Scope and content Letters Clemens received while at St. Mary's-of-the-Woods, a Catholic school in Indiana, in 1924, her first year away from her home in Pittsburg, Kansas. Correspondents include Clemens's mother and sister and a number of female friends, especially Velma Lough, who signs her letters as "Pewee" and who writes both about dating numerous boys and about her passion for LaVon. An October 11, 1924 letter from Lough includes a description of a heated debate among friends about the equality of...

Scope and content Papers include magazine and newspaper articles, photographs, posters, photocopies and ephemera documenting Hip Hop in the 1980s and 90s. Included are FOIL copies of the FBI's files on Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E, a recording contract for an album featuring Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys, a press release for NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" video, which was banned by MTV. Other documentation focuses on the rise of gangsta rap, the censorship of rap lyrics and the controversy over the Recording...