Memoirs

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unitid

{"value"=>"3390270", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1936-1983", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1936/1983"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Memoirs"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Moon received a grant from the Ford Foundation to write his memoirs.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Chapter titles gleaned from drafts themselves.</p>"}

arrangement

{"value"=>"<p>Chapters arranged according to notes in box 25, folder 5.</p>"}

relatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>See box 13, folder 4.</p>"}

date_start

1936

keydate

1936

date_end

1983

date_inclusive_start

1936

date_inclusive_end

1983

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1. Notes, outline, prospectus, and correspondence
2. Oral history with Luther P. Jackson [3/1]
3. "Choosing a Career" chapter drafts
4. "The Closed Door" chapter, various drafts
5. Tuskegee years chapter [3/1]
6. "Harlem in the Thirties" chapter drafts
7. Chapter on the trip to the Soviet Union
8. "Langston Hughes Remembered" chapter drafts
9. The New York Times chapter
10. "The Black Cabinet" (or "The Black Brain Trust") chapter, various drafts
11. "Toward the End of the Classic Controversy" or "The Crisis in Negro Leadership" chapter, various drafts
12. "Inside the NAACP" chapter, various drafts
13. "Farewell to Walter White" chapter, various drafts
14. "Editing The Crisis" chapter, various drafts