{"value"=>"<p>Named the Vertical File by Ewart Guinier, this printed matter and clipping file was an important complement to the reading list for Guinier's classes, which often took the form of a comparative juxtaposition between past and present. The bulk of this series was arranged alphabetically according to subject headings selected by Guinier. Materials in the last box, however, are arranged by year (1969-1980), and reveal the permanence of certain themes in his curriculum. The entire series consists of newspaper and magazine articles, conference programs, mimeographed letters and reports, newsletters and factsheets, and selected student papers, and represents a valuable source of information on black politics and history from 1969 to 1975.</p> <p>Broad headings such as Africa, art, politics, economics, employment, music, unions and Third World amount to a pot-pourri of materials on various topics. The general file on Africa, for example, includes a signed invitation with attachments from Alioune Diop for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC 75), an open letter from Abdias do Nascimento, president of the Negro Experimental Theatre in Brazil to the First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966), background information on Ethiopia and Selassie University in Addis Ababa, three statements by Congressman Charles Diggs, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa in 1972, and a special issue of Binding Ties (September 1973) on famine in Africa. The Art folder deals partly with the Black Arts Movement. The section on Politics is divided into local New York, electoral and grassroots politics. The Cold War files, the largest in the series, include extensive notes and comments written by Guinier in reaction to a special Newsweek issue, \"The Negro in America\". The Communications folder deals for the most part with the cancellation of Tony Brown's educational television program \"Black Journal\" by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Community Affairs file documents charges of racial discrimination brought by the Haralsan County Day Care Center, a black Appalachian community concern in Georgia, against the Appalachian Regional Council in the matter of early education of black and poor children. The Economics file includes some writings by the black economist Andrew Brimmer and articles on small black businesses and the issue of black reparations. The Employment folder includes articles on blacks in the railroad industry, unemployment in Harlem and Jim Crow practices in local and federal government in the 1940s and 1950s. The file Prisons and Prisoners consists mostly of printed matter on the 1971 Attica uprising and the Soledad Brothers. The files under Racism include a 124p. typescript \"Character and Consequences of Race Relations in Twentieth Century America\" (author unknown).</p> <p>Finally, the Unions file includes the transcript of a 1974 interview with Cleveland Robinson.</p>"}