{"value"=>"<p>This series is divided into eight subseries consisting of materials collected primarily by Baldwin and his estate. Biographical Files (.8 lin. ft.) includes a copy of <span class=\"title\">The Douglass Pilot</span> (1938), a school literary journal edited by Baldwin when he was 13 or 14 years old, featuring four articles written by him. Additional early writings include an untitled essay about his life and a bibliography of his works. The file also contains stenographer's minutes for a 1954 case against Baldwin and four others for disorderly conduct. Other items of note include a transcription of <span class=\"title\">Take This Hammer</span>, a 1963 documentary film featuring Baldwin which was produced by NET and KQED-TV in San Francisco, as well as tributes to Baldwin, among them a program for \"Evensong and a Celebration Honoring James Baldwin\" (1974). Lastly, a small group of research materials, artwork and works by others including a play script for To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words, edited by Hansberry's former husband, Robert Nemiroff, complete this section.</p> <p>Correspondence (1.6 lin. ft.) consists of incoming and outgoing letters (some of Baldwin's letters are unsigned and undated), and telegrams from friends, family, business associates and admirers. Significant correspondents include friends, colleagues and collaborators Alex Haley, filmmaker Elia Kazan, and Toni Morrison. There are also letters received from Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Marlon Brando, Owen Dodson, Jean Blackwell Hutson, Harold Jackman, Coretta Scott King, Jacqueline Onassis, Bobby Seale, Nina Simone and William Styron, although Baldwin's responses are not included. Other correspondents include Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Louise Meriwether, Robert Nemiroff, and publisher Sol Stein.</p> <p>The Interviews (.4 lin. ft.) files contain several substantive and unique documents that illuminate Baldwin's thoughts on a variety of /various topics including race, history and literature. The interviews are comprised primarily of transcriptions with edits and copies of published versions. Although this series includes interviews featured in <span class=\"title\">James Baldwin: A Legacy</span> (1989) and <span class=\"title\">James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations</span> (2014), it appears that several/many of the interviews have not been collected in any published volume. Among the most significant interviews are \"Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde,\" published in <span class=\"title\">Essence</span> Magazine (1984?) and \"Is There a Case for Segregation,\" a segment for the NBC television show, <span class=\"title\">The Open Mind</span>, in 1962.</p> <p>The Organizations and Projects (.4 lin. ft.) files provides a snapshot of Baldwin's activities and interests, although his activism is recorded throughout the collection (see WRITINGS series, particularly nonfiction work such as <span class=\"title\">The Fire Next Time</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Evidence of Things Not Seen</span>, among others). Among these files is a file of correspondence, flyers and other materials related to the appeal and conviction of six Harlem youth, known as the Harlem Six, for the murder of Margit Sugar (1966). Baldwin's file for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (1961-1967) is comprised of letters, copies of Student Voice newsletters and information about a benefit held in 1967 where Baldwin raised funds for the Harlem Six and civil rights work in Dorchester County, South Carolina. Groups he sponsored such as National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Inc. (SANE) (1961-1964) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1961-1967) are filed here. The Recommendations File (.1 lin. ft.) include letters supporting candidates for <span class=\"title\">The Black Scholar</span>'s annual W.E.B. DuBois Essay Awards, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, among others.</p> <p>The Travel File (.1 lin. ft.) documents some of his travel for speaking engagements/ appearances and is comprised of a small number of itineraries, receipts for air travel, accommodations and car rental and other expenses. (Evidence of Baldwin's other travels is represented across the collection, most prominently in the BUSINESS RECORDS series.) The Fan Mail File (.4 lin. ft.) includes letters from admirers of Baldwin's across the world. The Awards File (.8 lin. ft.) contains files for honorary degrees, awards and citations Baldwin amassed during his lifetime and posthumously.</p>"}