Box 109

Scope and Contents

Mock-up, cover proof and sample spread of Coretta Scott King

Scope and Contents

Jean Weisinger photograph of Shange smoking a cigarette from 1989 in San Francisco with accompanying mailed envelope and Weisinger's business card; Garey Gadson photograph of Shange with a surprised face from 1994 in NYC; Carboard marker drawing of tree

Scope and Contents Program for Dance Visions Inc. show "Dianne McIntyre and Sounds in Motion with Ntozake Shange" at Symphony Space (1981), previously framed; Black Stage Theatre Company poster for For Colored Girls at Pigott Theater at Stanford University, directed by a-lan holt, with matboard signed with notes from audience, students; Exinox Theater poster for A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion, Nov. 15 and Dec. 15, 1979; Oberlin...

Scope and Contents Mailer for from okra to greens/a different kinda love story at the Lorainne Hansberry Theatre (2006), undated clipping of photograph of Shange captioned "Jalapeno peppers. When I'm crazy, I can eat the whole jar in about two hours.", undated clipping "Contest focuses on black experience in Houston," undated clipping "'Tejano' Shange sees Texas as part of Central America," May 1985 Houston Post clipping "For Shange,...

Scope and Contents

Joke newspaper issue with headline about Shange's recovery from addiction printed on February 2nd, 1997; A New York Times Arts and Leisure section from the Sunday, November 10th, 2002 issue with the headline: A New Platform for Poets; A Houston News Pages paper from January 20th-26th, 1994 with Ntozake Shange on the front page quoted saying, "We are born with everything we need."

Scope and Contents

Portrait of Shange on a woodblock with yarn; photograph of unidentified person; photograph of person playing saxophone, possibly David Murray; production still from For Colored Girls; Photograph of Shange in tree (piece of the hinge remains on it); photographic print of two figures on hill; undated photograph of Shange lying in bed

Scope and Contents Proclamation from Manhattan Borough President establishing Thursday, November 17th, 2016 as "Ntozake Shange Appreciation Day" in Manhattan; Proclamation from the Office of the Mayor (NYC) establishing Sunday, November 17th, 2019 as "Ntozake Shange Appreciation Day" Bill de Blasio; Citation from the Brooklyn Borough President (NYC) and the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College honoring Ntozake Shange posthumously on March 23rd, 2019 by Eric Adams; 2019 Off...

Scope and Contents

Red, blue, and silver line drawing of person playing saxophone; portrait ink drawing of Ntozake Shange next to lily, signed R.T.R.; previously framed poem dedicated to Shange by Norman Ph.