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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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