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Series III: Audio Recordings

Juma Sultan papers, 1960s-1990s

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Series I: Papers

Subseries I.1: General

This subseries contains papers relating to Sultan's work as a musician and community organizer in New York in the 1970s.


Box 1 Folder 1 All African Peoples Revolutionary Party

Box 1 Folder 2 Aboriginal Music Society (AMS) Studio, 1970-1978

Box 1 Folder 3 African American Arts Coalition, 1977

Box 1 Folder 4 Afrikan Carnival Association

Box 1 Folder 5 Al Karim School, 1977

Box 1 Folder 6 Association of Independet Filmmakers, 1974-1975

Box 1 Folder 7 Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation - Jazz Program, 1975

Box 1 Folder 8 The Black American, 1974

Box 1 Folder 9 Blank forms

Box 1 Folder 10 BMI application

Box 1 Folder 11 Bronx Council on the Arts, 1973-1974

Box 1 Folder 12 Bronx State Hospital, 1973-1974

Box 1 Folder 13 Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association, 1975

Box 1 Folder 14 Café We, 1974

Box 1 Folder 15 Casita Maria, 1978

Box 1 Folder 16 CETA - Theater for the Forgotten, 1978

Box 1 Folder 17 Chitra - "Expression of an Attitude"

Box 1 Folder 18 Chuck Davis Dance Company, 1970-1972

Box 1 Folder 19 Citizen's Committee to Save Jazz Radio, 1975

Box 1 Folder 20 City Spirit, 1975

Box 1 Folder 21 Cleo Quitman Dance Experience, 1975

Box 1 Folder 22 Collective Black Artists, 1975

Box 1 Folder 23 Communication Co-op, 1977

Box 1 Folder 24 Community Crossroads, Jazz auditions, 1979

Box 1 Folder 25 Community Museum of Brooklyn

Box 1 Folder 26 Community News Service, 1976

Box 1 Folder 27 Concerned Citizens for the Arts, 1975

Box 1 Folder 28 Coney Island book proposal, 1981

Box 1 Folder 29 Congress on Black Power / M.O.D.E., 1973

Box 1 Folder 30 Consortium of Jazz Organizations, 1975

Box 1 Folder 31 Correspondence, 1971-1975


Box 2 Folder 1 Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS), 1972-1975

Box 2 Folder 2 CUNY, 1973


Box 25 Folder 1-2 CVs

CLOSED until 2050 (PII)


Box 2 Folder 3 Daycare Consultation Project, 1972-1973

Box 2 Folder 4 Ephemera and fragments - handwritten

Box 2 Folder 5 Ephemera and fragments - printed and typed

Box 2 Folder 6 Executive Volunteer Corps

Box 2 Folder 7 Film information, 1974-1975

Box 2 Folder 8 First National Congress on Blacks in Dance, 1973

Box 2 Folder 9 Foundations

Box 2 Folder 10 Friends of MERC / Young Filmmakers, 1974

Box 2 Folder 11 Greene, Burton, 1966-1970

Box 2 Folder 12 Harlem Cultural Center, 1975

Box 2 Folder 13 Henry Street Settlement, 1974-1976

Box 2 Folder 14 International Theater Society

Box 2 Folder 15 Interview guidelines

Box 2 Folder 16 Jazz Composers Orchestra Association

Box 2 Folder 17 Jazz Forum, 1974

Box 2 Folder 18 Ju Ju Players, 1973

Box 2 Folder 19 Kwaanza

Box 2 Folder 20 "The Magic Drum" by Garrett Robinson

Box 2 Folder 21 Meet the Composer

Box 2 Folder 22 Melrose (CETA)

Box 2 Folder 23 Melrose T. C.

Box 2 Folder 24 McMillian, Dr. Lews K. -- Service, 1974

Box 2 Folder 25 Menwem Writer's Workshop

Box 2 Folder 26 "Nation Time"

Box 2 Folder 27 National Black Symphonic Society of America, 1973

Box 2 Folder 28 New Life Theater

Box 2 Folder 29 New Muse Community Museum of Brooklyn, 1976

Box 2 Folder 30 "New Music Scene in NYC" - Arthur M. Young film proposal

Box 2 Folder 31 New York Cultural Center


Box 3 Folder 1 New York Musicians Organization (NYMO), 1972-1975

Box 3 Folder 2 New York State Council on the Arts, 1974-1976

Box 3 Folder 3 NYU Institute of African American Studies, 1973

Box 3 Folder 4 Press kits

Box 3 Folder 5 Press releases

Box 3 Folder 6 "Profiles in Jazz" proposal

Box 3 Folder 7 Public Access Cable TV, 1971

Box 3 Folder 8 Second World Balck and African Festival of Arts and Culture

Box 3 Folder 9 Sivananda Yoga, 1972

Box 3 Folder 10 Society of Universal Cultural Arts, 1974-1975

Box 3 Folder 11 Spofford Juvenile Center, 1978

Box 3 Folder 12 Storefront Museum and protest, 1972

Box 3 Folder 13 Students, 1972

Box 3 Folder 14-15 Studio We, 1973-1977

Box 3 Folder 16 Summer Loft Jazz, 1975

Box 3 Folder 17 Talent Search Applications

Box 3 Folder 18 Tree of Life, 1977

Box 3 Folder 19 "The Undertaker (Dope is Death)" film, 1975

Box 3 Folder 20 Video project (notes)

Box 3 Folder 21 VisionQuest films

Box 3 Folder 22 WBAI, 1973


Box 4 Folder 1 University of the Streets, 1973

Box 4 Folder 2 Zekiros enterprises

Box 4 Folder 3 Zulu classes, 1974

Subseries I.2: Festivals

Sultan was heavily involved in organzing the New York Musicians Organization jazz festivals in the early 1970s. This subseries includes extensive documentation of the planning and execution of the festivals, including correspondence, contracts, publicity, schedules, and other documents.

Box 4 Folder 4 NYMO / Newport Jazz New York, 1972-1974

Box 4 Folder 5-7 NYMO Festival, 1973

Box 4 Folder 8-9 NYMO Bicentennial Festival, 1974-1976


Box 5 Folder 1-2 NYMO Bicentennial Festival, 1974-1976

Box 5 Folder 3 NYMO Bicentennial Festival - Contracts, 1974-1976

Box 5 Folder 4 Parks Information, 1975


Box 8 (OS) Folder 1 Posters and calendars, 1970s

Subseries I.3: Intramedia

This subseries includes minutes, bylaws, and planning documents for the Black arts organization Intramedia that Sultan and others were developing in the 1970s.


Box 5 Folder 5 Intramedia

Box 5 Folder 6 Black Theater Ritual

Box 5 Folder 7 Handwritten proposals

Box 5 Folder 8 Minutes and by-laws

Box 5 Folder 9 Multimedia Cultural Complex

Box 5 Folder 10 Multimedia programs


Box 6 Folder 1 Philosophy: The Total Black Experience in Film

Box 6 Folder 2 Radio show budget

Box 6 Folder 3 Training program

Subseries I.4: Publications

This subseries contains a variety of flyers, pamphlets, publications that Sultan gathered in the 1970s in the course of his work as a musician and community organizer in New York. It includes a some rare and ephemeral African-American periodicals, a wide range of jazz and Black flyers and pamphlets, and other materials.

Box 6 Folder 4 "Call for Action (A Guide to Problem Solving for New Yorkers)", 1970

Box 6 Folder 5 "Change/2", 1966

Box 6 Folder 6 Clippings, 1970s

Box 6 Folder 7-10 Flyers, 1970s


Box 8 (OS) Folder 2 Flyers and posters, 1970s


Box 6 Folder 11 "Fortune News", 1973-01

Box 6 Folder 12 "Jazz Interactions", 1975

Box 6 Folder 13 "The Musician's Newsletter", 1971-1972

Box 6 Folder 14 "New York Jazz Gazette"

Box 6 Folder 15 "News from Nigeria", 1974-1976

Box 6 Folder 16 Pamphlets, 1970s


Box 7 Folder 1 Publications - African-American, 1970s

Includes "ATA News," "Black News," "Black Theater Alliance," "Issue," "Black Enterprise," "Expansions," "The Black Pages," "African Youth Movement for Liberation and Unity," "Chamba Notes:


Box 8 (OS) Folder 3 Publications - African-American, 1970s

Includes "Muhammad Speaks," "City Scene," "National Black Monitor," "Images, "Unity and Struggle"


Box 7 Folder 2 Publications - General, 1970s

Includes "Focus '76," "Nassau Coalition for Safety and Justice," "American Montessori Society News," "Community Concerts handbook," "Ethiopia: The Hidden Empire," "National Conference of Artists," "Wonder-full," "Headwuarters News," "Manhattan Profile"


Box 8 (OS) Folder 4 Publications - General, 1970s

Includes "Equalizers," "Musician's Classified," "Bicentennial Times"


Box 7 Folder 3 Publications - Jazz, 1970s

Includes "Satchmo and Elmcor," "Swinging," "Jazz Hot," "Welcome to Forever Communicator"

Box 7 Folder 4 "Studio Museum in Harlem", 1974-1975