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Julian Mayfield papers, 1949-1984.

Title: Julian Mayfield papers, 1949-1984.

The collection documents Julian Mayfield's career as a writer, educator and actor, and his activities as a political expatriate in West Africa and Guyana. Significant correspondents include fellow African-American expatriates and friends Maya Angelou, Herman Kofi Bailey, Sylvia Boone, William Branch, Tom Feelings, David DuBois, Preston King, Jim Lacy, Calvin and Elinor Sinnette, and Alice Windom. Other correspondents are John Henrik Clarke, Jules Dassin, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, James Forman, Richard Gibson, Gloria Joseph, Woodie King, Paul Mann, William Marshall, Truman Nelson, and Conor Cruise O'Brien.

ArchivalResource: 14.4 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122485249 View

Urban Arts Corps (New York, N.Y.) photograph collection [graphic], 194-]-[199-

Title: Urban Arts Corps (New York, N.Y.) photograph collection [graphic] 194-]-[199-

The Urban Arts Corps (UAC) Photograph Collection depicts the Corps' activities as well as documents aspects of the professional career of its founder/director, Vinnette Carroll. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Carroll, cast members, and technical and artistic staff; publicity scenes and candid shots of actors and directors in rehearsal and off-stage; and views of award ceremonies, cast parties, television interviews and other related events. Some productions, cast members and events are unidentified.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 4 boxes/517 items; 12 photographic prints silver gelatin, b&w 35 x 26 cm. and smaller; 8 photographic prints silver gelatin, b&w 26 x 35 cm. and smaller; 118 photographic prints silver gelatin, b&w 26 x 21 cm. and smaller; 217 photographic prints silver gelatin, b&w 21 x 26 cm. and smaller; 12 photographic prints silver gelatin, b&w 12 x 9 cm. and smaller; 5 photographic prints silver gelatin, b&w 9 x 12 cm. and smaller; 4 photographic prints col 26 x 21 cm. and smaller; 21 photographic prints col 21 x 26 cm. and smaller; 2 contact sheets silver gelatin, b&w 26 x 28 cm. and smaller; 81 contact sheets silver gelatin, b&w 26 x 21 and smaller; 32 negatives b&w : 20 x 19 cm. or smaller; 4 slides col 7 x 7 cm; 1 portrait drawing

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20850 View

Kennedy, Adrienne. Papers, ca. 1954-1992.

Title: Papers, ca. 1954-1992.

The papers of Adrienne Kennedy, ca. 1954-1992, document her evolution from an aspiring writer to a successful playwright. All of Kennedy's plays are represented in this collection, from her Obie Award winning Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964) to her most recent production, Ohio State Murders (1992). Additionally, manuscripts for several unproduced or incomplete plays are present, such as an untitled play about Soledad prisoner George Jackson. Manuscripts dating from Kennedy's beginnings as a writer in the 1950s include the play "The Pale Blue Flowers," as well as other plays, short stories, and novels. Other writings include the memoir People Who Led to My Plays and a screenplay about blues musician Robert Johnson. The works exist as notebooks, holograph and typed notes, outlines, proposals, and drafts, playscripts, and screenplays, as well as galleys, page proofs, and photocopies of publications. The Career Papers contribute to further knowledge of and understanding of Kennedy and her work through award certificates, biographical data, contracts, correspondence, manuscripts and publications about Adrienne Kennedy, production materials from her plays, publicity, reviews, royalty statements, and sound and video recordings. The correspondence, 1963-1992, generally concerns Kennedy's career as a playwright, writer, and educator, though some correspondence is of a more personal nature. Significant correspondents include Edward Albee, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Joseph Chaikin, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Gerald Freedman, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Hardwick, James Earl Jones, Michael Kahn, Elia Kazan, Galt MacDermot, Theodore Mann, William Marshall, Mike Nichols, Joseph Papp, Harold Pinter, Ishmael Reed, Jerome Robbins, John Selby, Victor Spinetti, Fay Weldon, Edgar White, Audrey Wood, and others. Documentation of various productions of Ms. Kennedy's plays, 1963-1992, consists of brochures, cast lists, clippings, contact lists, drawings, flyers, musical scores (by Cecil Taylor for A Rat's Mass), photographs, posters, programs, publicity, rehearsal schedules, reviews, scripts, sound and video recordings, tickets, etc.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes and 4 oversize folders (3.75 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122494190 View

Thomas, Roy T. Roy Thomas collection on Black filmmaking, 1916-1987 (bulk 1970-1979).

Title: Roy Thomas collection on Black filmmaking, 1916-1987 (bulk 1970-1979).

Contains items used in Roy Thomas's course work at the University of Calif., Berkeley in Black Cinema, including scrapbooks. African Americans' covered are Stepin Fetchit, William Marshall, Oscar Micheaux and Clarence Muse, among many other famous African Americans in movies.

ArchivalResource: 1 box, 2 v. and 1 oversize folder (.65 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214926664 View