Kenny J. Williams papers, 1971-1995.

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Kenny J. Williams papers, 1971-1995.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/167969888

Contains greeting cards, brochures, correspondence, departmental memoranda, course materials, committee minutes, and manuscripts of Williams' article "The Masking of the Novelist" and her book In the City of Men: Another Story of Chicago. Also includes documents relating to the President's Council on Black Affairs, the Nixon Library controversy, and the Phi Beta Kappa selection committees.

2,000 items (3.0 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6913990

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University. Nixon Library Controversy

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Duke University. Department of English

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Williams, Kenny J. (Kenny Jackson), 1927-2003

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Born in Omaha, NE, Kenny Williams grew up in Chicago where her father served as a Baptist pastor. She received a B.A. from Benedict College in 1949, her first M.A. degree from De Paul University in 1950, and her second M.A. and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959 and 1961, respectively. After teaching at Tennessee A and I State University, and at Northeastern Illinois State University, she joined the faculty of the Duke English Department in 1977, where she specialized in Midwe...

Duke University. Council on Black Affairs.

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Phi Beta Kappa. Beta Chapter of North Carolina (Duke University).

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Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and largest academic honor society, was founded on Dec. 5, 1776, by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. It was the first society to have a Greek letter name, and in its early years, it introduced the essential characteristics of such societies: an oath of secrecy (discarded in 1831), a badge, mottoes in Latin and Greek, a code of laws, and an elaborate initiation ritual. The members held regular meetings, generall...