Scope and Contents a. First Letter: An undated letter from Julian Mayfield addressed to Wilhelmina Leigh and typed on New York University letterhead – This letter mentions Leigh's planned trip to Africa in the coming year. Thus, the letter was likely dated and sent in 1968. [Note from Leigh: I traveled to Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) in summer of 1969 as a research assistant for Professor Ian Pool (then a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University). Dr. Pool and his assistants...

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Letter provides comments about paper prepared during fall semester 1967.

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One appeared in the Washington Post (October 23, 1984), and the other appeared in the student newspaper of Howard University, known as the Hill Rag (December 14, 1984). Both articles mentioned the fellowship of Mr. Mayfield at Cornell University. Prior to his death in 1984, Mayfield was a writer-in-residence at Howard University.

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The program was initiated in the spring of 1967. Notes taken at the May 2, 1968 meeting appear on a page tagged with a post-it labeled “D” in the Cornell Campus Store spiral notebook in Box 1, Folder 1.

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“Cornell’s Black Student: A Report from the Inside,” by Gloria Joseph and Barbara Newsom – This article was circulated as a 6-page reprint from the June 1968 issue of the Cornell Alumni News.

Scope and Contents Note from Leigh: While attending Cornell Alumni University, I asked Professor Allan Feldt how I could get believable information about the situation in Communist Cuba. In response, he gave me contact information for the two gentlemen named below, and I subsequently sent letters to these gentlemen. I do not have copies of the letters sent to them, but I received reply letters dated as indicated below: a. Professor Eduardo Montoulieu – August 26, 1968 (associated with the Puerto Rico Urban...

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Internat (vol. 1, no. 1) was a magazine first published by international students at Cornell University in September 1968.

Scope and Contents The inaugural issue of Internat featured an article entitled “Foreign Students and Marginality.” In response to this article, Leigh wrote a Letter to the Editor that appeared in the November 1968 issue of Internat (vol. 1, no. 2). Included is a copy of the Letter to the Editor of Internat; copy of pages 2 and 7 from Internat (vol.1, no. 2), the pages on which Leigh's response to the original article (entitled “Foreign Students and Marginality”) appeared; a letter sent to Leigh in December...

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Paper evaluates the Ghetto Game played by students during the course and includes an assessment by Wilhelmina Leigh of the utility of the course to both the black and white students who participated in it.