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Hatch-Billops Collection of oral histories, [ca. 1965-1980].

Title: Hatch-Billops Collection of oral histories, [ca. 1965-1980].

Audio tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews with black artists, educators, writers, and politicians. Interviewees include Imamu Amiri Baraka, Alvin Batista, Camille Billops, Charles Blackwell, Vivian Brown, Dick Campbell, Steve Carter, Miriam Colon, Ivan Dixon, Mary Bohanan, Owen Dodson, David DuBois, Lonne Elder III, Alice Childress, Robert Earl Jones, Elma Lewis, Butterfly McQueen, Loften Mitchell, Karl Hampton Porter, Noble Sissle, Benny Andrews, Miller Lyles, and Sissle Blake. Among the topics discussed are the American Educational Theatre Association, Black Drama Pioneers, National Association of Media Women, NYCC Black Artists in America, Public Theater, the Black Arts Movement, American Negro Theatre, Cotton Club, Lafayette Theater, and such individuals as Eubie Blake, James Baldwin (1924-1987), W.E.B. Du Bois, Roland Hayes, and Paul Robeson. Transcripts are available for most of the more than one hundred interviews.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15 cubic ft.

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