Lectures and Speeches

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1. "The Black Revolution and White Backlash" [2/1]
2. Brandeis University Lecture
3. "Negro Writer and His Roots" - Notes
4. "Neighbor to Neighbor" - Notes and Correspondence
5. "Notes on Women's Liberation"
6. "On Kerr, Walter" (Notes)
7. "On Raisin: Roosevelt" - Lecture Drafts
8. "On the Lack of a Sense of History"
9. "On the Relative Progress of the American Negro"
10. "One Might Weep" - Jewish Current
11. Original Prospectus for the John Brown - Theatre ("Toward a Harlem Community Theatre")
12. "Play-Writing: Creative Constructiveness" - Draft and Notes for Address to American Academy of Psychotherapists
13. "Poetry of the Negro"
14. "The Present Adventure of the 'Social Dramatist'" Swathmore College
15. "Rally to Support the Southern Freedom Movement", Croton, New York
16. "Scars of the Ghetto
17. "Some Rather Indecisive Thoughts on M. Gide and his Corydon"
18. "The Statue of Nathan Hale"
19. "Tribute to Paul Robeson"
20. W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial - Hansberry's Comments