{"value"=>"<p> ACADEMIC, 1966-1984 (2.4 lin. ft.)</p> <p>The Academic series begins with correspondence with Conor Cruise O'Brien and Max Black, directors of programs in the humanities at New York and Cornell universities, who first interested Mayfield in teaching. Included are course outlines and syllabi, lecture notes, correspondence, administrative documents and student papers, arranged chronologically by campus. Mayfield's extensive correspondence and other materials related to his Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Germany are also part of this series. The NYU and Cornell courses served primarily as an introduction to the black experience and the so-called black revolution of the late 1960s. Using his own experience and research, the author outlined in his lectures an imperative for radical social change in American society. His curriculum at Howard was less challenging in comparison, and consisted for the most part of introductory and remedial courses in writing, English and Afro-American literature.</p> <p>During his junior fellowship at Cornell University(1967-68), the author led an experimental seminar on \"Negro Writers of the 20th Century\" in which he discussed the works of Sterling Brown, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes and contemporary writers like John Killens, Amiri Baraka, Lorraine Hansberry and Ossie Davis. Mayfield returned to Cornell in 1970 as a lecturer in the Africana Studies and Research Center where he taught seminar courses in \"Black Writing and Politics\" and \"Black Techniques of Survival.\" Included in the Cornell files are student applications for the seminar on black writers, a notebook of lecture notes and random thoughts, course outlines, and minutes of faculty meetings related to the establishment of a Distinguished Lecture Series proposed by the author. At New York University,he taught two interdisciplinary courses on \"The Black Writer in America\" and \"Contemporary Writing in Africa.\" These files include letters and course outlines by Conor Cruise O'Brien, student questionnaires, lecture notes, course outlines and syllabi, and Mayfield's description of a proposed graduate seminar on \"Crime and Punishment in the United States.\"</p> <p>Resuming his academic career in 1975 as a lecturer in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Marylandat College Park, Mayfield developed major courses on \"Black Culture in the United States\" and the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois, and conducted a \"Workshop on Black Writers.\" The University of Maryland files include correspondence with Al-Tony Gilmore, president of the Afro-American Studies Department, correspondence relating to the termination of Dr. Andrew Goodrich as director of minority student education and to Mayfield's own termination, presumably for his support of Goodrich, and correspondence and by-laws of the Frederick Douglass-Paul Robeson Union co-founded by Mayfield. The course outlines and lecture notes for \"Black Culture in the United States\" are by far the most comprehensive in the collection. Included are lecture notes on the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, the Booker T. Washington and DuBois controversy, Marcus Garvey, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, blacks after World War II, black leadership, the Monroe incident, and black literature and politics. Some of the lecture notes were adapted by the author from other courses.</p> <p>The Fulbright Fellowshipsubseries is divided into administrative documents, correspondence, curriculum materials and lecture notes for the two courses on black literature and culture Mayfield developed in Germany, and a selection of papers from his European and North African lectures organized by the Fulbright Commission and the U.S. Information Service. Included is the author's correspondence with the Fulbright Commission, other Fulbright scholars and Dr. B. Carstensen of the literature department at the Paderborn Institute. The correspondence illuminates some of the attitudes of Germans toward blacks in the 1970s. Mayfield also lectured on \"Dominant Trends in American Literature\" and conducted a seminar on classical American literature. Some of the lecture notes in this subseries relate to the works of Emily Dickenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. Also included are notes prepared for two seminars in Berlin and Tunis on \"Black Voices in Contemporary Literature\" and \"The Social Responsibility of the Writer and Artist.\"</p> <p>The Howard Universityfiles comprise administrative memoranda from the dean of the English Department, appointment letters, correspondence with students and colleagues, grant applications for research in Africa, minutes of faculty meetings, lecture notes, course outlines and printed matter. The correspondence file includes a two page letter with attachments in response to a John Hopkins University survey on black faculty relations. The letter also discussed the Andrew Goodrich incident which led to Mayfield's departure from the University of Maryland.</p>"}