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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

African American civil rights and literary sound recordings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8488
Scope and content

Sound recordings on vinyl relating to the African-American narrative in the United States, with a focus on the Civil Rights movement. Recordings include those by Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Louis Farrakhan, Langston Hughes, Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, and many more.

Dates: circa 1960s-circa 1980s.

Gail and Stephen Rudin literary autograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4690
Abstract Letters by noted authors, many on the subject of writing. Authors represented include: Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Pearl Buck, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Samuel Clemens, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Zane Grey, Alex Haley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Rod Serling, G.B....
Dates: 1841-1993.

James Baldwin ephemera

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8882
Content Description

Programs, flyers, posters, and playbills associated with the production of Baldwin's plays; a complete set of bookstore promotional materials by Dial Press advertising the publication of The Fire Next Time and reissue of his backlist, and two recordings on vinyl. Also included are ephemera related to Baldwin's participation in the Civil Rights Movement.

Dates: 1954 - 1967

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Subject
Civil rights movement -- United States. 2
African American artists -- United States 1
African American intellectuals. 1
African American poetry. 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States 1