Scope and arrangement
The Alphonso Pinkney manuscript and research collection pertains to several books Pinkney authored, primarily about race relations, and consists of handwritten and typed drafts, notes, news clippings, complete issues of pertinent newspapers, and papers written by other researchers. Galley and page proofs, reviews, promotional material, royalty statements, and correspondence comprise the types of documents from his publishers. The books for which there is material are The American Way of Violence (1972), "The Beatification of Ronald Reagan" (unpublished), Black Americans" (1969), The Committed: White Activists in the Civil Rights Movement (ca. 1968), The Myth of Black Progress (1985), and Red, Black and Green: Black Nationalism in the United States (1976). This collection also contains an untitled manuscript, papers presented at conferences, and published articles.
The Alphonso Pinkney manuscript and research collection is arranged in six series:
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1972
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1969
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ca. 1968
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1985
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1976