Papers, 1936-2002 (inclusive), 1954-2002 (bulk).

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Papers, 1936-2002 (inclusive), 1954-2002 (bulk).

The collection contains biographical material; personal and professional correspondence; notes; drafts of published poetry, novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays and collaborations; publicity materials; works by other writers; audio- and videotapes, and photographs documenting Jordan's professional and private life. Topics include equitable housing; racial equality; Black English; abuse against women; breast cancer; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues; and American foreign policy, especially conflicts in Nicaragua and Lebanon. The personal correspondence in each series reflects the broad range of Jordan's friends and colleagues, her passion for creativity, her involvement in numerous organizations and political causes, and mutual critiquing among a core group of artists.

49.63 linear ft. (113 file boxes, 2 folio folders, 7 folio+ folders, 4 oversize folders, 2 supersize folders, ca. 70 photograph folders)

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Koolish teaches at San Diego State University in the Dept. of English and Comparative Literature and is a scholar of African American literature. She is known for her feminist photography and portraits of African American writers. From the description of Portrait of June Jordan : photographic print. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510667 Lynda Koolish is a photographer and a professor English and comparative literature. From the description of Lynda Koolish pho...

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Professor, political science; Political activist; Author; Social reformer. From the description of Papers 1957-1999. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 46453436 ...

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Meredith, William, 1919-2007

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Epithet: Organist of New College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000304.0x0002bd William Meredith was an American poet, literary critic, librettist, and translator. From the description of William Meredith collection of papers, 1941-1973. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122430869 From the guide to the William Meredith collection of papers, 1941-1973, (The New York Pub...

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Jackson, Reuben

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Griffin, Susan, 1942-

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Lester, Julius

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Woods, Erwin Cho.

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Sellars, Peter.

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Jordan, June, 1936-2002

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June Jordan was born in Harlem, New York on July 9, 1936. Jordan fostered a love of literature and writing poetry as a child. She attended Barnard College and University of Chicago. June Jordan married in 1955 and had one child. A poet, novelist, essayist, editor and children's author, Jordan published her first poetry collection, Who Look at Me, in 1969. Jordan was a visiting scholar/poet at many institutions, including MacAlester College, City College of the City University of New York, Univer...

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Kelly, Stephanie B., 1948-

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Moore, Honor, 1945-....

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Honor Moore, Radcliffe Class of 1967, writer and stage director. From the description of Papers, 1974. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007607 Poet and author Honor Moore (1945- ) was born in New York City, the eldest of nine children of Jenny (McKean) and Paul Moore. After graduating from high school in Indianapolis, Ind. (1963), she attended Radcliffe College (B.A. 1967) and the Yale School of Drama (1967-1969). Moving to New York, she worked in th...

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The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...

Rivera O., Diana (Rivera Ottenberger)

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Randall, Margaret, 1936-

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Randall moved to Cuba from the United States in 1969 to study the status of women there. From the description of Essays, 1979, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007880 Randall has been a poet, editor, and author. She was born in New York but spent most of her adult life in Latin America, moving from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Mexico in 1961, then to Cuba in 1969, and from there to Nicaragua in 1980, returning to Albuquerque in 1984. From the desc...

Masini, Donna

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Greene, Cheryll Y.

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Topham, Annie.

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Levi, Jan Heller

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Ingatow, David.

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Kay, Vincent.

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Shange, Ntozake.

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Playwright and author Ntozake Shange was born Paulette L. Williams on October 18, 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey to Paul T. Williams, an air force surgeon, and Eloise Williams, an educator and psychiatric social worker. Her family regularly hosted artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Robeson, and W.E.B. DuBois at their home. Shange graduated cum laude with her B.S. degree in American Studies from Barnard College in New York City in 1970. While pursuing her M.A. degree in American Studies from the Uni...

Troutt, David Dante

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Hidalgo, Teresa.

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Braxton, Joanne M.

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Johnson, Barbara, 1947-2009

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American Center of P.E.N.

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P.E.N. American Center is the American branch of an international organization of writers which includes poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists. From the description of P.E.N. (PEN) American Center archives, 1922-2008 (bulk 1930s-1989) (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 247993823 The PEN Translation Fund was established by PEN America in the summer of 2003 through a gift from an anonymous donor in response to "the dismayingly low number of lite...

Smith, Barbara, 1946-....

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Brown, Wesley, 1945-....

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Brand, Millen, 1906-1980

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A novelist, screenwriter, and poet. From the description of [Papers] / Millen Brand. 1969. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 13872584 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Author, poet, Hollywood screenwriter, editor at Crown Publishers, Inc., teacher of writing at New York University. Brand was active in the Left during the 1930s and in the Civil Rights movement. From the guide to the Millen Brand Papers, 1919-1976., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscrip...

Robertson, Mary Beth.

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Murray, Patricia J.

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Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012

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Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. She attended the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Md. (1938-47). A 1951 graduate of Radcliffe College, in that year she won the Yale Younger Poets Award with the publication of her first book, A Change of World . Following her studies at Oxford University (winter 1952-53), she traveled through Europe. The following de...