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Part I: Oversize, 1978-1982 (continued)
Layout design (Container 8)
United Nations Decade for Women Mid-Decade
Conference
Poster, 1980 (Container 10)
Subject files
Equal Rights Amendment
Poster, United Methodist Family Life Committee, 1978 (Container 14)
BOX II:1-8 Part II: Langston Hughes, 1925-2009
Correspondence, poems, published and draft articles, photographs, research files, Federal Bureau of Investigation case files, books, newspaper and magazine clippings, and miscellaneous material related to Faith Berry's research for her biography of the poet Langston Hughes and for commemorative projects based on the life and works of the poet.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX II:1 Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1983
Bass, George Houston, 1978-1984
Biddle, Edmund Randolph, 1971-1987
"Black and White," unproduced film, 1932-1935, 1964-1968, 1975
(2 folders)
Bontemps, Arna, 1970-1972
The Brownies' Book, 1970-1972
California, 1934-1941
Chicago Defender, Here to Yonder, column, 1942
Commemorative tributes and works by others based on his work
Langston, 1979
The Legacy of Langston Hughes
Consultants, 1981
Drafts, 1981
(2 folders)
BOX II:2 Material used in documentary, 1981
(2 folders)
Outlines, 1981
WETA, 1975-1981
Miscellaneous, 1968, 1975-1982, 1988-1992, 2002-2004, undated
Critiques of his work, 1926-1998
(5 folders)
BOX II:3 Federal Bureau of Investigation
Case file, 1936-1965
(2 folders)
Correspondence, 1950, 19791-1981
(2 folders)
Freedom of Information Act, 1972-1982, 1994
Fisk University, Special Collections, Nashville, Tenn., research trip, 1963
(2 folders)
Gallup, Donald, 1978
Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes
First edition, 1973
Second edition, 1992
(2 folders)
BOX II:4 Hughes, James N. (father), 1971
Joplin, Mo., 1976-1977
Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem, book covers, brochure, 1983
"Langston Hughes of Kansas," Kansas History, 1986
Langston Hughes Review
Hughes, Langston, commemorative issue
Bass, George H., 1987
Briere, J. F., 1987
Carrabino, Victor, 1987
Diaz-Diacoretz, Myriam, 1987
Fabre, Michel, 1987
Kennedy, Ellen Conroy, 1987
Kitamura, Takao, 1987
Lubin, Maurice, 1987
Miscellany, 1987
Morejon, Nancy, 1987
Rubeo, Ugo, 1987
Singh, Amritjit, 1987
Turner, Darwin T., commemorative issue
Biographical information, 1992
Correspondence and draft articles, 1992
(2 folders)
BOX II:5 Errata, 1992
Turner, Jean (wife), correspondence, 1992
Langston Hughes Society, 1990, undated
Lecture tours and public appearances, 1959, 1967, 1982
Leyda, Si-Lan Chen, 1934-1946, 1977-1978
Lieber, Maxim, 1938, 1947-1951, 1978-1980
(2 folders)
Lincoln University, Chester, Pa., 1926-1929, 1940-1943, 1953, 1981-1984, 1992
Literary influences, 1935, 1950, 1992, 1994
Lynch, Hollis Ralph, 1969-1974
Mason, Charlotte Osgood, 1929-1930, 1939, undated
BOX II:6 Mason, Charlotte Osgood, 1929-1930, 1939, undated
Miscellany, 1955-1997, undated
Musical theatre, 1930-1992, undated
(3 folders)
Negro History Bulletin, 1950-1952
Newspaper clippings, 1977-1983, 1998-1999, undated
Nugent, Bruce, 1977
Obituaries, friends and associates, 1973-2009
Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1932, 1959, 1970-1971
Photographs
Hughes, Langston, childhood photographs; and his mother Carrie Langston Hughes (George Houston Bass, donor), undated
Hughes, Langston, Cornelius Lardner, and Thomas Fortune Fletcher at Fisk University (Johnnie Mae Newton Berry [Faith's mother], photographer), 1931
Hughes, Langston, Mercer Cook, Leopold Senghor, others (Mercer Cook, donor), undated
Miscellaneous, 1925-1926, undated See also Oversize
BOX II:7 Patterson, Louise Thompson, Langston Hughes, others (Louise Thompson Patterson, donor), 1971
Posten, Ted, 1971
Rome, Harold, 1978
Roxborough, Elsie, 1971-1984
Rucker, Bernard, 1977
Scottsboro Limited, 1931-1937, 1973-1978
Seton, Marie, 1977
Short, John D., 1978-1979
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1991-1995
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1938, 1949, 1968-1972, 1982
Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1971
Thorpe, Francis Wills, 1971
Translator, 1948, 1957, 1968, undated
United States Senate Committee on Government Operations, testimony, 1952
Whitman, Walt, influence on Hughes, 1941-1946, 1953-1955, 1970, 1985, undated
Winter, Ella, 1978
Wirth, Thomas, 1927, 1983
Writers and writings, 1935-1939, 1949-1950, 1959-1965
Writings by Hughes, "The Bitter River" (poem), in The Black Nation, 1950-1952
Writings by Hughes from 1940s periodicals, 1940-1949
BOX II:8 Writings by Hughes from 1950s periodicals, 1950-1959
BOX II:8-12 Part II: J. Saunders Redding, 1939-1991
Published and draft articles by and about Redding, correspondence, pasteup book chapters, photographs, speeches, topical files, and miscellaneous material related to A Scholar's Conscience, an anthology of Redding's writings Berry edited.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX II:8 Articles about Redding, 1939-1988
Articles by Redding, 1944-1950, 1956-1975, 1982-1986
(2 folders)
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Africana Studies and Research Center,1969-1970
Miscellany, 1969-1974
Early fiction, 1923-1931, 1988-1989
George Washington University, Washington, D. C., 1969-1970
BOX II:9 Hughes, Langston
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