philosophy, Princeton, N.J., 1979-1981
Institute of Jazz Studies, New York, N.Y., 1953-1955
International Rescue Committee, 1951, 1964-1994
(4 folders)
BOX I:87 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1962-1992
(2 folders)
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., 1965-1976, 1987
(2 folders)
League of American Writers, 1939-1942
Library of Congress, 1962-1976, 1982-1983 See also Container 100, “Hidden Name and Complex Fate”
(2 folders)
Meharry Medical College Fund, 1977-1984
BOX I:88 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., 1975-1993
(2 folders)
Modern Language Association of America, 1965-1976, 1983-1992
Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., 1963-1987
Museum of Broadcasting, New York, N.Y., 1979-1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., 1964-1967, 1975
Museum of the City of New York, New York, N.Y., 1970-1994
NAACP
circa 1942, 1954-1955, 1961-1971
(2 folders)
1972-1994
(2 folders)
National Book Foundation
1953-1976, 1988-1989
(6 folders)
BOX I:90 1990-1992
National Citizens' Committee for Public Television, 1967-1974
National Council on the Arts, 1964-1989
(4 folders)
National Endowment for the Arts, 1966, 1975-1992
(2 folders)
BOX I:91 National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-1980
(2 folders)
National Medical Fellowships, 1984
National Negro Congress, 1940
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1972-1978, 1984
New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y., 1965-1988
(6 folders)
BOX I:92 New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., 1947, 1953, 1966-1992
(3 folders)
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, R.I., 1955-1958
Oklahoma Ambassador Corps, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1966-1969, 1990
Ossabaw Foundation, 1971-1982
P.E.N.
1952-1958
(2 folders)
BOX I:93 1959-1992
(4 folders)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1965-1972
Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, 1965-1972, 1983
University of California, La Jolla, Calif. and other locations, 1975-1982
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1964, 1972-1989
(2 folders)
BOX I:94 WNET/Thirteen, New York, N.Y., 1968-1986, 1992-1993
(4 folders)
Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1964-1988
(3 folders)
BOX I:95-169 Part I: Writings File, 1935-1995
Drafts of essays, novels, reviews, short stories, and other material written by Ellison. Correspondence and material relating to the production, publicity, and reception of his works are included. Dates in parentheses in the container list refer to the publication date; other dates refer to the period covered by the material in the folder.
Arranged alphabetically by type of work and by title therein.
BOX I:95 Essays and essay collections
“Adventures of an Unintentional New Yorker,” undated
“The American Artist and His Audience” (1977), 1994
American Civilization: a Portrait from the Twentieth Century (1972), unpublished chapter, 1968-1970
American Negro Congress, circa 1940
“The Art of Fiction: An Interview,” 1970
“As the Spirit Moves Mahalia,” 1958, 1969
Author's statement, Attacks of Taste, 1971
“Camp Lost Colony,” 1940
“Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke”
Correspondence, drafts, and partial drafts, 1957
Draft fragments, undated
Notes, undated
“The Charlie Christian Story,” 1958
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