{"value"=>"<p>Subseries highlights Childress's acting and writing careers. The Obituary and Tributes files contain clippings and letters of remembrance from longtime colleagues and friends including Kay Bourne, Harold (Hal) Courlander and Susan Koppleman. There is a small amount of information about the Alice Childress estate, pertaining to some of Childress's books and play scripts. A copy of the interview conducted by writer and librarian Ann Shockley in 1973 for an oral history project at Fisk University can be found here.</p> <p>The largest set of files contains a large number of Biographical Sketches, which effectively chronicle Childress's long, rich and diverse career. Childress wrote most of these sketches and her publishers and/or her agent created the rest. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) file contains both an FBI report as well as Childress's correspondence with the U. S. Government to obtain this file. The file focuses primarily on Childress's association with Communist party organizations and suspected communists. In addition, there is a file containing assorted Interviews and Clippings, which feature Childress primarily as a novelist and playwright.</p>"}