subj12. Holdings related to Literature

Scope and Contents The Homer Clyde McEwen papers encompass 15 linear feet of material extensively covering the subject areas of civil rights in the South and ministerial work particularly in relation to school segregation; the discrepancies of funding allocation for African American education; voting rights in Georgia; local organizational history; and the history of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Atlanta, Georgia. The collection is arranged into seven groups of materials that are extensively...

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The papers of author and Professor of English at Southern Univeristy consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs and material related to Southern Univeristy and Millican's career.

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Oral history interview with Gorham B. Munson, who discusses the life and literary career of Jean Toomer.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the literary production and intergroup collaboration of Nkombo Publications, one of the best-organized and most active groups affiliated with the Southern extension of the Black Arts Movement. These records include outgoing and incoming correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts from both well-known and lesser-known poets of the Black Arts Movement, collected publications and ephemera, and financial documents. The records span the late 1960s and early...

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This collection of interviews contains six tape recordings of the Odyssey Through Literature radio program, which was produced as a continuing education service of the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State University. This collection includes recoded broadcasts of Dennis Brutus; Kashim Tala on the oral literature of Cameroon; Ali Haji Papa Bunko Susso and Nakoyo Susso on the role of the griot in Africa; J. M. Coetzee; and Chaim Potok.

Scope and Contents The papers of literary scholar Jerry Ward include correspondence regarding his teaching career, submissions of works to academic journals, and letters regarding his work with the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. Included are various examples of Ward's writings, including scholarly essays, interviews, and critical reviews. The papers also consist of fiction and poetry by Ward, as well as news clippings, programs, announcements, and his dissertation, "Richard Wright and His American...