{"value"=>"<p>GUYANA, 1971-1975 (1.8 lin. ft.)</p> <p>The Guyana series is divided into Personal Papers, Correspondence, Writings, Ministry of Information and Culture materials, Projects, and Printed Matter. The Personalfile consists for the most part of administrative correspondence related to Mayfield's employment, settlement and departure from Guyana, his efforts to purchase or lease land for farming or animal husbandry, and other aspects of expatriate life in a developing country. Included are government contracts, financial, health and travel documents, and some materials related to Joan Cambridge. The Correspondenceis divided into letters to Minister of Information and Culture Elvin McDavid, letters to Forbes Burnham and a general file.</p> <p>The McDavid file consists of memoranda and draft letters written by Mayfield for McDavid's signature dealing with a broad range of issues, including Guyana's participation in the Sixth Pan-Africanist Congress in Dar-es-Salaam in 1974, parliamentary opposition to black American expatriates in Guyana, tensions between blacks and Asians, Guyana's communication needs, and possible attempts to overthrow the Burnham government. The Burnham file relates in part to film projects on the Carifesta Festival (1972) and a Nonaligned Conference in Guyana (1973), to a plan to attract professional black Americans to Guyana, and to secure friendlier coverage of Guyana in the black press in the United States. Included are letters from Marvin X of Muhammad Speaksand the text of an interview he conducted with Burnham, and a draft \"Public Relations Programme for National Unity\" prepared by Mayfield, to combat racial polarization and neutralize Eusi Kwayana's opposition to Burnham. The General Correspondence file comprises letters to and from the Consulate of Guyana in New York and from various ministers and other officials in the Guyanese government. Also included are copies of letters to Nathan Hare, Hoyt Fuller, Paula Giddings and other African-American activists and scholars, relating to the Kwayana opposition and various writing projects, letters to Kwayana and Cheddie Jagan on Mayfield's book project on Burnham, and correspondence with Jimmy Mannas, co-producer of the projected documentary on the Non-aligned Conference, and with Bill and Marjorie Carr on the political situation in Guyana after Mayfield's departure (1978).</p> <p>The Writingssubseries begins with drafts of Mayfield's articles on the Kwayana opposition and the 1973 general elections in Guyana, an article on Rhodesia and Ghana, and several press releases and detailed memoranda. Also included are typescripts of addresses and other writings by Burnham, Elvin McDavid and other ministers; documents of the People's National Congress's 15th Congress (1972). The Ministry of Information and Culturefiles include discussion papers prepared by the Graphics and Design department on the role of broadcasting and films in national development in Guyana, documents prepared by Mayfield on public relations abroad and for the training of new Information Officers, and publications and promotional materials for a government outreach project in the Eccles/Ramsburg and Mocha/Arcadia communities. The Projectsfiles comprise Mayfield's files for The New Caribbean, New Nation International,Carifesta and Guyana's National Service. Included are correspondence, speeches, public relations materials, working papers and a partial treatment for a documentary film on Burnham, \"Man of the People.\" These files are complemented by printed matter on Co-operative Socialism, a clipping file of articles on Guyana published abroad, published speeches by Burnham, and other government documents.</p>"}