Kenny J. Williams papers, 1962-2003.

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Kenny J. Williams papers, 1962-2003.

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Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographic slides, and other miscellaneous papers of Kenny J. Williams. The correspondence is chiefly professional, with publishers, students, members of the English Department at Duke University, and others, regarding publishing, teaching, and faculty matters, and her NEH appointment. Also included are some personal letters from friends and other correspondence regarding membership in a women's club. Writings include drafts of various articles on African American writers, Sherwood Anderson, and midwestern writers of the nineteenth century, and Williams's conservative positions, considered controversial in the academy, on multiculturalism, affirmative action in higher education, and the ideological implications of studying African American literature. The photographic slides document travel to Liberia, Romania, Hungary, and China during the 1960s.

About 1,500 items (2.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Duke University. Department of English

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

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Author, newspaper editor. From the description of Letter to Maurice Hanline, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349777 American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. From the guide to the Sherwood Anderson miscellany, 1981, undated, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Author. From the description of Death in the woods : annotated short story, circa 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

National Endowment for the Humanities

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Williams, Kenny J. (Kenny Jackson)

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Kenny Jackson Williams (1927-2003), an African American studies scholar, taught at Duke University and was appointed to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). From the description of Kenny J. Williams papers, 1962-2003. WorldCat record id: 62677408 From the description of Kenny J. Williams papers, 1962-1998. WorldCat record id: 62676358 ...

Duke University

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