C. L. R. James papers, 1933-2001, bulk 1948-1989

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Series VII: Photographs and Audiovisual Media, 1940s-2008

This series contains photographs, audio and video tapes, and digital media.


Subseries VII.1: Photographs, circa 1940s-2001

Most of these photographs are of James, although a few of the photographs are of others. The photographs of James include snapshots from late in his life, more formal portraits and a few photographs from his days in the United States.



Box 26 Folder 1 to 2 James, 1949-1980s, undated, 2 folders


Box 26 Folder 3 James--Snapshots, circa 1970s-2001


Box 26 Folder 4 Cricket, 1960s, undated


Box 26 Folder 5 Negatives and Contact Sheets, undated


Box 26 Folder 6 Others, circa 1940s-1970s


Box 26 Folder 7 to 9 James's Funeral, (3 Folders)


Box 26 Folder 10 Slides



Box 27 Portraits of James, circa 1970s-1980s



Box 29 C. L. R. James Institute microfilm reel, 1 microfilm reels

Made by Columbia University Libraries from MN# 96-2033.


Subseries VII.2: Audiovisual media, 1968-2008



Box 28 Item 1-2 2819-- American Vision: The time is out of joint (audiotape) James, C. L. R., 1953 April 29, 2 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 3-5 2820--American Vision: The world is my province (audiotape) James, C. L. R., 1953 April 22, 3 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 6-7 2822-2824, 2828-- Three lectures: Human Personality in Great Tragedy, Birth of the Modern Personality, The Artist in the Caribbean, undated, 2 audiocassettes

From University College on the Air, broadcast by the University College of the West Indies. Retitled after digitization. Formerly known as "C.L.R. James, from Keith." Two physical cassette tapes are duplicates of one another.


Box 28 Item 8-10 2830--Speech On Paul Robeson, James, C. L. R., 1971, 3 audiocassettes

The tape case for one of these audiocassettes is labeled "2827-- Old World and the New (1953 version) James, C.L.R." and was previously described as such in the finding aid. However, it turns out to duplicate the second half of the 1971 speech on Paul Robeson.


Box 28 Item 11 2832-- Best of C. L. R. James: America, Cricket, 1983 July 4, 1 audiocassettes

Q and A voices include H. O. Nazareth, producer; Mike Brearly, England captain. Afterwards, voices of Darcus Howe, Errol Lloyd, Jim Murray, and Nello (C. L. R. James).


Box 28 Item 12 2838--Best of C. L. R. James: Caribbean, Poland, 1983 July 18, 25, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 13-14 2835-- Murray, Jim, interview with C. L. R. James on Paul Robeson, 1983 November 23, 2 audiocassettes

2 copies.


Box 28 Item 15 2836-- My Childhood -- James, C. L. R., 1983, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 16 2838-- On Marxism to Homeless Students-- James, C. L. R., 1987 January, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 17-18 2840-- James's Death: WBAI Memorial Tribute (audiotape, including audio of James), 1989 June 5, 2 audiocassettes

2 copies.


Box 28 Item 19 2842-- Talking History: James and Thompson, 1981 November, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 20 2843--Three Black Women Writers (C. L. R. James at Black Ink), 1981, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 21 3356--James's Legacy: Bobbie Hill and Me [Jim Murray] on Nello (audiotape of conversation), 1985 November 15, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 22 3360--Autobiography, 32-3; IAFE/Paul Robeson; interviews with Anna Grimshaw, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes; 22 side A


Box 28 Item 22 3361--Linton Kwesi Johnson interview with Julia Atwater, 1984 May 17, 1 audiocassettes; 22 side B



Box 29 Item 91 3362--C. L. R. James on The Black Jacobins, undated, 1 audiocassettes; 91 side B


Box 29 Item 91 3362--RGG Groves, undated, 1 audiocassettes; 91 side A



Box 28 Item 23-24 3363--C. L. R. James on Thackeray and Shakespeare, interview for the Sunday Telegraph; Gaylord: 1930s Woolf, Warburg, etc., 1984 January 28, 2 audiocassettes; 23 side A, 24 side A

2 copies.


Box 28 Item 23-24 3364-- C. L. R. James on the IASB and IAFE, interviews with Anna Grimshaw, 1984 January 28, 2 audiocassettes; 23 side B, 24 side B

2 copies.


Box 28 Item 25 3365-- C. L. R. James on the portrait of Marian Anderson, 1984 April 27, 1 audiocassettes; 25 side A


Box 28 Item 25 3365--C. L. R. James interviewed by MacGregor for Cricket Society, 1984 May 9, 1 audiocassettes; 25 side B


Box 28 Item 25 3365--Radio drama adaptation of "Crossing the River" by Caryl Phillips, 1984 April 27 or May 9, 1 audiocassettes; 25 side B


Box 28 Item 26 3366--C. L. R. James and Darcus Howe on the Grenada Revolution, 1984 March, 1 audiocassettes; 26 side A


Box 28 Item 26 3367--Review of Ranjitsinghi by Ross, C. L. R. for South magazine, 1984, 1 audiocassettes; 26 side A


Box 28 Item 27 Maisie Hylton interview on Federation, 1986 July 9, 1 audiocassettes; 27 side A


Box 28 Item 27-28 3369--C. L. R. James Interviewed for South Magazine, 1984 September 17, 2 audiocassettes; 27 side B, 28 side A


Box 28 Item 28-29 3370--C. L. R. James on Cricket and I, Toussaint (the play), and World Revolution, 1984, 2 audiocassettes; 28 side B, 29 side A


Box 28 Item 30-31 3371-- C. L. R. James, Interview with Pierre Vickary for Australian TV and Radio, 1983 September 29, 2 audiocassettes; 30 side A, 31 side A


Box 28 Item 30-31 3372--C. L. R. James, speech to Hackney Black Alliance, 1983 October 29, 2 audiocassettes; 30 side B, 31 side B


Box 28 Item 32-33 3373--C. L. R. James, questions and answers following the speech "Walter Rodney and the Question of Power" at UCLA, 1981 October 23, 2 audiocassettes; 32 side A, 33 side A


Box 28 Item 32-33 3374--C. L. R. James: An Autobiography, continued, 1981 October 23, 2 audiocassettes; 32 side B, 33 side B


Box 28 Item 34, 36 3375--C. L. R. James Interviewed by Charles Nevin for Sunday Telegraph, 1984 February 1, 2 audiocassettes; 34 side B, 36 side A


Box 28 Item 35 The literature of the Caribbean, a conversation with C. L. R. James following the final session of the Congress of Black Writers, McGill University, 1968 October 14, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 34, 36 3376-- C. L. R. James on Women, Interviewed by Anna Grimshaw, 1984 February, 2 audiocassettes; 34 side A, 36 side B


Box 28 Item 37-38 3377-- C. L. R. James on his Autobiography, Interview with Ida York, 1983 November 22, 2 audiocassettes; 37 side A, 38 side A


Box 28 Item 37-38 3378-- C. L. R. James Interviewed for (Dublin) Tribune, 1984 January 12, 2 audiocassettes; 37 side B, 38 side B


Box 28 Item 39 3380-- C. L. R. James Interviewed on Cricket for Dublin Sunday Tribune, 1984, 1 audiocassettes; 39 side A

Possibly continues from tape 38?


Box 28 Item 39 Leslie Jones and Anna Grimshaw, 1984 August 6, 1 audiocassettes; 39 side B


Box 28 Item 40-42 3381-- James's death: C. L. R.'s Funeral and graveside ceremony, 1989 June, 3 audiocassettes

41 may be a duplicate of 40


Box 28 Item 43 3382-- C. L. R. James: His Impact on the Caribbean, panel at C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies Conference, Thurton, Rodrick, et al., 1991 April 18, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 44 3383-- C. L. R. James: Personal Memories-- Panel at Wellesley College C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies Conference--Grimshaw, Anna, Jim Murray, R. Thurton, 1991 April 20, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 45 3384-- Thompson, Edward P., Interviewed on WBAI radio, 1977, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 46 3386-- C. L. R. James in the 1980s An Interview with Anna Grimshaw, 1991 April 24, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 47 3387-- C. L. R. James and the Twentieth Century, Brecht Forum Lecture --Murray, Jim, 1989 May 16, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 48-49 3415-- Coombs, Donna, on Caribbean politics, Smith College Public Lecture, 1988 April 21, 2 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 50 3416-- Federici, Silvia, on Marxism and Feminism-- Lecture, part 2, 1988 October 21, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 51 3417-- Thurton, Rodrick, on C. L. R. James and the Caribbean, 1988, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 52 4206-- Atlantic World of C. L. R. James (Cambridge Lecture) Hart, Keith, 1996 October 15, 1 audiocassettes

African Studies Centre, Free School Lane, Cambridge



Box 29 Item 92-94 4207--"Beyond A Boundary" Part 1 and 2 of 5 (Extracts edited by Margaret Busby and read by Trevor MacDonald), undated, 3 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 95 4898--"How I Wrote Black Jacobins," Institute of the Black World, Atlanta, Georgia, 1971 June 14, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 96 4899--"How I Would Rewrite Black Jacobins," Institute of the Black World, Atlanta, Georgia, 1971 June 18, 1 audiocassettes; 96 side A


Box 29 Item 96 4899--National Public Radio. Obituary Tribute to C. L. R. James, circa 1989, 1 audiocassettes; 96 side B



Box 28 Item 53 4901-- C. L. R. James, "The Role of the Black Scholar in the Struggles of the Black Community," Institute of the Black World, Atlanta, Georgia, 1971 June 18, 1 audiocassettes

Introduction by Vincent Harding.


Box 28 Item 54 4902--C. L. R. James, "Black Jacobins and Black Reconstruction," Institute of the Black World, Atlanta, Georgia, 1971 June 15, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 55 4903--C. L. R. James, "Nkrumah, Padmore, and the Ghanaian Revolution," Institute of the Black World, Atlanta, Georgia, 1971 June 17, 1 audiocassettes

Introduction by Robert Hill.


Box 28 Item 56 4904--C. L. R. James, "On Oliver Cox's Caste, Race, and Class," Institute of the Black World, Atlanta, Georgia, 1971 June 16, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 57 5085--Interview with Anne Lamb on the 1930s, 1986 March 10, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 58 5087-- James, C. L. R., Interviewed by Selwyn Cudjoe, 1983 October 7, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 59 5088-- James, C. L. R. Interviewed by Angus Calder for Third World Book Review, 1984 March 2, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 59 C.L.R. James interview with Anna Grimshaw on Toussaint Louverture and Paul Robeson, circa 1984, 1 audiocassettes; 59 Side B


Box 28 Item 60 5090--Harry Wicks on C. L. R. James, 1985 April 30, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 61 5091--Betty Hamilton on C. L. R. James, 1985, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 62 5092--John Archer interview with Anna Grimshaw on C. L. R. James, 1984 November 16, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 63 5093--F. A. Ridley on C. L. R. James, London, 1986 August 13, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 64 5094-- C. L. R. James, Remembered by Richie Berman, 1987 March 24

Missing as of 2022 November 23.


Box 28 Item 65 5095-- C. L. R. James, Interviewed by David Scott, 1988 February 4

Missing as of 2022 November 23.


Box 28 Item 66 5096-- C. L. R. James, Remembered by Constance Webb, 1990 December 9, 1 audiocassettes



Box 29 Item 67 5098--Charles Van Gelderen on C. L. R. James, 1984 December 4, 1 audiocassettes



Box 28 Item 68 5099--Rita Dewar on C. L. R. James, 1985 October 18, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 69 5100-- C. L. R. James, Interviewed by Roberto Hodgson, 1986 July 2, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 70 5101--Gladys Whittaker on C. L. R. James, circa 1985, 1 audiocassettes


Box 28 Item 71 5106-- C. L. R. James, Remembered by Wilson Harris, 1991 June 12, 1 audiocassettes



Box 29 Item 72 5102--Handsworth Riots of 1985: an Interview with Howard Reid, 1985 November 1, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 73 5103--Harry Wicks interview with C. L. R. James, 1987 August 14, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 74 5104-- C. L. R. James interviewed by Anna Grimshaw for Open Mind (a mental health journal), 1987 January 9, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 75 5105-- Autobiography: Coming to England; Nelson, 0-111, 1932; 255, Cipriani, Minty Alley--C. L. R. James Interviewed by Anna Grimshaw, 1984 June 7, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 76 5106-- C. L. R. James Seminar, Anna Grimshaw, Cambridge, 1991 June 12, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 77 5107-- Nelson Cricket Club, Hartley and Duerden, Grimshaw, 1983 November 2 OR 1984 September 15, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 78-79 5109--"The Most Influential Man of the 20th Century: Paul Robeson" Pacifica Radio documentary: C. L. R. James on Paul Robeson, circa 1990s, 2 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 80 5112--Anna Grimshaw interviews C. L. R. James on Women and Men in the Caribbean, 1987 February 24, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 81 5132-- C. L. R. James lecture on The Artist in the West Indies, circa 1958-1962, 1 audiocassettes; 81 side A

Given at the University College of the West Indies, likely in the late 1950s or early 1960s.



Box 28 Item 81 C. L. R. James lecture on Human Personality in Great Tragedy , circa 1958-1962, 1 audiocassettes; 81 side B

Given at the University College of the West Indies, likely in the late 1950s or early 1960s.



Box 29 Item 82 "As Others Saw Us", 1986 July 29 or August 16, 1 audiocassettes; 82 side A


Box 29 Item 82 "As Others Saw Us" and an unidentified radio program about Black churches in the United Kingdom, 1986 July 29 or August 16, 1 audiocassettes; 82 Side B


Box 29 Item 82 "Generation of Strangers", 1986 July 31, 1 audiocassettes; 83 Side A

BBC radio program about Asian and West Indian immigrants living in the Midlands.


Box 29 Item 83 "Caribbean Focus", 1986 July 31, 1 audiocassettes; 83 Side B

Radio program, the title of which is not given, about Black British people, religion, and small business ownership. The tape is labeled "Caribbean Focus."


Box 29 Item 84 Constance Webb, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 85 C. L. R. James at UCLA, circa 1981, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 86 C. L. R. James: Al Richardson and Anna Grimshaw, 1986 November 17, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 87 C. L. R. James interviewed by John Lewis, Al Richardson, and Anna Grimshaw, 1987 January 26, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 88 C. L. R. James Memorial--Southend, 1989 June 24, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 89 C. L. R. James on the West Indian Writer, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 90 C. L. R. James Interviewed on Caribbean Politics: Today and Tomorrow, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 29 Item 125 C. L. R. James; Talking History with E. P. Thompson; Stuart Hall interview, circa 1981, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 29 Item 126 Freedom on My Mind, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 29 Item 127 Talking History: E. P. Thompson and C. L. R. James, property of Jim Murray, circa 1981, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 29 Item 100 Talking History: E. P. Thompson and C. L. R. James, property of Jim Murray, circa 1981


Box 29 Item 128, 97 C. L. R. James Lectures 1-6 on Channel 4, 1983, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 29 Item 98 Paul Robeson-- Here I Stand, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 29 Item 99 C. L. R. James Interviewed by Selwyn Cudjoe, circa 1983, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 29 Item 124 C. L. R. James on American Society, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)



Box 45 Item 120 C. L. R. James with Stuart Hall on Channel 4, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 45 Item 120 BBC Arena, "The Spirit of Lorca", undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 45 Item 121 BBC Omnibus: "Beyond a Boundary", undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 45 Item 122 C. L. R. James Lectures 1-6 on Channel 4, 1983, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 45 Item 123 "The Country and the City" with Raymond Williams, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 45 Item 123 "Memories of the Future" John Ruskin and William Morris, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 45 Item 123 BBC Arena: Edward Said, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)



Box 29 Item 101-104 Terisa Turner Interview with C. L. R. James, undated, 4 compact disks


Box 29 Item 105 Selma James Speaking on Black Jacobins, 2008 February, 1 DVDs


Box 29 Item 106 Toussaint Louverture script, 1934, 1 compact disks

From DJH/21, Hull University Archives. 108 images.


Box 29 Item 107 C. L. R. James at University of Hull, 1983 July, 1 compact disks

Conferment of an honorary doctorate of letters on C. L. R. James by the Chancellor of the University, Lord Wilberforce. 8 photographs.


Box 29 Item 108-110 The Black Jacobin: A Biography of C. L. R. James audiobook, 2006, 3 compact disks

Commercially produced.


Box 29 Item 111-113 C. L. R. James: Marx, Cricket, and World Revolution, produced by Alistair McGhee for BBC Radio Four, 2001 November 15, 3 compact disks


Box 29 Item 114 C. L. R. James and David Levy, McGill University, 1968 October 13, 1 compact disks


Box 29 Item 115-116 UCLA Historical Records, Job#1 and Job#2, undated, 2 compact disks


Box 29 Item 117 Omnibus: Beyond a Boundary, Producer: Barrie Favin, 1976 July 8, 1 compact disks


Box 29 Item 118-119 BBC Radio 4 Arena recordings, 1982 November 23, 1986 June 16, undated, 2 compact disks

Contains "The Hunt for Moby Dick and the Whale in the Museum, Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales," "Upon Westminster Bridge" (directed by A. Wall) and "C. L. R. James' First Cricket XI" (directed by C. Pattinson).


Box 29 Item 118 The Hunt for Moby Dick and the Whale in the Museum, Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales, 2008


Box 29 Item 119 Upon Westminster Bridge, directed by Anthony Wall, 1982, 1 compact disks


Box 29 Item 119 C. L. R. James' First Cricket XI, directed by Charlie Pattinson, 1986, 1 compact disks