Papers of Faith Berry, 1963-1984 (bulk 1971-1983).

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Papers of Faith Berry, 1963-1984 (bulk 1971-1983).

1963-1984

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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, speeches, writings, book reviews, reports, radio and television transcripts, research materials, press releases, clippings, printed materials, posters, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Berry's research on the life and literary career of poet Langston Hughes; and to her membership on the NAACP Task Force on Africa (1976-1977), service as media coordinator for the President's Advisory Committee for Women (1979-1980), media contract work for the U.S. Women's Bureau (1980), and attendance as a representative of the National Council of Negro Women at the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women in Copenhagen, Denmark (1980). Includes edited ms. of Berry's work, Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem (1983), drafts of the NAACP Task Force on Africa Report and Recommendations (1978- ) for a policy on Africa, transcript of a radio program honoring Hughes which was narrated and produced by Berry (1979), working script for a television documentary on the political career of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Kissinger in Retrospect (1977), and subject files relating to feminism and women's rights. Correspondents include Theodore M. Berry, Broadus N. Butler, Alexis M. Herman, Franklin Williams, and Margaret Bush Wilson.

2,500 items.16 containers plus 1 oversize.8 linear feet.

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