{"value"=>"<p>Subseries is divided into three categories: Early History, the University-wide Concept and General. Early History files document efforts by Guinier and the Research Institute sub-committee of the Standing Committee to Develop the Afro-American Studies Department to launch the Institute. Included are working papers of the sub-committee; a tentative outline and budgetary projections prepared by Standing Committee member Myles Lynk and mailed to department chairmen, graduate school deans and other faculty members; a letter from John K. Fairbank, director of the East Asian Research Center in reply to Lynk; a September 1969 Progress Report of the Standing Committee, with an appendix on the projected Institute; and several drafts of the prospectus for the Institute.</p>"}