Martin Kilson collection, 1996-2004.

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Martin Kilson collection, 1996-2004.

The collection includes Martin Kilson's correspondences to Charles Blockson, Julian Bond, Cornel West, and Sterling Stuckey, regarding the African American Studies Department at Harvard University and Henry Louis Gates, the debate regarding the documentry "Wonders of Africa with Henry Louis Gates," David Lewis's two volumes on W.E.b. DuBois and Lincoln University and Barnes Foundation. Folders also include book review essays, book chapters from Kilson's manuscript "The Making of Black intellectuals... ", news clippings, and more.

154 folders in 3 boxes.

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