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{"value"=>"Gerald Horne papers"}
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{"value"=>"Gerald Horne is an African American historian, professor, and political activist. His collection dates from 1953 to 2016, and details his career in academia, political activism, legal work, research pursuits, and writing endeavors. The collection consists of Horne's research materials; manuscripts and article drafts; professional and personal correspondence; teaching materials; and subject files illustrating the various facets of his career."}
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{"value"=>"<p>[item], Gerald Horne papers, Sc MG 559, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Horne, Gerald, 1949-", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gerald Horne (1949- ) is an African American historian, professor, political activist, and the author of over thirty books. He grew up in Missouri, where he graduated from Beaumont High School in St. Louis in 1966. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Princeton (1970), a J.D. from University of California, Berkeley (1973); and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University (1982).</p> <p>Horne has taught history, African American studies, and legal studies at colleges and universities since 1975. He has been employed as a professor at Ramapo College (1975-1979), City College of New York (1980-1981), Sarah Lawrence College (1982-1988), University of California, Santa Barbara (1988-1996), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995-2003), and University of Houston (2003- ). Horne was also a Fulbright Professor at the University of Zimbabwe in 1995 and the University of Hong Kong from 1999 to 2000.</p> <p>Throughout the course of his academic career, Horne has authored numerous books and articles, many of which address race, labor, and politics. He has done extensive research on and written about such individuals as W.E.B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Lawrence Dennis, and Ferdinand Smith, as well as organizations that include the National Maritime Union, African National Congress, and the Communist Party. His 1995 book <span class=\"title\">Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s</span> was a finalist for the American Sociological Association's Robert Park Award, and his 2005 book, <span class=\"title\">Black and Brown: African-Americans and the Mexican Revolution</span> earned the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award honorable mention.</p> <p>In addition to his work in academia, Horne has also worked with a number of legal organizations. He served as Director-Counsel for the Affirmative Action Coordinating Center from 1979 to 1981, which was a collaborative project with the National Conference of Black Lawyers, National Lawyers Guild, and the Center for Constitutional Rights. He also worked for the National Lawyers Guild (1981-1982), served as executive director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (1985-1986), and as Special Counsel for Local 1199, the Drug Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union (1986-1988).</p> <p>Horne ran for the United States Senate in the 1992 California special election to fill the seat of Pete Wilson, who had recently been elected governor. Running as the nominee for the Peace and Freedom Party, Horne received approximately 2.8 percent of the vote in an election that was ultimately won by democrat, Dianne Feinstein.</p> <p>Horne currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is a professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Gerald Horne papers date from 1953 to 2016 (bulk dates 1975-2003) and consist of files chronicling Horne's career in academia; his academic research; his professional writing; his political activism; his legal work; and his personal life. The collection details Horne's professional life through files he kept at the colleges and universities where he was employed, as well as the research he conducted for the numerous books and articles he authored. The files primarily address Horne's academic, legal, and political work; however there is a selection of personal correspondence and photographs present.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Gerald Horne papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/23310#c1391478'>Series I: Academic Career</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1971-2009</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>41.7 linear feet; 322 Megabytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Horne's career as college professor in history, law, and African American studies is detailed in Series I, which comprises files from each of the institutions where he has been employed, as well as some materials from his Ph.D. work at Columbia University. Although the University of California and University of North Carolina files are the most comprehensive, there is detailed correspondence, research files, and teaching materials present among the papers from both Ramapo College and Sarah Lawrence College.</p> <p>The University of California, Santa Barbara files address Horne's tenure as professor of History and Black Studies, as chair of the Black Studies Department, and as acting director at the University's Center for Black Studies. These files contain materials from conferences Horne attended and helped to organize, professional correspondence, subject files, teaching materials, and files of academic writing. The subject files are arranged alphabetically, while all other files are arranged chronologically.</p> <p>The subject files were created by Horne and contain research materials, newspaper clippings, and administrative items. The files address matters related to Horne's ongoing academic research, current political issues, course instruction, University policies, and campus events. Many folders addressing specific topics hold a combination of materials, such as clippings, annotated articles, and notes. Most of the clippings Horne retained feature a handwritten date and underlined passages. In some cases the files overlap with research themes addressed in Series II and Series III.</p> <p>Files from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pertain to Horne's work as professor of history, communication studies, and African American Studies; his tenure as director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center; and his time as director for the Institute of African-American Research. Included is correspondence, files of research and writing, subject files, and teaching materials. All files are arranged chronologically except the subject files, which are arranged alphabetically.</p> <p>The University of North Carolina subject files address administrative matters, Horne's research and instruction, and current events, but are less comprehensive than those he kept at the University of California. The most thorough topic addressed in the subject files is Horne's work with the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center and the Institute of African-American Research.</p> <p>More detailed research is found in the University of North Carolina research and writing files, which Horne did not arrange by topic. Instead, research is often accompanied by the writing it informed, but contains no label to indicate its subject matter.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/23310#c1391814'>Series II: Research</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1953-2013</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>19 linear feet; 28.15 Megabytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series II holds files that compile Horne's career-spanning research. These files are arranged alphabetically by topic, with the exception of files lacking a title or topic, which are arranged chronologically. Boxes 222 to 225 contain index cards of research notes, and box 226 holds notebooks addressing general research matters.</p> <p>Among the alphabetical research files are records Horne obtained as the result of Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI. These files include documentation on the African National Congress, the Black Panther Party, Lawrence Dennis, Shirley Graham Du Bois, the National Maritime Union, the Pan African Congress, Ferdinand Smith, and Richard Wright. The other files contain clippings, annotated articles, publications, and notes.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/23310#c1391945'>Series III: Writing</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1974-2014</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>7 linear feet; 36.9 Megabytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Writings authored by Horne, including articles, books, book chapters, papers, and presentations, comprise the files of Series III. All materials are arranged chronologically according to publication format. The articles held in this series include drafts intended for publication in academic journals, as well as clippings of newspaper editorials and commentaries.</p> <p>There are manuscript drafts and notes from seventeen different books, including one unpublished volume on Malcolm X. The most thorough materials present are for <span class=\"title\">Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party</span>; <span class=\"title\">Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s</span>; <span class=\"title\">Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists</span>; and <span class=\"title\">Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and the Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica</span>. The typed manuscripts contain handwritten annotations and corrections, as well as some feedback from publishers. Some of the included notes and cited works reference research files in Series II.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/23310#c1392022'>Series IV: Politics and Activism</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1974-2005</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>10.3 linear feet; 67.96 Kilobytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series IV addresses political causes of which Horne was involved or interested. The politics and activism files are arranged alphabetically according to titles assigned by Horne. Most abundant are the files related to Horne's 1992 Senate candidacy, which are found with the Peace and Freedom Party documents. These files hold items pertaining to official campaign filings and ballot access, flyers, promotional information, clippings, sample ballets, and official campaign literature.</p> <p>Also of interest is a large collection of political buttons, which are located in boxes 227 to 230. There are some buttons promoting Horne's senate campaign, as well as those voicing opposition to NAFTA, Apartheid in South Africa, and nuclear weapons.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/23310#c1392116'>Series V: Legal</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1974-1999</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>7.5 linear feet; 110.1 kilobytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Horne's legal work with the Affirmative Action Coordinating Center, the Local 1199 Union, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the National Lawyers Guild is documented through files of administrative materials, correspondence, court documents, memoranda, and meeting minutes. These files are arranged chronologically within each organization.</p> <p>Horne also kept alphabetical subject files during his tenure with the National Lawyers Guild, which includes topics of interest to the organization as well as correspondence, meeting minutes, and committee information.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/23310#c1392188'>Series VI: Personal</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1965-2015</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>7 linear feet</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Horne's personal files include his address books, appointment books, correspondence with friends and acquaintances, two of his passports, and a small collection of photographs. Both the address and appointment books contain matters related to Horne's career, while some of the correspondence labeled as \"personal\" addresses topics from Horne's professional work.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Gerald Horne, 2010 and 2016.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Heather Lember</span>, <span class=\"date\">2016</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies. Sound recordings are unavailable pending digitization.</p>"}
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1953
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2016
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1975
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2003
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97.41 linear feet (232 boxes); 68.47 mb (1,962 computer files)