{"value"=>"<p>Series I contains Lynch's subject files, dating from 1959 to 2007. This series focuses on Lynch's professional activities as a historian, educator, editor, and shaper of departments at Columbia University and other institutions. Some materials related to Lynch's personal life are present in this series, including files on his children.</p> <p>Much of this series consists of correspondence between Lynch and others. While Series III contains correspondence arranged by date and name, the correspondence throughout this series is in the context of particular subjects, and is often accompanied by other materials: notes, forms, book reviews, and memorandums being the most prominent. Series II, as well, overlaps in subject matter with this series. But whereas Series II holds primary materials Lynch collected for research, this series contains administrative materials and correspondence generated by Lynch and his colleagues and contemporaries.</p> <p>The series holds files on Lynch's major books, namely his first book published in 1967, <span class=\"title\">Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, 1832-1912</span>. Correspondence about the book's publication, later editions, and its use in classrooms is present, as are initial reviews of the book. There are materials for <span class=\"title\">K.O. Mbadiwe: A Nigerian Political Biography, 1915-1990</span>, including correspondence from throughout Lynch's decades-long research process, a draft of chapter four, and reviews. Lynch's extensive research materials for this book can be found in Series II.</p> <p>A large amount of correspondence and notes for the Oxford University Press series of Black biographies are present in this series; Lynch's letters to authors and other editors about biography proposals exist here. There are files on other book publishers with which Lynch was involved as an author or editor, notably Andronicus Publishing Company, Garrard Publishing Company, Greenwood Press, and Houghton Mifflin.</p> <p>The series holds subject files relating to Columbia University, such as Wallach Hall, the Institute of African Studies, and proposed professorship and chair appointments. The Wallach Hall materials are especially extensive, with press about Lynch's residency, and notes and correspondence about events held at the residence.</p> <p>Also of note are files on the University of British Columbia and University of London, which feature several papers Lynch wrote about African history and Pan-Africanism. Additionally, the series holds dissertations and papers by students for whom Lynch was an advisor, along with notes and correspondence about their research.</p> <p>Other subject files concern social issues such as Black police in cities and minorities at Columbia University; graduate students; and institutions at which Lynch lectured or taught. There is also a set of recommendations Lynch wrote for professors and students.</p> <p>The files on Lynch's children are mostly made up of news clippings about Shola and Nnenna Lynch's careers as track and field athletes, as well as their college activities and marriages.</p>"}