Box 77

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Clippings from The Dartmouth journal, correspondence, and notes

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Handwritten and pastel drawing picture book pages by Shange, discussing substance abuse

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Notes on and handwritten edits to Nomathemba script; travel itinerary

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 3, Journals, Agendas, and Notes, 1972-2018, undated, includes notebooks, journals, agendas, notepads, lists, scratch paper, photocopies, and other notes related to Shange’s personal, professional, and creative life. The materials in this series contain personal diary entries and musings, some of which make mention of family and friends; journal entries about dreams; notes and materials related to personal health and recovery from substance abuse and strokes; notes, research materials,...

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Cocaine addiction recovery chart; Type 2 Diabetes Meal Plan Booklet

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 3, Journals, Agendas, and Notes, 1972-2018, undated, includes notebooks, journals, agendas, notepads, lists, scratch paper, photocopies, and other notes related to Shange’s personal, professional, and creative life. The materials in this series contain personal diary entries and musings, some of which make mention of family and friends; journal entries about dreams; notes and materials related to personal health and recovery from substance abuse and strokes; notes, research materials,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 4, Press, Programs, and Ephemera, 1970-2019, undated, includes newspapers and magazine clippings with coverage and reviews of Shange’s and others’ works; playbills and programs; flyers and posters; press materials for works of Shange’s and works of others that she attended; recordings of television and radio media appearances; and ephemera such as travel itineraries, theater tickets, and book jackets. This series documents both Shange’s own creative output and frequent speaking...

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1995 Letter from PEN American Center on trial against Ken Saro-Wiwa, newspaper clipping reviews of productions of Nomathemba and for colored girls (c.1995), 1995 review of for Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo

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Southern Connecticut State University Newsletter

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Clipping of review by Virginia Quarterly 1993 for The Love Space Demands: a Continuing Saga and undated card from the Joseph Papp Public Theater

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 1.18, Some Sing, Some Cry, 1977-2010, undated, includes extensive drafts, edits, rewrites, proofs, and correspondence. Published in 2010 and written by Shange and her sister, Ifa Bayeza, Some Sing, Some Cry is an epic novel telling the story of seven generations of a family of Black women in the U.S. Some Sing, Some Cry was originally titled How I Come By...

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Subseries 1.23, Whitewash, 1994-2000, includes galleys with edits and revisions, correspondence with editors, and a teleplay adaptation. Whitewash, published in 1997 in by Walker & Company, details the story of a Black girl and her brother, who are targeted in a racist attack.

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Foundation for Ethnic Understanding 1997 fundraising and informational mailer, World Poetry Bout Association 1997 advisory board correspondence

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Letter from Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, fax from Bacon Psychiatric Associates with poem attached

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 2.1, Business, 1984-2018, undated, contains professional correspondence between Shange and editors, agents, producers, as well as publicity materials, travel documents and itineraries, invitations, fundraising asks, membership materials, performance notes, recommendation letters, requests for Shange’s critique or blurbs for other works, royalty statements and payments, and contracts received or sent by Shange. Much of the correspondence relates to works by Shange and in some cases...

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Greeting cards (including from Thelma Williams, aunt), invitations and flyers, Barnard reunion invitation

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Birthday and greeting cards

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Prepared by Ora Williams for aunt Thelma Williams

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Contract for Lizard Series publication with Africa World Press Inc./The Red Sea Press Inc.

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Payment from Barnard College

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 2.1, Business, 1984-2018, undated, contains professional correspondence between Shange and editors, agents, producers, as well as publicity materials, travel documents and itineraries, invitations, fundraising asks, membership materials, performance notes, recommendation letters, requests for Shange’s critique or blurbs for other works, royalty statements and payments, and contracts received or sent by Shange. Much of the correspondence relates to works by Shange and in some cases...