Series I: Professional Files

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{"value"=>"3427632", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1901-1994", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1901/1994"}
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{"value"=>"Series I: Professional Files"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Professional Files series covers Oliver's time with <span class=\"title\">The Afro-American</span> and other writing pursuits, including her book <span class=\"title\">Black Mother Goose</span>. These files are represented through drafts, clippings, notebooks, correspondence, and memoranda.</p> <p><span class=\"title\">The Afro-American</span> Newspaper files cover stories and subjects from Oliver's tenure as a reporter and city editor, in addition to administrative files and the history of the paper. Items of note include: <span class=\"title\">Afro</span> anniversary issues and events; files on Black prophets and evangelists such as Charles Manuel \"Daddy\" Grace, Father Divine, and Prophet James Jones; notes and drafts on the boxers Sonny Liston, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, and Sugar Ray Leonard; notes and correspondence about Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential campaign and his term in office, including notes from a 1977 meeting with the President; drafts and notes about the University of Delaware's acquisition of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar's papers; drafts, clippings, and notes from Oliver's column, <span class=\"title\">For All We Know</span>; drafts, clippings, and documents from Oliver's 1979 tour of the Middle East, including files on Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat; and research on the descendants of Harriet Tubman. Files are arranged alphabetically, with correspondence filed at the end.</p> <p>Other Writing covers Oliver's non-<span class=\"title\">Afro-American</span> writing. Held here are Oliver's <span class=\"title\">Black Mother Goose</span> files, which contains proposals, outlines, drafts, correspondence, prints, and contracts related to the first and second editions of the book. Also with the <span class=\"title\">Black Mother Goose</span> papers are files on the illustrators of the two editions, Aaron Sopher and Thomas Stockett.</p> <p>Also held with Other Writing are files on Baltimore Publishing Company, a publishing company started by Oliver; <span class=\"title\">The Hare of the Big Thicket</span>, a film treatment co-authored with Maxine Frank that was sold to RKO Pictures; and drafts for unrealized projects such as <span class=\"title\">Sex and the Black Man</span> and <span class=\"title\">Dinah's Cookbook</span>, a celebrity cookbook by the singer Dinah Washington.</p>"}
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1901
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1901
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1994
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1901
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1994
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7.71 linear feet (21 boxes)

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  1. The Afro-American Newspaper [76/1]
  2. Other Writing [12/1]