CORRESPONDENCE

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{"value"=>"1958 - 2006", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1958/2006"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The files in this series were culled for the most part from the voluminous Afram files – the main body of the author's correspondence is yet to be recovered. The Afram Action Library and other name files, in alphabetical order, are mostly incoming letters with attachments and printed matter. Noteworthy files include those of Ruwa Chiri (1943-1974), a young Zimbabwean writer and editor of the magazine Afrika Must Unite who was killed by a subway train in Harlem; the Japan Center for International Exchange, and Mako Nakagawa (Asian-American Cultural Heritage) for their relevance to African-American and Japanese relations in the 1970s. The remaining letters in this series, filed chronologically from 1958 to 2005, provide a good cross- section of the author's activities and interests. They range from a case of housing discrimination in 1959, his 1974 car accident and its aftermath, and the imposition of a security deposit on residents in low income neighborhood by the New York Telephone Company in 1977, to the forced resignation of Atlanta Commissioner of Public Safety Reginald Eaves accused of favoring black officers in police promotional examinations (1978), the classification of African- Americans as Negro or Black by the 1990 Census, his support of black political prisoners Joan Little, Dhoruba Moore and the Wilmington 10, and his many letters to editors and public officials on issues of the day.</p>"}
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1958
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1958
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2006
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1958
date_inclusive_end
2006

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  1. AFRAM Action Library, A - F
  2. AFRAM Action Library, G - W
  3. Black Press Clipping Bureau
  4. Letters from School Children
  5. 1993
  6. Chiri, Ruwa - Afrika Must Unite Magazine
  7. Films, Film Festivals, Nguzo Saba Films
  8. Japan Center for International Exchange
  9. Kornegay, Alice - Welfare Rights
  10. Nakagawa, Mako - Asian-American Cultural Heritage
  11. Original Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem
  12. Letters to and from U.S. Presidents and Officials
  13. Ravitch, Diane
  14. Windom, Alice
  15. Requests for Books
  16. Requests for Teaching Materials
  17. Schomburg Center - Envelops and Notes to Staff
  18. 1958 - 1969
  19. 1970 - 1973
  20. 1974 - 1976
  21. 1977 - 1979
  22. 1980 - 1986
  23. 1987 - 1989
  24. 1990 - 1993
  25. 1994 - 1997
  26. 1998 - 1999
  27. 2000 - 2006
  28. Undated Letters