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Series VI: Personal, 1956-2014

This series contains material relating to Baraka's personal life. The bulk of this series consists of Baraka's handwritten notebooks, notes, planners, and calendars. Another major grouping pertains to Baraka's family. The rest of the series contains financial, legal, medical, and royalty documents, photographs and printed material relating to major events in Baraka's life, and Freedom of Information Act-acquired FBI files on Baraka. Finally, subject files relating to Baraka's research and writing interests are contained herein.

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Box 66 Folder 6 60th Birthday, 1994

Box 66 Folder 7-8 "Amiri Baraka Papers" Notes, undated

Box 66 Folder 9 Amiri Baraka Funeral Program, 2014

Box 66 Folder 10 Awards, 1992-1999

"B&B: Baraka Book & Birthday Bash,", 2009


Box 68 Folder 1 "NPL Mtg. Room Application Proposal, Proposal Notes", 2009

Box 68 Folder 2 "Notes from Weekly Meeting Amiri B 75 Planning Committee", 2009

Box 68 Folder 3 "Emails Back & Forth", 2009

Box 68 Folder 4 "Flyers & Invitations", 2009

Box 68 Folder 5 "Food, Bakery, Balloons, Flowers for Amina, the Poets", 2009

Box 68 Folder 6 "Amiri B 75 Souvenir Journal AD Forms", 2009

Box 68 Folder 7 "Anthology", 2009

Box 68 Folder 8 "Baraka's Plays (Videos) @ NPL_Other Copy of Unity & Struggle", 2009

Box 68 Folder 9 "Something in the Way of Things Bryan Green DVD", 2009

Box 68 Folder 10 "Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, Celeste Bateman P.R.", 2009

Box 68 Folder 11 "Booksellers", 2009

Box 68 Folder 12 "Baraka Bibliography & Criticism", 2009

Box 68 Folder 13 "Celeste Bateman's PowerPoint Presentation", 2009

Box 68 Folder 14 "Article in Frost Illustrated", 2009

Box 68 Folder 15 "Photographs of /010/8, '09", 2009

Box 68 Folder 16 "DVD of B & B: Baraka Book & B'day Bash, NPL, 10/8/09",, 2009

Box 68 Folder 17 "Printed Program, Souvenir Journal", 2009

Box 68 Folder 18 "Evaluation Form", 2009

Box 68 Folder 11 Birthday, 1970

Box 68 Folder 12 Bowling Scrapbook, 1957

Box 68 Folder 13 CVs, 1963-2003

Family, 1966-2005


Box 65 Folder 4 General, undated

Box 65 Folder 5 Archie Family Reunion, 1989

Baraka, 1983-2005

Ahi, 1986-2005

Box 65 Folder 6 General, 1986-2005

Box 65 Folder 7 Grades, 1991 (RESTRICTED), 1991

Box 65 Folder 8 Amiri, Jr. Howard University Grades, 1990-1992 (RESTRICTED), 1990-1992

Box 65 Folder 9 Kimako, 1985-1987

Obalaji, 1983-2003

Box 65 Folder 10 General, 1983-2003

Box 65 Folder 11 Grades, 1986-1988 (RESTRICTED), 1986-1988

Ras, 1986-1990

Box 65 Folder 12 General, 1988-1990

Box 65 Folder 13 Grades, 1986-1988 (RESTRICTED), 1986-1988

Box 65 Folder 14 Shani, 2003-2005

Jones, 1966-1995

Box 65 Folder 15 Anna Lois, 1987

Box 65 Folder 16 Coyt, 1966-1995


Box 66 Folder 14 Fidel Castro Harlem Visit Invitation, undated

Financial


Box 65 Folder 17-22 General, 1985-2004


Box 66 Folder 1 Royalty Statements, 1981-2006

Box 66 Folder 15-17 FOIA FBI Files, 1956-1980

Box 66 Folder 18 House Mortgage, 1970

Box 66 Folder 19 Kwame Ture Memorial, 1999

Legal, 1978-2005

Box 66 Folder 2-3 General, 1978-2005

Box 66 Folder 4-5 Contracts, 1984-2003

Box 66 Folder 20 Lists, 1974

Box 66 Folder 21 Medical, 1993-2000

Box 66 Folder 22 Newark Arrest, 1968-1979

Notes and Notebooks, 1968-2006


Box 60 Folder 1-10 Notes, 1981-2007

Box 60 Folder 11-12 Notebooks, 1968-2006


Box 61 Folder 1-13 Notebooks, 1968-2006


Box 62 Folder 1-13 Notebooks, 1968-2006


Box 63 Folder 1-13 Notebooks, 1968-2006


Box 64 Folder 1-7 Notebooks, 1968-2006

Box 64 Folder 8-11 Notes, 1981-2007

Box 64 Folder 12 Calendars, 2001-2006


Box 65 Folder 1-3 Address Books, undated


Box 66 Folder 23 Passport, 1987-1997

Box 66 Folder 24 Phone Messages, (1991)

Box 66 Folder 25 "Projects Outline", 1985

Box 66 Folder 26 Sheet Music, undated

Box 66 Folder 27 Software--Floppy Disks and CD-ROMs, 1999-2006

Box 66 Folder 28 Sonia Sanchez Father Funeral, 2000

Subject Files, 1977-2007


Box 57 Folder 15 Actors, undated

Box 57 Folder 16 Actor's Theatre Workshop, 1985

Box 57 Folder 17 "Afro-American Novels Before 1980" List, undated

Box 57 Folder 18 Brooklyn Center, 1998

Box 57 Folder 19 Brussels International Seminar, 1997


Box 59 Folder 1 Coltrane, John, 1984

Box 59 Folder 2 Communist Parties Meeting in Belgium, 1993

Box 59 Folder 3 Conferences, 1983-2003

Box 59 Folder 4 Dizzy Gillespie Funeral, 1993

Box 59 Folder 5 "Film Festival Suggestions,", undated

Box 59 Folder 6 Fox, Donal, 1993-1995

Box 59 Folder 7-8 Harper, Billy, 2007

Box 59 Folder 9-10 Jazz, 1995-2006

Box 59 Folder 11 Jones, Quincy, 1990

Box 59 Folder 12-13 Malcolm X, 1990-2003

Box 59 Folder 14 MLK Memorial, 1998-2004

Box 59 Folder 15 National Black Arts Festival, 2004

Box 59 Folder 16 National Black Theatre Festival, 1989-1995

Box 59 Folder 17 New Jersey Budget Information, 1992

Box 59 Folder 18 New Jersey v Peoples , 2004

Box 59 Folder 19 Pan Africanist Congress, 1992-1993

Box 59 Folder 20 Roach, Max, 1991

Box 59 Folder 21 Sheet Music, undated

Box 59 Folder 22 Simone, Nina, 1977-2003

Box 59 Folder 23 "Thelonious Monk Funeral,", 1982

Box 59 Folder 24 Thompson, Bob, 1966-1988

Box 59 Folder 25 Richard Wright, undated


Box 66 Folder 30 Windows 95 Aptiva Startup Disk, undated


Box 69 Folder 1-4 Notebooks, 1996-2004