Path Press Archives

Chicago Public Library
Vivian Harsh Research Collection

Path Press Archives, 1962-1998

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Organizational History	Scope & Content	Series 1: Administrative, 1962 – 1997
Series 2: Published Authors, 1969 – 1995	Series 3: Unpublished Authors, 1969 – 1995	Series 4: Film Projects, 1983 – 1993
Series 5: Production, 1962 – 1996	Series 6: Publicity, 1969 – 1993	Series 7: Events, 1970 – 1998
Series 8: Sales & Distribution, 1969 – 1997	Series 9: Research Files & Serials, 1968 – 1993	Series 10: Photos & Memorabilia, 1969 – 1987

Collection Number:	Path 1997/01
Provenance:	Donation of Bennett J. Johnson, 1997. In December 2006, additional Path Press material was transferred to this collection from the private papers of Bennett J. Johnson, donated in 2000. Further material was donated by Bennett J. Johnson in October 2007.
Size:	41 linear feet (89 archival boxes)
Repository:	Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature Carter G. Woodson Regional Library (Chicago Public Library) 9525 S Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60628
Access:	No restrictions
Citation:	When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Path Press Archives, [Box #, Folder #], Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Chicago Public Library
Processed by:	Mollie Godfrey, October 2007 (revised August 2008)

Organizational History:

Path Press, one of the first black-owned publishing companies in the United States, was founded in Chicago in 1969 and remained in operation from 1969-1972 and then again from 1982-2001. In fact, the press had been in the works since as early as 1961, when Bennett J. Johnson (now the Vice President of Third World Press) and Herman C. Gilbert (the late author of The Negotiations) – along with novelist Frank London Brown and journalist and later congressman Gus Savage – first began discussing the venture. A business prospectus was written as early as 1962, and the press was incorporated as early as 1963. However, several factors kept the press from getting off the ground: first, Frank London Brown died of leukemia in 1962; second, the remaining participants could not raise the capital that the press would require.

It was only in 1969, armed with an investment of $10,000, that Gilbert and Johnson were able to launch the press with two publications—the late Frank London Brown’s second and final novel, and Herman C. Gilbert’s first. The posthumous publication of Brown’s The Myth Maker on December 7, 1969, was marked by a public tribute held at the Parkway Ballroom in Bronzeville, where guests included such prominent members of the black community as Pulitzer Prize-nominee John Oliver Killens and the future mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington. Jointly sponsored by Path Press and the Frank London Brown Historical Association, the tribute received substantial attention from Chicago’s black press. Nonetheless, despite the moderate success of Gilbert’s The Uncertain Sound, published later that month, the press folded in 1972 having published no further titles.

Ten years later, Johnson and Gilbert re-launched the press with Gilbert’s second novel, The Negotiations (1983). Unlike The Uncertain Sound, The Negotiations was a huge critical and commercial success for the press, selling 11,000 copies and helping them finance several further publications. In 1987 alone, they published five books, including American Diary, the autobiography of former Chicago Defender editor Enoch P. Waters, and Mary Wilson’s To Benji, With Love. Written after the tragic death of a rising young basketball star, To Benji was another big release for the press; featuring a forward by the current mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington, the book sold 4,000 copies in hardback and 9,000 in paperback.

Fueled by these successes, Path Press published several more books that year, including a collection of poems [Up North Big City Street, 1987] by Herman Gilbert’s brother, Zack Gilbert, already a well-established poet; a novel by David Covin [Brown Sky, 1987]; and a children’s book by Darlene Matthews Smith [What Happens When Children Write, 1987]. Although Johnson and Gilbert had several other books in the works at this point, including Al Boswell’s Every Day in African-American History and Margaret Burroughs’s Best of the Best Poetry Anthology, they all fell through for one reason or another, and the press published nothing more until William Goodlett’s Congo Crew appeared in 1990, and Claudette Pinckney-Harris’s Monroe Pinckney, My Father was published in 1995. Business continued to slow after Gilbert’s death in 1997, and when Johnson officially closed the press in 2001 to join Haki Madhubuti at Third World Press, Path had published only ten books over a period of twenty-four years.

However, by the 1990s, the press had begun to concentrate most of its efforts on other aspects of the black media. Armed with a screen treatment of The Negotiations, Johnson and Gilbert attempted several times to bring the book to the screen, first by founding a black film production company of their own, and later by selling the screen rights to Greenlight Films. While this plan never came to full fruition, plans to make black publications more widely available were more successful. By the mid-1980s Path Press had developed Pathways, which sought to bring black publishers into the mainstream by uniting their publications under the banner of a single annual catalog and book fair presence. Teaming up with the Chicago Public Library, Pathways also held annual black book bazaars in conjunction with African-American History Month at the Woodson Regional Library. By 1988, Johnson and Gilbert had also launched the African-American Book Distributors, Inc., which served a similar purpose well into the mid-1990s. Thus, while Path Press may have put aside its own editorial interests in its latter years, it played a central role in making such interests not only possible but sustainable for other African-American publishers.

Although Johnson and Gilbert founded and ran Path Press almost entirely on their own, several others played a notable part in its development – from Frank London Brown and Gus Savage, who helped originate the idea early on; to civil rights activist Brenetta Howell Barrett, who handled publicity during the press’s first years of operation; to poet Joe C. Brown, who did a little press work after Barrett left; and to poet Zack Gilbert, who offered his editing, illustration and layout services throughout the press’s run. Ultimately, despite its brief list of published titles, the press remains central to the early history of black publishing and entrepreneurship in Chicago.

Bibliography:

Anderson, Monroe. “Dream Lives Despite Hard Times.” Chicago Tribune 10 Oct. 1984, LF6.

“Black Business of the Day.” Chicago Daily Defender (Daily Edition) 2 Dec. 1969, 4.

“Book Publishing Firm Wants to Hasten ‘Black Renaissance.’” Chicago Daily Defender (Daily Edition) 2 Dec 1969. 4.

“Frank London Brown Tribute is Slated Here.” Chicago Daily Defender (Big Weekend Edition) 1 Nov. 1969. 4.

“Herman Cromwell Gilbert, 1923-1997.” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

“Johnson, Bennett J.” Who’s Who Among African-Americans, 19th ed. Ed. Kristen B. Mallegg. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006.

Joyce, Donald Franklin. “Path Press, Inc.” Black Book Publishers in the United States: A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817-1990. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Puente, Teresa. “Herman Gilbert, Writer, Political Aide.” Chicago Tribune 9 Mar. 1997, 6.

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Scope and Content:

When the Path Press Archives were first donated, they consisted of forty-one archival boxes. These were followed by an accession of six archival boxes and fourteen photographs, which were transferred to the collection from Bennett Johnson’s private papers. In turn, roughly two archival boxes from the original accession were identified as belonging to Johnson’s private papers and have been removed. In 2007, Bennett Johnson donated additional manuscripts, correspondence and photographs relating primarily to unpublished authors. These materials doubled the original size of the collection, but fit neatly into the original arrangement. They now occupy the bulk of Series 3 and part of Series 10.

In its current state, the collection consists of five major parts: 1) administrative materials, detailing the legal, financial and organizational activities of the press; 2) manuscripts, correspondence and other materials relating to authors whose work was published by the press; 3) manuscripts and correspondence relating to authors whose work was not published by the press; 4) documents relating to the general business activities of the press, including production, publicity, sales, distribution and events; and 5) photographs, the most interesting of which document events held or attended by the press’s founders, Herman C. Gilbert and Bennett J. Johnson.

Other materials of note include extensive correspondence and materials relating to Herman C. Gilbert’s The Negotiations; multiple manuscript versions of Mary Wilson’s bestselling To Benji, With Love; and fragments of an early manuscript of Enoch Waters’ American Diary. In addition to a great deal of correspondence with these and other authors published by the press, the collection includes correspondence with Margaret Burroughs, Alice Browning and John Oliver Killens. It also includes the press’s MBE certification applications for several years, multiple business prospectuses, several cases of litigation and Better Business Bureau complaints filed against the press, a full record of the press’s attempts to produce black films, and detailed records from their years in black book distribution. The majority of these materials date from between 1982-92, though there are also a number of documents from 1962-72, and a few that date as late as 1998.

These materials have been rearranged into the following ten series: Administrative, Published Authors, Unpublished Authors, Film Projects, Production, Publicity, Events, Sales & Distribution, Subject Research Files & Serials, and Photographs & Memorabilia. Though we have respected the original order where one was clear and consistent, many of these series have been reorganized in the interest of researchers according to alphabetical or chronological arrangements, as indicated below. A small number of envelopes, documents and duplicate materials have been discarded.

Series 1: Administrative, 1962 – 1997

This series is of particular interest insofar as it offers insight into the legal, financial and managerial activities of the press, including its certification as a minority business and its relationship with its advisory board, its employees and the organizations with which it became involved. General correspondence has been filed chronologically, with the exception of individuals such as Margaret Burroughs and Roberta Ramzy (a member of the Path Advisory board and a frequent correspondent), both of whom have been given their own folder and have been filed alphabetically. Within the following arrangement, all legal and financial records have been filed chronologically, while employee records, resumes and organizations appear in alphabetical order:

Business prospectuses & proposals
Stock share certificates
Articles of Inc. applications
Business license applications
MBE certification
General correspondence
Path Press Advisory Board materials
Employee records
Misc. resumes
Legal documents
Financial documents
Organizations (with which Path Press was involved)

Series 2: Published Authors, 1969 – 1995

This series constitutes a little less than a quarter of the collection as a whole, and includes all materials relating to authors whose work was published by the press. While the collection does contain some material relating to the press’s early years, there are no manuscripts of The Myth Maker (1969) or the Uncertain Sound (1969). Instead, the bulk of the collection’s manuscript holdings are from 1982-1990, the primary and most productive years of the press’s operation. The collection includes manuscripts and/or galleys of all of the books published in this period with the exception of What Happens When Children Write (1987), of which there is only a fragment.

Most significant amongst these holdings is the sizable collection of manuscripts and materials relating to Herman Gilbert’s The Negotiations (1983), which enjoyed massive critical and popular acclaim and helped finance the rest of the press’s operations for several years. In addition to manuscript and galley versions of the book, the collection contains several folders of correspondence, some of Gilbert’s composition, lecture and interview notes, and a detailed record of his promotional appearances. In addition, the folder of individual sales and distribution agreements contained in this series, as well as the many book parties Path Press held for the book chronicled in Series 7, help demonstrate the creative ways that Path Press made use of the local community to market Gilbert’s book. This series also contains brief notes for an unpublished memoir by Gilbert, titled This Needs Saying after the column that he wrote for Chicago’s Westside Booster from 1959-60. There is also a full manuscript of Lenwood Robinson’s screen adaptation of The Negotiations, written in 1983.

Also of interest are the many manuscript versions of Mary Wilson’s To Benji, With Love (1987), which beautifully document her writing process and Path’s editorial suggestions; the book was also the subject of some interesting litigation between Wilson and Path Press. Enoch Waters’ American Diary (1987) was also a significant publication for the press; unfortunately, while it is known that Waters’ original manuscript was much longer than the published version, only a fragment of his original manuscript remains in this collection. Finally, in addition to several manuscript versions of David Covin’s novel, Brown Sky (1988), there are also multiple drafts of an unpublished novel by Covin, entitled Wimbey’s Corner (undated).

In reorganizing the collection, we have chosen to file all sales and distribution materials in a series separate from the published manuscripts. Production materials of real interest (including liner notes, page layouts, etc.) we have kept with the books, whereas more general correspondence with production houses has been filed separately. Likewise, correspondence and publicity pertaining to a single book has been filed with that book, whereas more general correspondence and publicity (i.e. regarding the press itself) has been filed separately. The remaining materials have been filed according to the following arrangement:

Alphabetical by author:
Alphabetical by title (published)

Correspondence
Contracts
Production
Publicity
Litigation (if any)
Manuscripts
Galleys

Alphabetical by title (unpublished)

Series 3: Unpublished Authors, 1969 – 1995

This material, constituting one half of the collection as a whole, is also arranged alphabetically by author. Here, one folder is devoted to each potential author for whom the collection possesses a manuscript, a manuscript fragment and/or any significant correspondence. We have also provided individual folders for each author whose work was seriously considered by the press for publication, such as Al Boswell, John Oliver Killens and Ellis Cose. All of the remaining submission and rejection letters have been filed in miscellaneous folders by the first letter of the author’s name. In addition to the folders of James Garside and Albert Sewell—both of whom submitted complaints to the Better Business Bureau (claiming that Path Press was negligent in its duties regarding reading and returning unsolicited manuscripts)—the following folders contain items of particular interest:

Browning, Alice: Herman C. Gilbert first contacted Alice Browning (publisher of the World War II-era magazine Negro Story) about publishing her own work in 1970. While they never succeeded in publishing anything together, they did maintain a long correspondence. During this time, Browning made many suggestions for original and reprinted publications; they also discussed the International Black Writers Conference, of which she was founder and director and they were regular participants. By coincidence, Gilbert’s first poem appeared in Negro Story in April/May 1946.

Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History came very close to being published by the press (and is even erroneously listed by OCLC as having been published by the press). In fact, however, Boswell died in a tragic car accident just before the book was to be released, and the book was cancelled at the last minute. The collection contains two manuscripts and one galley version of the book.

Brutus, Dennis: A South African poet and activist, Brutus spent eighteen months on Robben Island as a political prisoner before fleeing South Africa for the United States and taking a professorship at Northwestern University. “Rains of Hate,” which was submitted to Path Press as part of a manuscript seriously considered for publication, was later published as “For a Dead African” in A Simple Lust (London: Heinemann, 1973). The version of the poem featured here is, with the exception of two line breaks, identical to the published version.

Clay, Nathaniel: News editor for the Chicago Metro News and former columnist and editor for the Chicago Daily Defender, Nathaniel Clay was contracted by Path Press to write a biography Harold Washington entitled Washington of Chicago. The first six chapters of the manuscript are here, but the book was never completed.

Cose, Ellis N.: Cose is a longstanding columnist and correspondent for the Chicago Sun-Times, a contributing editor to Newsweek and New York Daily News and the best-selling author of A Nation of Strangers (1992), Color-Blind (1997), The Rage of a Privileged Class (1994), The Envy of the World (2002) and Bone to Pick (2004). Path Press had gone so far as to draw up contracts for Cose’s Essence of Blue before the book fell through in 1970. Had it been published, it would have been Cose’s very first book. The book remains unpublished, however, and the manuscript is contained here in full.

Fair, Ronald: A lesser-known writer of the Black Arts Movement, Fair published several novels, including Many Thousand Gone (1965), Hog Butcher (1966), which was made into a film starring Laurence Fishburne, World of Nothing (1970) and We Can’t Breathe (1972). He has also published two books of poetry, including Excerpts (1975), published by Heritage Press. Fair began work on The Migrants in 1975, after winning a Guggenheim fellowship, but the novel was rejected by several publishers, including Path Press, and remains unpublished today. The collection contains this manuscript in full.

Killens, John Oliver: Killens is the acclaimed author of several novels, including Youngblood (1954), And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962), Sippi (1967) and One Good Bull is Half the Herd (1971)—two of which earned Pulitzer Prize nominations. Killens was close to Bennett Johnson and Herman Gilbert; he spoke at their Frank London Brown Tribute upon the publication of Myth Maker and corresponded with them about various aspects of their business (including international sales and their proposed MLK anthology). In 1982-83, Path was keen to publish Killens’ latest novel, The Great Black Russian, but the arrangement fell through due to disagreements over the contract. The book was eventually published in 1989 by Wayne State University instead. Correspondence only.

Himaya, Tafadhali H.: The collection contains a huge number of pre-publication orders and a near complete manuscript of this polemical book on American race relations that Path Press ultimately never published.

Powell, Adam Clayton: Elected New York’s first black congressman in 1944, Powell penned and published The Marching Blacks: An Interpretive History of the Rise of the Black Common Man with Dial Press in 1945. Path Press enquired about reprinting the book in 1969, but Dial Press retained the rights and reprinted the book after Powell’s death in 1973.

Smith, Ald. Edward H.: A Chicago Alderman since 1983, Ed H. Smith has recently published two novels, Love the Town Couldn’t Stop (1996) and Almost Too Late (2002). Path Press considered but turned down an earlier manuscript, It Ain’t Mr. Charley’s in 1991-92; the collection holds this manuscript in full.

Best of the Best poetry anthology: Margaret Burroughs, founder of the DuSable Museum of African-American Art in Chicago, was an early supporter of Path Press (see General Correspondence: Burroughs in Series 1) and was commissioned to edit an anthology of black poetry for the press in 1982. Although she gathered a great deal of material over several years (all of which is retained here), she never completed the manuscript and the project was abandoned. These folders include general correspondence, a complete mailing list of possible contributors, and submissions and related correspondence filed by contributor. The collection contains numerous unpublished poems by little-known poets, but most of the poems submitted by well-known poets have been published elsewhere. However, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Useni Eugene Perkins, Sterling Plumpp, Dudley Randall, Eugene Redmond and Elma Stuckey all submitted explanations of varying lengths for how and why they chose their “best” poems. Stuckey also submitted three unpublished poems, entitled “Universal,” “These Old Feet” and “Humanity.” Frank Marshall Davis’s file also contains a personal letter from him to his old friend, Margaret Burroughs.

MLK, Jr.—An Assessment: Marking the first anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination, Gilbert and Johnson planned to release an anthology of essays by King’s contemporaries that they hoped would be the first book to assess the man’s life and work. Among those they invited to contribute to the volume were Dr. John Hope Franklin, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Dr. Charles V. Hamilton, Harold Washington, Floyd McKissick, Charles Hayes, Sterling Stuckey and Diane Nash. Although they received a positive response from many of the people they contacted to write articles, the book was never published and no manuscript remains.

Series 4: Film Projects, 1983 – 1993

These files chronicle Path Press’s increasing efforts to enter into the business of black film production. After an initial period of investigation, Johnson and Gilbert entered into negotiations with a company called Greenlight Films for the film rights to The Negotiations. Although the project was eventually abandoned, this series contains extensive correspondence, contracts and other material, including a brief screen treatment of The Negotiations. A complete screenplay of The Negotiations by Lenwood Robinson can be found in Box 13.

Series 5: Production, 1962 – 1996

While the bulk of this material was originally mixed together in no particular order, several folders were grouped by production house, and we have chosen to follow this arrangement throughout. Correspondence and invoices are thus arranged alphabetically by name of the production business and chronologically within. Any material relating to one specific book has been removed and re-filed with that book in the manuscript series. See Cueno Press and Fairfield Graphics for details regarding litigation filed against Path Press.

Series 6: Publicity, 1969 – 1993

As with production materials, all publicity materials relating to a particular book have been removed and filed with that book. In the cases where a particular review referred to two or more books, we have made multiple copies and filed a copy of the review with each book. The remaining publicity materials are more general, referring to Path Press itself rather than particular titles. These materials, though originally largely mixed together, have been divided into the following subsections and arranged chronologically within each subsection:

General press releases
Correspondence with TV advertisers
Correspondence with book listing agencies & advertisers
Correspondence with Black Studies directors
Correspondence with book award organizations
Correspondence with book reviewers
Clippings regarding Path Press
Directories
Mailing lists (of various kinds)

Series 7: Events, 1970 – 1998

The original arrangement of these files was clear and relatively consistent, and has been for the most part retained. Ranging from publicity and sales events for particular books, to trade and writers conferences in which Path participated, to black book fairs that Path organized, these files reflect Path’s changing engagement with the world of black publishing. They have been arranged in the following roughly chronological subsections, which are then arranged chronologically within each subsection:

Book parties
Conferences
Book expos at the Chicago Public Library

Series 8: Sales & Distribution, 1969 – 1997

Arranged as a single series, since so many of these materials ultimately concern both sales and distribution, the first half of this series is nevertheless oriented primarily towards sales while the latter half is oriented primarily towards distribution. For the sales portion of the series, we have retained Path Press’s original arrangement in full, to better reflect its own business practice:

Individual book and catalog orders (arranged chronologically)
Sales arranged by individual account (arranged alphabetically)
Paid/unpaid sales arranged by individual accounts (arranged alphabetically)
Accounts receivable (arranged alphabetically)
Monthly sales (arranged chronologically)

The distribution portion of the series ranges from the distribution of Path Press books to Path’s distribution of other individual titles to their distribution of books released by other black publishers. Pathways and AABDI are distribution companies that Path spearheaded and devoted increasing attention to after they had for the most part stopped publishing books of their own. As with the production files, we decided to arrange the following materials by distributor, since some (though not all) were already so arranged:

Translation & international sales (arranged chronologically)
Individual distributors (arranged alphabetically)
Clients: individual authors followed by publishers that Path distributed (arranged alphabetically)
Pathways material (arranged chronologically)
AABDI material (arranged chronologically)

See Chicago Review Press/IPG for details regarding litigation filed against Path Press.

Series 9: Subject Research Files & Serials, 1968 – 1993

The subject research files in this collection are small and relatively random. Of most interest are the files on African-American film, Black Studies programs and literary issues, all of which constitute areas of business that the press directly pursued. These files have been arranged alphabetically by topic. The serials, several of which contain some reference to the press, have been arranged alphabetically by title.

Series 10: Photographs & Memorabilia, 1969 – 1987

This series contains one hundred and fifty photographs, many of which were taken of the press’s founders at various conferences and events. There are also a number of photographs featuring Harold Washington, John Oliver Killens, Gus Savage, Margaret Burroughs, Zack Gilbert and Haki Madhubuti, among others. In relation to the press’s publications, there are many nearly identical publicity photographs of William Goodlett (Congo Crew), a full set of the photographs that were published in Mary Wilson’s To Benji, With Love, and portraits of many of the contributors to Best of the Best, including Margaret Danner, Frank Marshall Davis and Dudley Randall. The series also includes a UNIA Marcus M. Garvey Centennial Committee button; its provenance is unknown.

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	Series 1: Administrative, 1962 – 1997

Box 1		–	Folder 1:	Path Press Prospectus [30 Mar 1962]
Box 1		–	Folder 2:	Path Press Board of Directors meetings, minutes [1969]
Box 1		–	Folder 3:	Path Press Loan Proposal [1982]
Box 1		–	Folder 4:	Path Press Investment Memorandum [1982-86]
Box 1		–	Folder 5:	Illinois Arts Council/NEA Grant Applications [1984-90]
Box 1		–	Folder 6:	Path Press Stock Share Certificates [1982-85]
Box 1		–	Folder 7:	Path Press Stock Share Certificates "To Be Transferred" [1985-93]
Box 1		–	Folder 8:	Path Press Articles of Inc. [1963-86]
Box 1		–	Folder 9:	Path Press State of Illinois Annual Reports [1983-85]
Box 1		–	Folder 10:	Path Press Business License [1982-97]
Box 1		–	Folder 11:	Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Regulations [N.D.]
Box 1		–	Folder 12:	Path Press MBE Certification [1985]
Box 1		–	Folder 13:	Path Press MBE Certification [1986-88]
Box 1		–	Folder 14:	Path Press MBE Certification [1989-91]
Box 1		–	Folder 15:	Path Press MBE Certification [1992-94]
Box 1		–	Folder 16:	Path Press MBE Certification [1995-96]
Box 2		–	Folder 1:	Misc. messages, messenger service, postal receipts [N.D.]
Box 2		–	Folder 2:	General correspondence: Burroughs, Margaret [1968-69]
Box 2		–	Folder 3:	General correspondence: Harsh Research Collection (CPL) [1997]
Box 2		–	Folder 4:	General correspondence: Ramzy, Roberta [1968-70]
Box 2		–	Folder 5:	General correspondence: Misc. [1968-96]
Box 2		–	Folder 6:	Path Press Employees and Shareholders, correspondence [1969-89]
Box 2		–	Folder 7:	Path Press Advisory Board, mailing lists [N.D.]
Box 2		–	Folder 8:	Path Press Advisory Board, correspondence (1) [1983]
Box 2		–	Folder 9:	Path Press Advisory Board, correspondence (2) [1983-84]
Box 2		–	Folder 10:	Path Press Advisory Board, resumes [1983]
Box 3		–	Folder 1:	Employee Records: Brown, Joe
Box 3		–	Folder 2:	Employee Records: Gilbert, Herman Cromwell
Box 3		–	Folder 3:	Employee Records: Gilbert, Vincent N.
Box 3		–	Folder 4:	Employee Records: Hickman, Joan
Box 3		–	Folder 5:	Employee Records: Irono, Dan: reviews (see unpublished reviews)
Box 3		–	Folder 6:	Employee Records: Johnson, Bennett J.
Box 3		–	Folder 7:	Employee Records: Johnson, Diana L.
Box 3		–	Folder 8:	Employee Records: Johnston, Anne
Box 3		–	Folder 9:	Employee Records: Lamb, Milton C.
Box 3		–	Folder 10:	Employee Records: Mayo, Cora
Box 3		–	Folder 11:	Employee Records: Ragano, Anthony (see also Box 70, Folder 5)
Box 3		–	Folder 12:	Employee Records: Rouselle, Jeanette
Box 3		–	Folder 13:	Employee Records: Springfield, Marti J.
Box 3		–	Folder 14:	Employee Records: Young, Lexia B.
Box 3		–	Folder 15:	Misc. Resumes: A-F
Box 3		–	Folder 16:	Misc. Resumes: G-I
Box 3		–	Folder 17:	Misc. Resumes: J-Q
Box 3		–	Folder 18:	Misc. Resumes: R-Z
Box 3		–	Folder 19:	Misc. Resumes: notes, contacts [N.D.]
Box 3		–	Folder 20:	Legal correspondence (Katten Muchin & Zavis) [1988-92]
Box 3		–	Folder 21:	Bank statements and correspondence [1969-84]
Box 3		–	Folder 22:	Misc. Fiscal Documents [c. 1982]
Box 4		–	Folder 1:	Af-Am Publishers & Booksellers Assn (AAPBA), organization & meeting notes [1988-91]
Box 4		–	Folder 2:	AAPBA, legal & financial records [1987-91]
Box 4		–	Folder 3:	AAPBA, newsletters, conferences & events [1988-90]
Box 4		–	Folder 4:	AAPBA, clippings & mailing lists [1986-90]
Box 4		–	Folder 5:	African Community and Information Center, Inc. (ACICI) [1986-88]
Box 4		–	Folder 6:	Black Designers' Forum International, Inc. [1985]
Box 4		–	Folder 7:	Black Educational Systems, Inc. [N.D.]
Box 4		–	Folder 8:	Black Press Hall of Fame [1987]
Box 4		–	Folder 9:	New Chicago Committee (NCC) [1984]
Box 4		–	Folder 10:	Society of Midland Authors [1983-88]

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	Series 2: Published Authors, 1969 – 1995

Box 4		–	Folder 11:	Brown, Frank London: Myth Maker, correspondence [1969-71]
Box 4		–	Folder 12:	Brown, Frank London: Myth Maker, contract [1969]
Box 4		–	Folder 13:	Brown, Frank London: Myth Maker, publicity [1969-70]
Box 5		–	Folder 1:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, correspondence [1983-88]
Box 5		–	Folder 2:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, contracts [1988]
Box 5		–	Folder 3:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, production [N.D.]
Box 5		–	Folder 4:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, publicity [1988]
Box 5		–	Folder 5:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, mss. (version 1, pp. 1-111) [N.D.]
Box 5		–	Folder 6:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, mss. (version 1, pp. 112-222) [N.D.]
Box 5		–	Folder 7:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, mss. (version 1, pp. 223-333) [N.D.]
Box 5		–	Folder 8:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, mss. (version 1a, pp. 1-111) [N.D.]
Box 5		–	Folder 9:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, mss. (version 1a, pp. 112-222) [N.D.]
Box 5		–	Folder 10:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, mss. (version 1a, pp. 223-333) [N.D.]
Box 6		–	Folder 1:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, galley (version 1) [31 Oct 1986]
Box 6		–	Folder 2:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, galley (version 1a) [31 Oct 1986]
Box 6		–	Folder 3:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, galley (version 2, fragment) [23 Mar 1987]
Box 6		–	Folder 4:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, galley (version 3, pp. 1-45) [N.D.]
Box 6		–	Folder 5:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, galley (version 3, pp. 46-111) [N.D.]
Box 6		–	Folder 6:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, galley (version 3, pp. 112-197) [N.D.]
Box 6		–	Folder 7:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, galley (version 3, pp. 198-274) [N.D.]
Box 6		–	Folder 8:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, misc., mss. and, galley pages [N.D.]
Box 6		–	Folder 9:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, play mss. (pp. 1-76) [31 Mar 1993]
Box 6		–	Folder 10:	Covin, David: Brown Sky, play mss. (pp. 77-130) [31 Mar 1993]
Box 6		–	Folder 11:	Covin, David: "The New Black Vote," lecture mss. [Mar 1986]
Box 7		–	Folder 1:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 1, pp. 1-146) [N.D.]
Box 7		–	Folder 2:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 1, pp. 147-269) [N.D.]
Box 7		–	Folder 3:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 1, pp. 270-392) [N.D.]
Box 7		–	Folder 4:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 1, pp. 393-515) [N.D.]
Box 7		–	Folder 5:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2, pp. 1-100) [N.D.]
Box 7		–	Folder 6:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2, pp. 101-199) [N.D.]
Box 7		–	Folder 7:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2, pp. 200-304) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 1:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2, pp. 305-404) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 2:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2, pp. 405-510) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 3:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2, pp. 511-617) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 4:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2a, pp. 1-100) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 5:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2a, pp. 101-223) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 6:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2a, pp. 224-313) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 7:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2a, pp. 314-414) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 8:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2a, pp. 415-497) [N.D.]
Box 8		–	Folder 9:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 2a, pp. 498-590) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 1:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 3, pp. 1-96) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 2:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 3, pp. 97-193) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 3:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 3, pp. 194-287) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 4:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 3, pp. 288-356) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 5:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 4, pp. 1-82) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 6:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 4, pp. 83-162) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 7:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 4, pp. 163-246) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 8:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 4, pp. 247-327) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 9:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 4, pp. 328-401) [N.D.]
Box 9		–	Folder 10:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 4, pp. 402-474) [N.D.]

Box 9	–	Folder 10:	Covin, David: Wimbey’s Corner, mss. (version 4, pp. 402-474) [N.D.]
Box 10	–	Folder 1:	Gilbert, Herman: Uncertain Sound, correspondence [1969-86]
Box 10	–	Folder 2:	Gilbert, Herman: Uncertain Sound, production [N.D.]
Box 10	–	Folder 3:	Gilbert, Herman: Uncertain Sound, publicity [1970]
Box 10	–	Folder 4:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, correspondence (1) [1979-83]
Box 10	–	Folder 5:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, correspondence (2) [1984]
Box 10	–	Folder 6:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, correspondence (3) [1985-93]
Box 11	–	Folder 1:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, production [N.D.]
Box 11	–	Folder 2:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, interview & lecture prep. [N.D.]
Box 11	–	Folder 3:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, promotional appearances & press calendars [1983-84]
Box 11	–	Folder 4:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, promotional appearance press releases [1983-84]
Box 11	–	Folder 5:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, promotional appearance on Tony Brown's Journal [1983]
Box 11	–	Folder 6:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, promotional appearances misc. [1983-84]
Box 11	–	Folder 7:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, press releases [1983-84]
Box 11	–	Folder 8:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, awards [1983-84]
Box 11	–	Folder 9:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, unpublished reviews [1983]
Box 11	–	Folder 10:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, published reviews [1983-84]
Box 11	–	Folder 11:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, sales & distribution agreements [1983-84]
Box 12	–	Folder 1:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, composition notes [N.D.]
Box 12	–	Folder 2:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, mss. (version 1, pp. 1-132) [N.D.]
Box 12	–	Folder 3:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, mss. (version 1, pp. 133-260) [N.D.]
Box 12	–	Folder 4:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, mss. (version 1, pp. 261-437) [N.D.]
Box 12	–	Folder 5:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, mss. (version 1a) [N.D.]
Box 13	–	Folder 1:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, galley (version 1, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 13	–	Folder 2:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, galley (version 2, pp. 1-92) [N.D.]
Box 13	–	Folder 3:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, galley (version 2, pp. 93-175) [N.D.]
Box 13	–	Folder 4:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, galley (version 2, pp. 176-249) [N.D.]
Box 13	–	Folder 5:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, galley (version 2, pp. 250-381) [N.D.]
Box 13	–	Folder 6:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, galley (version 3, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 13	–	Folder 7:	Gilbert, Herman & Lenwood Robinson: Negotiations, screenplay mss. (pp. 1-90) [14 Sept 1983]
Box 13	–	Folder 8:	Gilbert, Herman & Lenwood Robinson: Negotiations, screenplay mss. (pp. 91-177) [14 Sept 1983]
Box 13	–	Folder 9:	Gilbert, Herman: Negotiations, screenplay mss. (fragment) [1988]
Box 14	–	Folder 1:	Gilbert, Herman: "God Calls Ben McGee," short story mss. [N.D.]
Box 14	–	Folder 2:	Gilbert, Herman: This Needs Saying, memoir notes &, mss. (fragment) [1984]
Box 14	–	Folder 3:	Gilbert, Herman: This Needs Saying, research file [1984]
Box 14	–	Folder 4:	Gilbert, Herman: correspondence regarding unwritten article on Henry Dumas [1987-88] (see also Box 86, Folder 9)
Box 14	–	Folder 5:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, correspondence [1986-87]
Box 14	–	Folder 6:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, publicity [N.D.]
Box 14	–	Folder 7:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, mss. (version 1) [N.D.]
Box 14	–	Folder 8:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, galley (version 1) [23 Apr 1986]
Box 14	–	Folder 9:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, galley (version 1a) [23 Apr 1986]
Box 14	–	Folder 10:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, galley (version 2) [28 Jul 1986]
Box 14	–	Folder 11:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, galley corrections (version 2) [4 Aug 1986]
Box 14	–	Folder 12:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, galley (version 3) [17 Sep 1986]
Box 14	–	Folder 13:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, galley (version 4) [N.D.]
Box 14	–	Folder 14:	Gilbert, Zack: Up North Big City Street, galley corrections (version 4) [N.D.]
Box 14	–	Folder 15:	Gilbert, Zack: Voices from Inside of the Skull, mss. [N.D.]
Box 14	–	Folder 16:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, correspondence [1983-90]
Box 14	–	Folder 17:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, contract [28 Jan 1983]
Box 14	–	Folder 18:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, production [N.D.] (see also photographs in Box 88)
Box 14	–	Folder 19:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, publicity [1990-91]
Box 15	–	Folder 1:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, mss. (version 1, pp. 1-132) [N.D.]
Box 15	–	Folder 2:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, mss. (version 1, pp. 133-276) [N.D.]
Box 15	–	Folder 3:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 1, pp. 1-135) [N.D.]
Box 15	–	Folder 4:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 1, pp. 136-273) [N.D.]
Box 15	–	Folder 5:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 2, pp. 1-126) [8 Jul 1988]
Box 15	–	Folder 6:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 2, pp. 126-253) [8 Jul 1988]
Box 16	–	Folder 1:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 2a, pp. 1-126) [N.D.]
Box 16	–	Folder 2:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 2a, pp. 127-253) [N.D.]
Box 16	–	Folder 3:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 3, pp. 1-126) [16 Jun 1989]
Box 16	–	Folder 4:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 3, pp. 127-253) [16 Jun 1989]
Box 16	–	Folder 5:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, galley (version 3a) [16 Jun 1989]
Box 16	–	Folder 6:	Goodlett, William: Congo Crew, silver print, galley (version 4) [N.D.]
Box 17	–	Folder 1:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, legal [1994-95]
Box 17	–	Folder 2:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, production [4 Jan-24 Aug 1995]
Box 17	–	Folder 3:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, illustrations [ca. 1995] (see also photographs in Box 89)
Box 17	–	Folder 4:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, clippings file [28 Jul 1994-31 Jan 1995]
Box 17	–	Folder 5:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, publicity [Aug 1995]
Box 17	–	Folder 6:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, mss. (version 1) [N.D.]
Box 17	–	Folder 7:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, mss. (version 1a) [N.D.]
Box 17	–	Folder 8:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, mss. (version 2) [ca. 1995]
Box 17	–	Folder 9:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, mss. (version 2a) [ca. 1995]
Box 17	–	Folder 10:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, mss. (version 3) [ca. 1995]
Box 17	–	Folder 11:	Pinckney-Harris, Claudette: Monroe Pinckney, My Father, book [1995]
Box 18	–	Folder 1:	Smith, Darlene: What Happens When Children Write, correspondence, mss. fragment [1987]
Box 18	–	Folder 2:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, correspondence [1980-88]
Box 18	–	Folder 3:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, production [1987]
Box 18	–	Folder 4:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, publicity [1987]
Box 18	–	Folder 5:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, early, mss. & notes [N.D.]
Box 18	–	Folder 6:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 1, pp. 1-156, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 18	–	Folder 7:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 1, pp. 157-320, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 18	–	Folder 8:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 1a, pp. 1-152) [N.D.]
Box 19	–	Folder 1:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 1a, pp. 153-323) [N.D.]
Box 19	–	Folder 2:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 1a, pp. 324-523) [N.D.]
Box 19	–	Folder 3:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 2) [N.D.]
Box 19	–	Folder 4:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 2a [?], index only) [N.D.]
Box 20	–	Folder 1:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 2b, pp. 1-176, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 20	–	Folder 2:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 2b, pp. 195-380, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 20	–	Folder 3:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 2b, pp. 382-520, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 20	–	Folder 4:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 2c, misc. pages) [N.D.]
Box 20	–	Folder 5:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 3, pp. 1-52) [N.D.]
Box 20	–	Folder 6:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 3, pp. 53-128) [N.D.]
Box 20	–	Folder 7:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 3, pp. 129-200) [N.D.]
Box 21	–	Folder 1:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 3, pp. 201-279) [N.D.]
Box 21	–	Folder 2:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 3, pp. 280-364) [N.D.]
Box 21	–	Folder 3:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 3, pp. 365-452) [N.D.]
Box 21	–	Folder 4:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, galley (version 3, pp. 453-520) [N.D.]
Box 21	–	Folder 5:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, silver print, galley (version 4, pp. 1-232, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 21	–	Folder 6:	Waters, Enoch: American Diary, silver print, galley (version 4, pp. 233-488, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 22	–	Folder 1:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, correspondence [1986-87]
Box 22	–	Folder 2:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, contract [10 Jan 1986]
Box 22	–	Folder 3:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, production [N.D.] (see also photographs in Box 89)
Box 22	–	Folder 4:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, publicity [1985-87]
Box 22	–	Folder 5:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, litigation [1988]
Box 22	–	Folder 6:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, misc. [N.D.]
Box 22	–	Folder 7:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, mss. (version 1, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 22	–	Folder 8:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, mss. (version 2, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 22	–	Folder 9:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, mss. (version 3, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 22	–	Folder 10:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, mss. (version 4, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 22	–	Folder 11:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, mss. (version 5, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 22	–	Folder 12:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, mss. (version 5a, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 23	–	Folder 1:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, mss. (version 6) [N.D.]
Box 23	–	Folder 2:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, mss. (version 6a) [N.D.]
Box 23	–	Folder 3:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, galley (version 1, fragment) [N.D.]
Box 23	–	Folder 4:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, galley (version 2) [16 Jan 1987]
Box 23	–	Folder 5:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, galley (version 2a) [16 Jan 1987]
Box 23	–	Folder 6:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, galley (version 3) [14 Apr 1987]
Box 23	–	Folder 7:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, galley (version 3a, pp. 1-69) [N.D.]
Box 23	–	Folder 8:	Wilson, Mary: To Benji, With Love, galley (version 3a, pp. 70-141) [N.D.]

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	Series 3: Unpublished Authors, 1969 – 1995

Box 24		–	Folder 1:	Editorial Guidelines for Authors [N.D.]
Box 24		–	Folder 2:	Editorial Forms for Receipt & Rejection Letters [N.D]
Box 24		–	Folder 3:	Manuscript Log [1983-92]
Box 24		–	Folder 4:	Manuscript List [1992-93]
Box 24		–	Folder 5:	Manuscript Action List [1994]
Box 24		–	Folder 6:	Adenle, Mercy: Changes [1987-92]
Box 24		–	Folder 7:	Ahjel, Trish: Chocolate Souflle, correspondence [30 June 1995]
Box 24		–	Folder 8:	Ajaya, Malachi: I Hear it in the Wind, mss. [ca. 1996]
Box 24		–	Folder 9:	Ali, Najiyyah: short story mss. [1983-92]
Box 24		–	Folder 10:	Allen, Debra: poetry mss. [1993-94]
Box 24		–	Folder 11:	August, Mark: Reporting Apartheid, correspondence [1982]
Box 24		–	Folder 12:	Baker, J.G.: Mankind's Second Giant Leap, mss. (fragment) [1985]
Box 24		–	Folder 13:	Baker, Melissa: Holy Piece, mss. [19 Mar 1996]
Box 24		–	Folder 14:	Ball, Jane: Dawn Dance, correspondence [1985]
Box 24		–	Folder 15:	Ballard, Robert C.: Evelyn, publicity [1993-94]
Box 24		–	Folder 16:	Ballard, Robert C.: Evelyn, mss. [8 Feb 1994]
Box 25		–	Folder 1:	Banks, Theresa: Tantra's Web, mss. (pp. 1-99) [3 Sept 1996]
Box 25		–	Folder 2:	Banks, Theresa: Tantra's Web, mss. (pp. 100-209) [3 Sept 1996]
Box 25		–	Folder 3:	Barnes, S. Brandi: Blackberries in the China Cabinet, poetry mss. [9 Oct 1992]
Box 25		–	Folder 4:	Bates, Robert: Seeing the World with Left-eyed Clarity, correspondence [1994-95]
Box 25		–	Folder 5:	Becton, Henry (Kamau): Family, Friends & Lovers, correspondence & clippings [1980-92]
Box 25		–	Folder 6:	Belkaoui, A. R. & Janice Monti-Belkaoui: Quaddafi, mss. (pp. 1-99) [5 Dec 1994]
Box 25		–	Folder 7:	Belkaoui, A. R. & Janice Monti-Belkaoui: Quaddafi, mss. (pp. 1-99) [5 Dec 1994]
Box 25		–	Folder 8:	Bell, Jocelyn: Iquitos, mss. (fragment) [7 Aug 1996]
Box 25		–	Folder 9:	Bell-Valletto, Barbara: Night Terrors, mss. (pp. 1-90) [1996]
Box 25		–	Folder 10:	Bell-Valletto, Barbara: Night Terrors, mss. (pp. 91-193) [1996]
Box 25		–	Folder 11:	Bergamino, Gina: My Name isn't Richard Brautigan, poetry mss. [1989]
Box 25		–	Folder 12:	Bey, Kimmah Sha: Silent Yells, mss. [4 Dec 1995]
Box 25		–	Folder 13:	Bly, William: Trees Along the River, poetry mss. (fragment) [1983-84]
Box 26		–	Folder 1:	Bond, Terisha: poetry mss. [4 Feb 1994]
Box 26		–	Folder 2:	Borchardt, Lovie Lee: Eternally Yours, mss. (fragment) [1984]
Box 26		–	Folder 3:	Borner, Barbara: poetry mss. [19 Mar 1994]
Box 26		–	Folder 4:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, correspondence, production & publicity [1987-88]
Box 26		–	Folder 5:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 1, pp. 1-100) [ca. 1988]
Box 26		–	Folder 6:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 1, pp. 101-206) [ca. 1988]
Box 26		–	Folder 7:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 1, pp. 207-318) [ca. 1988]
Box 26		–	Folder 8:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 1, pp. 319-426) [ca. 1988]
Box 26		–	Folder 9:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 1, pp. 427-540) [ca. 1988]
Box 26		–	Folder 10:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 1, pp. 541-630) [ca. 1988]
Box 26		–	Folder 11:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 2, pp. 1-100) [ca. 1988]
Box 26		–	Folder 12:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 2, pp. 101-205) [ca. 1988]
Box 27		–	Folder 1:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 2, pp. 206-311) [ca. 1988]
Box 27		–	Folder 2:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 2, pp. 312-418) [ca. 1988]
Box 27		–	Folder 3:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 2, pp. 419-524) [ca. 1988]
Box 27		–	Folder 4:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, mss. (version 2, pp. 525-633) [ca. 1988]
Box 27		–	Folder 5:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, galley (pp. 1-77) [ca. 1988]
Box 27		–	Folder 6:	Boswell, Al: Every Day in African-American History, galley (pp. 78-148) [ca. 1988]
Box 27		–	Folder 7:	Bradley, Connie: Pathways, correspondence [1984]
Box 27		–	Folder 8:	Bramhall, John: BlackGuard, correspondence [1991-92]
Box 27		–	Folder 9:	Brandon, Everett: Book of Romance, mss. [N.D.]
Box 27		–	Folder 10:	Brandy, Donald: Rising Above Deception, mss. (version 1 [?]) [9 Aug 1995]
Box 28		–	Folder 1:	Brandy, Donald: Rising Above Deception, mss. (version 2 [?]) [9 Aug 1996]
Box 28		–	Folder 2:	Brick, Martin: A Dog's Day of Summer, mss. (fragment) [26 April 1996]
Box 28		–	Folder 3:	Bridges, Lee: Cracked Ridges, Worn Discs, poetry mss. [1991-92]
Box 28		–	Folder 4:	Brock-Parker, Sherrie, correspondence [15 Jan 1995]
Box 28		–	Folder 5:	Brown, Cheryl: I'm Spice, But Very Little Sugar, mss. (fragment) [12 Apr 1994]
Box 28		–	Folder 6:	Brown, Lisa: Topa, mss. (pp. 1-146) [23 Apr 1996]
Box 28		–	Folder 7:	Brown, Lisa: Topa, mss. (pp. 147-298) [23 Apr 1996]
Box 28		–	Folder 8:	Brown, Lisa: Topa, mss. (pp. 299-460) [23 Apr 1996]
Box 28		–	Folder 9:	Brown, Lisa: Topa, mss. (pp. 461-592) [23 Apr 1996]
Box 29		–	Folder 1:	Brown-Banks, Jennifer: misc. manuscripts [1993-94]
Box 29		–	Folder 2:	Browning, Alice: correspondence [1970-83] (see also IBWC material in Box 74)
Box 29		–	Folder 3:	Brutus, Dennis: "The Rains of Hate," poetry mss. [N.D.]
Box 29		–	Folder 4:	Burkes, Greg: The Triad Alternative, correspondence [1988]
Box 29		–	Folder 5:	Burns, Stephen: Old God's Ashes, mss. (fragment) [1 Jan 1996]
Box 29		–	Folder 6:	Burnham, Forbes: autobiography, correspondence [1982]
Box 29		–	Folder 7:	Caliste, Herbert: Criminals are Stupid, mss. [31 Aug 1996]
Box 29		–	Folder 8:	Cargile, Phillip: Once in a Blue Moon, mss. (fragment, ch. 3-12) [1984-92]
Box 29		–	Folder 9:	Cargile, Phillip: Once in a Blue Moon, mss. (fragment, ch. 13-23) [1984-92]
Box 29		–	Folder 10:	Cargile, Phillip: Once in a Blue Moon, mss. (fragment, ch. 24-38) [1984-92]
Box 29		–	Folder 11:	Cargile, Phillip: Across the Universe, mss. [22 Oct. 1992] [?]
Box 29		–	Folder 12:	Cargile, Phillip: Firestorm, mss. [22 Oct 1992] [?]
Box 30		–	Folder 1:	Carter, James P.: The Aesculaplus-Gate Conspiracy, mss. (fragment) [23 Jul 1990]
Box 30		–	Folder 2:	Carter, James P.: Racketeering in Medicine, mss. (fragment 1) [5 Oct 1990]
Box 30		–	Folder 3:	Carter, James P.: Racketeering in Medicine, mss. (fragment 2) [5 Oct 1990]
Box 30		–	Folder 4:	Carter, James P.: Racketeering in Medicine, mss. (fragment 3) [5 Oct 1990]
Box 30		–	Folder 5:	Carter, James P.: Racketeering in Medicine, mss. (fragment 4) [5 Oct 1990]
Box 30		–	Folder 6:	Carter, James P.: Getting' Over on Health, mss. (fragment, intro-ch. 3) [N.D.]
Box 30		–	Folder 7:	Carter, James P.: Getting' Over on Health, mss. (fragment, ch. 4-10, part of II) [N.D.]

Box 31	–	Folder 1:	Cash, Jamiz: Af-Am Complete Car Buying Guide, mss. [16 Oct 1996]
Box 31	–	Folder 2:	Casimere, Dwight: Killing Floor Power, screenplay mss. (fragment) [N.D.]
Box 31	–	Folder 3:	Causey Karen, correspondence [1981-84]
	–	Folder 4:	Chattman, Gerald: A Deadly Orientation, mss. (fragment) [2 Dec 1996]
Box 31	–	Folder 5:	Chihyelu, Mamadi: The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness, correspondence [1983]
Box 31	–	Folder 6:	Ching, Marvin: China's Soul in Poetry, 1980-1989, poetry mss. (fragment) [1991]
Box 31	–	Folder 7:	Clay, Nathaniel: Washington of Chicago, publicity [N.D.]
Box 31	–	Folder 8:	Clay, Nathaniel: Washington of Chicago, mss. (fragment) [N.D.]
Box 31	–	Folder 9:	Cochran, Barbara, “The Phone,” short story mss. & correspondence [1984-87]
Box 31	–	Folder 10:	Cohen, Christopher: Cook County Perm. Index #s, mss. [N.D.]
Box 31	–	Folder 11:	Cohen, Christopher: Real Estate Taxes in Illinois, mss. [ca. 1995]
Box 31	–	Folder 12:	Cohen, Christopher: Illinois Real Estate Tax Reduction, mss. [N.D.]
Box 31	–	Folder 13:	Cohen, Christopher: Cook County Neighborhood Class Codes, mss. [N.D.]
Box 31	–	Folder 14:	Cohen, Christopher: Guide for Taxpayers, mss. [ca. 1993]
Box 31	–	Folder 15:	Cohen, Christopher: Guide for Taxpayers, mss. [ca. 1994]
Box 31	–	Folder 16:	Cohen, Marion: “Death Bed,” poetry mss. & correspondence [1983-84]
Box 31	–	Folder 17:	Collier, Ernest: Rebirth, mss. (fragment) [30 May 1995]
Box 32	–	Folder 1:	Cose, Ellis N.: Essence of Blue, contracts [1969-70]
Box 32	–	Folder 2:	Cose, Ellis N.: Essence of Blue, mss. (part 1, pp. 1-64) [ca. 1969]
Box 32	–	Folder 3:	Cose, Ellis N.: Essence of Blue, mss. (part 1, pp. 65-133) [ca. 1969]
Box 32	–	Folder 4:	Cose, Ellis N.: Essence of Blue, mss. (part 2, pp. 1-103) [ca. 1969]
Box 32	–	Folder 5:	Cose, Ellis N.: clippings [1969-70]
Box 32	–	Folder 6:	Crawford, Joy: untitled children's story, mss. [25 Jan 1994]
Box 32	–	Folder 7:	Currin, Jon: Stoems from the Soul, mss. [23 Apr 1996]
Box 32	–	Folder 8:	Daniels, George M.: correspondence [1988-89]
Box 32	–	Folder 9:	Davis, Cleveland: And I Carry My Bags, mss. [1 Sept 1995]
Box 32	–	Folder 10:	Davis, Donald: Music Knows No Fear of Night, correspondence [1984-92]
Box 32	–	Folder 11:	Davis, Larry: Leadership: The Catalyst for Success, correspondence [Mar 1992]
Box 32	–	Folder 12:	Davis, Mona: "The Man at the Crossroads," poetry mss. [1970]
Box 32	–	Folder 13:	Davy, Gary: Silent Days, mss. [2 Dec 1996]
Box 32	–	Folder 14:	Dejean, Marvin: poetry mss.[30 Mar 1990]
Box 32	–	Folder 15:	Dejoie, Carolyn M.: Sun and Shadows, mss. (pp. 1-70) [3 Oct 1996]
Box 32	–	Folder 16:	Dejoie, Carolyn M.: Sun and Shadows, mss. (pp. 71-143) [3 Oct 1996]
Box 33	–	Folder 1:	de la Cuesta, Barbara: Ordonez, mss. (pp. 1-98) [22 Feb 1985]
Box 33	–	Folder 2:	de la Cuesta, Barbara: Ordonez, mss. (pp. 99-198) [22 Feb 1985]
Box 33	–	Folder 3:	Dfenninger, Darla: correspondence [Apr-Oct 1996]
Box 33	–	Folder 4:	Dickerson, Leon: Life Within Two Decades, correspondence [1986-88]
Box 33	–	Folder 5:	Dranow, Rachel: Exile, correspondence [1983-84]
Box 33	–	Folder 6:	Dumke, Mick: Sullivan House, mss. (fragment) [27 Jul 1995]
Box 33	–	Folder 7:	Dumke, Mick: Sullivan House, mss. (pp. 1-128) [9 Jul 1996]
Box 33	–	Folder 8:	Dumke, Mick: Sullivan House, mss. (pp. 129-261) [9 Jul 1996]
Box 33	–	Folder 9:	Dunn, Ken: correspondence [1985-94]
Box 33	–	Folder 10:	Dwyer, Tamarina: poetry mss. [1989]
Box 33	–	Folder 11:	Ehvi, Felix: What if Blacks Didn't Exist, mss. (fragment) [26 Jul 1996]
Box 33	–	Folder 12:	Eka, Lawrence: Kintu, mss. (ch. 1-6) [31 Aug 1992]
Box 33	–	Folder 13:	Eka, Lawrence: Kintu, mss. (ch. 7-12) [31 Aug 1992]
Box 34	–	Folder 1:	El'Zabar, Kai: collected works, correspondence [29 Aug 1987-25 Jul 1991]
Box 34	–	Folder 2:	El'Zabar, Kai: short story mss. [1984-86]
Box 34	–	Folder 3:	El'Zabar, Kai: short story mss. [1989]
Box 34	–	Folder 4:	El'Zabar, Kai: poetry mss. [1986-87]
Box 34	–	Folder 5:	El'Zabar, Kai: Fo'Real Baby, mss. (pp. 1-113) [ca. 1988]
Box 34	–	Folder 6:	El'Zabar, Kai: Fo'Real Baby, mss. (pp. 114-228) [ca. 1988]
Box 34	–	Folder 7:	Emadi, Hafizullah: poetry mss. [19 May 1995]
Box 34	–	Folder 8:	Ensley, James: The Partisans, mss. (fragment) [14 May 1996]
Box 34	–	Folder 9:	Estinvil, Guy: The Story of the Little Father, mss. (pp. 1-110) [7 Mar 1996]
Box 34	–	Folder 10:	Estinvil, Guy: The Story of the Little Father, mss. (pp. 111-224) [7 Mar 1996]
Box 34	–	Folder 11:	Estinvil, Guy: The Story of the Little Father, mss. (pp. 225-336) [7 Mar 1996]
Box 35	–	Folder 1:	Fair, Ronald: The Migrants, mss. (pp. 1-52) [29 Oct 1990]
Box 35	–	Folder 2:	Fair, Ronald: The Migrants, mss. (pp. 53-108) [29 Oct 1990]
Box 35	–	Folder 3:	Fair, Ronald: The Migrants, mss. (pp. 109-157) [29 Oct 1990]
Box 35	–	Folder 4:	Faison, Edward: Together Again Forever, correspondence [30 Jun 1995]
Box 35	–	Folder 5:	Faukner, Sheri: Love Poems, mss. [N.D.]
Box 35	–	Folder 6:	Feldman, Sheryl: Learning My Color, mss. (pp. 1-90) [11 Sept 1996]
Box 35	–	Folder 7:	Feldman, Sheryl: Learning My Color, mss. (pp. 91-186) [11 Sept 1996]
Box 35	–	Folder 8:	Flanders, Gladys: Hawaiian Homicide, correspondence & outline [1984-94]
Box 35	–	Folder 9:	Floyd, Bianca: The Sunflower, mss. [1981-92]
Box 35	–	Folder 10:	Flynn, Robert: The Killing of Chaminuka, mss. (fragment) [1984-85]
Box 35	–	Folder 11:	Ford, Anthony: Playing the Harlot, correspondence & reader evaluation [28 Jun 1995]
Box 35	–	Folder 12:	Ford, Wilbert S.: Pretty Boy, correspondence & reader evaluation [23 Jun 1995]
Box 35	–	Folder 13:	Ford, Wilbert S.: Pretty Boy, mss. (pp. 1-128) [22 Apr 1994]
Box 35	–	Folder 14:	Ford, Wilbert S.: Pretty Boy, mss. (pp. 129-262) [22 Apr 1994]
Box 36	–	Folder 1:	Ford, Wilbert S.: Pretty Boy, mss. (pp. 263-395) [22 Apr 1994]
Box 36	–	Folder 2:	Foster, Barbara: poetry mss. (fragment) [1983-84]
Box 36	–	Folder 3:	Fox, Monique Nicole: News You Can Use, reader evaluation, [N.D.]
Box 36	–	Folder 4:	Gabel, Barbara: Male Order Bride, mss. (fragment) [22 June 1996]
Box 36	–	Folder 5:	Gantuah, Harry: poetry mss. [19 Jan 1995]
Box 36	–	Folder 6:	Garside, James: Their Kind of President, Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaint [1990-91]
Box 36	–	Folder 7:	Gaskin, Aaron: correspondence [1984-85]
Box 36	–	Folder 8:	Gaston, Blanche: I Like Me, mss. [1979-92]
Box 36	–	Folder 9:	Gilbert, James: Morphodite Reader, mss. (fragment) [17 Jul 1996]
Box 36	–	Folder 10:	Golden, Oliver: untitled, mss. (fragment, ch. 1) [31 Mar 1993]
Box 36	–	Folder 11:	Golden, Oliver: untitled, mss. (fragment, ch. 2) [31 Mar 1993]
Box 36	–	Folder 12:	Guillory, Harold: Sacrifice of the Lone Star Mesquite, mss. (fragment) [3 Jul 1996]
Box 36	–	Folder 13:	Goode, Margaret: Fall and Rise of Lazarus Small, mss. (pp. 1-120) [8 Aug 1995]
Box 37	–	Folder 1:	Goode, Margaret: Fall and Rise of Lazarus Small, mss. (pp. 121-228) [8 Aug 1995]
Box 37	–	Folder 2:	Goode, Margaret: Some Folks..., mss. [18 Sept 1995]
Box 37	–	Folder 3:	Gordon, William: The New South, correspondence [31 Jan 1989-22 Oct 1992]
Box 37	–	Folder 4:	Gordon, William: The New South, mss. (version 1, fragment, ch. 1-8) [N.D.]
Box 37	–	Folder 5:	Gordon, William: The New South, mss. (version 2, fragment, ch. 1-7) [N.D.]
Box 37	–	Folder 6:	Gordon, William: The New South, mss. (version 2, fragment, ch. 8-13) [N.D.]
Box 37	–	Folder 7:	Granger, Elie: Peter's Prison, mss. (pp. 1-132) [10 Feb 1992/93] [?]
Box 37	–	Folder 8:	Granger, Elie: Peter's Prison, mss. (pp. 133-291) [10 Feb 1992/93] [?]
Box 38	–	Folder 1:	Grant, Patrice A.: Searching, Finding and Losing Love mss, 30 Aug 1996
Box 38	–	Folder 2:	Grantham, Blake: Off the Wall, mss. [17 May 1996]
Box 38	–	Folder 3:	Griffin, Booker: True Blue, screenplay mss. [Dec 1986]
Box 38	–	Folder 4:	Griffin, Peggy: correspondence [1984-92]
Box 38	–	Folder 5:	Grulke, Dag: Bloodline, mss. [N.D.]
Box 38	–	Folder 6:	Haghighi, Jafar J.: A Wayward Journey, mss. (pp. 1-125) [25 Oct 1996]
Box 38	–	Folder 7:	Haghighi, Jafar J.: A Wayward Journey, mss. (pp. 126-250) [25 Oct 1996]
Box 38	–	Folder 8:	Hankins, George: From Drug Addict to Usher, mss. [8 June 1995]
Box 38	–	Folder 9:	Hardy, Shirley: It's the Thunder…That Makes the Rainy Day Sad, mss. [1982]
Box 38	–	Folder 10:	Hargrett, Andrew: Unyoking, correspondence [1983-85]
Box 38	–	Folder 11:	Hemesath, Sister Caroline: Our Black Shepherds, correspondence [1985]
Box 39	–	Folder 1:	Himaya, Tafadhali H.: Genocide, pre-publication orders [1969-70]
Box 39	–	Folder 2:	Himaya, Tafadhali H.: Genocide, mss. (section 1) [ca. 1969]
Box 39	–	Folder 3:	Himaya, Tafadhali H.: Genocide, mss. (section 2) [ca. 1969]
Box 39	–	Folder 4:	Himaya, Tafadhali H.: Genocide, mss. (section 3) [ca. 1969]
Box 39	–	Folder 5:	Hilton, Peter: An Eye for an Eye, mss. (fragment) [1988]
Box 39	–	Folder 6:	Hinton, William F.: No Secrets, mss. [N.D.]
Box 39	–	Folder 7:	Holloman, Albert: Bonestripper, reader evaluation [20 June 1995]
Box 39	–	Folder 8:	Holstein, Michael: Monsoon Season, poetry mss. (fragment) [1988]
Box 39	–	Folder 9:	Horton, Lynn: Rebellion in the Segovias, mss. (pp. 1-91) [9 Jun 1995]
Box 39	–	Folder 10:	Horton, Lynn: Rebellion in the Segovias, mss. (pp. 92-198) [9 Jun 1995]
Box 39	–	Folder 11:	Horton, Lynn: Rebellion in the Segovias, mss. (pp. 199-269) [9 Jun 1995]

Box 40	–	Folder 1:	Horton, Michael: Getting Past the Pain, mss. (pp. 1-99) [ca. 1996]
Box 40	–	Folder 2:	Horton, Michael: Getting Past the Pain, mss. (pp. 100-198) [ca. 1996]
Box 40	–	Folder 3:	Hunt, Sharon: He Who Sits High and Looks Low, correspondence [1984-92]
Box 40	–	Folder 4:	Iam, Jah-Ra: Science Friction, reader evaluation [22 May 1995]
Box 40	–	Folder 5:	Imani, Nikitah Okembe-Ra: Deadly Poet, mss. (fragment) [29 Jan 1996]
Box 40	–	Folder 6:	Israel, Keilah: Avoiding the Merry-Go-Round, mss. (fragment) [12 Sept 1996]
Box 40	–	Folder 7:	Jackson, John L.: Mr. John's Techniques for Successful Black Hair Growth, mss. [N.D.]
Box 40	–	Folder 8:	Janis, Brett: Red Moon Cycle, mss. [6 Oct 1996]
Box 40	–	Folder 9:	Johnson, Charles R.: correspondence [1970]
Box 40	–	Folder 10:	Johnson, Stanley, III: correspondence [1984-85]
Box 40	–	Folder 11:	Jones, Sgt. Lorraina Nyanza: poetry mss. [1989]
Box 40	–	Folder 12:	Kahn, Dorothy: Children of the Sun, mss. (fragment) [12 May 1996]
Box 40	–	Folder 13:	Kajangu, Kykosa: Ma Africa, My Witness, mss. [26 July 1996]
Box 40	–	Folder 14:	Kotzer, Mordechai: Fool's Day Affair, mss. (fragment) [8 April 1996]
Box 40	–	Folder 15:	Killens, John Oliver: Great Black Russian, correspondence [1982-83] (see also Box 58, Folder 21 and several photographs in Box 88)
Box 40	–	Folder 16:	Lathan, Eugene: Black Man's Guide to Working, mss. [21 Oct 1996]
Box 41	–	Folder 1:	Lawrence, Oliver: poetry mss. [22 April 1996]
Box 41	–	Folder 2:	Lawrence, Othalene J.: Pentitude, mss. [21 Nov 1996]
Box 41	–	Folder 3:	Lee, George L.: Interesting People, correspondence [1983-92]
Box 41	–	Folder 4:	Lewis, Jeffrey: A Victim of Society / stories, reader evaluation [N.D.]
Box 41	–	Folder 5:	Li, Zhi-Sui: Bloody China in a Tumble, mss. (fragment) [1988-89]
Box 41	–	Folder 6:	Lightfoot, Claude M.: From the Plantation to the Ghetto to World Politics, mss. (fragment) [N.D.]
Box 41	–	Folder 7:	Martin, Ernest: Casualty of Justice, mss. [ca. 1995]
Box 41	–	Folder 8:	McClendon, S.M.: Number One, mss. [1 Jun 1993]
Box 41	–	Folder 9:	Miller, Sammy: Thunder in a Green Cathedral, mss. [29 May 1995]
Box 41	–	Folder 10:	Mills, Jeffrey: Poverty Trap, Bottled Up Rage, mss. [ca. 1996]
Box 41	–	Folder 11:	Milsap, Valinda: Bittersweet, reader evaluation [13 May 1988]
Box 41	–	Folder 12:	Mitchell, Cheryl: poetry mss. [25 Nov 1996]
Box 41	–	Folder 13:	Mitchell, Drew: Twin Killing, mss., synopsis and reader evaluation [4 Nov 1996]
Box 41	–	Folder 14:	Mitchell-Davis, Judy: Suite 1515, mss. [28 Nov 1989]
Box 42	–	Folder 1:	Moorer, Elaine: Deliberate Choice, mss. (fragment, pp. 1-125) [14 May 1996]
Box 42	–	Folder 2:	Moorer, Elaine: Deliberate Choice, mss. (fragment, pp. 126-252) [14 May 1996]
Box 42	–	Folder 3:	Moorer, Elaine: Deliberate Choice, mss. (fragment, pp. 253-377) [14 May 1996]
Box 42	–	Folder 4:	Moorer, Elaine: Deliberate Choice, mss. (fragment, pp. 378-485) [14 May 1996]
Box 42	–	Folder 5:	Morin, Ramon: Romantic Thoughts…Sheltered Mind, mss. (fragment) [22 Jan 1996]
Box 42	–	Folder 6:	Mroue, Haas: Far From America & Other Poems, poetry mss. (fragment) [1992]
Box 42	–	Folder 7:	Mujica, Barbara: Far From My Mother's Home, mss. (fragment) [26 Jul 1996]
Box 42	–	Folder 8:	Mutsaers, Anthony: American Lives, mss. (fragment) [7 Dec 1995]
Box 42	–	Folder 9:	Myrick, Timothy: In the Waters of My Mind, mss. (fragment) [2 Jun 1995]
Box 43	–	Folder 1:	Neal, Tracy A.: Bloodlust, reader evaluation [N.D.]
Box 43	–	Folder 2:	Ndukwe, Ernest: Why I Disagree with Rush Limbaugh, mss. [7 Jan 1995]
Box 43	–	Folder 3:	Nelson, Jerry Ray: Men and Women in the Yellow Shirts, mss. (fragment) [15 May 1996]
Box 43	–	Folder 4:	Nichols, Eric: Rembrandt, mss. (ch. 1-8) [21 Mar 1996]
Box 43	–	Folder 5:	Nichols, Eric: Rembrandt, mss. (ch. 9-23) [21 Mar 1996]
Box 43	–	Folder 6:	Nielson, Elizabeth: Soda Bread on Sunday, mss. (fragment) & reader evaluation [4 Nov 1996]
Box 43	–	Folder 7:	O'Brien, Catherine: Urgent Action, mss. (fragment) [8 Aug 1995]
Box 43	–	Folder 8:	Okpala, Chukwudi: Uncircumcised, mss. (pp. 1-115) [29 May 1996]
Box 43	–	Folder 9:	Okpala, Chukwudi: Uncircumcised, mss. (pp. 116-231) [29 May 1996]
Box 43	–	Folder 10:	Paddio-Johnson, Eunice: poetry mss. [1991]
Box 43	–	Folder 11:	Parrish, Gail: Meeting / Lost and Found, mss. with comments [1982-83]
Box 43	–	Folder 12:	Patel, Nital: History of Dust, mss. (fragment) [13 Jun 1996]
Box 43	–	Folder 13:	Pearcey, Anthony A.: Rupert Jr., mss. [24 Oct 1996]
Box 44	–	Folder 1:	Phillips, Pamela Kelly: Listening Close to Evening, mss. [N.D.]
Box 44	–	Folder 2:	Phillips, Pamela Kelly: poetry mss. [N.D.]
Box 44	–	Folder 3:	Pittman, Roxanne: Bits and Pieces, mss. (fragment) [7 Sept 1995]
Box 44	–	Folder 4:	Pollard, William: Elegies, correspondence / From Lincoln Hill, mss. [22 Oct 1996]
Box 44	–	Folder 5:	Powell, Adam Clayton: The Marching Blacks (1945), correspondence [1969]
Box 44	–	Folder 6:	Powell, Barry M. (Classic Visions, Inc.): calendars [29 Nov 1996]
Box 44	–	Folder 7:	Presson, Joan: Waning Moon—Rising Stars, mss. (fragment) [16 April 1996]
Box 44	–	Folder 8:	Puchel, Chris: Do it, To it, Buckateers, mss. (fragment) [24 Nov 1996]
Box 44	–	Folder 9:	Quick, Jonathan (Max Alfert): American Nightmare, reader evaluation [ca. 1995]
Box 44	–	Folder 10:	Rawn, Michael: A Wanderer's Cabala, mss. [1991-92]
Box 44	–	Folder 11:	Ray, Mary Ellen: Air Finished, mss. (pp. 1-88) [4 Dec 1996]
Box 44	–	Folder 12:	Ray, Mary Ellen: Air Finished, mss. (pp. 89-176) [4 Dec 1996]
Box 44	–	Folder 13:	Raymond, Kevin: We Should Have Gone Golfing, mss. (pp. 1-120) [19 April 1996]
Box 44	–	Folder 14:	Raymond, Kevin: We Should Have Gone Golfing, mss. (pp. 121-240) [19 April 1996]
Box 45	–	Folder 1:	Raymond, Kevin: We Should Have Gone Golfing, mss. (pp. 241-360) [19 April 1996]
Box 45	–	Folder 2:	Raymond, Kevin: We Should Have Gone Golfing, mss. (pp. 361-495) [19 April 1996]
Box 45	–	Folder 3:	Redmond, Renee: Vengeance by Nature, mss. [N.D.]
Box 45	–	Folder 4:	Reece, Clarence: autobiography, mss. [1979]
Box 45	–	Folder 5:	Reed, Adolph: correspondence [1993]
Box 45	–	Folder 6:	Rigsby, Patricia: Poetry for the People, mss. [ca. 1996]
Box 45	–	Folder 7:	Robinson, John: Kilimanjaro Burning, mss. [20 Feb 1996]
Box 45	–	Folder 8:	Robinson, Lenwood, Jr.: Black American Golfer - A History, mss. [1982]
Box 45	–	Folder 9:	Rosier, Patricia: A Subject of Race, mss. (pp. 1-150) [N.D.]
Box 46	–	Folder 1:	Rosier, Patricia: A Subject of Race, mss. (pp. 151-300) [N.D.]
Box 46	–	Folder 2:	Rosier, Patricia: A Subject of Race, mss. (pp. 301-450) [N.D.]
Box 46	–	Folder 3:	Rosier, Patricia: A Subject of Race, mss. (pp. 451-600) [N.D.]
Box 46	–	Folder 4:	Rosier, Patricia: A Subject of Race, mss. (pp. 601-753) [N.D.]
Box 46	–	Folder 5:	Rossi, Mark Anthony: correspondence & poetry mss. [26 Jun 1992-18 Dec 1993]
Box 46	–	Folder 6:	Rossi, Mark Anthony: Shade Shy of Midnight, mss. [10 Aug 1992]
Box 46	–	Folder 7:	Rossi, Mark Anthony: essay, mss. [ca. 1992-93]
Box 46	–	Folder 8:	Rossi, Mark Anthony: book review, mss. [ca. 1992-93]
Box 46	–	Folder 9:	Rossman, Vern: Lo Sampson, mss. (fragment) [30 Oct 1995]
Box 46	–	Folder 10:	Salahuddin, Abu B.: Scheme, correspondence [1984]
Box 47	–	Folder 1:	Saltmarsh, Arthur: Circle of Stone, correspondence [1984]
Box 47	–	Folder 2:	Saltmarsh, Arthur: Circle of Stone, mss. (prologue-ch. 5) [ca. 1984-86]
Box 47	–	Folder 3:	Saltmarsh, Arthur: Circle of Stone, mss. (ch. 6-11) [ca. 1984-86]
Box 47	–	Folder 4:	Saltmarsh, Arthur: Circle of Stone, mss. (ch. 12-19) [ca. 1984-86]
Box 47	–	Folder 5:	Saltmarsh, Arthur: Circle of Stone, mss. (ch. 20-26) [ca. 1984-86]
Box 47	–	Folder 6:	Saltmarsh, Arthur: Circle of Stone, mss. (ch. 27-31) [ca. 1984-86]
Box 47	–	Folder 7:	Saltmarsh, Arthur: Circle of Stone, mss. (ch. 32-end) [ca. 1984-86]
Box 48	–	Folder 1:	Santander: poetry mss. [10 Oct 1995]
Box 48	–	Folder 2:	Scot, Barbara: Violet Shyness of their Eyes: Notes from Nepal, mss. [1991-92]
Box 48	–	Folder 3:	Seals, Theodore H.: Discovery / Demon Killer / Godfrey, mss. [1993]
Box 48	–	Folder 4:	Sewell, Albert: Solitudes of Poetry, Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaint [1992-93]
Box 48	–	Folder 5:	Shabazz, Nimrod: Contradictions, mss. [21 Oct 1996]
Box 48	–	Folder 6:	Shahid, Mark J.: Frontline Chicago, mss. (pp. 1-84) [6 Nov 1996]
Box 48	–	Folder 7:	Shahid, Mark J.: Frontline Chicago, mss. (pp. 85-171) [6 Nov 1996]
Box 48	–	Folder 8:	Shelley, Mark: Saints of Bartholomew, mss. (fragment) [30 Jun 1996]
Box 48	–	Folder 9:	Simmons, George W.: A Determined May, mss. (fragment) [26 Feb 1996]
Box 48	–	Folder 10:	Simmons, William J., Sr.: Operation Desert Shield, correspondence & publicity [1993]
Box 48	–	Folder 11:	Sisya, Frank D. : A Glimpse at the Other Earth, reader evaluation [24 Mar 1995]
Box 48	–	Folder 12:	Skinner, Barbara Williams: Congressional Black Caucus, correspondence [1982]
Box 48	–	Folder 13:	Smith, Ald. Edward H.: It Ain't All Mr. Charley's, mss. (Ch. 1-6) [1991-92]
Box 48	–	Folder 14:	Smith, Ald. Edward H.: It Ain't All Mr. Charley's, mss. (Ch. 7-10) [15 Jul 1991]
Box 49	–	Folder 1:	Smith, Philip G.: A Generation of Black Mayors, correspondence [1982-83] (see also Box 86, Folder 11)
Box 49	–	Folder 2:	Smith, Robert Lee: Survivor, correspondence [1984]
Box 49	–	Folder 3:	Snider, Diane: Single Girls Anonymous, mss. (fragment) [18 Sept 1996]
Box 49	–	Folder 4:	Sopher, Sharon: Witness to Apartheid, book proposal [1988]
Box 49	–	Folder 5:	Ssekasozi, Englebert: Philosophical Defense of Affirmative Action [31 Jul 1995]
Box 49	–	Folder 6:	Starks, Carlethia: poetry mss. [9 Nov 1995]
Box 49	–	Folder 7:	Sulek, Robert: Bright Black Voices, mss. [26 May 1996]
Box 49	–	Folder 8:	Suniville, Harry: Badlands, mss. (fragment) [14 Feb 1996]
Box 49	–	Folder 9:	Thompson, Clinton: Moon Child, mss. [1 Oct 1996]
Box 49	–	Folder 10:	Thompson-Turner, Priscilla: poetry mss., reader evaluation [22 May 1995]
Box 49	–	Folder 11:	Turner, Dolly: correspondence [26 Mar 1984] (see also Box 11, Folder 11)
Box 49	–	Folder 12:	Udo, Uko-Bendi: Village Stories, mss. / Homeward Bound, correspondence [ca. 1996]
Box 49	–	Folder 13:	Van Houten, Mark: Loved for a Lie, mss. [ca. 1996]
Box 49	–	Folder 14:	Vasko, Jonathan: Crooked on the Wall, mss. (fragment) [17 Apr 1996]

Box 50	–	Folder 1:	Walton, Darwin M.: Mayor Who Conquered Chicago, correspondence & contract [1990-91]
Box 50	–	Folder 2:	Warren, Roland: Salem Dynasty, mss. (fragment) [4 Jan 1996]
Box 50	–	Folder 3:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, correspondence [26 Jan 1991-12 Apr 1996]
Box 50	–	Folder 4:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 1, pp. 1-150) [ca. 1991]
Box 50	–	Folder 5:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 1, pp. 151-305) [ca. 1991]
Box 50	–	Folder 6:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 1, pp. 306-460) [ca. 1991]
Box 50	–	Folder 7:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 1, pp. 461-614) [ca. 1991]
Box 50	–	Folder 8:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 1, pp. 615-770) [ca. 1991]
Box 51	–	Folder 1:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 1, pp. 771-877) [ca. 1991]
Box 51	–	Folder 2:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 1, pp. 878-984) [ca. 1991]
Box 51	–	Folder 3:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 2, ch. 1-9) [N.D.]
Box 51	–	Folder 4:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 2, ch. 10-15) [N.D.]
Box 51	–	Folder 5:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 2, ch. 16-26) [N.D.]
Box 51	–	Folder 6:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 2, ch. 27-32) [N.D.]
Box 51	–	Folder 7:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 2, ch. 33-38) [N.D.]
Box 52	–	Folder 1:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 2, ch. 39-43) [N.D.]
Box 52	–	Folder 2:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 2, ch. 44-48) [N.D.]
Box 52	–	Folder 3:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 3, fragment, ch. 1-9) [N.D.]
Box 52	–	Folder 4:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 4, pp. 1-150) [N.D.]
Box 52	–	Folder 5:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 4, pp. 151-302) [N.D.]
Box 52	–	Folder 6:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 4, pp. 303-454) [N.D.]
Box 52	–	Folder 7:	Washington, Elaine: Land of Gold, mss. (version 4, pp. 455-606) [N.D.]
Box 53	–	Folder 1:	Watkins, Ron: Danger Zone Diary, outline [N.D.]
Box 53	–	Folder 2:	Waton, Kathleen: Halcyon, mss. (fragment) [2 Nov 1996]
Box 53	–	Folder 3:	Watson, Delton: Rising of a Bastard Child, mss. [21 Nov 1996]
Box 53	–	Folder 4:	Watson, Sam: Side by Side, My Life with George S. Halas [1989-92]
Box 53	–	Folder 5:	Weisinger, Will: The Dodgers Never Left Brooklyn, mss. [21 Oct 1996]
Box 53	–	Folder 6:	Wheeler, John: Revelations, mss. (pp. 1-43) [17 Oct 1996]
Box 53	–	Folder 7:	Wheeler, John: Revelations, mss. (pp. 44-197) [17 Oct 1996]
Box 53	–	Folder 8:	Wheeler, John: Revelations, mss. (pp. 198-343) [17 Oct 1996]
Box 53	–	Folder 9:	Willard, Charles & Melvin Johnson: miscellaneous, mss. (fragment) [ca. 1992-94]
Box 53	–	Folder 10:	Williams, Wilbert: Dancing in Fire, mss. (fragment) & reader evaluation [4 Nov 1996]
Box 53	–	Folder 11:	Wilson, Carol: Something Happens, mss. (fragment) [19 Jan 1996]
Box 53	–	Folder 12:	Wilson, Leroy: Reaching for Eternity, reader evaluation [N.D.]
Box 53	–	Folder 13:	Wink, Steven: Potter and the Prophet, mss. (fragment) [23 Mar 1996]
Box 54	–	Folder 1:	X, Conrad: A Verse from the Book of the Black God, mss. [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 2:	Young, Emma: miscellaneous, mss. [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 3:	Young, Emma: Extremely Yours, screenplay mss. [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 4:	Young, Emma: City Woman, screenplay mss. [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 5:	Young, Emma: Stop in the Name of Love, play mss. [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 6:	Yuric, Eleanor: Deadly Games, mss. (fragment) [13 Sept 1996]
Box 54	–	Folder 7:	Compilation & anthology ideas [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 8:	Best of the Best Poetry Anthology (ed. Margaret Burroughs), correspondence [1983-88] (see also photographs in Box 89)
Box 54	–	Folder 9:	Best of the Best: Ajayi, Malachi [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 10:	Best of the Best: Anderson, Carolyn [14 Jan-14 Mar 1985]
Box 54	–	Folder 11:	Best of the Best: Armstrong, Denise C. [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 12:	Best of the Best: Baraka, Amiri [17 Mar-10 Jun 1983]
Box 54	–	Folder 13:	Best of the Best: Barnes, S. Brandi [N.D.]
Box 54	–	Folder 14:	Best of the Best: Boadu, Yaley [19 Sept 1983]
Box 54	–	Folder 15:	Best of the Best: Braxton, Charlie [18 Mar 1985]
Box 54	–	Folder 16:	Best of the Best: Brooks, Gwendolyn [11 Jan 1983]
Box 54	–	Folder 17:	Best of the Best: Brown, Holly [30 Dec 1987]
Box 55	–	Folder 1:	Best of the Best: Brown, Joe C. [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 2:	Best of the Best: Burroughs, Charles (Chas) [ca. 1982]
Box 55	–	Folder 3:	Best of the Best: Burroughs, Margaret [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 4:	Best of the Best: Burrowes, Carl P. [14 June 1983]
Box 55	–	Folder 5:	Best of the Best: Cain, Sarah [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 6:	Best of the Best: Chaney, Monica [16 Feb 1983]
Box 55	–	Folder 7:	Best of the Best: Chinyelu, Mamadi [Jan-Apr 1984]
Box 55	–	Folder 8:	Best of the Best: Clay, James “Kwame” [20 Oct 1982]
Box 55	–	Folder 9:	Best of the Best: Collier, James [9 Mar 1984]
Box 55	–	Folder 10:	Best of the Best: Cook, Mike [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 11:	Best of the Best: Cortez, Jayne [22 Feb 1983]
Box 55	–	Folder 12:	Best of the Best: Crocket-Smith, D. L. [6 July 1984]
Box 55	–	Folder 13:	Best of the Best: Crowder, Michael [26 Oct 1982]
Box 55	–	Folder 14:	Best of the Best: Danner, Margaret [ca. 1982]
Box 55	–	Folder 15:	Best of the Best: Davis, Frank Marshall [28 Apr 1983]
Box 55	–	Folder 16:	Best of the Best: Dickerson, Leon [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 17:	Best of the Best: Douglas, Roberta/Aisha [ca. 1983]
Box 55	–	Folder 18:	Best of the Best: Edwards, Constance [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 19:	Best of the Best: Emanuel, James A. [21 Dec 1982]
Box 55	–	Folder 20:	Best of the Best: Emmons, Ronald Lee [30 Apr-31 May 1984]
Box 55	–	Folder 21:	Best of the Best: Evans, Mari [30 Mar 1983]
Box 55	–	Folder 22:	Best of the Best: Foucher, Valerie [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 23:	Best of the Best: Frederick, Helen [ca. 1982]
Box 55	–	Folder 24:	Best of the Best: Freeman, Cynthia [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 25:	Best of the Best: Gilbert, Zack [N.D.]
Box 55	–	Folder 26:	Best of the Best: Gildersleeve, Sandra Marlene [Jan 1986]
Box 55	–	Folder 27:	Best of the Best: Giovanni, Nikki [ca. 1983]

Box 56	–	Folder 1:	Best of the Best: G'RA [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 2:	Best of the Best: Graham, Lorenz [ca. 1982]
Box 56	–	Folder 3:	Best of the Best: Gray, Margaret [ca. 1983]
Box 56	–	Folder 4:	Best of the Best: Hall-Evans, Jo Ann [25 Oct 1982]
Box 56	–	Folder 5:	Best of the Best: Hankins, Beulah [ca. 1982]
Box 56	–	Folder 6:	Best of the Best: Hardy-Leonard, Shirley [ca. 1982-83]
Box 56	–	Folder 7:	Best of the Best: Harper, Michael [6 Jan-17 May 1983]
Box 56	–	Folder 8:	Best of the Best: Harris, Cheryl [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 9:	Best of the Best: House, Anthony [ca. 1982]
Box 56	–	Folder 10:	Best of the Best: Hummons, Marion T. [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 11:	Best of the Best: Hunter, John [28 Feb 1983]
Box 56	–	Folder 12:	Best of the Best: Hutchinson, Gayle Gross [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 13:	Best of the Best: Jackson, Leslie [30 Mar-2 Apr 1984]
Box 56	–	Folder 14:	Best of the Best: Jewel, Kathy Lee [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 15:	Best of the Best: Johnson, Cheryl Jeffries [6 Jun 1983]
Box 56	–	Folder 16:	Best of the Best: Johnson, Christine [ca. 1982]
Box 56	–	Folder 17:	Best of the Best: Johnson, Freddie (Love) [20 Oct 1982]
Box 56	–	Folder 18:	Best of the Best: Johnson, Mildred [27 Feb 1983]
Box 56	–	Folder 19:	Best of the Best: Kilgore, James C. [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 20:	Best of the Best: King, Leona D. [10 Jan 1983]
Box 56	–	Folder 21:	Best of the Best: Knight, Cranston S. [9 Jul 1984]
Box 56	–	Folder 22:	Best of the Best: LaCour, Renee [27 Jul 1987]
Box 56	–	Folder 23:	Best of the Best: Le Flore, Shirley [31 Jan 1984]
Box 56	–	Folder 24:	Best of the Best: Lennard, William [31 Jan 1985]
Box 56	–	Folder 25:	Best of the Best: Long, Richard A. [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 26:	Best of the Best: Madhubuti, Haki [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 27:	Best of the Best: Marshall, James [Mar-Apr 1984]
Box 56	–	Folder 28:	Best of the Best: McCarty, Ernest [N.D.]
Box 56	–	Folder 29:	Best of the Best: Messiah, Rocky [ca. 1982]
Box 56	–	Folder 30:	Best of the Best: Moore, Lenard [ca. 1982-83]
Box 56	–	Folder 31:	Best of the Best: Morse, Evangeline F. [ca. 1982]
Box 57	–	Folder 1:	Best of the Best: Okantah, Masatabu S. [N.D.]
Box 57	–	Folder 2:	Best of the Best: Pennington-Jones, Paulette [ca. 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 3:	Best of the Best: Perkins, Eugene (Useni) [ca. 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 4:	Best of the Best: Plumpp, Sterling [21 Feb 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 5:	Best of the Best: Randall, Dudley [ca. 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 6:	Best of the Best: Redmond, Eugene [25 May 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 7:	Best of the Best: Roberts, Dorothy [11 May 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 8:	Best of the Best: Roberts, Lawey [5 Jan 1984]
Box 57	–	Folder 9:	Best of the Best: Robinson, Jeannette Drake [21 Feb 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 10:	Best of the Best: Rogers, Carolyn M. [28 Jan-13 Jun 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 11:	Best of the Best: Ross-Jackson, Rachel [15 Feb 1984]
Box 57	–	Folder 12:	Best of the Best: Rouselle, Jeanette [11 Mar 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 13:	Best of the Best: Rowell, Charles H. [17 Jan 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 14:	Best of the Best: Ryan, Don [ca. 1982]
Box 57	–	Folder 15:	Best of the Best: Safeeulah, Gilda [N.D.]
Box 57	–	Folder 16:	Best of the Best: Sewood, Ernest [ca. 1982]
Box 57	–	Folder 17:	Best of the Best: Sharpe, Ronald E. [5 Feb 1992]
Box 57	–	Folder 18:	Best of the Best: Shelly, Elaine [22 Mar-11 Apr 1985]
Box 57	–	Folder 19:	Best of the Best: Simon, Jewel Woodward [3 Mar 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 20:	Best of the Best: Smaller, Constance [11 Oct-13 Dec 1984]
Box 57	–	Folder 21:	Best of the Best: Smart, William [ca. 1982]
Box 57	–	Folder 22:	Best of the Best: Smith, David L. [26 Jan-6 Feb 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 23:	Best of the Best: Smith, Timothy A. [30 Nov 1984]
Box 57	–	Folder 24:	Best of the Best: Southerland, Ellease [22 Jan 1983]
Box 57	–	Folder 25:	Best of the Best: Starhill, Stefanie [ca. 1982]
Box 57	–	Folder 26:	Best of the Best: Stegall, Patricia [N.D.]
Box 58	–	Folder 1:	Best of the Best: Stewart, Joffre [N.D.]
Box 58	–	Folder 2:	Best of the Best: Street, Bill [N.D.]
Box 58	–	Folder 3:	Best of the Best: Stuckey, Elma [6 July 1983]
Box 58	–	Folder 4:	Best of the Best: Talley, Jere [2 Oct 1984]
Box 58	–	Folder 5:	Best of the Best: Tate, Garth [26 Nov 1982]
Box 58	–	Folder 6:	Best of the Best: Tibbs, Delbert [Oct 1982]
Box 58	–	Folder 7:	Best of the Best: Timberlake, Detmer [ca. 1985]
Box 58	–	Folder 8:	Best of the Best: Towns, Jeanne [N.D.]
Box 58	–	Folder 9:	Best of the Best: Troupe, Quincy [4 Mar 1983]
Box 58	–	Folder 10:	Best of the Best: Turner, Bobiette [9-18 Apr 1984]
Box 58	–	Folder 11:	Best of the Best: Warner, Sharon [ca. 1987] [?]
Box 58	–	Folder 12:	Best of the Best: Watson, Beatrice [ca. 1982]]
Box 58	–	Folder 13:	Best of the Best: Weston, Tyrone (Stoneroot) [N.D.]
Box 58	–	Folder 14:	Best of the Best: Williams, Mareya [5 Jun 1984]
Box 58	–	Folder 15:	Best of the Best: Wright, Deonne Beasley [ca. 1982]
Box 58	–	Folder 16:	Best of the Best: Yohance, Leon [26 Jul 1983]
Box 58	–	Folder 17:	Best of the Best: Prison Poems (various authors) [1983-84]
Box 58	–	Folder 18:	Best of the Best: misc. authors
Box 58	–	Folder 19:	Calhoun, Greg: biography (by Cleveland Hurst), correspondence [1991-92]
Box 58	–	Folder 20:	Farrakhan, Louis: biography (by Abdul Akbar Muhammad), correspondence [1985]
Box 58	–	Folder 21:	MLK, Jr. - An Assessment, correspondence [1969-70]
Box 58	–	Folder 22:	MLK, Jr. - An Assessment, research file [1969-70]
Box 58	–	Folder 23:	StreetWords: Poetry by StreetWise Vendors, correspondence &, mss. [1993]
Box 59	–	Folder 1:	A misc. (1-1)
Box 59	–	Folder 2:	A misc. (2-1)
Box 59	–	Folder 3:	B misc. (1-1)
Box 59	–	Folder 4:	B misc. (1-2)
Box 59	–	Folder 5:	B misc. (2-1)
Box 59	–	Folder 6:	B misc. (2-2)

Box 60	–	Folder 1:	C misc. (1-1)
Box 60	–	Folder 2:	C misc. (2-1)
Box 60	–	Folder 3:	C misc. (2-2)
Box 60	–	Folder 4:	D misc. (1-1)
Box 60	–	Folder 5:	D misc. (2-1)
Box 60	–	Folder 6:	D misc. (2-2)
Box 61	–	Folder 1:	E misc. (1-1)
Box 61	–	Folder 2:	E misc. (2-1)
Box 61	–	Folder 3:	F misc. (1-1)
Box 61	–	Folder 4:	F misc. (2-1)
Box 61	–	Folder 5:	G misc. (1-1)
Box 61	–	Folder 6:	G misc. (2-1)
Box 61	–	Folder 7:	H misc. (1-1)
Box 62	–	Folder 1:	H misc. (1-2)
Box 62	–	Folder 2:	H misc. (2-1)
Box 62	–	Folder 3:	H misc. (2-2)
Box 62	–	Folder 4:	I misc. (1-1)
Box 62	–	Folder 5:	I misc. (2-1)
Box 62	–	Folder 6:	J misc. (1-1)
Box 62	–	Folder 7:	J misc. (2-1)
Box 62	–	Folder 8:	J misc. (2-2)
Box 63	–	Folder 1:	K misc. (1-1)
Box 63	–	Folder 2:	K misc. (2-1)
Box 63	–	Folder 3:	L misc. (1-1)
Box 63	–	Folder 4:	L misc. (2-1)
Box 63	–	Folder 5:	M misc. (1-1)
Box 63	–	Folder 6:	M misc. (1-2)
Box 63	–	Folder 7:	M misc. (2-1)
Box 64	–	Folder 1:	M misc. (2-2)
Box 64	–	Folder 2:	N misc. (1-1)
Box 64	–	Folder 3:	N misc. (2-1)
Box 64	–	Folder 4:	O misc. (1-1)
Box 64	–	Folder 5:	O misc. (2-1)
Box 64	–	Folder 6:	P misc. (1-1)
Box 64	–	Folder 7:	P misc. (2-1)
Box 64	–	Folder 8:	P misc. (2-2)
Box 64	–	Folder 9:	Q misc. (1-1)
Box 65	–	Folder 1:	R misc. (1-1)
Box 65	–	Folder 2:	R misc. (2-1)
Box 65	–	Folder 3:	R misc. (2-2)
Box 65	–	Folder 4:	S misc. (1-1)
Box 65	–	Folder 5:	S misc. (2-1)
Box 65	–	Folder 6:	S misc. (2-2)
Box 65	–	Folder 7:	S misc. (2-3)
Box 66	–	Folder 1:	T misc. (1-1)
Box 66	–	Folder 2:	T misc. (2-1)
Box 66	–	Folder 3:	U & V misc. (1-1)
Box 66	–	Folder 4:	W misc. (1-1)
Box 66	–	Folder 5:	W misc. (1-2)
Box 66	–	Folder 6:	W misc. (2-1)
Box 66	–	Folder 7:	W misc. (2-2)
Box 67	–	Folder 1:	W misc. (2-3)
Box 67	–	Folder 2:	X, Y & Z misc. (1-1)
Box 67	–	Folder 3:	Unknown misc.
Box 67	–	Folder 4:	Unknown author [Arnella] [?]: unknown, mss. (fragment, ch. 2-3) [N.D.]
Box 67	–	Folder 5:	Unknown author [Arnella] [?]: unknown, mss. (fragment, ch. 4-5) [N.D.]
Box 67	–	Folder 6:	Unknown author [Arnella] [?]: unknown, mss. (fragment, ch. 6-8) [N.D.]
Box 67	–	Folder 7:	Unknown author [Arnella] [?]: unknown, mss. (fragment, ch. 9-11) [N.D.]
Box 67	–	Folder 8:	Unknown author [Arnella] [?]: unknown, mss. (fragment, ch. 12-13) [N.D.]

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	Series 4: Film Projects, 1983 – 1993

Box 68		–	Folder 1:	Path Films, correspondence [1983-86]
Box 68		–	Folder 2:	Negotiations, screenplay mss. & budget [1989-91] (see also Box 13, Folder 7 & 8)
Box 68		–	Folder 3:	G & P Productions, Banana Bay film project [19 Mar 1991]
Box 68		–	Folder 4:	Greenlight Films, correspondence [1991-93]
Box 68		–	Folder 5:	Greenlight Films, financing [1992-93]
Box 68		–	Folder 6:	Greenlight Films, agreement [N.D.]
Box 68		–	Folder 7:	Greenlight Films, private placement [1991]
Box 68		–	Folder 8:	Greenlight Films, projects & press releases [N.D.]
Box 68		–	Folder 9:	Greenlight Films, clippings & serials [1991-92]
Box 68		–	Folder 10:	Greenlight Films, misc. [N.D.]
Box 68		–	Folder 11:	Skipper B. Productions: Unsung Heroes screen treatment [12 Nov 1995]

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	Series 5: Production, 1962 – 1996

Box 69			Folder 1:	Aleph Publishing Services [1994-95]
Box 69		–	Folder 2:	Arcata [1982-85]
Box 69		–	Folder 3:	Bookcrafters [1986-93]
Box 69		–	Folder 4:	Bookmasters [1986-95]
Box 69		–	Folder 5:	Cash Sale Instant Printing [1990]
Box 69		–	Folder 6:	Cueno Press [1962-69]
Box 69		–	Folder 7:	Cueno Press, litigation [1975-76]
Box 69		–	Folder 8:	Delmas [1988-90]
Box 69		–	Folder 9:	Fairfield Graphics, litigation [1983-85]
Box 69		–	Folder 10:	John H. Decker & Sons [1985-90]
Box 69		–	Folder 11:	Knowledge in Motion [1994]
Box 69		–	Folder 12:	McNaughton & Gunn [1982-86]
Box 69		–	Folder 13:	McNaughton & Gunn [1987]
Box 69		–	Folder 14:	McNaughton & Gunn [1988-89]
Box 69		–	Folder 15:	McNaughton & Gunn [1990-95]
Box 69		–	Folder 16:	McNaughton/Pathways [1988]
Box 70		–	Folder 1:	Modern Impressions, Inc. [1985-88]
Box 70		–	Folder 2:	Morgan Antartica [1990-94]
Box 70		–	Folder 3:	Nighthawk Design [1994-95]
Box 70		–	Folder 4:	Protypgraphy, Inc. [1985]
Box 70		–	Folder 5:	Ragano, Anthony [1988] (see also Box 3, Folder 11)
Box 70		–	Folder 6:	Rice, Chuck [1986-87]
Box 70		–	Folder 7:	Rose Printing Company, Inc. [1996]
Box 70		–	Folder 8:	R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company [1969]
Box 70		–	Folder 9:	St. James Press [1983-86]
Box 70		–	Folder 10:	Thomas, Stephen [1987]
Box 70		–	Folder 11:	Williams Typesetting [1962]
Box 70		–	Folder 12:	Misc. invoices
Box 70		–	Folder 13:	Misc. quotes & brochures
Box 70		–	Folder 14:	Path Press letterhead [N.D.]
Box 70		–	Folder 15:	Path Press brochure artwork [N.D.]
Box 70		–	Folder 16:	Layout & art examples

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	Series 6: Publicity, 1969 – 1993

Box 71		–	Folder 1:	Path Press, press releases [1982-87]
Box 71		–	Folder 2:	Ashram Productions, TV advertising [1989]
Box 71		–	Folder 3:	Book listing, industry & advertising, correspondence [1969-93]
Box 71		–	Folder 4:	Black Studies Directors, correspondence [1983-87]
Box 71		–	Folder 5:	Book award organizations, correspondence [1984-93]
Box 71		–	Folder 6:	Book reviewing organizations, correspondence [1983-93]
Box 71		–	Folder 7:	Path Press clippings [1983]
Box 71		–	Folder 8:	Misc. directories (1)
Box 71		–	Folder 9:	Misc. directories (2)
Box 72		–	Folder 1:	Mailing lists: book stores
Box 72		–	Folder 2:	Mailing lists: press releases
Box 72		–	Folder 3:	Mailing lists: local TV shows accepting guests
Box 72		–	Folder 4:	Mailing lists: book reviewing organizations
Box 72		–	Folder 5:	Mailing lists: black writers
Box 72		–	Folder 6:	Mailing lists: Black Studies contacts
Box 72		–	Folder 7:	Mailing lists: black business, education & community leaders
Box 72		–	Folder 8:	Mailing lists: customers & individuals
Box 72		–	Folder 9:	Mailing lists: book parties
Box 72		–	Folder 10:	Mailing lists: misc.

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	Series 7: Events, 1970 – 1998

Box 73		–	Folder 1:	Quincy's book party [12 Jun 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 2:	Gary, Indiana book party [19 Jun 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 3:	Geter book party [26 Jun 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 4:	Guild book party [22 Jun 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 5:	Nurscule Kellum book party [17 Jul 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 6:	Birdsong book party [24 Jul 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 7:	Minority Women's Career conference [30 Jul 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 8:	Block Club [30 Jul 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 9:	Lewis book party [31 Jul 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 10:	8th Ward Democratic Organization [9 Aug 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 11:	Howard Inn book party [21 Aug 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 12:	Cincinnati, Ohio book party [17 Sep 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 13:	Wolff book party [25 Sep 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 14:	Oklahoma City [13-15 Oct 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 15:	Amistad meeting [15 Oct 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 16:	Smith/Detroit book party [30 Oct 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 17:	Park Manor Church [16 Nov 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 18:	Cleveland, Ohio book party [20 Nov 1983]
Box 73		–	Folder 19:	Gary Public Library [7 Jan 1984]
Box 73		–	Folder 20:	Smith/Bolingbrook book party [11 Feb 1984]]
Box 73		–	Folder 21:	Federation of Colored Women [13 Feb 1984]
Box 73		–	Folder 22:	South Shore Public Library [26 Feb 1984]
Box 73		–	Folder 23:	Jackson book party [17 Mar 1984]
Box 73		–	Folder 24:	Lance book party [17 Mar 1984]
Box 73		–	Folder 25:	Fine Arts Naprapathic Center [6 Apr 1984]
Box 73		–	Folder 26:	Davis/Boyden book party [26 Aug 1984]
Box 73		–	Folder 27:	Dearborn Fair [20 Jun 1987]
Box 73		–	Folder 28:	Marina City [26 Jun 1987]
Box 73		–	Folder 29:	Unknown book party [28 Nov 1987]
Box 73		–	Folder 30:	Chicago Public Library (CPL) [5 Dec 1987]
Box 73		–	Folder 31:	DuSable Museum (canceled) [13 Dec 1987]
Box 73		–	Folder 32:	2nd Baptist book party [26 Jun 1988]
Box 73		–	Folder 33:	Johnson book party [21 Aug 1988]
Box 73		–	Folder 34:	Barnes book party [29 Oct 1988]
Box 73		–	Folder 35:	Chicago Public Library (CPL) [10 Dec 1988]
Box 74		–	Folder 1:	Book fair & workshop correspondence, misc. [1970-86]
Box 74		–	Folder 2:	Writer's Seminar & Poetry Festival [Oct 1983]
Box 74		–	Folder 3:	Write On Chicago [Oct 1983]
Box 74		–	Folder 4:	NIMM Writers & Educators Conference [Oct 1983]
Box 74		–	Folder 5:	International Black Writer's Conference [1984]
Box 74		–	Folder 6:	Role of the Black Press talk [Aug 1984]
Box 74		–	Folder 7:	Small Press Book Fair [Oct 1984]
Box 74		–	Folder 8:	National Black Writers Conference [Mar 1986]
Box 74		–	Folder 9:	International Black Writers Conference [1986]
Box 74		–	Folder 10:	Minority Book Expo [Dec 1986]
Box 74		–	Folder 11:	Claude Lightfoot & Jack Kling Tribute [17 May 1987]
Box 74		–	Folder 12:	OBAC Writers Workshop [Nov 1987]
Box 74		–	Folder 13:	International Black Writers Conference [1989]
Box 74		–	Folder 14:	American Studies Association (ASA) Conference [1990]
Box 74		–	Folder 15:	Small Press Book Fair [1990]
Box 74		–	Folder 16:	US Commission on Civil Rights reception [1991]
Box 74		–	Folder 17:	Misc. events
Box 75		–	Folder 1:	Chicago Public Library (CPL) Annual Book Bazaar [1992] (1)
Box 75		–	Folder 2:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1992] (2)
Box 75		–	Folder 3:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1992] (3)
Box 75		–	Folder 4:	CPL African-American History Month [1993]
Box 75		–	Folder 5:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1993] (1)
Box 75		–	Folder 6:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1993] (2)
Box 75		–	Folder 7:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1994] (1)
Box 75		–	Folder 8:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1994] (2)
Box 75		–	Folder 9:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1995] (1)
Box 75		–	Folder 10:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1995] (2)
Box 76		–	Folder 1:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1996] (1)
Box 76		–	Folder 2:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1996] (2)
Box 76		–	Folder 3:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1996] (3)
Box 76		–	Folder 4:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1996] (4)
Box 76		–	Folder 5:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1997] (1)
Box 76		–	Folder 6:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1997] (2)
Box 76		–	Folder 7:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1997] (3)
Box 76		–	Folder 8:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1997] (4)
Box 76		–	Folder 9:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1997] (5)
Box 77		–	Folder 1:	CPL African-American History Month [1998]
Box 77		–	Folder 2:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1998] (1)
Box 77		–	Folder 3:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1998] (2)
Box 77		–	Folder 4:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1998] (3)
Box 77		–	Folder 5:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1998] (4)
Box 77		–	Folder 6:	CPL Annual Book Bazaar [1998] (5)
Box 77		–	Folder 7:	Misc. publishers' pamphlets
Box 77		–	Folder 8:	Misc. press releases (from other businesses/organizations)

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	Series 8: Sales & Distribution, 1969 – 1997

Box 78		–	Folder 1:	Pre-publication orders [1969]
Box 78		–	Folder 2:	Catalog & book orders, correspondence [1969-94]
Box 78		–	Folder 3:	Book sales filed by account
Box 78		–	Folder 4:	Orders [11 Dec 1969 - 11 May 1970]
Box 78		–	Folder 5:	Orders [15 Jun 1970 - 27 Sep 1971]
Box 78		–	Folder 6:	Orders (on order forms) [1983]
Box 78		–	Folder 7:	Orders [1983-86]
Box 78		–	Folder 8:	Books consigned [N.D.]
Box 79		–	Folder 1:	Book sales [1983]
Box 79		–	Folder 2:	Book sales [1984]
Box 79		–	Folder 3:	Book sales [Jun 1987]
Box 79		–	Folder 4:	Book sales [Jul 1987]
Box 79		–	Folder 5:	Book sales [Aug 1987]
Box 79		–	Folder 6:	Book sales [Sep 1987]
Box 79		–	Folder 7:	Book sales [Oct 1987]
Box 79		–	Folder 8:	Book sales [Nov 1987]
Box 79		–	Folder 9:	Book sales [Dec 1987]
Box 79		–	Folder 10:	Book sales [Jan 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 11:	Book sales [Feb 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 12:	Book sales [Mar 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 13:	Book sales [Apr 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 14:	Book sales [May 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 15:	Book sales [Jun 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 16:	Book sales [Jul 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 17:	Book sales [Aug 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 18:	Book sales [Sep 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 19:	Book sales [Oct 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 20:	Book sales [Nov 1988]
Box 79		–	Folder 21:	Book sales [Dec 1988]
Box 80		–	Folder 1:	Paid order correspondence [1984-83]
Box 80		–	Folder 2:	Orders, paid [1984-83]
Box 80		–	Folder 3:	Orders, unpaid [1984-83]
Box 80		–	Folder 4:	Mail order, paid [1984]
Box 80		–	Folder 5:	Mail order, unpaid [1984]
Box 80		–	Folder 6:	Universities, paid [1984]
Box 80		–	Folder 7:	Universities, unpaid [1984]
Box 80		–	Folder 8:	Recorded & filed sales [1985-84]
Box 80		–	Folder 9:	Recorded & filed sales [1984]
Box 80		–	Folder 10:	Accounts receivable, book party [1984]
Box 80		–	Folder 11:	Accounts receivable, book party [1983]
Box 80		–	Folder 12:	Accounts receivable [1984]
Box 80		–	Folder 13:	Accounts receivable/distributors [1984-83]
Box 80		–	Folder 14:	Delinquent receivables [1986-84]
Box 80		–	Folder 15:	Prepaid sales [1991-90]
Box 81		–	Folder 1:	Path Press Sales, Marketing & Distribution Plan [1989]
Box 81		–	Folder 2:	Distribution reports, misc.
Box 81		–	Folder 3:	Translation & international sales [1970-88]
Box 81		–	Folder 4:	Individual distributors, misc.
Box 81		–	Folder 5:	Afro-Am Distributing Company [1983]
Box 81		–	Folder 6:	Baker & Taylor/CPL [1970-86]
Box 81		–	Folder 7:	Book Carrier [N.D.]
Box 81		–	Folder 8:	Brodart/CPL, correspondence [1970-90]
Box 81		–	Folder 9:	Brodart/CPL, contracts [1983-87]
Box 81		–	Folder 10:	Brodart/Atlanta Fulton Library [1994]
Box 81		–	Folder 11:	Brodart/Pathways, contract [1987]
Box 82		–	Folder 1:	Channel Communications Network [1983]
Box 82		–	Folder 2:	Chicago Review Press/IPG, correspondence [1983-88]
Box 82		–	Folder 3:	Chicago Review Press/IPG, distribution agreements [1982]
Box 82		–	Folder 4:	Chicago Review Press/IPG, litigation [1984-85]
Box 82		–	Folder 5:	Chicago Review Press/IPG, sales reports [1983-86]
Box 82		–	Folder 6:	Chicago Review Press/IPG, sales reports [1987]
Box 82		–	Folder 7:	Chicago Review Press/IPG, sales reports [1988]
Box 82		–	Folder 8:	Chicago Review Press/IPG, sales reports [1989]
Box 82		–	Folder 9:	Chicago Review Press catalogs [1982-83]
Box 82		–	Folder 10:	Crescent Distribution Services [1984]
Box 82		–	Folder 11:	Krock's & Brentano's [1983]
Box 82		–	Folder 12:	Liberation Information Distributing Co. [1983-84]
Box 82		–	Folder 13:	Negro Book Club [1969]
Box 82		–	Folder 14:	Scholarly Book Center, Inc. [1986-87]
Box 82		–	Folder 15:	St. James Press [1984]
Box 82		–	Folder 16:	Distribution, misc. notes [1982-88]
Box 83		–	Folder 1:	Path Distribution Clients: African-American Greeting Cards [N.D.]
Box 83		–	Folder 2:	Path Distribution Clients: Charlemae Hill Rollins, They Showed the Way [ca. 1995]
Box 83		–	Folder 3:	Path Distribution Clients: Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali, A 30 Year Journey [ca. 1995]
Box 83		–	Folder 4:	Path Distribution Clients: Ida M. Bellegarde [1981-91]
Box 83		–	Folder 5:	Path Distribution Clients: Ming Smith, A Ming Breakfast [1990-93]
Box 83		–	Folder 6:	Path Distribution Clients: Pathfinder [N.D.]
Box 83		–	Folder 7:	Path Distribution Clients: PBS Learning Media [1996]
Box 83		–	Folder 8:	Path Distribution Clients: Red Sea Press [1987]
Box 83		–	Folder 9:	Path Distribution Clients: Shades of Midnight [1993]
Box 83		–	Folder 10:	Path Distribution Clients: University of Georgia Press [1982]
Box 83		–	Folder 11:	Path Distribution Clients: Misc.
Box 84		–	Folder 1:	Chaka (Black book distribution company) proposal [1972-85]
Box 84		–	Folder 2:	Pathways, correspondence [1986]
Box 84			Folder 3:	Pathways publishers' data for catalog [1989]
Box 84			Folder 4:	Pathways catalog entry [6 Oct 1994]
Box 84			Folder 5:	Pathways catalog requests [1988-97]
Box 84			Folder 6:	Pathways catalog [1989]
Box 84			Folder 7:	Pathways catalog [1995]
Box 84			Folder 8:	Pathways individual distributors [1987-90]
Box 84			Folder 9:	Pathways orders [1988]
Box 84		–	Folder 10:	Pathways orders [1990]
Box 84		–	Folder 11:	Pathways orders [1990-91]
Box 84		–	Folder 12:	Pathways orders [?], paid [12 Feb 1996]
Box 85		–	Folder 1:	African-American Book Distributors Inc. (AABDI) Articles of Inc. [1988]
Box 85		–	Folder 2:	AABDI Share Certificates [1988]
Box 85		–	Folder 3:	AABDI (1)
Box 85		–	Folder 4:	AABDI (2)
Box 85		–	Folder 5:	AABDI interview candidates
Box 85		–	Folder 6:	AABDI purchase orders [9 Apr 1993 - 12 Feb 1992]
Box 85		–	Folder 7:	AABDI purchase orders [26 Dec 1991 - 24 May 1991]
Box 85		–	Folder 8:	AABDI invoices [26 May 1995 - 15 Jul 1994]
Box 85		–	Folder 9:	AABDI invoices [12 Jul 1994 - 15 Mar 1994]
Box 85		–	Folder 10:	AABDI invoices [14 Mar 1994 - 9 Aug 1993]
Box 85		–	Folder 11:	AABDI invoices [6 Aug 1993 - 24 Nov 1992]
Box 85		–	Folder 12:	AABDI invoices [30 Sep 1992 - 7 Sep 1991]

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	Series 9: Subject Research Files & Serials, 1968 – 1993

Box 86		–	Folder 1:	African-Americans & the film industry [ca. 1986]
Box 86		–	Folder 2:	Black Studies programs [1969-82]
Box 86		–	Folder 3:	Farrakhan, Louis (African-Americans and Jews) [May 1989]
Box 86		–	Folder 4:	Food [July 1988]
Box 86		–	Folder 5:	Gay activism in the black community [ca. 1993]
Box 86		–	Folder 6:	Interracial relationships [March 1989]
Box 86		–	Folder 7:	Literary (publishing, prizes, libraries, book stores, reviews, etc.) [1980-93]
Box 86		–	Folder 8:	McClain, Leanita [1983-86]
Box 86		–	Folder 9:	Redmond, Eugene [1987-88] (see also Box 14, Folder 14)
Box 86		–	Folder 10:	Washington, Harold [1984-89]
Box 86		–	Folder 11:	Writing of “Willie Lynch” with letter from Philip G. Smith [1995] (see also Box 49, Folder 1)
Box 86		–	Folder 12:	Misc. clippings
Box 86		–	Folder 13:	Misc. notes
Box 87			Folder 1:	AAPBA Newsletter 2.1 [Jun 1991]
Box 87		–	Folder 2:	American Libraries [Jan 1993]
Box 87		–	Folder 3:	Black World [Aug 1970]
Box 87		–	Folder 4:	Book of the Month Club News [Fall - Dec 1982]
Box 87		–	Folder 5:	Chicago Tribune: Books [18 Oct 1987]
Box 87		–	Folder 6:	Chicago Tribune: Japan Today [N.D.]
Box 87		–	Folder 7:	Chicago Tribune: Perspective [5 Nov 1989]
Box 87		–	Folder 8:	Chicago Sunday Sun-Times: Parade [9 Oct 1983]
Box 87		–	Folder 9:	East St. Louis Monitor [16 Apr 1987]
Box 87		–	Folder 10:	East St. Louis School District 189 School News [Summer 1987]
Box 87			Folder 11:	Freedom Rag Magazine [Winter, ca. 1991] [?]
Box 87		–	Folder 12:	Karanjah 1.3 [March 1986]
Box 87		–	Folder 13:	Magic Notes 2.1 [Spring 1989]
Box 87			Folder 14:	Mingles: Guide to Enriching Your Social Life & Single Edition [Aug & Oct 1995]
Box 87		–	Folder 15:	National Black Monitor [March 1987]
Box 87		–	Folder 16:	Negro Book Club Newsletter 4.21 [Aug 1968]
Box 87			Folder 17:	Percussion Source 1.2 [July 1996]
Box 87		–	Folder 18:	Portland Skanner 18.21 [3 Mar 1993]
Box 87			Folder 19:	Quarterly Black Review of Books 2.3 [Jan/Feb 1995]
Box 87		–	Folder 20:	Rainbow Organizer 1.2 [Oct 1984]
Box 87			Folder 21:	Rhythm Music V.9 [Sept 1996]
Box 87		–	Folder 22:	Schomburg Center Journal 3.2 [Spring 1984]
Box 87		–	Folder 23:	Small Press Review 14.8 [Aug 1982]
Box 87		–	Folder 24:	Tony Brown's Journal [1983-85]
Box 87		–	Folder 25:	Victory News [Sep 1988]

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	Series 10: Photographs & Memorabilia, 1969 – 1987

Box 88		–	Path Press 001:	Sam Stratton, Frank London Brown Tribute, Parkway Ballroom, photograph by H.A. Martin [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 002:	Margaret Burroughs, FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 003:	Bennett Johnson, Harold Washington & John O. Killens at FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 004:	FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 005:	Harold Washington, Gus Savage & Herman Gilbert, FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 006:	Harold Washington & John O. Killens, FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 007:	Harold Washington & Mildred Johnson, FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 008:	Bennett Johnson, FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 009:	Bennett Johnson, Harold Washington & John O. Killens, FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 010:	FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 011:	Gus Savage, FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 012:	FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 013:	FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 014:	Herman Gilbert, FLB Tribute, Parkway [7 Dec 1969]
Box 88		–	Path Press 015:	Zack & Herman Gilbert [1984]
Box 88		–	Path Press 016:	OBAC 20th Anniversary Writers Workshop, Bennett Johnson, presenter [1987]
Box 88		–	Path Press 017:	D. Roy, E. Redmond, G. Bros, H. Madhubuti, S. Leflore, S. Fowler [14 Jun 1987]
Box 88		–	Path Press 018:	OBAC writers: H. Madhubuti, H. Gilbert, D. Travis, E. Redmond [1987]
Box 88		–	Path Press 019:	OBAC 20th Anniversary program [1987]
Box 88		–	Path Press 020:	OBAC 20th Anniversary Writers Workshop, Bennett Johnson and other presenters [1987]
Box 88		–	Path Press 021:	OBAC Writers Workshop, Zack Gilbert [1985?]
Box 88		–	Path Press 022:	OBAC Writers Workshop, Zack Gilbert [1985] [?]
Box 88		–	Path Press 023:	OBAC Writers Workshop [1985] [?]
Box 88		–	Path Press 024:	OBAC Writers Workshop [1985] [?]
Box 88		–	Path Press 025:	OBAC Writers Workshop, Herman Gilbert (center) and other presenters [1985] [?]
Box 88		–	Path Press 026:	International Black Writer's Conference, Zack Gilbert, Herman Gilbert and others [1984] [?]
Box 88		–	Path Press 027:	International Black Writer's Conference, Zack Gilbert, Herman Gilbert and others [1984] [?]
Box 88		–	Path Press 028:	International Black Writer's Conference, Zack Gilbert, Herman Gilbert and female attendees [1984] [?]
Box 88		–	Path Press 029:	Book signing, Third World Press [?], Herman Gilbert, presenter [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 030:	Book signing, Third World Press [?], Herman Gilbert, presenter [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 031:	Herman Gilbert at autograph party, photograph by Albertha Abernathy [17 Jun 1983]
Box 88		–	Path Press 032:	Herman Gilbert at autograph party, photograph by A. Abernathy [17 Jun 1983]
Box 88		–	Path Press 033:	Herman Gilbert at autograph party, photograph by A. Abernathy [17 Jun 1983]
Box 88		–	Path Press 034:	Herman Gilbert's autograph party, photograph by A. Abernathy [17 Jun 1983]
Box 88		–	Path Press 035:	Herman Gilbert's autograph party, photograph by A. Abernathy [17 Jun 1983]
Box 88		–	Path Press 036:	Herman Gilbert's autograph party, photograph by A. Abernathy [17 Jun 1983]
Box 88		–	Path Press 037:	Herman Gilbert's autograph party, photograph by A. Abernathy [17 Jun 1983]
Box 88		–	Path Press 038:	Herman Gilbert at the Chicago Public Library for the Negotiations [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 039:	Herman Gilbert [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 040:	Zack Gilbert, brother of Herman Gilbert, author of Up North Big City Street [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 041:	William Goodlett, author of Congo Crew [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 042:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 043:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 044:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 045:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 046:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 047:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 048:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 049:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 050:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 051:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 052:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 053:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 054:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 055:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 056:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 057:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 058:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 059:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 060:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 061:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 062:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 063:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 064:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 065:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 066:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 067:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 068:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 069:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 070:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 071:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 072:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 073:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 074:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 075:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 076:	William Goodlett [N.D.]
Box 88		–	Path Press 077:	William Goodlett [N.D.]

Box 89	–	Path Press 078:	Mary Wilson at Simeon High School assembly, photograph by John White, Chicago Sun-Times [21 Nov 1984]
Box 89	–	Path Press 079:	Mayor Harold Washington and Mary Wilson, photograph by Diana Johnson, Path Press [1986]
Box 89	–	Path Press 080:	Ben Wilson, Sr., at the funeral of Ben Wilson, Jr., photograph by John White, Chicago Sun-Times [1984]
Box 89	–	Path Press 081:	Teacher and students at Simeon High School, photograph by Ovie Carter, Chicago Tribune [21 Nov 1984]
Box 89	–	Path Press 082:	Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mary Wilson, planning the funeral of Benji Wilson at Rev. Jackson's home, photograph by John White, Chicago Sun-Times [1984]
Box 89	–	Path Press 083:	Students at Simeon High School assembly, photograph by John White, Chicago Sun-Times [21 Nov 1984]
Box 89	–	Path Press 084:	Principal Ned McCray and Mary Wilson during Simeon High School graduation exercises, photograph by Ovie Carter, Chicago Tribune [1985] [?]
Box 89	–	Path Press 085:	Mary Wilson presentation, photograph by Ovie Carter, Chicago Tribune [1985]
Box 89	–	Path Press 086:	Benji Wilson at age 4, private collection of Mary Wilson [c. 1970] [?]
Box 89	–	Path Press 087:	Mary Wilson at age 27, private collection of Mary Wilson [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 088:	Graduation photo of Benji Wilson, private collection of Mary Wilson [1984]
Box 89	–	Path Press 089:	Coach Robert Hambric and Benji Wilson, photograph by Ed Wagner, Jr., Chicago Tribune [1984]
Box 89	–	Path Press 090:	Benji Wilson playing basketball, photograph by Phil Valesquez, Chicago Sun-Times [1984]
Box 89	–	Path Press 091:	Bennett J. Johnson (left), George Romas (right) and Mayor Harold Washington (center) planning Benji Wilson Birthday Dinner, photograph by Diana Johnson, Path Press [1986]
Box 89	–	Path Press 092:	State Senators Richard Kelly, Emil Jones, Charles Chew, Glen Dawson and Howard Brookins presenting proclamation of the Illinois General Assembly to Mary Wilson, Chicago Daily Defender [1985]
Box 89	–	Path Press 093:	Mary Wilson at court after guilty verdict announced, photograph by Ovie Carter, Chicago Tribune [22 Nov 1985]
Box 89	–	Path Press 094:	Mary Wilson presentation, photograph by Ovie Carter, Chicago Tribune [1986]
Box 89	–	Path Press 095:	Coach Richard Brennan, President of Evergreen Plaza Bank, speaking at the First Annual Benji Wilson Memorial Birthday Celebration, photograph by Diana Johnson, Path Press [Jan 1985]
Box 89	–	Path Press 096:	Mary Wilson at court, Chicago Tribune [22 Nov 1985]
Box 89	–	Path Press 097:	Mary Wilson and Benji's friends exiting court after guilty verdict announced, photograph by Ovie Carter, Chicago Tribune [22 Nov 1985]
Box 89	–	Path Press 098:	Monroe Pinckney: James Sulton and Mrs. Rosana Felder (60% final size, 23X33.5 picas) [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 099:	Monroe Pinckney: Warren Phillips, Robert Phillips, Vernezza Zeigler, Paul Smith (epilogue, ch. 20, p. 121, 63%, photo #41, cam 41%), staff photo by Jamie Francis [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 100:	Monroe Pinckney: Robert Phillips, Warren Phillips, Rev. J. M. Jeffcoat, Dr. R. Phillips (epilogue, ch. 20, p. 122, photo #42, 63%), staff photo by Jamie Francis [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 101:	Monroe Pinckney: Gordic Brooker (epilogue, ch. 20, p. 123, photo #43, cam 38%), staff photo by Peggy Peattie [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 102:	Best of the Best: Barnes, S. Brandi [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 103:	Best of the Best: Cain, Sarah [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 104:	Best of the Best: Chandler, Elaine [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 105:	Best of the Best: Clay, James “Kwame” [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 106:	Best of the Best: Danner, Margaret [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 107:	Best of the Best: Davis, Frank Marshall [ca. 1983]
Box 89	–	Path Press 108:	Best of the Best: Edwards, Constance [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 109:	Best of the Best: Emanuel, James [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 110:	Best of the Best: Emanuel, James [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 111:	Best of the Best: Emanuel, James [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 112:	Best of the Best: Emanuel, James [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 113:	Best of the Best: Foucher, Valerie, “Big, Bad and Freezing” [Feb 1980]
Box 89	–	Path Press 114:	Best of the Best: Frederick, Helen Bureleson [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 115:	Best of the Best: G’RA, photo by Nik-ki Whittingham (CA #19, 643-4247), [ca. 1983]
Box 89	–	Path Press 116:	Best of the Best: Graham, Lorenz [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 117:	Best of the Best: Gray, Margaret [ca. 1983]
Box 89	–	Path Press 118:	Best of the Best: Hall-Evans, JoAnn [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 119:	Best of the Best: Hankins, Beulah [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 120:	Best of the Best: Hardy-Leonard, Shirley [ca. 1983]
Box 89	–	Path Press 121:	Best of the Best: House, Anthony [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 122:	Best of the Best: Hummons, Marion [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 123:	Best of the Best: Johnson, Christine C. [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 124:	Best of the Best: Johnson, Freddie (Love) [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 125:	Best of the Best: King, Leona D. [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 126:	Best of the Best: King, Leona D. [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 127:	Best of the Best: Long, Richard A. [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 128:	Best of the Best: McCarty, Ernest [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 129:	Best of the Best: Messiah, Henry “Rocky” [ca. 1982]
Box 89	–	Path Press 130:	Best of the Best: Moore, Lenard D. [Jun 1982]
Box 89	–	Path Press 131:	Best of the Best: Morse, Evangeline F. [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 132:	Best of the Best: Randall, Dudley [Jun 1982]
Box 89	–	Path Press 133:	Best of the Best: Roberts, Dorothy R. [ca. 1983]
Box 89	–	Path Press 134:	Best of the Best: Robinson, Jeannette Drake, photo by Jerri Bass [1982]
Box 89	–	Path Press 135:	Best of the Best: Rouselle, Jeanette [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 136:	Best of the Best: Ryan, Don [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 137:	Best of the Best: Sewood, Ernest, photo by Doug Sims [26 Dec 1982]
Box 89	–	Path Press 138:	Best of the Best: Sewood, Ernest, photo by Doug Sims [26 Dec 1982]
Box 89	–	Path Press 139:	Best of the Best: Simon, Jewel W. [ca. 1983]
Box 89	–	Path Press 140:	Best of the Best: Smart, William [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 141:	Best of the Best: Tate, Garth, photo by Sharon Farmer [1982]
Box 89	–	Path Press 142:	Best of the Best: Tibbs, Delbert [1979]
Box 89	–	Path Press 143:	Best of the Best: Watson, Beatrice [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 144:	Best of the Best: Wright, Deonne Deasley [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 145:	Best of the Best: unknown contributor [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 146:	Karen Causey, unpublished author, taken by Kathy Ohlrogge [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 147:	Dr. Andrew L. Thomas, subject of unpublished biography by Audria Thomas-Huntington [c. 1985]
Box 89	–	Path Press 148:	Faye Bryant, Path Press advisory board [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 149:	Benjamin Lawson Hooks, Path Press advisory board [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 150:	Unidentified photograph [N.D.]
Box 89	–	Path Press 151:	UNIA Marcus M. Garvey Centennial Committee button/memorabilia [N.D.]

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