By examining these typescripts in relation to the published pieces--both the Dialogue and the Journal article--we get a close look at Griffin's method. The Correspondence from this period--between Griffin and Fr. Thompson; between Griffin and Ramparts editor/publisher Ed Keating; between Griffin and Bishop Greco (Fr Thompson's superior); as well as the correspondences of the priest and the bishop (and both of these men with Keating of Ramparts)--document an interesting struggle that all experienced. Bishop Greco tried to block the interview on the grounds that Fr. Thompson's documented experience of racism by the Church would not be good for the Church. Eventually, the interview ran, setting off a controversy that reached beyond Bishop Greco's diocese to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the US during the 1960s.
Box 8 Folder 256
"Beyond Black Like Me", Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 18 pages t.ms. (carbon
[Intended forThe Saturday Evening Post, but never published
Box 8 Folder 257
"On Our Doorstep", Pio Decimo Press: St. Louis, [n.d.], 27 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 258
"Some Afterthoughts On Black Like Me", Mansfield, TX, 1962, 12 page t.ms. (carbon
[Published inTexas Observerunder the title "The Shine Boy Has His Dream"
Box 8 Folder 259
["Martin Luther King's Moment], [Mansfield, TX], [1963], 3 pages a.ms., 2 pages t.ms., 3 pages t.ms. (carbon
Box 8 Folder 260
"Martin Luther King's Moment" Sign, April 1963, 6 page photocopy of article
Box 8 Folder 261
Review of Crisis in Black and White, by Charles E. Silberman, [Mansfield, TX],, [1964], 3 page t.ms. (carbon
[With a photocopy of the published review inThe Saturday Review
Box 8 Folder 262
"The Intrinsic Other", [n.p.], [1967], 2 page photocopy, 9 page photocopy (German
Box 8 Folder 263
"Racist Sins of Christians" Sign: Union City, NJ,, 1963, 12 page pamphlet, 11 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 264
Interview with Father August Thompson , [n.p.], [n.d.], 17 page t.ms. (carbon
Box 8 Folder 265
Interview with Father August Thompson , [n.p.], [n.d.], 9 page t.ms. (carbon, early draft
Box 8 Folder 266
Journal notes re. his interview with Father Thompson and its aftermath , [n.p.],, December 1964 - January l966, 14 page t.ms.
Box 8 Folder 267
"The Negro & The White Conscience" Ramparts, December 1963
[The published version of his interview with Father A. Thompson
Box 8 Folder 268
"Journal of A Trip South" Ramparts, December 1963, 7 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 269
"Anatomy of a Bigot", [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page t.ms.
Box 8 Folder 270
"Are We on the Verge of Interracial War?", Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 11 page t.ms.
Box 8 Folder 271
Preface to From. Corps to CORE, by Father John P. Markoe, Fort Worth, TX,, [n.d.], 7 pages t.ms. (carbon
[With photocopy of a review of the book by Katherine Court
Box 8 Folder 272
"Speech by John Howard Griffin", The University of Iowa, 3-5 February 1969, 46 page t.ms. (photocopy, with ms. corrections
[Became both a monograph published by the University of Iowa and a text on microfiche at Columbia University--entitled "Racial Equality: Myth and Reality"
Box 8 Folder 273
"The Tip-Off" Ramparts, [n.d.], 3 page photocopy (plus Griffin's postscript
Box 8 Folder 274
Lecture notes: Racism, [n.p.], [n.d.], 28 pages t.ms.
Box 8 Folder 275
Lecture Notes: Racism, [n.p.], 1964, 6 page t.ms.
Box 8 Folder 276
Lecture Notes: Racism, [n.p.], [n.d.], 4 page t.ms.
Box 8 Folder 277
Griffin, John Howard "Again, Lillian Smith" [Review of Killers of the Dream, by Lillian Smith], Southwest Review, Winter 1962, 2 page Offprint
Box 8 Folder 278
Griffin, John Howard "Color Line on the Front Lines": Review of And Then We Heard the Thunder, by John Oliver Killens, Saturday Review, 26 January 1963, 3 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 279
Griffin, John Howard "On Either Side of Violence": Review of books by Daisy Bates and Sarah Patton Boyle, Saturday Review, 27 October 1962, 1 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 280
Griffin, John Howard Statement on Racism The Critic, June/July 1964, 3 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 281 & 282
"Terror in Mexico", Michoacan, Mexico, 17 April 1961, 32 page t.ms.
Box 8 Folder 283
"The Watch of the Dead", [n.p.], [n.d.], 7 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
Box 8 Folder 284
"The Tarascans of Michoacan", Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 4 page t.ms. (carbon
[Published in the bookletThe Singing Boys of Mexico
Box 8 Folder 285
Cultivated Mind - Guardian Genius of Democracy, University of Dallas: Irving, TX, 1961, 22 page proofs (with ms. corrections
Box 8 Folder 286
"Publish or Perish", Mexico, 1965, 18 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections), 1 t.l.s. (from Owens to Griffin
[Article by Griffin and Professor Robert T. Owens; intended forRamparts, but unpublished.
Box 8 Folder 287
Review of Constraint by Copyright, by M.S. Schnapper, Mansfield, TX,, [1960], 3 page t.ms. (carbon
[ForTeachers College Record
Box 8 Folder 288
The Little Brothers Ramparts, May 1965, 7 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 289
"The Passion of Georges Rouault" Photocopy of catalog introduction by Robert de Bolli and translated from the French by Griffin, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX,, 1962, 12 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 290
Mercadier, Fernand To John Howard Griffin, Algeria & France, July 1960 & February 1953, 2 t.l.s. 1 annotated calling card (with griffin's Carbon replies
Box 8 Folder 291 & 292
"Desert Slaves" by Fernand Mercadier. Translated from the French by John Howard Griffin, Mansfield, TX,, [n.d.], ca. 55 pages t.ms. (with ms. corrections
Box 8 Folder 293
Review of Warriors of God, by Walter Nigg, Dallas Times-Herald, April 1959, 1 page photocopy
Box 8 Folder 294
"Notes on Censorship", [n.p.], [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.
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"Notes on Current Censorship", [n.p.], [n.d.], 11 page t.ms.
Box 9 Folder 296
Correspondence re. censorship in Texas, Mansfield, TX, 18 Sept. 1961 & 20 Feb. 1962, 3 page t.l. (carbon), 1 page t.l. (carbon
Box 9 Folder 297
"Censorship, Literature and Juvenile Corruption", Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 14 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections
[Published title "The Prude and the Lewd"
Box 9 Folder 298
"Preface to L'Opera Noir", Mansfield, TX, 7 August 1963, 10 page t.ms. (carbon
[With autograph postcard from Gabriel Cousin, 1965
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[The Poulenc Behind the Mask], Mansfield, TX, 10 t.ms. (first draft), 8 page t.ms. (carbon
Box 9 Folder 300
"Arthur Lourié: A Great Composer Rediscovered" Ramparts, 1965, 13 page photocopy
Box 9 Folder 301
"The Men from the Boys" [Essay on writing published in Basilian Teacher ], [n.p.], [n.d.], 8 page photocopy
Box 9 Folder 302
"Gerhart Munch - The Exception to the Rule", [n.p.], [n.d.], 4 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
Box 9 Folder 303
Luis Berbér & The Singing Boys of Mexico, [n.p.], [n.d.], 19 page photocopy
Box 9 Folder 304
Griffin, John Howard To Arthur Lourié Mansfield, TX, 29 June & 20 Dec. 1962, 2 t.l.s. (carbons
Box 9 Folder 305
"Arthur Lourié: A Great Composer Rediscovered", [n.p.], [ca. 1964], 8 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
Box 9 Folder 306
Valley House Gallery To John Howard Griffin, Dallas, TX, 31 July 1962, 1 page t.l.s.
[With copies of 4 Griffin letters re. Rouault'sPassionseries