WRIGHT, SARAH E.
Sarah E. Wright papers > Audiovisual material

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Series 5
Audiovisual material, 1960-2009
AV1 and CLP2

Scope and Content Note

The series consists of sound and video recordings of Wright and others from 1960-2009. Recordings of Wright contain interviews and readings of works by Wright and by others; while the bulk of these materials are audio recordings, there are also a few video recordings. The series also contains recordings of events featuring Wright, including speeches, conferences, forums, and meetings of professional organizations. Other recordings include materials relating to Wright’s political activism, particularly with regard to Cuba; recordings relating to Wright’s home town of Wetipquin, Maryland; and several of Wright’s answering machine tapes. Also present are a few recordings of John Oliver Killens.

Arrangement Note

Arranged by type of recording, then in alphabetical order.

Restrictions on Access

Special restrictions apply: Researchers must contact the Rose Library in advance for access to audiovisual material in this collection.

Interviews with Wright
Box Folder Content
AV1 1 Information Center on the Mature Woman, syndicated radio broadcast featuring interview with Sarah Wright and others, June 1970 [part 1] [original: phonograph]
AV1 1 Information Center on the Mature Woman, syndicated radio broadcast featuring interview with Sarah Wright and others, June 1970 [part 2] [original: phonograph]
AV1 2 Interview about the Harlem Writers' Guild by Funmi Osoba Paul for Pen and Brush, sound recording, March 22, 2002 [original: audio cassette]
AV1 3 Interview about the Harlem Writers' Guild by Funmi Osoba Paul, video recording, March 22, 2002 [part 1] [original: VHS]
AV1 4 Interview about the Harlem Writers' Guild by Funmi Osoba Paul, video recording, March 22, 2002 [part 2] [original: VHS]
AV1 5 Interview by Alan Wald for Pen and Brush, March 2002 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 5 Interview by Alan Wald for Pen and Brush, March 2002 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 6 Interview by an unidentified student, fall 1983 [original: audio cassette]
AV1 7 Interview by D.H. Melham for Artist and Influence, original sound recording, January 28, 2001 [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 8 Interview by D.H. Melham for Artist and Influence, sound recording made from video recording, January 28, 2001 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 8 Interview by D.H. Melham for Artist and Influence, sound recording made from video recording, January 28, 2001 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 9 Interview by D.H. Melham for Artist and Influence, sound recording made from video recording, January 28, 2001 [part 3] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 10 Interview by D.H. Melham for Artist and Influence, video recording, January 28, 2001 [original: VHS]
AV1 11 Interview by Louis Reyes Rivera for "Perspectives" radio program on WBAI, speaking about John Oliver Killens, July 15, 2004 [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 12 Interview by Milroy Levitt on radio station WCWP, April 3, 1985 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 12 Interview by Milroy Levitt on radio station WCWP, April 3, 1985 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 13 Interview by Rosemary Mealy for "Love, Law, and Literature" radio program, January 7, 1998 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 13 Interview by Rosemary Mealy for "Love, Law, and Literature" radio program, January 7, 1998 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 14 Interview for radio broadcast, no date [original: audio cassette]
AV1 15 Wright, Sarah, Rashidah Ismaili and Norma Rogers, interview on radio station WHCR, no date [original: audio cassette]
Readings by Wright
AV1 16 A. Philip Randolph: Integration in the Workplace, excerpt, no date [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 17 Excerpts from Youngblood by John Oliver Killens, Like One of the Family by Alice Childress, and "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen, no date [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 17 Excerpts from Youngblood by John Oliver Killens, Like One of the Family by Alice Childress, and "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen, no date [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 18 Give Me a Child, excerpted poems, NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch Project Rebound, April 28, 1985; unidentified discussion about gun violence [original: audio cassette]
AV1 69 "Play on a Witch," no date [side B] [original: audio cassette]
CLP2 - "The Second Forty," interview with Sarah Wright, 1970 [original: phonograph]
AV1 19 This Childs Gonna Live, chapter 1, no date [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 19 This Childs Gonna Live, chapter 1, no date [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 20 This Childs Gonna Live, chapter 1, no date [original: open reel]
AV1 21 This Childs Gonna Live, chapter 1, August 10, 1987 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 21 This Childs Gonna Live, chapter 1, August 10, 1987 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 22 This Childs Gonna Live, chapter 1, Fairfield University, June 28, 1985 [original: audio cassette]
AV1 23 This Childs Gonna Live, chapter 1, for "Another View" radio program on WRKL, April 22, 1979 [original: audio cassette]
Events with Wright
AV1 24 25th Anniversary celebration of This Childs Gonna Live, circa 1994 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 24 25th Anniversary celebration of This Childs Gonna Live, circa 1994 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 25 Celebration of Life with Words, Finkelstein Memorial Library, May 24, 1979 [part 1] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 26 Celebration of Life with Words, Finkelstein Memorial Library, May 24, 1979 [part 2] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 27 A Forum on Censorship for Readers and Writers, Finkelstein Memorial Library, Spring Valley, New York, April 26, 1979 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 27 A Forum on Censorship for Readers and Writers, Finkelstein Memorial Library, Spring Valley, New York, April 26, 1979 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 28 A Forum on Censorship for Readers and Writers, Finkelstein Memorial Library, Spring Valley, New York, April 26, 1979 [part 3] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 29 Freedomways Forum, Afro-American Literature in the 1970s, featuring Wright, Angela Davis, and others, broadcast on radio station WBAI, July 30, 1979 [original: audio cassette]
AV1 30 Harlem Writers Guild, South Africa Forum, featuring Wright, Rosa Guy and others, no date [original: open reel]
AV1 35 Harlem Writers Guild, tribute to Rosa Guy on the publication of Guys 20th book, Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center, New York City, May 7, 1992 [original: VHS]
AV1 31 Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Conference, banquet and speech by Wright, "Superstition, Magic, and the Occult in Afro-American Literature," October 21, 1988 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 31 Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Conference, presentation of Distinguished Writer Award to Wright, October 21, 1988 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 32 Pen and Brush Black history month program, February 20, 2005 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 32 Pen and Brush Black history month program, February 20, 2005 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 33 Pen and Brush event honoring Wright, no date [original: VHS]
AV1 34 Pen and Brush meeting, December 3, 1992 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 34 Pen and Brush meeting, December 3, 1992 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 36 Tribute to Sterling A. Brown, Harlem School of the Arts, November 5, 1990 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 36 Tribute to Sterling A. Brown, Harlem School of the Arts, November 5, 1990 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 37 Visionary Writing Conference, "The Personal Vision" panel, Long Island University, January 1981 [part 1] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 38 Visionary Writing Conference, "The Personal Vision" panel, Long Island University, January 1981 [part 2] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 39 William L. Patterson Foundation awards dinner honoring Gil Noble, December 14, 1980 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 39 William L. Patterson Foundation awards dinner honoring Gil Noble, December 14, 1980 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 40 William L. Patterson Foundation awards dinner honoring Gil Noble, December 14, 1980 [part 3] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 41 The Write to Reply forum, Finkelstein Memorial Library, Spring Valley, New York, November 15, 1977 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 41 The Write to Reply forum, Finkelstein Memorial Library, Spring Valley, New York, November 15, 1977 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 42 Writers for Our Time, first meeting at Wrights house, featuring Wright and John Oliver Killens, July 10, 1974 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 42 Writers for Our Time, first meeting at Wrights house, speech by John Oliver Killens, July 10, 1974 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 43 Writers program, St. Marks United Methodist Church, May 13, 1979 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 43 Writers program, St. Marks United Methodist Church, May 13, 1979 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 44 Wright, Sarah, "Responsibility of a Writer," speech at unidentified university, no date [original: VHS]
AV1 45 Wright, Sarah, speech about her father, Willis Charles Wright, Sr., no date [original: audio cassette]
AV1 46 Wright, Sarah, speech about writing fiction, no date [original: audio cassette]
Other recordings
AV1 47 Afro-American Writers Conference, second annual, featuring Toni Morrison, Howard University, February 20, 2005 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 47 Afro-American Writers Conference, second annual, featuring Toni Morrison, Howard University, February 20, 2005 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 48 Answering machine tape, October 5, 1982 [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 48 Answering machine tape, November 27, 1982 [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 49 Answering machine tape, December 8, 1984 [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 49 Answering machine tape, May 13, 1985 [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 50 Answering machine tape, April 21, 1992 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 50 Answering machine tape, April 21, 1992 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 51 Back Home Sunday, Friendship United Methodist Church, Wetipquin, Maryland, no date [original: VHS]
AV1 52 Bomb play, anti-nuclear war message, no date [original: open reel]
AV1 53 Castro, Fidel, speech at Riverside Church in Harlem, radio broadcast on WBAI, September 8, 2000 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 53 Castro, Fidel, speech at Riverside Church in Harlem, radio broadcast on WBAI, September 8, 2000 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 54 Castro, Fidel, speech at the United Nations General Assembly, 1960 [part 1] [original: open reel]
AV1 54 Castro, Fidel, speech at the United Nations General Assembly, 1960 [part 2] [original: open reel]
AV1 55 Castro, Fidel, speech at the United Nations General Assembly, 1960 [part 3] [original: open reel]
AV1 56 Church service, Friendship United Methodist Church, Wetipquin, Maryland, no date [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 57 Croxton, Darryl, reading "Until They Have Stopped" by Wright, no date [original: audio cassette]
AV1 66 Kaye, Joseph, speech about Palestine, Ethical Culture Society event, July 18, 2004 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 66 Kaye, Joseph, speech about Palestine, Ethical Culture Society event, July 18, 2004 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 58 Killens, John Oliver, discussion about Alexander Pushkin, no date [original: audio cassette]
AV1 59 Martin Luther King: An Amazing Grace, documentary produced by Gil Noble, 1982 [part 1] [side A] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 59 Martin Luther King: An Amazing Grace, documentary produced by Gil Noble, 1982 [part 2] [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 60 Memorial service for Wright, November 14, 2009 [original: DVD]
AV1 61 Musical performance [1], no date [side A] [original: open reel]
AV1 61 Musical performance [2], no date [side B] [original: open reel]
AV1 62 Musical performance [3], no date [original: open reel]
AV1 63 Pagán, Dylcia and Phil Dante, interview by Louis Reyes Rivera for "Perspectives" radio program on WBAI, no date [original: audio cassette]
AV1 70 Robinson, Charles, interview by Wright, no date [side B] [original: audio cassette]
AV1 64 Silverman, Robert, composer, music for "Play on a Witch" by Sarah Wright, no date [original: audio cassette]
AV1 65 Tatum, Wilbert A., broadcast on television station WOR-TV, July 26, 1970 [original: audio cassette]
AV1 67 United Nations General Assembly session regarding the Congo, July 7, 1960 [part 1] [side A] [original: open reel]
AV1 67 United Nations General Assembly session regarding the Congo, July 7, 1960 [part 2] [side B] [original: open reel]
AV1 68 United Nations General Assembly session regarding the Congo, July 7, 1960 [part 3] [original: open reel]
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