{"value"=>"<p>This series consists mainly of some biographical and personal material, clippings documenting her social and community activities, correspondence, programs for dance performances and for plays in which she performed or assisted as a member of the Paul Robeson Players and the Amateur Fine Arts Dramatic Club, radio scripts, and theatrical documents such as scripts and stage diagrams.</p> <p>The correspondence includes letters to her step-children and from her in-laws. There are also a few letters from servicemen friends of hers stationed in U.S. World War II training camps. Among these are letters from Vincent E. Saunders, a nephew of sociologist Charles S. Johnson, who was sent to Fort Monroe to train as a Master Gunner. In one letter he informs Lewis that he sold a few sketches drawn under the tutelage of Aaron Douglas; one of these was published as frontispiece for the volume <span class=\"title\">Growing Up in the Blackbelt</span>.</p>"}