{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"emph\">PERSONAL PAPERS</span>consist of a small amount of correspondence between 1926 and 1946; educational, financial and employment records from the early 1920's to the late 1930's; fragmented diaries for the years 1925, 1936 and 1958; two scrapbooks and some miscellaneous items. The correspondence file includes one letter from George Picken of the American Writers' Congress (9 March 1937) informing Bennett of her admission to that organization, and two letters from A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Association (28 April 1941) and Lester B. Granger, chairman of the Citizen's Sponsoring Committee for the Harlem Community Art Center (23 April 1941) to the commissioner of the W.P.A., on behalf of Bennett who had been suspended as director of the Harlem Community Art Center for alleged subversive activities. The employment records include many resumes written between 1934 and 1943 that provide detailed information both on her teaching and literary career. Of special interest are Ms. Bennett's diaries. Spanning four decades, they are very intimate and informative, particularly the one kept during 1936, a very painful and decisive period in her life. Of the two scrapbooks in the collection, the earliest one kept by Bennett during her adolescence, is a diary-like document, highly original and diversified, which reveals with a great richness of detail Bennett's artistic and versatile personality. The second scrapbook catalogues her published work between 1924 and 1931.</p>"}