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Brooks, Christopher T. African Americans in the Spanish Civil War : Christopher Brooks research files, 1930s-1994.

Title: African Americans in the Spanish Civil War : Christopher Brooks research files, 1930s-1994.

Series I: National Files and General Materials, consists of a general introduction to the project for the veterans organizations and volunteers that Brooks contacted, along with photocopies of their responses. In each case, the volunteers (or in some cases, spouses of volunteers) that Brooks contacted were not themselves African Americans; they were simply asked to contribute their memories or recollections of any African Americans they (or their spouses) encountered in Spain or knew thereafter. There are two folders for each nation: the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada, followed by one small general folder containing related reference materials, mostly photocopies of photos of particular African-American volunteers and general correspondence. The two folders per nation are each arranged in the same way: the first smaller folder contains a table of contents listing each of the volunteers successfully contacted and the page numbers for their response. It also indicates which veterans Brooks was unable to contact by mail, or whom he reached in other ways (telephone or personal contacts are sometimes mentioned, but transcripts of these are not included in the collection). Finally, the U.S and British introductory folders contain an Index to African American Volunteers. The second national folder contains photocopies of the volunteers responses (the originals are in Series II). Particularly useful here are the indexes to African-American volunteers mentioned by Brooks respondents. Series II: Individual Biographical Files, contains the originals of the responses that Brooks received, in this case with a separate folder for each respondent, again arranged alphabetically, and not separated by national brigade. The responses often consist solely of short answers on the questionnaire form sent by Brooks, but several volunteers (including Steve Nelson, Hilda Roberts and Bill Wheeler) added rather lengthy personal letters, with detailed memories and vignettes. Others, such as Michalakis Economides, attached historical materials, concerning either themselves or other volunteers that they knew.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes).

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African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: Christopher Brooks Research Files, 1930-1994

Title: African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: Christopher Brooks Research Files 1930-1994

Christopher Brooks was a graduate student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, who in 1993 began research on a thesis project chronicling African Americans who fought on the side of the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War. As part of that research, he sent out survey forms, along with a request for any additional information, to other surviving volunteers of that struggle who had fought in either American, British or Canadian brigades. He hoped that their memories of specific African-American fighters, including their military and political histories and any other personal details, would add greater depth to the portraits already published in the volume, edited by Danny Duncan Collum and researched by Victor Berch, entitled (G.K. Hall and Co., 1992). This collection consists of descriptive material on the project and responses from the veterans (and spouses) who replied. African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: “This Ain’t Ethiopia but It’ll Do”

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear feet; (2 boxes)

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Paul Burns Photographs, Bulk, 1937, 1937-1938, (Bulk 1937)

Title: Paul Burns Photographs Bulk, 1937 1937-1938, (Bulk 1937)

Paul Burns ([1906?]-1996) was a writer, teacher, and Writers Union activist. In 1937, Burns went to Spain as a volunteer and rose to the rank of Company Commander. The images in this collection were accrued by Burns in the course of his work as a Commander in Spain. The collection contains group photographs and portraits of members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Spanish soldiers and scouts and other international volunteers including Cubans and Yugoslavs.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet; (1 box)

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Harry Randall: Fifteenth International Brigade Photographs, August 1937-September 1938

Title: Harry Randall: Fifteenth International Brigade Photographs August 1937-September 1938

Under the supervision of Harry W. Randall, Jr, the Photographic Unit of the 15th International Brigade was charged with documenting the activities of the Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. The collection consists of 1,832 images taken by the Unit from August 1937 to September 1938 and captures the daily life of the volunteers in combat, in the camps, and in the towns, villages, and across the rugged terrain where the Brigade trained and participated in the fighting. In addition, the collection documents political assemblies, congresses, celebrations and the everyday activities of the Spanish populace.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear feet; (approximately 2,000 black and white negatives and prints)

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