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Highlight: . DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices, The Life Sign, and Miles!. The materials are arranged alphabetically
Abstract Or Scope: This series is comprised of the manuscripts, correspondence, and press material of screenplays written by Baraka or with which he was associated as a co-writer, actor, or interviewee, includingW.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices,The Life Sign,andMiles!.The materials are arranged alphabetically by title.

Highlight: alphabetically by title.
Abstract Or Scope: This series contains holograph and typescript drafts, as well as proofs and galleys, of Baraka's published and unpublished fiction. Along with drafts of many individual short stories, there are also contained herein full drafts of story collections and novels6 Persons,The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka,The New World,andTales of the Out and Gone.The material in this series is arranged alphabetically by title.

Highlight: political newsletter and newspaper Unity & Struggle. The material is arranged alphabetically by journal or
Abstract Or Scope: Baraka's work as an editor of various literary, arts, and political journals and little magazines is the focus of this series. Included are the typescripts and galleys of individual issues, correspondence and internal editorial matter, drafts of individual submissions and published items, artwork, and published material forYugen,Cricket,The Black Nation,Rising Tide,and, most comprehensively, the political newsletter and newspaperUnity & Struggle.The material is arranged alphabetically by journal or magazine title.

Highlight: the 2000s. The materials are primarily organized alphabetically by correspondent, with additional
Abstract Or Scope: This series contains personal and business correspondence to and from Baraka from the 1960s through the 2000s. The materials are primarily organized alphabetically by correspondent, with additional caches of correspondence from Baraka's immediate family and children, as well as Allen Ginsberg, Nina Simone, and photocopies of his correspondence with the poet Ed Dorn. The material includes holographs, typescript, and computer-printed letters, as well a large body of printed emails. Additional correspondence can be found in other series, relevant to that subject.

Highlight: Arranged by form, and within these sub-groupings, alphabetically by author, the series contains
Abstract Or Scope: Arranged by form, and within these sub-groupings, alphabetically by author, the series contains manuscript drafts, and some correspondence, of fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, anthologies, and poetry written by others and held by Baraka. The bulk of these writings are unmarked. Highlights include writings by Stanley Crouch, Larry Neal, Quincy Troupe, Komozi Woodard, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Sam Greenlee, Robert Stone, Ben Caldwell, Ossie Davis, Toni Morrison, Diane DiPrima, David Henderson, Clarence Major, Marvin X, AB Spellman, Manning Marable, Spike Lee, and Aldon Nielsen.

Highlight: are arranged alphabetically by organization name.
Abstract Or Scope: Baraka's political and cultural activism is the subject of this series, which includes organizational material, meeting minutes, writings, research reports, flyers and other printed material relating to his work with groups such as the Congress of Afrikan People, Black Radical Congress, Afrikan Free School, the Baraka Defense Committee, the Committee for a Unified Newark, Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District, and various Newark governmental and arts organizations including the public schools. It also contains campaign materials relating to the various political campaigns of Baraka's son, Ras. The materials are arranged alphabetically by organization name.

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