- unitid
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{"value"=>"188282", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22239282", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Mayfield 1985-56", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"circa 1969-1972", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1969/1972", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Julian Mayfield audio and moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"8 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Julian Hudson Mayfield (June 6, 1928 - October 20, 1984) was an actor, director, writer, lecturer, and civil rights activist. The collection consists of three audio and ten moving image recordings, including works by Julian Mayfield and Lorraine Hansberry."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Julian Hudson Mayfield (June 6, 1928 - October 20, 1984) was an actor, director, writer, lecturer, and civil rights activist. Born in Greer, South Carolina, Mayfield grew up in Washington, DC, and graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. After serving in the US Army, he studied briefly at Lincoln University. In 1948, he moved to New York City, where he began his career in theater.</p> <p>Mayfield had a multifaceted career. His Broadway debut was in <span class=\"title\">Lost in the Stars</span> (1949), based on the novel <span class=\"title\">Cry, the Beloved Country</span> (1948) by Alan Paton. In addition to acting in various stage productions, musicals, and films, Mayfield wrote, produced, and directed several off-Broadway plays. A member of the Harlem Writers Guild, Mayfield's plays include <span class=\"title\">Fire</span> (1949), <span class=\"title\">417</span> (1952), <span class=\"title\">The Other Foot</span> (1952), and <span class=\"title\">A World Full of Men</span> (1952). He also co-produced Ossie Davis's first play <span class=\"title\">Alice in Wonder</span> (1952).</p> <p>His novels include <span class=\"title\">The Hit</span> (1957), an adaptation of <span class=\"title\">417</span>; <span class=\"title\">The Long Night</span> (1958); and <span class=\"title\">The Grand Parade</span> (1961). Mayfield also wrote several works, including an autobiography, that remain unpublished. He wrote a number of screenplays for film and television, including <span class=\"title\">Uptight</span> (1968) and <span class=\"title\">The Long Night</span> (1976), an adaptation of his novel of the same name. He also wrote for educational audiovisual programs, such as <span class=\"title\">The History of the Black Man in the United States</span>, a widely distributed eight-part filmstrip with accompanying audio produced for high school students circa 1969.</p> <p>Mayfield lived in Puerto Rico from 1956 to 1959, before returning to New York. In 1961 he moved to Ghana and served as the communications aide to President Kwame Nkrumah until 1966. Afterwards he relocated to Ibiza, Spain, and returned to the US in May 1967. From 1967 to 1971, Mayfield had overlapping fellowships and lecturer positions at both New York University and Cornell University. In 1971 he moved to Guyana to work for the government of President Forbes Burnham. On his return in 1975, Mayfield was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, and in 1976 won a Fulbright Fellowship and taught in West Germany and Turkey. In 1978 he became a writer-in-residence at Howard University.</p> <p>Mayfield died of cardiac arrest in Takoma Park, Maryland, in 1984 at fifty-six years old.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of three audio and eight moving image recordings, including works by Julian Mayfield and Lorraine Hansberry dated circa 1969 to 1972. They include one LP record by Lorraine Hansberry, and two works by Mayfield: <span class=\"title\">Herman Melville</span> and <span class=\"title\">The History of the Black Man in the United States</span>. They are arranged chronologically and in the sequence indicated in original documentation.</p> <p><span class=\"title\">Herman Melville</span> is a two-part educational program about the novelist, short story writer, and poet Herman Melville. <span class=\"title\">The History of the Black Man in America</span> is an educational eight-part filmstrip produced for high school students. Included in the collection are parts 2 to 6 and 8. Two audio recordings consist of the audio accompanying parts 3 and 8. When available, information about the name of each part, or their focus, is included in the items' descriptions.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Julian Mayfield Estate, 1985 and 1986.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Julian Mayfield papers, Sc MG 339.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Julian Mayfield photograph collection, Sc Photo Julian Mayfield Collection.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Christopher Arena</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Ornella U. Baganizi</span>, archivist. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>At the time of publishing, eight filmstrips are not available pending digitization.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division for titles by Julian Mayfield.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out: Art and the Black Revolution</span> by Lorraine Hansberry (item 377107) is also available in the Schomburg Center LP record collection as Sc Audio RE-8032 and Sc Audio RE-17605.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">Uptight</span> directed by Jules Dassin, Sc Visual DVD-2089.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- date_start
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1969
- keydate
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1969
- date_end
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1972
- date_inclusive_start
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1969
- date_inclusive_end
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1972
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Julian Mayfield audio and moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}