- unitid
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{"value"=>"20822", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 289", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b13410068", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1970-1990", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1970/1990"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Dennis Brutus papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"28 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"25.87 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Dennis Brutus was a South African-born poet and human rights activist who spearheaded a successful campaign to ban apartheid South Africa from international sport competitions. The collection consists of personal and professional papers, correspondence, writings, files of SAN-ROC and the Dennis Brutus Defense Committee, and subject files."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Born in 1924, Dennis Brutus was a South African-born poet and human rights activist who spearheaded a successful campaign to ban apartheid South Africa from international sport competitions. He founded the South African Sports Association in 1961, and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) in 1963. He was subsequently arrested and jailed, placed under house arrest, and banned from all literary, academic, and political activities. He went into exile in 1966 and moved to the United States in 1970, emerging over the years as a prominent lecturer and author, a professor of African literature, and a major spokesperson in the international movement to end apartheid in South Africa. He was granted political asylum in the United States in 1980.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of personal and professional papers; correspondence; writings; files of SAN-ROC and the Dennis Brutus Defense Committee; anti-apartheid posters; and subject files on Nelson Mandela, human rights, South African politics, divestment, apartheid and sports, African literature, and the struggle against apartheid in general. Also included are conference and symposium papers on apartheid; materials of the Dennis Brutus Defense Committee, the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid and the South African Council on Sports (SACOS); and printed matter.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged according to accession dates, so subjects (\"Teaching materials\"; \"DBDC\") appear multiple times throughout the finding aid.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from Dennis Brutus, 1989-1991.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> Transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division: posters.</p> <p>Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.</p> <p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Divison: photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Andre Elizee, 1998.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Boxes 22-26 closed until processed.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 September 23"}
- date_start
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1970
- keydate
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1970
- date_end
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1990
- date_inclusive_start
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1970
- date_inclusive_end
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1990
- extent_statement
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25.87 linear feet (28 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Dennis Brutus papers, Sc MG 289, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}