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Abraham Chapman papers (Ms. 2010.047)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. African-American Literature

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Abraham Chapman research notes
Box 1, Folder 2-8 New Black Voices material: correspondence
Box 1, Folder 9 New Black Voices: autobiography
Box 1, Folder 10 New Black Voices: poetry
Box 1, Folder 11 New Black Voices: criticism
Box 1, Folder 12 New Black Voices: manuscripts and selected texts
Box 1, Folder 13 New Black Voices: to answer and do
Box 1, Folder 14 New Black Voices: submitted materials and rejections
Box 1, Folder 15 New Black Voices: biographical data
Box 1, Folder 16 New Black Voices: biographical notes
Box 1, Folder 17 New Black Voices: for intro
Box 1, Folder 18 New Black Voices: anthology authors
Box 1, Folder 19 New Black Voices: introduction
Box 1, Folder 20 New Black Voices: biographies--original drafts
Box 1, Folder 21 New Black Voices: acknowledgements
Box 1, Folder 22 New Black Voices: biographical notes--anthology
Box 1, Folder 23 New Black Voices: bibliography A.C.
Box 1, Folder 24 New Black Voices: revised contents
Box 1, Folder 25 New Black Voices: anthology bibliography
Box 1, Folder 26 New Black Voices: alphabetical
Box 1, Folder 27 New Black Voices: contents
Box 1, Folder 28 New Black Voices: introduction
Box 1, Folder 29 New Black Voices: fiction
Box 1, Folder 30 New Black Voices: biographical data
Box 2, Folder 1 New Black Voices: criticism (extra material)
Box 2, Folder 2 New Black Voices: documents
Box 2, Folder 3 New Black Voices: bibliography additions
Box 2, Folder 4 New Black Voices: Negro Digest survey
Box 2, Folder 5 New Black Voices: James A. Emanuel
Box 2, Folder 6 New Black Voices: Mari Evans
Box 2, Folder 7 New Black Voices: unused or cut
Box 2, Folder 8 The negro in American literature
Box 2, Folder 9 Black literature new books--black aesthetic
1975
Box 2, Folder 10 Black studies
Box 2, Folder 11 Negro education
Box 2, Folder 12 Negro in American literature courses
1963-1967
Box 2, Folder 13 White racism
Box 2, Folder 14 Negro Digest - Black World - OBAC
Box 2, Folder 15 New books -- black studies
Box 2, Folder 16 Prejudice and progress
Box 2, Folder 17 Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Box 2, Folder 18 The Negro in American Literature: A new Course in the College English Curriculum by Abraham Chapman
1966
Box 2, Folder 19 Race and ethnicity -- attitudes
Box 2, Folder 20 Race and human relations material
Box 2, Folder 21 Concepts of the black aesthetic
Box 2, Folder 22 Pan-African Journal
Box 2, Folder 23 MMLA
Box 2, Folder 24 New writings
Box 2, Folder 25 On black writing today
1968-1974
Box 2, Folder 26 Gwendolyn Books
Box 2, Folder 27 Malcolm X
1965-1971
Box 2, Folder 28 Le Roi Jones
1965-1968
Box 2, Folder 29 Black Panthers
Box 3, Folder 1 Racism
1975
Box 3, Folder 2 Fourth Conference on Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
1970
Box 3, Folder 3 Negro Poets -- correspondence
1966-1969
Box 3, Folder 4 Negro American Literature Forum
1970-1971
Box 3, Folder 5 College Language Association
1968
Box 3, Folder 6 Negro Colleges
1965-1970
Box 3, Folder 7 Black poetry today
Box 3, Folder 8 Bibliographies
Box 3, Folder 9 Gloster and others bibliographies, Kent syllabus
1966
Box 3, Folder 10 Schomburg, Arthur A. A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry
1916
Box 3, Folder 11 Benjamin Brawley bibliography
1966
Box 3, Folder 12 William Stanley Braithwaite
1944-1965
Box 3, Folder 13 Caroling Dusk -- biographies
Box 3, Folder 14 The Negro and Schools: Student Protests and Activity
1967-1971
Box 3, Folder 15 New bibliography
Box 3, Folder 16 Negro poetry
Box 3, Folder 17 Great American Negros, Ben Richardson (carbon copy)
Box 3, Folder 18 The American Negro Writer and his Roots: first conference
1959
Box 3, Folder 19 Racism and Sex
1967
Box 3, Folder 20 Poll: Soul Records and Slang
1968
Box 3, Folder 21 R.C. Barton: Race Consciousness and Fictio, 1900-1930
1934
Box 3, Folder 22 Creole Voices -- Les Cenelles
1945
Box 3, Folder 23 Negro criticism
Box 3, Folder 24 Blues, jazz, black music
Box 3, Folder 25 Nikolai Troitsky
Box 3, Folder 26 Dudley Randall
1969-1971
Box 3, Folder 27 Owne Dodson
Box 3, Folder 28 D.B. Davis: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Box 3, Folder 29 Douglass, Frederick
Box 3, Folder 30 G.R. Coulthard: Race and Color in Caribbean Literature
Box 3, Folder 31 Langston Hughes
Box 3, Folder 32 W.E.B. DuBois
Box 3, Folder 33 African Studies Committee
Box 3, Folder 34 Wallace, George C.
Box 3, Folder 35 Argo Press, Negro Universities Press, Humanities Press
Box 3, Folder 36 Eldridge Cleaver
1969
Box 4, Folder 1 African literature and arts
Box 4, Folder 2 African literature
Box 4, Folder 3 Transition: Xeroxed material
1960-1967
Box 4, Folder 4 Johnson, James Weldon: Native American Races and Culture
1927
Box 4, Folder 5 Afro-American Studies -- colleges and universities
Box 4, Folder 6 Sancho, Ignatius: Letters of Ignatius Sancho
1865
Box 4, Folder 7 Smith, James D.: Autobiography
1882
Box 4, Folder 8 Smith, Venture: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of
1798
Box 4, Folder 9 Steward, Austin
Box 4, Folder 10 Still, Peter and Varna -- Jewish Publication Society
1970
Box 4, Folder 11 Turner, Nat
Box 4, Folder 12 Washington, Booker T.
Box 4, Folder 13 Sypher, Wylie: Guinea's Captive Kings
1942
Box 4, Folder 14 Hugo, Victor on John Brown (in French)
1906
Box 4, Folder 15 The Black Brigade of Cincinnati
1875
Box 4, Folder 16 Fiction and the Civil War
Box 4, Folder 17 Fisk University: God Struck Me Dead
1945
Box 4, Folder 18 Garnet, Henry Highland
1865
Box 4, Folder 19 Grimes, William: Life of
Box 4, Folder 20 Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsai
1810
Box 4, Folder 21 Henson, Josiah
1935
Box 4, Folder 22 Hopper, Isaac T.: The Life of
1853
Box 4, Folder 23 Jackson, Margaret Young: Autobiographies in Cornell Special Slavery Collection
Box 4, Folder 24 Joanna, or the Female Slave
1824
Box 4, Folder 25 Jones, Thomas: The Experiences of
1853
Box 4, Folder 26 Keckley, Elizabeth: Behind the Scenes
Box 4, Folder 27 Louisiana Ex-Slave Interviews -- Lousiana State Library
1940
Box 4, Folder 28 Miscellaneous extracts
Box 4, Folder 29 Mitchell, Rev. W.M.
1860
Box 4, Folder 30 Naimbana
1800
Box 4, Folder 31 Nichols, Charles H.: Many Thousands Gone
1948
Box 4, Folder 32 Northup, Solomon
Box 4, Folder 33 Omar Ibn Said: Autobiography of
1924
Box 4, Folder 34 Porter, Dorothy B.: Bibliography of Early American Negro Writings
1945
Box 4, Folder 35 Pro-Slavery Use -- bios and narr.
Box 4, Folder 36 Randolph, Peter: Sketches of Slave Life
Box 4, Folder 37 Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave, The Emancipator
Box 4, Folder 38 Robinson, Rev. W.H.: From Log Cabin to the Pulpit
1913
Box 4, Folder 39 Roper, Moses
Box 4, Folder 40 Nichols, Charles H.: Who Read the Slave Narratives? and reviews
1949-1959
Box 4, Folder 41 Karenga, Ron
Box 4, Folder 42 New books on/by the negro
Box 4, Folder 43 Blkartsouth
Box 4, Folder 44 Martin Luther King
Box 4, Folder 45 Harper's: The South Today
Box 4, Folder 46 Articles on the riots
Box 4, Folder 47 Third World Press
Box 4, Folder 48 Reserve Material
Box 4, Folder 49 The Antioch Review -- Watts Writers Workshop

Series 2. Jewish-American Literature

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 1 Waldo Frank
Box 5, Folder 2 Leslie Fielder
Box 5, Folder 3 Marcia Falk
1974-1975
Box 5, Folder 4 Morris Raphael Cohen
1950
Box 5, Folder 5 Anti-Semitism and Religious Bigotry
Box 5, Folder 6 APR Supplement
1974
Box 5, Folder 7 APR Supplement responses
1974-1975
Box 5, Folder 8 Conyus
1971-1975
Box 5, Folder 9 Current Jewish views, articles
1973-1974
Box 5, Folder 10 Israel
1974
Box 5, Folder 11 Jewish-American poetry
Box 5, Folder 12 Poetry: Jewish-American
Box 5, Folder 13 Jewish-American writers
Box 5, Folder 14 Jewish Material
1972-1973
Box 5, Folder 15 Nixon Anti-Semitism
1974-1975
Box 5, Folder 16 Ezra Pound
Box 5, Folder 17 Rise of American Jewish Literature C. Angoff and M. Levin
Box 5, Folder 18 We Hold these Truths, League of American Writers
Box 5, Folder 19 Jewish-American Literature: bibliogrpahical data
Box 5, Folder 20 Jewish-American Literature: intro notes, bios, bibliography
Box 5, Folder 21-45 Jewish-American Literature: by author

Series 3. American-Indian Literature

Container Description Date
Box 6, Folder 1 American-Indian Literature
Box 6, Folder 2 Literature of the American Indians: artwork
Box 6, Folder 3 Literature of the American Indians: biographies
Box 6, Folder 4 Literature of the American Indians: excluded copy
Box 6, Folder 5 Literature of the American Indians: introduction (extra copies)
Box 6, Folder 6 Literature of the American Indians: introduction (manuscript)
Box 6, Folder 7 Literature of the American Indians: original copies
Box 6, Folder 8 Literature of the American Indians: prologue

Series 4. General files on different nationalities and ethnic groups

Container Description Date
Box 6, Folder 9 Amish
Box 6, Folder 10 Armenian
Box 6, Folder 11 Catholic
Box 6, Folder 12 Chicano
Box 6, Folder 13 Chinese
Box 6, Folder 14 Czech
Box 6, Folder 15 Danish
Box 6, Folder 16 Dutch
Box 6, Folder 17 Europe and world
Box 6, Folder 18 Filipino
Box 6, Folder 19 Finnish and Icelandic
Box 6, Folder 20 Franco-American
Box 6, Folder 21 German
Box 6, Folder 22 Greek
Box 6, Folder 23 Hispanic
Box 6, Folder 24 Hungarian
Box 6, Folder 25 Irish
Box 6, Folder 26 Italian
Box 6, Folder 27 Japanese
Box 6, Folder 28 Lebanese
Box 6, Folder 29 New Mexico
Box 6, Folder 30 New Sweden and Pennsylvania
Box 6, Folder 31 Norwegian
Box 6, Folder 32 Polish
Box 6, Folder 33 Portuguese
Box 6, Folder 34 Puerto Rican
Box 6, Folder 35 Quakers
Box 6, Folder 36 Russian
Box 6, Folder 37 Scandinavian
Box 6, Folder 38 Scotch-Irish
Box 6, Folder 39 Slavic
Box 6, Folder 40 Slovak
Box 6, Folder 41 Swedish

Series 5. General files on persons

Container Description Date
Box 7, Folder 1 Adame, Leonard
Box 7, Folder 2 Allen, Paula Gunn
Box 7, Folder 3 Altgeld, John P.
Box 7, Folder 4 Bellow, Saul
Box 7, Folder 5 Boll, Heinrich
Box 7, Folder 6 Brooks, Van Wyck
Box 7, Folder 7 Benito, Cereno
Box 7, Folder 8 Clark, H.H.: North American Review
1815-1835
Box 7, Folder 9 Dreiser
Box 7, Folder 10 Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Box 7, Folder 11 Faderman and Bradshaw
Box 7, Folder 12 Faulkner, William
Box 7, Folder 13 Franklin, Benjamin
Box 7, Folder 14 Goethe
Box 7, Folder 15 Hawthorne
Box 7, Folder 16 Herrnstein
Box 7, Folder 17 Lifton, R.J.: The Politics of Immortality
Box 7, Folder 18 Melville, Herman
Box 7, Folder 19 Mencken: Acthronyms
Box 7, Folder 20 Nabokov, Vladimir
Box 7, Folder 21 O'Neil, Eugene
Box 7, Folder 22 Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes
Box 7, Folder 23 Reese, Winnifred
Box 7, Folder 24 Salinas, Luis Omar
Box 7, Folder 25 Sanburg, Carl
Box 7, Folder 26 Selye, Hans
Box 7, Folder 27 Silko, Leslie
Box 7, Folder 28 Skinner, B.F.: Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Box 7, Folder 29 Stevens, Wallace
Box 7, Folder 30 Thoreau
Box 7, Folder 31 Toomer, Jean
Box 7, Folder 32 Turner, Frederick Jackson
Box 7, Folder 33 Voltaire
Box 7, Folder 34 Vonnegut, Kurt
Box 7, Folder 35 Whitman
Box 7, Folder 36 Whitman, Walt
Box 7, Folder 37 Whitman Paper WCTE
Box 7, Folder 38 Williams, Roger
Box 7, Folder 39 Williams, William Carlos
Box 7, Folder 40 Woolman, John
Box 7, Folder 41 Wright, Richard

Series 6. General files relating to literature and history

Container Description Date
Box 7, Folder 42 Loose material
Box 7, Folder 43 American Indian population
Box 7, Folder 44 Ethnic and immigrant cultures
Box 7, Folder 45 Vinland sagas
Box 7, Folder 46 Transcendentalism
Box 7, Folder 47 Kolm: biography, ethnicity
Box 7, Folder 48 British immigration
Box 7, Folder 49 New York Center for Ethnic Affairs
Box 7, Folder 50 Old World Wisconsin
Box 7, Folder 51 Genesis: From All Earth's Lands
Box 7, Folder 52 Interdisciplinary Structures Committee
Box 7, Folder 53 American Novels
Box 7, Folder 54 Contemporary world literature
Box 7, Folder 55 Image -- essay, criticism
Box 7, Folder 56 Self-expression, independence
Box 8, Folder 1 Ethnic literature
Box 8, Folder 2 Religious pluralism
Box 8, Folder 3 Journal of American Folklore
Box 8, Folder 4 Twice a Year selections
1938-1948
Box 8, Folder 5 U.S. Magazine and Democratic Review
Box 8, Folder 6 Contemporary American Literature
Box 8, Folder 7 Correspondence
Box 8, Folder 8 Articles -- papers, publications
Box 8, Folder 9 Lectures
Box 8, Folder 10 Misc. current
Box 8, Folder 11 Bertolino and others
Box 8, Folder 12 Enlightenment
Box 8, Folder 13 Popular culture
Box 8, Folder 14 Research
Box 8, Folder 15 (On) education
Box 8, Folder 16 Critique 67, etc.
1967
Box 8, Folder 17 Institute lecture notes
Box 8, Folder 18 Literary manuscripts
Box 8, Folder 19 Image -- poetry, art
Box 8, Folder 20 The American Poetry Review
Box 8, Folder 21 BALB -- NALF (Indiana)
Box 8, Folder 22 MLA Minorities Commission
Box 8, Folder 23 Bay Area Ethnic Poets
Box 8, Folder 24 Publishers
Box 8, Folder 25 Publications
Box 8, Folder 26 Poetry Seminar MLA, SF
1975
Box 8, Folder 27 Council for Research on the Peoples of Wisconsin
Box 8, Folder 28 Community Relations Committee
Box 8, Folder 29 WASSP bulletin article
Box 8, Folder 30 Philosophical Library Symposium
Box 8, Folder 31 National Project on Ethnic America
Box 8, Folder 32 S.C.L.C
Box 8, Folder 33 Literary criticism
1958-1966
Box 8, Folder 34 Cultural pluralism
1973-1975
Box 8, Folder 35 Contemporary American fiction
1960-1975
Box 8, Folder 36 Education
1975
Box 8, Folder 37 Lectrue transcripts
Box 8, Folder 38 Contemporary American poetry
1950-1975
Box 8, Folder 39 Materials for introduction
Box 8, Folder 40 World influences on U.S. literature
Box 8, Folder 41 Who Are Tthese American People?
Box 8, Folder 42 Ethnic: A One-Word Dictionary
Box 8, Folder 43 Literature of the Original Americans
Box 8, Folder 44 Genesis: From All Earth's Lands
Box 8, Folder 45 U.S. Literary History
Box 8, Folder 46 Early writers and documents
Box 8, Folder 47 The History of Violence in America
1969
Box 8, Folder 48 Literary history and theory
Box 8, Folder 49 Multi-ethnic literature, Chicago conference
1974-1975
Box 8, Folder 50 American Moods and Attitudes -- polls, etc.
1975
Box 8, Folder 51 Alienation
Box 8, Folder 52 American history

Series 7. Index cards

Container Description Date
Box 9 Two boxes of index cards, labeled Negro Lit. Biblio
Box 9 Two unlabeled boxes of index cards
Box 10 Index cards, unlabeled
Box 10 Index cards: New Black Voices
Box 10 Index cards: Slavery -- fiction
Box 10 Index cards: Jewish-American poets
Box 10 Index cards: Slave narratives -- bibliography
Box 10 Index cards: Collections, biographies, and misc. memoirs -- Slavery, poetry, drama, etc.