WRIGHT, SARAH E.
Sarah E. Wright papers
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Printed material
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Series 3
Printed material, 1947-2009
Boxes 23-26, OP 50-71, and BV 4
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of printed material by and about Wright as well as other printed material from 1947-2009. Printed material by Wright includes published poems, reviews, and essays. The bulk of printed material about Wright consists of flyers, invitations, and programs for speaking engagements, readings, and events featuring Wright. Other printed material includes flyers and programs for events, funeral programs, and other materials collected by Wright. Of particular interest are pamphlets and booklets pertaining to Cuba which Wright collected during her trip to the country in 1960. Also of note is printed material relating to numerous events featuring John Oliver Killens.
Arrangement Note
Arranged by type of material, then in alphabetical order.
| Printed material by Wright | ||
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 1 | "An Australian Aborigine Mother Gives Us Another Literary First," review of We Are Going: Poems by Kath Walker, Freedomways, 1965 |
| OP50 | - | "Celebrities Remember Alice Childress with Love," The New York Amsterdam News, 1994 |
| 23 | 2 | Flyer advertising matchmaking event hosted by Wright, 1983 |
| OP51 | - | "Heart of Darkness," review of The Heinemann Book of African Womens Poetry edited by Stella P. and Frank M. Chipasula, American Book Review, no date |
| OP52 | - | "Hughes Book Artistic and Encouraging," review of The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes, The Philadelphia Tribune, March 3, 1958 |
| 23 | 3 | "I Have Known Death," Tomorrow, November 1950 |
| OP53 | - | "I Went for a Job," The Worker, May 17, 1953 |
| 23 | 4 | "I Went for a Job," unidentified newspaper, circa 1953 |
| 23 | 5 | "Lament of a Harlem Mother," The American Pen, volume 4, number 2, 1972 |
| 23 | 6 | "The Lower East Side: A Rebirth of World Vision," African American Review, volume 27, number 4, 1993 |
| OP56 | - | "Mi Gratitud al Pueblo Cubano," Lunes de Revolución [incomplete issue], no date |
| 23 | 7 | "The Negro Woman in American Literature," Freedomways, winter 1966 |
| 23 | 8 | Poems from Give Me a Child, The New York Amsterdam News, August 20, 1988 |
| 23 | 9 | Poems, The Hilltop, Howard University, March 11, 1948 |
| OP54 | - | "Record Peace Parade," West Side News and Morningsider, March 31, 1966 |
| 23 | 10 | "Roadblocks to the Development of Negro Writers," The American Negro Writer and His Roots, American Society of African Culture, 1959 |
| 23 | 11 | "To Some Millions Who Survive Joseph Mander, Sr." and "Conversations with My Son about Flowers" [in Czech], ?ernoká Poesie, 1958 |
| 23 | 12 | "To Some Millions Who Survive Joseph Mander, Sr." and "Until They Have Stopped," The Poetry of Black America, edited by Arnold Adoff, 1973 |
| 23 | 13 | "To Some Million Who Survive Joseph Mander, Sr.," North Penn Mansion Gazette, May 15, 1952 |
| 23 | 14 | "Until They Have Stopped," no date |
| 23 | 15 | "Urgency," Ik ben de Nieuwe Neger, no date |
| 23 | 16 | "Urgency," The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970, edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, 1970 |
| 23 | 17 | "Window Pictures" and "Urgency," Beyond the Blues: New Poems by American Negroes, 1962 |
| 23 | 18 | "The Writers Responsibility," Confrontation, number 51, summer 1993 |
| Printed material about Wright | ||
| 23 | 19 | 40th wedding anniversary, invitation, 2000 |
| 23 | 20 | Administration for Childrens Services (Brooklyn, New York), Womens History Month Celebration, flyer and program, 1999 |
| 23 | 21 | "African-American History Month Special Raffle," flyer, 1997 |
| 23 | 22 | Afro-American Cultural Foundation, authors party, program and flyer, 1970 |
| OP55 | - | Artists protest statement, New York Times, 1965 |
| 23 | 23 | Asian-American Writers, Peace with Honor program, flyer, 2001 |
| 23 | 24 | The Ballard Normal, book party for John Oliver Killens, program, 1982 |
| 23 | 25 | Blue Heron Press, dinner reception for Walter Lowenfels, invitation, 1955 |
| 23 | 26 | Book party for This Childs Gonna Live, invitation, no date |
| 23 | 27 | Book party for This Childs Gonna Live, invitation, 1970 |
| 23 | 28 | Borough of Manhattan Community College, "Black Books: The Key to Our Past, Present, and Future," program, 1994 |
| 23 | 29 | Business card, no date |
| 23 | 30 | Calder and Boyars, catalog, 1969 |
| 23 | 31 | Campbell, Jennifer, "Its a Time in the Land," African American Review, 1997 |
| 23 | 32 | City Tech, Eighth Literary Festival, program, 1988 |
| 23 | 33 | The Civil Rights Congress, "The Hidden Years," program, 1953 |
| OP57 | - | Clippings, circa 1956-2009 |
| 23 | 34 | Concert to Honor Brotherhood Month, flyer, no date |
| 23 | 35 | Delacorte Press, press release, 1969 |
| 23 | 36 | Dell College Paperbacks, catalog, 1981 |
| 23 | 37 | Ebony Book Club, advertisements, 1970 |
| 23 | 38 | The Feminist Press, catalogs, 1986-1998 |
| 23 | 39 | The Feminist Press, catalogs, 2000-2005 |
| 23 | 40 | The Feminist Press, News Notes, 1991 |
| 23 | 41 | Finkelstein Memorial Library, writer-in-residence events, flyers, no date |
| 23 | 42 | Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, "Renaissance Sunday," flyer, 1992 |
| 23 | 43 | Freedomways Associates, reception for Freedomways magazine, invitation, no date |
| 23 | 44 | A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, press release, 2002 |
| 23 | 45 | "Growing Up Female in a Multicultural World," program, 1992 |
| 23 | 46 | Guilford, Virginia B., "Sarah Elizabeth Wright," Dictionary of Literary Biography, no date |
| 23 | 47 | Harlem School of the Arts, "Community and Culture in Harlem" Womens History Month, flyer, no date |
| 23 | 48 | Harlem Writers' Guild, 50th Anniversary Celebration, flyers and program, 2000 |
| 23 | 49 | Harlem Writers' Guild, 50th Anniversary Journal, 2000 |
| 23 | 50 | Harlem Writers' Guild, book party for This Childs Gonna Live, invitation, 1969 |
| 23 | 51 | Harlem Writers' Guild, reception celebrating Rosa Guy's 20th book publication, program, 1992 |
| 23 | 68 | Harlem Writer's Guild, reception celebrating Wright, no date |
| 23 | 52 | Hatch-Billops Collection, postcard, 2001 |
| 23 | 53 | Houston, Helen R., This Childs Gonna Live, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, 1997 |
| 23 | 54 | Howard University, Second National Conference of Afro-American Writers, program, 1976 |
| 23 | 55 | Information Center on the Mature Woman, table of contents for phonograph featuring interview with Sarah Wright, June 1970 |
| 23 | 56 | The John Oliver Killens Writers Workshop, "Afternoon of Literary Readings," flyer, 1994 |
| 23 | 57 | Kraft Publishing Company, Brotherhood Month program, flyer, no date |
| 23 | 58 | Kraft Publishing Company, press release, circa 1955 |
| 23 | 59 | The Langston Hughes Library, appearance by Wright, flyer, 1972 |
| 23 | 60 | The Literary Society, 6th Annual National African American Read-In, press release, no date |
| 23 | 61 | The Literary Society, "Celebrating the African American Literary Tradition," program and flyer, 1995 |
| 23 | 62 | Lowenfels, Walter, tribute program, 1976 |
| 23 | 63 | Marcus Book Stores, book party for This Childs Gonna Live, flyer and postcard, 1987 |
| 23 | 64 | Marion Boyars Publishers, catalog, 1986-1989 |
| 23 | 65 | The Market Place Gallery, poetry reading, no date |
| 23 | 66 | Marymount Manhattan College Writing Center, "The Harlem Writers Guild: The Next Generation," flyer, 1996 |
| 23 | 67 | Middle-Atlantic Writers Association, Ninth Annual Conference, program and press release, 1988 |
| 24 | 1 | National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Mid-Manhattan Branch, "Poetry for the Heart and Jazz for the Soul," flyer, 1985 |
| 24 | 2 | National Black Writers Conference, seventh annual, program, 2004 |
| 24 | 3 | National Organization for Women--New York City, Black History Month celebration, flyer, 1987 |
| 24 | 4 | National Writers Union, New York Local, fifth annual book party, flyer, 1990 |
| 24 | 5 | New School for Social Research, "The Negro Writers Vision of America" conference, program, 1965 |
| 24 | 6 | New York Society for Ethical Culture, flyers, 1991-2003 |
| 24 | 7 | Organization of Women Writers of Africa, conversation with Wright, flyer, 1993 |
| 24 | 8 | Organization of Women Writers of Africa, "Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future" conference, program and flyer, 1997 |
| 24 | 64 | Party for Sarah E. Wright at Strawberry Mansion Center, no date |
| 24 | 9 | Pen and Brush, "Gala Evening of Song, Poetry and Readings Celebrating African-American Cultural Contributions," flyers, no date |
| 24 | 10 | Poets for Peace Now read-in, flyer, 1966 |
| 24 | 11 | "Program of Modern Dance and Poetry Reading," flyer, 1955 |
| 24 | 12 | Promotional cards for No Strangers Here [variant title of Give Me a Child], no date |
| OP58 | - | Publicity blurbs about Wrights books, circa 1955-1987 |
| 24 | 13 | Reception for John Oliver Killens, Lucy Smith, and Wright, invitation, 1956 |
| 24 | 14 | Reception honoring Wright, invitation, 1988 |
| 24 | 15 | Reviews of Give Me a Child, circa 1956 |
| OP59 | - | Reviews of This Childs Gonna Live, 1969-1971 |
| 24 | 16 | Salisbury State University, American Women Writers of Color Conference, seventh annual, program, 1997 |
| 24 | 17 | The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reception for Rosa Guy on republication of Bird at My Window, nod ate |
| 24 | 18 | Silver Anniversary celebration of This Childs Gonna Live, program and invitation, 1994 |
| 24 | 19 | Silver Burdett Press, press release, 1990 |
| 24 | 20 | University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Black History Month Observance, program, 1988 |
| 24 | 21 | University of Pennsylvania, reading for W.E.B. Du Bois Residence program, no date |
| 24 | 22 | The Wharton Centre, press release, 1970 |
| 24 | 23 | Whos Who at Howard University, 1947 |
| 24 | 24 | Wingdale on the Lake, Wingdale Concert, program, 1956 |
| 24 | 25 | "Wright, Sarah E.," Black Writers, edited by Sharon Malinowski, 1994 |
| 24 | 26 | "Wright, Sarah Elizabeth," The African American Encyclopedia, 1997 |
| 24 | 27 | The Writers Voice of the West Side YMCA, Harlem Writers Guild Reading Series, 1988 |
| 24 | 28 | Zora Neale Hurston Society, fourth anniversary conference, program, 1988 |
| Other printed material | ||
| 24 | 29 | Africans in the Americas Committee to Welcome Fidel Castro, "President Fidel Castro Speaks to Harlem," program, 1995 |
| 24 | 30 | American Society of African Culture, "The Negro Creative Artist and His Roots" symposia, brochure, 1962 |
| 24 | 31 | American Women Writers of Color, seventh national conference, program, 1997 |
| 24 | 32 | Association of Artists for Freedom, flyers, 1964 |
| 24 | 33 | Association of Artists for Freedom, "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash," program and flyer, 1964 |
| 24 | 34 | Ballantine Books, Court of Appeal: The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and Sexual Politics of Thomas vs. Hill, flyer, no date |
| 24 | 35 | Bondy, Jeanne Hale, memorial service program, 1969 |
| 24 | 36 | Burke, Christine B., funeral flyer, 2006 |
| 24 | 37 | Burnham, Dorothy Challenor, 75th birthday commemorative program, 1990 |
| 24 | 38 | "Burning Issues Forum," flyer, no date |
| 24 | 39 | Calder and Boyers, catalogs and book lists, 1963-1970 |
| 24 | 40 | "Casa de las Americas," pamphlet, 1960 |
| 24 | 41 | Casa de las Americas Cuba, "Pintura Contemporanea en Cuba," booklet, no date |
| 24 | 42 | Castro, Fidel, "Sabotage of La Coubre," booklet, 1960 |
| 24 | 43 | The City University of New York, Langston Hughes Festival: A Tribute to John Oliver Killens, program and flyer, 1980 |
| OP60 | - | Clippings, 1961-2008 |
| 24 | 44 | Communist Party of New York State, press release, 1961 |
| 24 | 45 | Community Museum of Brooklyn, reading by John Oliver Killens, flyer, 1977 |
| 24 | 46 | Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba, "Patria o Muerte," 1960 |
| 24 | 47 | Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba, "Que no dejen de moverse," 1959 |
| 24 | 48 | Cuba travel brochures, circa 1960 |
| 24 | 49 | Cultural Association for Women of African Heritage, "Help Lumumba Free the Congo," petition, 1960 |
| 24 | 50 | Davis, Benjamin J., funderal flyer and obituary, 1964 |
| 24 | 51 | Dial Press, promotional brochure for John Oliver Killenss Youngblood, no date |
| OP61 | - | "Diallo Louima Huang Rosario Baez Bumpers Enough!" police brutality protest poster, no date |
| 24 | 52 | Dunham, Katherine, tribute dinner, invitation, 1967 |
| OP66 | - | El Mundo (Havana, Cuba) [incomplete], July 31, 1960 |
| 24 | 53 | The Feminist Press, brochure, no date |
| 24 | 54 | Finkelstein memorial Library, Black American Literature Forum with John Oliver Killens, flyer, 1979 |
| 24 | 55 | Fisk University Writers Workshop, "The Image of the Negro in American Literature" Conference, program, 1966 |
| 24 | 56 | Friendship Club of Philadelphia, Back Home Day, program, 1971 |
| 24 | 57 | Friendship United Methodist Church (Wetipquin, Maryland), annual home coming, program, 1959 |
| 24 | 58 | Friendship United Methodist Church (Wetipquin, Maryland), bulletin, 1996 |
| 24 | 59 | Harlem Arts Alliance, "Artz, Rootz, and Rhythm," postcard, 2006 |
| 24 | 60 | "Harlem Welcomes His Excellency Fidel Castro," ticket, no date |
| 24 | 61 | Harlem Writers Guild, reception for John Oliver Killens, invitation, 1963 |
| 24 | 62 | Harlem Writers Guild, South Africa forum, flyer, 1960 |
| 24 | 63 | "Homage of the Government of the Republic of the Congo to its Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba," no date |
| 25 | 1 | "Honesty Creates Curiosity: Images and Words by Charles Louis Smith," exhibit brochure, 1989 |
| 25 | 2 | Howard University, The National Conference of Afro-American Writers, program, 1974 |
| 25 | 3 | The International Womens Writing Guild, Network, 2006 |
| 25 | 4 | Jordan, Fred Sargent, funeral program, 1993 |
| 25 | 5 | Keemer, Joan Wright, funeral program, 2001 |
| 25 | 6 | Killens, John Oliver, book parties for the publication of Black Mans Burden, invitations and programs, 1966 |
| 25 | 7 | Killens, John Oliver, memorial service program, 1987 |
| 25 | 8 | Kirkpatrick, Frederick Douglas, funeral program, 1986 |
| 25 | 9 | Lawyers Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela, "Nelson Mandela: Lawyer, Leader, Prisoner," 1985 |
| OP67 | - | Los Angeles Tribune [incomplete], April 20, 1956 |
| 25 | 10 | Lowenfels, Walter, memorial service, invitation, no date |
| 25 | 11 | Lowenfels, Walter, promotional brochures for American Voices, no date |
| 25 | 12 | Lowenfels, Walter, "The White Poetry Syndicate," New York Quarterly, 1971 |
| OP68 | - | Lunes de Revolución [incomplete], July 4, 1960 |
| OP69 | - | Lunes de Revolución, March 6, 1961 |
| OP70 | - | Lunes de Revolución, April 10, 1961 |
| 25 | 13 | Maryland Department of Economic Development, Maryland Tourist and Travel Newscapes, no date |
| 25 | 14 | Maryland Historical Magazine, volume 72, numbers 3 and 4, 1977 |
| 25 | 15 | Maryland, travel brochures and maps, no date |
| 25 | 16 | Maryland, travel brochures and maps, 1969-1971 |
| 25 | 17 | "Message by a Catholic Bishop about the Cuban Land Reform," pamphlet, no date |
| 25 | 18 | Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (New York, New York), bulletins, 1975-1977 |
| 25 | 19 | Ministerio de Bienestar Social (Cuba), "Informe Estadistico Semestral," booklet, 1959 |
| 25 | 20 | Ministerio de Educación (Cuba), "Cria de Conejos," pamphlet, no date |
| 25 | 21 | Ministerio de Educación (Cuba), "Discursos en Ciudad Libertad," pamphlet, no date |
| 25 | 22 | Ministerio de Educación (Cuba), "En Defensa de La Soberania Nacional," booklet, no date |
| 25 | 23 | Ministerio de Educación (Cuba), "En Julio como en Enero," booklet, 1960 |
| 25 | 24 | Ministerio de Educación (Cuba), "La Escuela Technica Aeronautica," brochure, no date |
| 25 | 25 | Ministerio de Educación (Cuba), "Message of the Minister of Education to the People of Cuba," booklet, 1960 |
| 25 | 26 | Ministry of Foreign Relations (Cuba), "Cuba Is a Sovereign Nation by its Own Right, Not by Any Grant," 1960 |
| 25 | 27 | Mitchell, Loften, memorial service program, 2001 |
| 25 | 28 | National Memorial African Book Store, Afro-Americana catalog, 1970 |
| 25 | 29 | "National Negro Commission Reports Subversion in Jackson, Mississippi," no date |
| 25 | 30 | New Afrikan Womens Organization, "From Somewhere in the World: Assata Shakur Speaks--Message to the New Afrikan Nation," pamphlet, no date |
| 25 | 31 | New Federal Theatre, Cotillion, program, no date |
| 25 | 32 | New School of Social Research, 130th birthday celebration of W.E.B. Du Bois, program, 1998 |
| 25 | 33 | New York Public Library, Books for the Teen Age, 1991 |
| 25 | 34 | News and Notes of the Maryland Historical Society, volume 6, number 5, 1978 |
| 25 | 35 | News and Notes of the Museum and Library of Maryland History, volume 7, number 1, 1978 |
| 26 | 1 | The Northeastern Methodist Historical Bulletin, numbers 9-11, 1969-1970 |
| 26 | 2 | Oficina de Relaciones Estudiantiles Latinoamericanos (Cuba), "Resoluciones del Tercer Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudiantes," booklet, 1960 |
| OP62 | - | On Guard Committee for Freedom, broadsides, 1961 |
| OP63 | - | On Guard Committee for Freedom, On Guard, volume 1, number 1 [photocopy], February 1961 |
| 26 | 3 | The Original Last Poets, Right On! flyer, no date |
| 26 | 4 | Peninsula Pacemaker, volume 2, number 7, 1973 |
| 26 | 5 | Pennsylvanias Department of Labor and Industry, womens labor laws pamphlets, 1947-1948 |
| 26 | 6 | Postcards of Cuba, no date |
| 26 | 7 | "Reglamento de la Ley de Reforma Tributaria," booklet, 1959 |
| OP71 | - | Revolucion (Havana, Cuba) [incomplete], August 1, 1960 |
| 26 | 8 | Roberts, Dick, "Revolution in the Congo," 1965 |
| 26 | 9 | Robeson, Paul, 90th birthday tribute, booklet, 1988 |
| 26 | 10 | Robeson, Paul, commemorative program, no date |
| 26 | 11 | Rutter, Maude M., funeral program, 1991 |
| OP64 | - | Salisbury Advertiser, June 15, 1977 |
| OP65 | - | Salisbury Advertiser, July 20, 1977 |
| 26 | 12 | Salt of the Earth, film brochure, no date |
| BV4 | - | Sánchez Roca, Mariano, Nuevo Ordenamiento Legal de la Enseñanza: Legislación Revolucionaria del Ministerio de Educatión, 1960 |
| 26 | 13 | Schomburg, Arthur A., biography, 1986 |
| 26 | 14 | Seldon, Beulah, funeral program, 2001 |
| 26 | 15 | "Séptimo Aniversario, 26 de Julio 1960," program, 1960 |
| 26 | 16 | Smith, Lucy E., "African Lullaby," 1961 |
| 26 | 17 | Springboards, "Langston Hughes: Poet of the People," 1967 |
| 26 | 18 | St. Thomas Community School, tribute to John Oliver Killens, invitation, 1978 |
| 26 | 19 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, "SNCC News of the Field," 1967 |
| 26 | 20 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, "The Story of SNCC," no date |
| 26 | 21 | Tambo, Oliver Reginald, memorial service programs, 1993 |
| 26 | 22 | Tidewater Times, 1973-1975 |
| 26 | 23 | T.N.T., womens newsletter, 1959 |
| 26 | 24 | "A Tribute in Honor of W.E.B. Du Bois," flyer, 1964 |
| 26 | 25 | "A Tribute to Bill Meek," program, 1987 |
| 26 | 26 | Umbra magazine, flyer, 1963 |
| 26 | 27 | United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, "Women Fight for a Better Life!" 1953 |
| 26 | 28 | United Methodist Church, brochure, no date |
| 26 | 29 | Washington, D.C. area, travel brochures and maps, no date |
| 26 | 30 | W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation, evening with Maya Angelou, program [inscribed by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee], 1993 |
| 26 | 31 | Wetipquin Community Development Club (Maryland), annual historical banquet, programs and flyer, 1988-2006 |
| 26 | 32 | Wicomico Council on the Arts, calendar of events, 1971 |
| 26 | 33 | Wicomico County (Maryland), "Proposed Capital Improvements Program," 1973 |
| 26 | 34 | Wingdale on the Lake, Wingdaler, 1958 |
| 26 | 35 | Winston, Henry, 60th birthday celebration, program and invitation, 1971 |
| 26 | 36 | Wood, Eben Y., Black Abstraction: The Umbra Workshop and an African American Avantgarde, 2004 |
| 26 | 37 | Woodie King Associates, "Behold! Cometh the Vanderkellans," flyer, no date |
| 26 | 38 | Wright, Elizabeth J., funeral program, 1996 |
| 26 | 39 | Wright, Homer Reynold, funeral program, 1992 |
| 26 | 40 | Wright, Mary Amelia, funeral program, 1996 |
| 26 | 41 | Wright, Michael Frank, clinical and forensic psychology advertising brochure, 1983 |
| 26 | 42 | Wright, Russell Charles, funeral program and postcard, 2009 |
| 26 | 43 | Wright, Willis Charles, Sr., funeral program, 1982 |
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