Tom Dent papers, 1861-1998 | Amistad Research Center

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Collection Overview

Title: Tom Dent papers, 1861-1998

Predominant Dates:1959-1998

Creator: Dent, Tom (1932-1998)

Extent: 149.6 Linear Feet

Arrangement: The Tom Dent papers have been arranged into eight series: Correspondence and other materials, Writings, Journals and notebooks, Oral history and audiovisual collection, Project files, Financial records, Photographs, and Memorabilia, news clippings and realia.

Date Acquired: 01/01/1976. More info below under Accruals.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The papers of Tom Dent provide a rich documentary source in the areas of African American literature and theater, the Civil Rights Movement, and the society and culture of New Orleans. The collection encompasses 149 linear feet of correspondence, literary manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, financial records, and memorabilia generated by one of New Orleans' most treasured poets, playwrights, and oral historians.

Dent was a prolific writer of letters, poetry, and prose throughout his lifetime. The papers span over thirty years of African American literature through his correspondence with editors, writers, and artists. The papers are a resource for the topics of the Black Arts Movement, the Free Southern Theater in New Orleans, the Umbra Writers' Workshop, and are rich in narratives about New Orleans society, culture, and the Black community. The papers are a strong source for the study of discrimination and racism in the United States, particularly in the area of the disenfranchisement of Black artists and writers.

Dent's literary works encompass approximately 331 drafts of original poems and 289 journals and notebooks, often focusing on Black identity, New Orleans, and civil rights. Dent also wrote short stories, essays, and book, film, and play reviews, which account for approximately 190 manuscripts in the collection. Other literary projects covered in the collection include the unpublished manuscript drafts of Andrew Young's autobiography, Easy Burden: the Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America and Dent's book Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement. Southern Journey documents historic African American communities and the era of civil rights in what Dent considered the "Deep South," the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Accompanying the manuscripts are 905 audiotapes of oral history interviews used for these two volumes, as well as three grant funded oral history projects, conducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s, focused on the river communities of Louisiana, civil rights workers in Mississippi, and Acadian and jazz musicians of New Orleans. The audiovisual collection also includes numerous poetry readings, lectures, and special events, such as festivals, brass bands, and funerals documenting the uniqueness of New Orleans Black community and culture.

The papers also include photographs, financial records, and collected memorabilia, which are interrelated to Dent's correspondence, literary manuscripts, and the audiovisual collection.

Biographical Note

Tom Dent, New Orleans-born poet, essayist, playwright, teacher, and oral historian was an active participant in the Black Arts and Civil Rights Movements. He was a leading literary figure in New Orleans, publishing two books of poetry, Magnolia Street (1976) and Blue Lights and River Songs (1982), and a prolific oral historian, whose work culminated with the publishing of his book, Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement (1997).

Thomas Covington Dent was born on March 20, 1932, to Albert Walter Dent and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent, and was the oldest of three sons. Dr. Albert W. Dent was the president of Dillard University (1941-1969). Jessie Covington Dent was a trained classical pianist originally from Houston, Texas, and trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a fellow of the Juilliard Musical Foundation. The Dent's were a prominent New Orleans family active in the Black community and often hosts to well-known individuals of the civil rights era.

Tom Dent graduated from Gilbert Academy in 1947 at the age of fifteen. He attended Morehouse College, receiving a Bachelors of Arts in political science in 1952. During his time at Morehouse, he was the editor of the college's literary newspaper, The Maroon Tiger. He also worked as a news reporter for The Houston Informer (1950-1951) while at Morehouse. Dent continued his studies in political science at Syracuse University (1952-1956), and while there became a fan of the music of David Brubeck. Dent served as a Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army at the Ireland Army Hospital in Fort Knox, Kentucky (1957-1959), and during this time participated in a Writer's Digest short story course through the mail.

Dent chose to discontinue his studies in Syracuse and moved to New York to become immersed in writing. Early on during the New York years (1959-1965) he became involved in political activities that coincided to the emergence of Black Nationalism. Dent became a news reporter for the New York Age (1959) and was appointed press liaison for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (1960-1963) by Thurgood Marshall. This position took Dent to several hot spots of the Civil Rights Movement, including Jackson, Mississippi, where he became involved in getting James Meredith admitted as the first Black student of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Through the community in Harlem, Dent helped to produce a journal called On Guard for Freedom, which represented an early Black Nationalist artists' group and included members such as LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Harold Cruse, and Calvin Hicks. Involvement with this group and its activities lead to the creation of the Umbra Writers' Workshop (1962-1964) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, for which Dent was a founding member. The roots of the Black arts literary movement came from the Umbra collective of young writers involved in the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School founded by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). The Umbra Writers' Workshop members included Steve Cannon, Tom Dent, Al Haynes, David Henderson, Ishmael Reed, and Askia M. Toure (Roland Snelling). The group's literary magazine, Umbra, featured poetry and other genres of creative writing, and became one of the earliest and most prominent "little magazines" that focused on African American writing.

Tom Dent returned to New Orleans in 1965 after the disbanding of the Umbra workshop. He did not intend to stay in New Orleans, but discovered new things about the city that were different from when he had left fifteen years earlier. One major discovery was the Free Southern Theater (FST) founded by John O'Neal and Gilbert Moses as an integrated Tougaloo Drama Workshop at Tougaloo College, Mississippi, in 1963. Dent had met John O'Neal previously in New York and by the time he returned to the south, the FST was based in New Orleans. Dent became the Associate Director (1966-1970) and authored a one-act play, Ritual Murder (1967). The FST was organized as an integrated touring company that used volunteers to play for civil rights centers of the south, particularly in Mississippi. The administration of the company was often divided as to its direction. Gilbert Moses attempted in 1965 to reorganize the FST into an all-Black company with its base in New Orleans; however, John O'Neal and the fundraising committee were based in New York. The new Black orientation of the theater caused confusion for the integrated New York-based fundraising committee, and by 1967 there were conflicts about the direction of the theater between the groups in New Orleans and New York. The touring concept coming from New York at the time was to hire professional Black actors from New York for the touring season. As the direction of the theater continued to be in conflict throughout the late sixties, Dent's development of the New Orleans-based community workshop program progressed.

Dent's journey of self-discovery found resolution in New Orleans with a sense of belonging to the South and to its Black community. As the core group of the FST left for New York and the administration of the theater fractured, Dent became convinced the idea of his work and its sense of the South must continue to be done in the South. The FST community workshop program, established in 1967, was spearheaded by Dent's desire to develop an artistic project within the New Orleans community. The acting and writing workshops cultivated local talent to produce quality work for the theater's use, with multiple programs organized separately from the touring company. The result of the program was the BLKARTSOUTH creative writing and acting workshops and Nkombo literary magazine. The group of writers and actors was jointly directed by Dent and Bob "Big Daddy" Costley and became BLKARTSOUTH in 1969. The goals of the workshop were to develop new literary and theatrical materials for use by the FST. The performing ensemble performed poetry and short plays throughout the South and produced five mimeographed books of poetry in 1969.

Nkombo literary magazine, published in nine issues from 1969 to 1974 in New Orleans, was unique with the purpose of producing plays and poetry to enhance the work of Black theater and literature during the period of the Black Arts Movement. A predecessor issue in December of 1968, under the title Echoes from the Gumbo, published the first works of the members of the workshop program. Dent was the main force behind the magazine as founder and co-editor along with a young member of the group Val Ferdinand (Kalamu ya Salaam). Dent envisioned a collective of southern Black writers who would be creatively nurtured within the community. BLKARTSOUTH separated from the FST and evolved into the Southern Black Cultural Alliance with the partnership between Tom Dent and Kalamu ya Salaam solidified in Nkombo Publications (1971). Dent hoped a regional association of southern community theaters and programs would provide financial support and an exchange of ideas for southern writers. At the time of the last issue of Nkombo in 1974, Kalamu ya Salaam was focused on his work with the Black Collegian magazine and Dent was focusing on establishing the Congo Square Writer's Union and another literary journal, The Black River Journal (1977). Throughout the life of Nkombo, financial difficulties often delayed its publication.

Dent taught creative writing at Mary Holmes Junior College in West Point, Mississippi (1968-1970), and at the University of New Orleans (1979-1981). He was a community organizer for the Social Welfare Planning Council (1965-1966) to address relief efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward section of New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy. Dent also worked as the public relations officer (1971-1973) and Assistant to the Executive Director for Publications (1975-1978) for Total Community Action, a community service non-profit organization in New Orleans. He worked to complete a Masters degree in poetry and black literature at Goddard College in Vermont (1974). He married Roberta "Bobbi" Yancy, a friend he had met through the FST, on April 6, 1974, at Christ Chapel Riverside Church in New York. The couple was often separated by work and location and divorced in 1980. During this period, Dent's first volume of poetry, Magnolia Street (1976), was published and described by David Henderson as a "heavy trip through New Orleans." These poems were devoted to local places and events, such as the Mardi Gras parade of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, the lakefront, the balcony of the Orpheum Theater, and the local culture and society of New Orleans.

The mid-to-late seventies was a turning point in Dent's work as he became involved in documenting events through oral history projects. He received grants to conduct oral history projects of Mississippi civil rights workers (1978-1985) and interviews of New Orleans and Acadian musicians (1984). He worked with photographer Roy Lewis, to conduct oral histories documenting the isolated historic Louisiana Black communities along the Mississippi River from Phoenix to Donaldsonville (1976-1980). Lewis also worked as Dent's photographer for the Mississippi oral history project. Dent continued his literary work as co-founder of Callaloo (1976 - ), an African American southern journal of arts and letters, with Charles H. Rowell.

As early as 1979, Dent was working on the autobiography of his childhood friend, Andrew Young. Though he was officially hired as a consultant (1981-1982), he continued to work on the book until 1986. Dent traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, to conduct a series of interviews with Young, then researched New Orleans and civil rights era history for the draft of the book, with the working title "An Easy Burden" (1982).

The eighties continued to be a period of creative, community, and historical writing projects for Dent. He wrote a screenplay with Michael Goodwin entitled "Heaven Before I Die" (1984) and published another book of poetry, Blue Lights and River Songs (1982). Throughout Dent's life, he was a prolific writer of journals and notebooks. In 1986, he started work on a book with the working title "New Orleans Journal," which would encompass numerous prose sketches on New Orleans parades, streets, neighborhoods, funerals, politics, music, and portraits written from 1968 to 1975.

Dent was the executive director of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc. (1987-1990). He wrote the documentary New Orleans Brass (1990), commissioned by the National Geographic Explorer television series, which was produced and directed by veteran filmmaker St. Clair Bourne. The production was coordinated by Kalamu ya Salaam and Bright Moments, Inc.

Oral history projects continued to dominate much of Dent's work as he set out again to document historic Black communities and the era of civil rights, by expanding his interviews beyond Mississippi and the River to encompass what he considered the "Deep South," the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina (1991-1996). The culmination of hundreds of interviews resulted in his book, Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement (1997).

Thomas Covington Dent died on June 6, 1998, at the age of 66 in New Orleans.

Administrative Information

Accruals: There were two additions to the Tom Dent papers. The first, received in 1991, consisted of his literary manuscripts, voluminous oral histories, and memorabilia. The second addition, received in 1998, encompassed the bulk of the papers, as well as Mr. Dent's library collection.

Access Restrictions: The Tom Dent papers are open and available for research use.

Use Restrictions: Copyright to these papers has not been assigned to the Amistad Research Center. It is the responsibility of an author to secure permission for publication from the holder of the copyright to any material contained in this collection.

Technical Access Note: The 1/4 inch open reel audiotapes and microcassettes are currently unavailable for research use. All other audiovisual materials are open, please contact the reference desk at (504) 862-3222 for access.

Acquisition Source: Tom Dent

Acquisition Method: Gift

Appraisal Information: The Tom Dent papers are a rich documentary source for research in the areas of the Black Arts Movement, Civil Rights Movement, African American literature, and New Orleans culture and society.

Separated Materials: The library collection of Tom Dent is held within the Amistad Research Center library, please contact the reference desk at (504) 862-3222 for more information.

Related Materials:

Thomas Covington Dent was the son of Albert and Jessie Dent, whose papers are also held by the Amistad Research Center as the Dent Family papers. The following collections contain correspondence and other records generated by Tom Dent: Nkombo Publications records, Dent Family papers, and Free Southern Theater records. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Oral History collection was a project Dent conducted that was commissioned by the Foundation in 1984 to document New Orleans Jazz and Acadian musicians. Other related collections include the Jason Berry papers, the Harold Battiste papers, Junebug Productions records, John O'Neal papers, Kim Lacy Rogers-Glenda Stevens Oral History collection, and the Treme Oral History collection.

The Amistad Research Center also houses Tom Dent's personal library of 1500+ volumes.

Related Publications:

Dent, Tom, Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement (New York: William Morrow, 1997), 1-400.

Young, Andrew, Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America (New York: HarpersCollins Publishers, 1996), 1-550.

Preferred Citation: Tom Dent papers, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Processing Information: This collection was processed from July 2008 to November 2010.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence and Other Materials, 1928, 1941-1998],
[Series 2: Writings, 1959-1997],
[Series 3: Journals and Notebooks, 1959-1998],
[Series 4: Oral History and Audiovisual Collection, 1965-1998],
[Series 5: Project Files, 1966-1998],
[Series 6: Financial Records, 1959-1998],
[Series 7: Photographs, 1947-1998],
[Series 8: Memorabilia, News Clippings and Realia, 1861-1998],
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Series 2: Writings, 1959-1997

Dent's writings encompass 24 linear feet of original manuscripts drafts of his literary works, reviews of books, films, and plays Dent read or attended, and Andrew Young's "An Easy Burden." The manuscripts are in the form of hand scripts, typescripts, carbons, and photocopies often with inserts or rewrites.

The series has been divided into six groups of materials consisting of poetry, plays and prose; articles, essays and reviews; proposals and publications; Southern Journey; An Easy Burden; and collected writings. There are letters to and from Dent, which accompanied literary submissions contained throughout the series and noted within the finding aid. The bulk of the manuscripts are not dated, with Dent's poetry and prose written throughout the 1960s to the mid-1980s. Dent's corresponding journals and notebooks often contain planning notations for poems and stories including characterization and plot ideas, as well as additional drafts.

Sub-Series 1: Poetry, Plays, and Prose, 1959-1989

The bulk of the poetry found within this sub-series was written by Dent throughout the 1960s and 1970s and includes poems that were published in various literary publications, as well as unpublished work. Dent's poetry often focused on New Orleans culture and society, as well as events unique to the city, such as Madi Gras, parades, and neighborhoods. Dent's poetry also focused on or is written for individuals who influenced him in some fashion including poems for Paul Robeson, Walter Washington, Kofi Awoonor, and Louis Armstrong. Written in the early 1960s one of the earliest published poems by Dent was "Come Visit My Garden" in Langston Hughes, New Negro Poets in 1964. The poetry within the collection is in general alphabetical order and grouped first in the form of hand scripts then typescripts. Poems that were filed together by Dent have been kept intact and are listed at the item level within the file unit. Untitled poetry has been grouped and listed individually by the first line of the poem. Lastly, drafts and galleys for Dent's two books of poetry Blue Lights and River Songs (1982) and Magnolia Street (1976) are also included at the end of the poetry group.

Plays and screenplays are also arranged alphabetically by title and often include rewrites, with many plays found within this group created for the use by the Free Southern Theater and BLKARTSOUTH. Of note are various working drafts of Dent's one act play Ritual Murder (1968). Also, present is a play script called "Snapshot" (circa 1970) about McDonough No. 6 elementary school in New Orleans with directorial notes by Bob "Big Daddy" Costley. Lastly, various versions of a screenplay co-written with Michael Goodwin called Heaven Before I Die (1984) and a version of the same screenplay co-written by Michael Goodwin and actor Peter Coyote in 1987 are found in this sub-series.

Dent's creative writing in story and essay form encompass various drafts for submissions to literary magazines, such as Freedomways and Negro Digest, both in hand script and typescript forms. Of note is Dent's various drafts of his piece "Mardi Gras Eve/1968," hand scripts of untitled autobiographical narratives for possible use in a planned unpublished work "New Orleans Journal" and "Africa Notes," a journal styled piece based on his travels in Africa in 1987 and published in Catalyst: A Magazine of Heart and Mind (Summer 1988).

Box 30

Folder 1: Hand script note pad with untitled poems and notations, undated

Folder 2: Hand script draft poems: untitled "Leroy", undated

Folder 3: Hand scripts, undated

Item 1: A Blues for D, pp. 1-4
Item 2: Childhood
Item 3: Dream Orpheus Balcony
Item 4: For Blk People Every Where: untitled
Item 5: For Kgostsile in Tanzania, pp. 1-3
Item 6: For Voices - A Crossing (sic), pp. 1-3: Includes rewrites.
Item 7: Coltrane's Alabama, pp. 1-2
Item 8: Hollywood, New Orleans Style, pp. 1-3
Item 9: Ltn South for Her Wonder's Window - New York (sic), pp. 1-2, 1968 January
Item 10: Nightletter for D, pp. 1-6: Includes rewrites.
Item 11: Notes on Poem re: Eddie, pp. 1-3: Includes: typescript notes PP. 2.
Item 12: The Offering: A Rose for Franz Kafka
Item 13: Park Sketch - New York, pp. 1-2
Item 14: For June
Item 15: Park Sketch II
Item 16: Poem For (sic)
Item 17: Robeson's Funeral, pp. 1-2
Item 18: Robeson, II, pp. 1-3
Item 19: St. Helena
Item 20: Ten Years After Umbra, pp. 1-3
Item 21: Untitled with notations, pp. 1-4
Item 22: Zulu Parade, pp. 1-2

Folder 4: Hand scripts: untitled, undated

Item 1: Then one lazy afternoon in the Spring..., pp. 1-2
Item 2: See, it's like Lawrence Sly's Laugh...: final rewrite, pp. 1-3
Item 3: Off of strong dark brown backs..., pp. 1-4
Item 4: Slaves are said to have wanted (sic)..., pp. 1-4
Item 5: It was as you wished...
Item 6: Blue new year..., pp. 1-4: With notation: "Alternate Beginning & Middle."
Item 7: Blue new year... pp. 1-3
Item 8: Notes for blue new year

Folder 5: The Southern University Poetry Festival, pp. 1-7

Folder 6: Poem 1st Drafts, undated

Item 1: City Sketch #1 and City Sketch #2
Item 2: City Laughter #1
Item 3: As These Warm Mundane Days Pass (for de workshop), pp. 1-2
Item 4: For Lil Louis, pp. 1-3
Item 5: For Kofi Awoonor, pp. 1-2
Item 6: For Cool Papa Bell, pp. 1-2
Item 7: Mississippi Mornings (for John Buffington)
Item 8: Untitled, pp. 1-4

Folder 7: Hand scripts, undated

Item 1: For T. Monk, pp. 1-5
Item 2: The Tune Beneath the Tunes, pp. 1-2
Item 3: For Larry, pp. 1-2
Item 4: The Tune Beneath the Tune for Jimmy Yancey
Item 5: A Second Poem for Johnnie, pp. 1-5

Folder 8: River, pp. 1-5, 1955

Folder 9: Drafts of poems, circa 1962-1965

Item 1: 145th Street Hill: typescript carbon
Item 2: Autumn: typescript carbon
Item 3: Come Visit My Garden: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 4: Come Visit My Garden: typescript carbon
Item 5: For My Godson: typescript carbon
Item 6: Grape: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 7: If I Ride This Life (For James Thompson): typescript carbon
Item 8: Me and the White Paper: typescript carbon
Item 9: Ode to Miles Davis: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 10: Relentless: typescript carbon
Item 11: Remembering: typescript carbon
Item 12: Remembering: typescript carbon
Item 13: Walt: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 14: What I Am: typescript carbon
Item 15: What I Am: typescript carbon
Item 16: Who Am I?: typescript carbon

Folder 10: Drafts of poems: 145Th Street Hill - Autumn, undated

Item 1: 145th Street Hill: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 2: 145th Street Hill: typescript carbon
Item 3: After Listening To Monk (For Ralph Edwards): typescript with rewrites
Item 4: American Skyarama (for all those steady colored TV watchers): photocopy
Item 5: An Audience Participation Poem: typescript
Item 6: An Elegy for Lefty: typescript with corrections
Item 7: An Experience (A Poem in Two Stanzas for Willie Howard Mays): typescript with rewrites
Item 8: As These Warm Mundane Days pass (for de workshop): typescript with corrections
Item 9: Autumn: typescript with corrections

Folder 11: Drafts of poems: Bach - Brown On Green On Blk, undated

Item 1: Bach: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 2: Ballad of a Kid Who Wanted a Rod: typescript, pp. 1-2
Item 3: Bitter Nigger: typescript with Langston Hughes' notes in red pencil
Item 4: Bitter Nigger: typescript
Item 5: Advice to a Bitter Nigger: typescript, pp. 1-2
Item 6: Black Mind-Jockeys (For the Black Community): typescript carbon
Item 7: Bleeker Street Scene: typescript
Item 8: Bleeker Street Scene: typescript with rewrites
Item 9: Blues for D: typescript, pp. 1-5
Item 10: Blues for D: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-6
Item 11: The Blue Light: typescript carbon
Item 12: Blue Walter (For Walter Washington): typescript with corrections
Item 13: For Walter Washington: typescript carbon
Item 14: Blue Walter (For Walter Washington): typescript with rewrites
Item 15: Blue Walter and For Walter Washington: typescript with corrections
Item 16: The Boogie of Jimmy Yancey: typescript
Item 17: For Brother Lawrence Sly on his Wedding Day: photocopy with corrections, 1972
Item 18: Brown on Green on Blk: typescript

Folder 12: Drafts of poems: Childhood - Dreams and Mexican Songs, undated

Item 1: Childhood: photocopy with corrections
Item 2: City Laughter No. 1: typescript
Item 3: Coltrane's Alabama: typescript
Item 4: Coltrane's Alabama: typescript carbon with corrections
Item 5: Coltrane's Alabama: typescript with Tom Dent's autograph
Item 6: Come Visit My Garden: typescript with corrections
Item 7: Dance of the Unloved, Dust, Night, Melancholy Blues: four poems on a typescript with corrections
Item 8: Delta Journey (for JB & RS): typescript with corrections, pp. 1-2, 1970
Item 9: Delta Journey (for JB & RS): typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-3, 1970
Item 10: Depression, Mood, For Marilyn: three poems on typescript with rewrites
Item 11: Depression, Marilyn: two poems on typescript with rewrites
Item 12: Dreams and Mexican Songs (For Any Newspaperman): photocopy with rewrites, pp. 1-2

Folder 13: Drafts of poems: Easter in New Orleans - The Funeral of Slow Drag Pavageau, undated

Item 1: Easter in New Orleans: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 2: Fantasy on a Streetcar: typescript with rewrites
Item 3: For Andrew Young: typescript with rewrites
Item 4: For a Prince: typescript with corrections
Item 5: For Cool Papa Bell: typescript with Tom Dent's autograph
Item 6: For Ethel: typescript with rewrites
Item 7: For Jonnie: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-2
Item 8: For Jonnie Again: typescript with rewrites
Item 9: For June: typescript with rewrites
Item 10: For Kgositsile: typescript with rewrites
Item 11: For Kofi Awoonor: typescript with rewrites
Item 12: For Larry: typescript with rewrites
Item 13: For Larry: typescript with corrections
Item 14: For Louis: typescript and photocopies with rewrites, 1980 December
Item 15: For Marilyn Monroe: typescript with rewrites
Item 16: For Marilyn: typescript with corrections
Item 17: For Otis Redding (who died Dec. 10, 1967): typescript
Item 18: For Otis Redding (who died Dec. 10, 1967): typescript with corrections
Item 19: For Robeson (from New Orleans): typescript with rewrites
Item 20: For the Southern University in New Orleans Students Arrested Attempting to Raise the Blk Flag of Liberation: photocopy
Item 21: For Walter Washington: photocopy
Item 22: Frankenstein: hand script, pp. 1-2
Item 23: Frankenstein: A Poem for Halloween Night: typescript with rewrites
Item 24: Frankenstein: A Poem for Halloween Night: typescript
Item 25: From the Ashes, Baby: photocopies
Item 26: The Funeral of Slow Drag Pavageau: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-3

Folder 14: Drafts of poems: Garden Scene - Green and Orange, undated

Item 1: Garden Scene (For Mother): typescript with corrections
Item 2: Gifts for the Black Student (with Compliments from your College, circa 1967): typescript with rewrites, 1967
Item 3: Give Me Words: typescript with rewrites
Item 4: Gone Like It Came: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 5: The Governor's Funeral: typescript carbon with rewrites, pp. 1-3: Includes typescript summary of Dent's intentions for the poem.
Item 6: The Graffiti of Springfield: typescript with corrections
Item 7: Grandfather's Funeral: typescript with addition
Item 8: Grandfather's Funeral: typescript carbon with correction
Item 9: Grandmothers: typescript with rewrites
Item 10: Grape: typescript
Item 11: Grape: typescripts with rewrites
Item 12: Green and Orange: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 13: Green and Orange: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-2

Folder 15: Drafts of poems: Horror Movie - Jose, undated

Item 1: Horror Movie: typescript and typescript carbon
Item 2: I Do Not Love The Sea: typescript carbon
Item 3: I Wonder How the Horse Runs: typescript
Item 4: If I Ride This Life: typescript
Item 5: If I Ride This Life (For James Thompson): typescript
Item 6: If I Ride This Life (For James Thompson): typescript carbons
Item 7: Illusions: typescript carbon with rewrites, pp. 1-2
Item 8: In a Military Setting: typescript
Item 9: Introspection #1: typescript
Item 10: Introspection #1 (Status Report from the Late Night Self): typescript with rewrites
Item 11: Introspection No. 2 (for Bobbi): typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-2
Item 12: Introspection No. 2 (for Bobbi): typescript carbon, pp. 1-2
Item 13: Introspection No. 3 (for Sarah Webster Fabio): typescript with rewrites
Item 14: Introspection (for Sara Webster Fabio): typescript
Item 15: Introspection No. 3 (for Sarah Webster Fabio): typescript with rewrites
Item 16: Jim, The Future, and Love: three poems on one sheet; typescript with rewrites
Item 17: Just Trust Me: typescript carbon
Item 18: Lament for a Congenital Shadow-Boxer: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 19: Lament of a Bourgeois Youth: typescript with corrections
Item 20: Lament of a Bourgeois Youth (Negro): typescript final copy
Item 21: Lament of a Bourgeois Youth (Negro): typescript carbon
Item 22: Lawrence Sly (2): typescript with rewrites
Item 23: Lawrence Sly (2): typescript with rewrites
Item 24: Lawrence Sly (2): hand script
Item 25: The Jazz Blowers: typescript
Item 26: The Jazz Blowers and Relentless: two poems on one sheet; typescript with corrections
Item 27: Jose: typescript carbon

Folder 16: Drafts of poems: Love - The Mystery Deepens, 1993, undated

Item 1: Love: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 2: Love: typescript with rewrites
Item 3: Love, Who Am I? and In the Quarter of the Negros: three poems on one sheet; typescript with corrections
Item 4: Me and The White Paper: typescript
Item 5: Me and the White Paper: typescript
Item 6: Magnolia Street: typescript with correction
Item 7: Magnolia Street: typescript with corrections
Item 8: Magnolia Street: typescript carbon with corrections, pp. 1-2
Item 9: Magnolia Tree and That Sam Sun Again: two poems on one sheet; typescript carbon
Item 10: A Message for Langston: typescript carbon
Item 11: Mississippi Mornings (for John Buffington): typescript with rewrites
Item 12: Mississippi Mornings (for John Buffington): photocopy
Item 13: Mississippi Story (For John Thomas): typescript with rewrites
Item 14: Mississippi Story (For John Thomas): typescript carbon
Item 15: My Dream: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 16: My Street: typescript, 1993
Item 17: The Mystery Deepens (For Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney): typescript
Item 18: The Mystery Deepens: typescript carbon

Folder 17: Drafts of poems: Nightletter for D - A Poem of Youth, undated

Item 1: A Nightletter for D: typescript carbon with rewrites, pp. 1-6
Item 2: Ode to Miles Davis: typescript
Item 3: Ode to Miles and On Winter Evenings: two poems on one sheet; typescript with rewrites
Item 4: Ode to Miles Davis and Love: two poems on one sheet; typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 5: Ode to Miles Davis and Love: two poems on one sheet: typescript carbon
Item 6: The Offering: A Rose for Franz Kafka: typescript
Item 7: Old Orpheum Theater: typescript carbon
Item 8: On Being or Not Being Published: typescript
Item 9: On Listening to Monk (For Ralph Edwards and James Thompson): typescript with rewrites
Item 10: On Having Listened to Monk (For Ralph Edwards): typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 11: On the Nature of Thelonious Monk: typescript with corrections
Item 12: On the Ways of Monkeys: typescript carbon with rewrites, pp. 1-2
Item 13: Park Sketch - New York: typescript
Item 14: Park Sketch - II: typescript
Item 15: Park Sketch - III: typescript with rewrites
Item 16: A Park Sketch: typescript carbon
Item 17: Parade: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 18: Poem: typescript carbon with corrections
Item 19: A Poem for Mr. Lincoln, 1965 (For Calvin Hernton): typescript
Item 20: A Poem for Mr. Lincoln, 1965 (For Calvin Hernton): typescript carbon
Item 21: A Poem for Mr. Lincoln, 1965: photocopy with corrections
Item 22: A Poem for Willie Mays: photocopy with corrections
Item 23: A Poem of Youth and For Miles Davis: two poems on one sheet; typescript carbon

Box 31

Folder 1: Drafts of poems: Rafe - Running & Dipping Poem No. 1, undated

Item 1: Rafe: typescript with rewrites
Item 2: Ray Charles at Mississippi State: photocopy
Item 3: Relentless: typescript
Item 4: Running & Dipping Poem No. 1: typescript
Item 5: Running & Dipping No. 1-2: typescript
Item 6: Running & Dipping No. 1-3: typescript

Folder 2: Drafts of poems: St. Helena - Swaddled in the Illusion of Spring

Item 1: St Helena: typescript carbon with corrections
Item 2: St. Thomas Island: typescript with rewrites
Item 3: Secret Messages (for Danny Barker): photocopy, pp. 1-11: Includes: Report From New Orleans, pp. 8-11.
Item 4: Secret Messages (for Danny Barker): photocopy, pp. 1-11: Includes: Report From New Orleans, pp. 8-11.
Item 5: Secret Messages (for Danny Barker): photocopy, pp. 1-11: Includes: Report From New Orleans, pp. 8-11.
Item 6: Secret Messages (Addendum): typescript, pp. 1-2
Item 7: The Seventies: photocopy with rewrites, pp. 1-3
Item 8: The Seventies: photocopy with rewrites, pp. 1-3
Item 9: She: typescript
Item 10: Ship Horns Sound: typescript, pp. 1-2
Item 11: Ship Horns Sound: typescript carbon with corrections, pp. 1-3
Item 12: Ship Horns Sound: photocopy with corrections, pp. 1-3
Item 13: Ship Horns Sound: photocopy with corrections, 1977 April 26
Item 14: Six Years After Umbra (for Calvin & David): typescript carbon
Item 15: Slipping Through the City: typescript with corrections, pp. 1-3
Item 16: Slipping Through the City: typescript, pp. 2
Item 17: Smoke Spirals: photocopy
Item 18: Snake's Embassy: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-3
Item 19: Snake's Embassy: typescript, pp. 2
Item 20: So You Leave the Project to Look for Work: typescript, pp. 1-2
Item 21: So You Leave the Project to Look for Work: photocopy with rewrites, pp. 1-2
Item 22: So You Leave the Project to Look for Work: photocopy, pp. 1-2
Item 23: The Southern Poetry Festival: typescript carbon with rewrites, pp. 1-2
Item 24: Status Report from the Late Night Self: typescript
Item 25: A Sunday Offering for Franz Kafka: typescript carbon with corrections
Item 26: The Twenthieth (sic) of March and Swaddled in Illusion of Spring: two poems on one sheet; typescript
Item 27: Swaddled in Illusion of Spring: typescript carbon

Folder 3: Drafts of poems: Ten Years After Umbra - The Twentieth of March

Item 1: Ten Years After Umbra (for David & Calvin): typescript
Item 2: Ten Years After Umbra (for Certain Bros. & Sisters): photocopy
Item 3: That Same Sun Again and Magnolia Tree: two poems on one sheet; typescript carbon with corrections
Item 4: A Thanksgiving Story (For Junior): photocopy, pp. 1-2
Item 5: That Same Sun Again and Magnolia Tree: two poems on one sheet; typescript carbon with corrections
Item 6: There: typescript, pp. 1-2
Item 7: Third Avenue, Near Fourteenth Street: typescript, pp. 1-3
Item 8: This Strange Town We Live In: typescript carbon
Item 9: Time is a Motor: typescript with rewrites
Item 10: Time is a Motor: typescript
Item 11: Time is a Motor: typescript carbon
Item 12: To the Guy Who Stole My Typewriter: typescript, pp. 1-2
Item 13: To the Guy Who Stole My Typewriter: typescript carbon with corrections, pp. 1-2
Item 14: To the Silence at English Turn Cemetery: typescript carbon with rewrites, pp. 1-3
Item 15: Truth: typescript with rewrites
Item 16: The Twentieth of March: hand script
Item 17: The Twentieth of March: typescript
Item 18: The Twentieth of March and Garden Scene: two poems on one sheet; typescript with corrections
Item 19: The Twentieth of March: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 20: The Twentieth of March: typescript
Item 21: The Twentieth of March: typescript carbon

Folder 4: Drafts of poems: Vermont - Zulu Parade, undated

Item 1: Vermont (for the members of the Goddard writer's workshop): typescript
Item 2: Vermont (for the members of the Goddard writer's workshop): typescript carbon
Item 3: Vermont (for the members of the Goddard writer's workshop): photocopy
Item 4: View From Len Chandler's Window: photocopy, 1968 January
Item 5: Viewing Robeson's Body: typescript carbon
Item 6: Viewing Robeson's Body: photocopy, 1979 January 1
Item 7: When Black Poets Read: typescript with rewrites
Item 8: Walt: typescript
Item 9: What I Am: typescript with rewrites
Item 10: When We Meet: typescript with corrections
Item 11: When We Meet: typescript carbon with corrections
Item 12: When We Meet: photocopies (2)
Item 13: Who Am I?: typescript
Item 14: Who Am I?: typescript with corrections
Item 15: Who Am I? and Ode to Miles Davis: photocopy with rewrites
Item 16: Who Am I? and Ode to Miles Davis: photocopy with rewrites
Item 17: Who Am I? and Ode to Miles Davis: photocopies (2)
Item 18: You Asked, if i can't live with it when will it end?: typescript carbon
Item 19: Zulu Parade: typescript carbon and typescript with rewrites

Folder 5: Drafts of poems, 1959, undated

[Fragile and stained typescripts]

Item 1: Love: typescript with rewrites
Item 2: Harlem: typescript with rewrites, 1959
Item 3: Come Visit My Garden and Walt: two poems on one sheet; typescript
Item 4: Love: typescript
Item 5: Grape: typescript with corrections
Item 6: Love: typescript with rewrites

Folder 6: Drafts of poems: preservation photocopies, 1959, undated

Folder 7: Poem fragment, pp. 3-4, undated

Folder 8: Drafts of poems: typescripts and typescript carbons, undated

[fragile]

Item 1: The Ballad of the D-Train, pp. 1-2: [two copies]
Item 2: Black Mind-Jockeys (to the Black Community), pp. 1-2
Item 3: Delta Journey (for JB & RS) with rewrites, pp. 1-2
Item 4: The Funeral of Slow Drag Pavageau: typescript
Item 5: Funeral of Slow Drag typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-3
Item 6: Horror Movie: [two copies]
Item 7: Nigger Teachers

Folder 9: Drafts of poems: hand scripts and typescripts, 1974

Includes drafts of poems submitted to the graduate program at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont and letters addressed from Craig at Goddard College regarding Dent's submissions. Also, includes hand scripted notes about the submitted poems by Dent.

Folder 10: Drafts of untitled poems: typescripts and typescript carbons, undated

Item 1: I, lonely even in a multitude
Item 2: Look at him
Item 3: Now is the time for all men to become unethical
Item 4: Oh it wasn't very much, pp. 1-2
Item 5: We sear each other with torches
Item 6: We wound our way to the top balcony
Item 7: When I think of the future I wonder if I'll like it.
Item 8: The future is now
Item 9: Victor Cruz poems
Item 10: You said get up
Item 11: Two or three litter birds
Item 12: I was born in damp country, pp. 1-2
Item 13: For Dick Aronson
Item 14: Coolness of autumn
Item 15: He knows and his brother has known
Item 16: The Browns, they look real good
Item 17: A Poem for Mr. Lincoln, 1965 (For Calvin Hernton): typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-3
Item 18: Let's get to the typewriter again, pp. 1-3
Item 19: My friend in Mississippi dead: incomplete typescript, pp. 2-5

Folder 11: Drafts of untitled poems: typescript carbons, undated

Item 1: I, lonely person even in a multitude: typescript carbon with rewrites
Item 2: Gus Allen's Motel
Item 3: Look at him
Item 4: Oh it wasn't very much, pp. 1-2
Item 5: There we were in this old decaying Washington Auditorium, pp. 1-2

Folder 12: Draft and galley: Blue Lights & River Songs /by Tom Dent, circa 1982

Folder 13: Galleys: Blue Lights & River Songs, circa 1982

Folder 14: Draft of manuscript: Blue Lights & River Songs, circa 1982

Folder 15: Blue Lights and River Songs: A Poetic Dramatization featuring selected poems of Tom Dent /directed by Chakula Cha Jua, undated

Includes hand script notes by Dent, circa 1989.

Folder 16: Draft of Home to New Orleans in four parts with rewrites, undated

Part 1: Lower East Side Days

Part 2: Mississippi Days

Part 3: Images/Memories/Moods

Part 4: Home to New Orleans

Folder 17: Draft of Home to New Orleans in four parts with rewrites, undated

Part 1: Lower East Side Days

Part 2: Mississippi Days

Part 3: Images/Memories/Moods

Part 4: Home to New Orleans

Folder 18: Draft of Home to New Orleans part three with rewrites: Images/Memories/Moods, undated

Folder 19: Draft of Home to New Orleans in four parts: photocopy, undated

Folder 20: Drafts of Return to English Turn: hand scripts and typescripts with notations, circa 1976, undated

Box 32

Folder 1: Correspondence and book reviews: Magnolia Street, 1976-1988

Includes certificate of copyright registration, drafts of the preface, book reviews by Peter Nazareth and Alvin Aubert, letters regarding the book, and copy of the book cover.

Folder 2: Typescript: Notes on Poems, undated

Provides a description of Dent's poetry including narration, rhythm, philosophical world view, etc.

Folder 3: Play script: Cecilia, undated

Folder 4: Play script: From King's Speech!... "didn't even recognize me.", undated

Folder 5: Play script: The Picket, undated

Folder 6: Play script: Ritual Murder - A One Act Play, undated

Folder 7: Play script: Ritual Murder - A One Act Play, undated

[two copies]

Folder 8: Play script: Ritual Murder - A One Act Play, undated

[two drafts]

Folder 9: Play script: Ritual Murder - A One Act Play, undated

[photocopy]

Folder 10: Play script: Ritual Murder - A One Act Play, 1977

[photocopy of printed item]

Folder 11: Play script: Snapshot, circa 1970

Item 1: Snapshot: script draft with rewrites, pp. 1-6
Item 2: No. 6: typescript carbon: [About McDonough No. 6 elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana]
Item 3: Directorial Notes by Bob (Big Daddy) Costley: typescript carbon, pp. 1-4, 1970 April 15: [two copies]
Item 4: Snapshot - A One Act Play /by Tom Dent: programs, 1970 May: Produced by Blkartsouth of the Free Southern Theater. [three copies]

Folder 12: Play script: Song of Survival, pp. 1-8, circa 1966-1970

[typescript carbon]

Folder 13: Play script: untitled, pp. 1-4, undated

Folder 14: Screenplay: Another New Orleans Movie, First Draft Treatment /by Tom Dent and Michael Goodwin, 1983 July 4

Folder 15: Screenplay: Heaven Before I Die /by Michael Goodwin, 1984 February - March

Story by Tom Dent and Michael Goodwin, Story Consultant John Lumsdaine, and Script Advisor Tom Rickman. First Draft.

Folder 16: Typescript with rewrites: Buddy Bolden Version, pp. 1-8, 1983

[Outline]

Folder 17: Typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-3, circa 1983

[Outline]

Folder 18: Screenplay: Buddy Bolden Version, First Draft Treatment /by Tom Dent & Michael Goodwin, 1983 May 25

[typescript with rewrites]

Folder 19: Photocopy: Outline for rewrite of Heaven, 1984 February 2

Folder 20: Screenplay: Heaven Before I Die, Second Draft Treatment /by Michael Goodwin, 1983 March 22

Includes letter from Goodwin to Tom Dent, 1983 March 28.

Folder 21: Screenplay: Heaven Before I Die, Second Draft Treatment /by Michael Goodwin, 1983 April 6

Folder 22: Screenplay: Heaven Before I Die /by Michael Goodwin, 1984 February

Story by Tom Dent and Michael Goodwin, Story Consultant John Lumsdaine, and Script Advisory Tom Rickman. First Draft.

Includes letter from Goodwin to Tom Dent, 1984 February 26.

Box 33

Folder 1: Screenplay: Heaven Before I Die, 1987

Story by Tom Dent and Michael Goodwin

Screenplay by Michael Goodwin and Peter Coyote

Folder 2: Screenplay: Second-Line /by Tom Dent and Michael Goodwin, 1983

Includes letter from Carol to Tom Dent, undated.

Folder 3: Screenplay: Second Line /by Michael Goodwin, pp. 1-50, 1984 May - June

Story by Tom Dent and Michael Goodwin, Story Consultants John Lumsdaine and Chris Pray, and Script Advisor Tom Rickman. Third Draft

Folder 4: Screenplay: Second Line /by Michael Goodwin, pp. 51-100, 1984 May - June

Story by Tom Dent and Michael Goodwin, Story Consultants John Lumsdaine and Chris Pray, and Script Advisor Tom Rickman. Third Draft

Folder 5: Screenplay: Second Line /by Michael Goodwin, pp. 101-135, 1984 May - June

Story by Tom Dent and Michael Goodwin, Story Consultants John Lumsdaine and Chris Pray, and Script Advisor Tom Rickman. Third Draft

Folder 6: Hand script: untitled, undated

[autobiographical]

Folder 7: Hand script: untitled, 1967 December 10

Folder 8: Hand script: untitled, pp. 40-68, undated

[regarding the Free Southern Theater]

Folder 9: Hand script: untitled, pp. 69-70, undated

[regarding the Free Southern Theater]

Folder 10: African Journey: typescript, pp. 14-15, undated

Folder 11: African Journey: typescript with rewrites, pp18-46, 1987

Folder 12: African Journey: photocopy with rewrites, pp. 18-29, 1987

Folder 13: African Journey, inserts: typescripts with rewrites, undated

Folder 14: African Notes /by Tom Dent: typescript, 1988

Folder 15: African Notes: photocopy with corrections, 1987

Folder 16: African Notes: photocopies, 1987

Box 34

Folder 1: African Notes - Enroute New Orleans - London: typescript with rewrites, undated: Includes hand script insert pp. 14.
Folder 2: African Notes - Enroute New Orleans - London: typescript, undated
Folder 3: African Notes: typescript, undated: Includes hand script insert pp. 14.
Folder 4: African Notes: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 5: African Notes: typescript, undated
Folder 6: African Notes: photocopy with corrections, undated
Folder 7: Africa - From Banjul to Dakar: typescript, undated
Folder 8: Africa - From Banjul to Dakar: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 9: Africa - From Banjul to Dakar: photocopy, undated
Folder 10: The Adventures of King Zulu: Mardi Gras, 1970: typescript with corrections, undated
Folder 11: Amistad II Script: typescript and photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 12: Annie Devine Quotes, For D: hand script, 1979
Folder 13: Boy Who Danced, Organizational Notes: hand script, undated
Folder 14: Boy Who Danced: hand script with one typescript sheet, undated
Folder 15: Boy Who Danced: hand script, undated
Folder 16: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.: typescript and typescript carbon, undated
Folder 17: Emotional Autobiography: typescript, undated
Folder 18: The Ghetto of Desire: typescript, typescript carbon, and photocopy with rewrites, circa 1966: Includes TV version, Inside Desire Version, and Outside Desire Version.
Folder 19: Idaho: hand script, undated
Folder 20: Idaho: hand script with notes, undated: Includes printed sheet music: Idaho /words and music by Jesse Stone, 1942.

Box 35

Folder 1: The Game: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 2: Gustav: hand script and typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 3: In New Orleans (untitled): hand script, undated: [autobiographical]
Folder 4: Inner Peace: For Slow Drag Pavageau: hand script, typescripts, and typescript carbons, undated
Folder 5: James Black: hand script and typescript
Folder 6: Legacy of the Scottish Owner's Will: typescripts with rewrites, undated
Folder 7: Lil Arthur: The Essence of Dream: typescripts with rewrites, undated
Folder 8: Listening for Longhair: typescript and typescript with rewrites, 1980: (From New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival program book, April 15-27, 1980.)
Folder 9: 1966 Mardi Gras: hand script, undated
Folder 10: Mardi Gras Eve/1968: typescript, pp. 1-37, undated
Folder 11: Mardi Gras Eve/1968: photocopy, pp. 1-37, undated
Folder 12: Mardi Gras Eve/1968: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-32, undated
Folder 13: Mardi Gras/1968: typescript inserts and rewrites, undated
Folder 14: Mardi Gras Eve/1968: typescript inserts and rewrites, undated
Folder 15: Mardi Gras Eve/1968: typescript inserts and rewrites, undated
Folder 16: Mardi Gras Eve/1968: typescript inserts and rewrites, undated
Folder 17: Mystery Story: typescript with corrections, undated
Folder 18: A Narrative on Role (sic): untitled hand script, undated: [autobiographical]
Folder 19: Narrator Quotes: untitled hand script and typescript with rewrites, circa 1997
Folder 20: On Ping Pong and Writing: typescript, undated
Folder 21: On Writing (For Ralph Edwards): typescript, undated
Folder 22: The Operation (For Joseph Epps): typescript, undated
Folder 23: The Party: typescript carbon, undated
Folder 24: A Radio for Jim: typescript photocopies with rewrites, undated

Box 36

Folder 1: The River, undated

Folder 2: The Road South from New Orleans: typescript carbon and photocopy with rewrites, 1965

Folder 3: St. Joseph's Day's Night or the Origins of Super Sunday: typescript photocopies with rewrites, 1981

Folder 4: The Subway: typescript, pp. 1-13, undated

Folder 5: Sun Story: typescripts with rewrites, undated

Folder 6: Tattoo: typescript, pp. 1-24, undated

Folder 7: To Dick Aronson: typescript, 1967 August 28

Folder 8: Toward a Theory of the Short Story: typescript, pp. 1-8, undated

Folder 9: Truckstop: hand script with rewrites, undated

Folder 10: Untitled typescripts, undated

Includes thirteen manuscripts.

Folder 11: Wallace X of 1812: typescript and typescript carbon with rewrites, undated

Folder 12: For WGBH Radio: hand script and typescript, 1992

Includes letter from Bob Lyons to Tom Dent, 1992 April 9.

Folder 13: Poems and prose, circa 1974

[housed in binder]

Item 1: Take the A-Train: typescript, pp. 1-20
Item 2: The Graffiti of Springfield: typescript
Item 3: The Party: typescript, pp. 1-10
Item 4: The Subway: photocopy, pp. 1-13
Item 5: A Radio For Jim: typescript, pp. 1-23

Folder 14: Hand script notes and fragments, circa 1979, 1980

Folder 15: Notes on scripts by Chakula, circa 1986

Includes a photocopy of Chakula cha Jua's Theatrical Resume.

Sub-Series 2: Articles, Essays, and Reviews, 1961-1994

Though similar in hand script and typescript forms as Dent's creative prose, his articles and essays contain specific historical sketches about people, places and events, such as civil rights activist Annie Devine of Mississippi, Booker T. Washington, and poet Octave Lilly. These manuscripts also encompass cultural subject matter, such as the Black Arts Movement in the south, essays on Black culture and organizations in the 1970s, Black theater, as well as sketches about events, places, and politics in New Orleans. The group also contains a number of film and play reviews from the early 1960s, including reviews of LeRoi Jones' (Amiri Baraka) plays The Toilet and The Slave performed in New York City in 1964. Also included within the group are drafts of Dent's work for the cover of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band's Jelly Roll Morton album. Working drafts of the piece "Umbra Days" published in Black American Literature Forum (Fall 1980), are also present.

Box 37

Folder 1: 1978 Howard Writers Conference: typescript carbon, 1978

Folder 2: Aaron C. Dutton: typescript photocopies, undated

Folder 3: Robert Bradshaw Adams: typescript photocopy, undated

Folder 4: Danny Barker: historical sketches, undated, 1994

Folder 5: Annie Devine, Canton and a Quality of Commitment: hand script and typescripts with rewrites, 1978, 1982

Includes notes and copy of letter to Marcia from Tom Dent, 1978 May 19.

Folder 6: Beyond Rhetoric - Toward A Blk Southern Theater: typescript carbon with rewrites, undated

Folder 7: The Black Arts Movement in the South: typescript and typescript carbons with rewrites, undated

Item 1: Typescript journal entries 6-18-1 to 6-19-1, undated
Item 2: The Black Arts Movement in the South: Creating Reality Mirrors, pp. 1-11: [typescript with rewrites]
Item 3: The Black Arts Movement in the South: Creating Reality Mirrors, pp. 14-25: [photocopy with rewrites]
Item 4: The Black Arts Movement in the South: The Task of Building Black Consciousness, pp. 1-21: [typescript carbon with rewrites]
Item 5: The Black Arts Movement in the South: Black Consciousness Through Reality Mirrors, pp. 1-6: [typescript carbon]

Folder 8: Black Cultural Organizations in the Deep South - A Report: typescript carbon, pp. 1-7, 1974

Folder 9: Black Theater in the South - Report and Reflections: typescript photocopy and typescript, 1974 July, 1989

Folder 10: Blues for the Negro College or Should I Ask You What Your Name Is?, 1968

Distributed by the Free Southern Theater and published in Freedomways Fall, 1968. [photocopies]

Folder 11: Booker T. Washington: hand scripts and typescripts with notes, undated

Item 1: BTW Beginnings: essay planning notes
Item 2: 12/67: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-7
Item 3: 12/10/67: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-11
Item 4: BTW Notes: hand script
Item 5: BTW: hand script with rewrites

Folder 12: Both the 'Quarter' and the Personal: typescript carbon, undated

Folder 13: Carnival - A People's Festival: typescript photocopy, 1988

Folder 14: Capital, Color, and Joblessness: typescript photocopy, undated

Folder 15: The Creative Work of Jerry Ward: typescript speech, undated

Folder 16: A Critical Look at Mardi Gras: typescript and photocopies, 1984

Folder 17: Designs for Claiborne Avenue: typescript and photocopies, undated

Folder 18: The Dirty Dozen: typescripts and photocopies with rewrites, circa 1984

Folder 19: The Dirty Dozen: hand script, undated

Folder 20: For God Bless Harvard, Jazz Festival, 1993: typescript, 1993 May

Folder 21: How to Build a Blk Community Theater in Ten Easy Lessons (plenty of work & no money): typescript, undated

Folder 22: In Search of Black Indians: typescript photocopy, undated

Box 38

Folder 1: James Meredith: Another View: typescript with rewrites, typescript carbon, and notes, undated
Folder 2: Jazz & Heritage Festival - Some Reflections: hand script, 1976
Folder 3: Jazz & Heritage Festival 1976 - Impressions/Questions: typescripts and photocopies with rewrites, 1976
Folder 4: The Legacy of Paul Robeson to the Blk South: typescript carbon, undated
Folder 5: Live Bands Highlight Carnival at Orleans and Claiborne Avenues: typescript and photocopy, circa 1986
Folder 6: Lorenzo Thomas: typescripts with rewrites, 1985: Includes letters from Ellen Rosengerg Kovner, Editor of Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1985.
Folder 7: Medgar Evers: A Memoir: typescript, 1994: Includes a letter to Charles from Tom Dent, 1994 February 2 and a copy of an article by Tom Dent "Portrait of Three Heroes." Freedomways (Second Quarter 1965).
Folder 8: New Black Cultural Groups in the South: A Spirit in the Dark: typescript with rewrites and typescript carbon, undated: [Black Collegiate rewrites and Freedomways]
Folder 9: New Orleans: An Explosion About Ready to Happen: typescript and photocopy, undated
Folder 10: New Orleans Versus Atlanta: Power to the Parade: typescript, undated
Folder 11: New Orleans, Atlanta & Politics: Some Thoughts: typescripts and photocopies with rewrites, 1978: Includes letter from Clare Junipter, Southern Exposure to Tom Dent, 1978 September 17.
Folder 12: New Theaters in the South Join Hands: typescript carbon, undated
Folder 13: New theaters in the South: Toward Black Cultural Consciousness: typescript, 1972
Folder 14: Notes for the Dirty Dozen Jelly Roll Morton Album: typescript, undated
Folder 15: Notes from the March on Washington, 1983: typescript photocopies, 1983
Folder 16: Notes for Marlon Jordan's The Undaunted: typescript, 1993: Includes letter to Sandra Oei, Columbia Records from Tom Dent, 1993 March 9.
Folder 17: Octave Lilly, Jr: In Memoriam: typescript, 1976 February
Folder 18: Report from New Orleans: typescript photocopy, 1973
Folder 19: Report from New Orleans: typescript, undated: mark II nolafilm outline/first draft/1
Folder 20: The Road South from New Orleans: typescript with corrections, undated
Folder 21: Sam Cook and Academic Excellence at Dillard: typescript photocopies with rewrites, undated
Folder 22: Strong Spirits in the Carolina Low Country: typescripts with rewrites, undated
Folder 23: The Theaters Themselves: typescript carbon with rewrites, undated

Box 39

Folder 1: Themes and poetry untitled: typescript, circa 1975

Folder 2: Tom Dent Talking: New Orleans as a Resource of Genius /by Thomas C. Dent and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.: transcript, 1986

for Xavier Review.

Folder 3: Toward a Truly Musical Black Theater: typescript and typescript carbon, undated

Folder 4: Vision of a Southern Future: typescript, undated

Folder 5: Of Vision and Voice (for Lance Jeffers, 1919-1985, who taught us the power of our black hands): typescript with rewrites, circa 1986

1st draft

Foreword for Black Southern Voices

Folder 6: Memorandum: typescript satire regarding Umbra, undated

Folder 7: Umbra Days: typescripts, 1966, 1971, 1974, 1979

Item 1: Umbra Days: typescript with rewrites, pp. 11-14
Item 2: Umbra (untitled): typescript carbon with rewrites, pp. 1-24, 1974
Item 3: Addenda: typescript carbon with rewrites, 1971
Item 4: Umbra and Ralph Ellison (untitled): typescript carbon, 1966 October
Item 5: Umbra Days and Addenda: typescript photocopy, pp. 1-11
Item 6: Umbra Days: typescript photocopies with rewrites

Folder 8: Umbra Reunion (untitled): typescript photocopy, circa 1991

Folder 10: Untitled: typescript carbon, undated

[regarding southern school desegregation and 1962 federal district and court of appeals decisions]

Folder 11: Untitled: typescript carbon, undated

[regarding "...American movies about race; part of the current white American fascination with things Negro."]

Folder 12: Untitled: hand script and typescript carbon, Undated

[regarding Dave Brubeck]

Includes: photocopies of collected articles about Brubeck, 1956-1958.

Folder 13: Urbanite: typescripts, circa 1961

[regarding Harlem attorney Paul B. Zuber]

Folder 14: VFW Parade: typescript photocopy, undated

Folder 15: Walter Washington/Soul Music, New Orleans: typescript carbon, undated

Folder 16: Walter "Wolfman" Washington: typescript photocopy, circa 1987

Includes copy of letter to Mr. O'Neal from Tom Dent, 1987 February 11.

Folder 17: Hand script and typescript fragments, undated

Folder 18: Against the Blues, Alvin Aubert. Broadside. 1972: review, 1972

[typescript carbon]

Folder 19: Barker's Life in Jazz' Colorful and Satisfying: book review, undated

[photocopies]

Folder 20: Black Ghetto Family in Therapy, A Laboratory Experience, by Clifford J. Sagar, Thomas L. Brayboy and Barbara R. Waxenberg. Grove. 1970: book review, 1970

[typescript carbon]

Folder 21: A Review of Black Religion, by Joseph R. Washington, Jr.: book review, undated

[typescript carbon]

Folder 22: Bloods, An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, by Wallace Terry. Random House. New York. 1984: book review, 1984

[typescript photocopy]

Folder 23: Book reviews: typescript, pp. 1-12, 1982

A Review of:

Exits and Entrances, by Naomi Long Madgett. Lotus Press. 1978. 69 pages.

Lock This Man Up, by David L. Rice. Lotus. 1978. 67 pages.

The Antioch-Suite Jazz, by Abba Elethea (James W. Thompson). Lotus. 1980. 36 pages.

Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain, by Ethelburt Miller. Lotus. 1982. 67 pages.

Folder 24: Book reviews for Freedomways: typescript carbons, 1972

Includes letter to Mrs. Jackson from Tom Dent, 1972 May 17.

Reviews of:

Cathedral in the Ghetto, by Octave Lilly.

De Mayor of Harlem, by David Henderson.

Folder 25: Border Street and Borderlines: A Civil Rights Memoir, by Peter Jan Honigsberg: University of Tennessee Press Reader's Report, 1998 April 3

Folder 26: Cold Steel, by L. C. Dorsey: book review, undated

[typescript photocopies]

Folder 27: Notes on Joseph Conrad: typescript carbon, pp. 1-3, undated

Folder 28: A Country of Strangers: Black and Whites in America, by David K. Shipler. Alfred A. Knopf: New York. 1997. 607 pages: typescript with rewrites, 1997

Folder 29: The Cry of What?: film review, pp. 1-4, 1960

[typescript carbon] Reviews of films "Birth of a Nation" and "The Cry of Jazz" shown at the New Yorker Theatre at Broadway and 89th Street.

Folder 30: A Review of the Cool World, by Shirley Clark: typescript carbon, pp. 1-5, 1964

Includes letter from James Aronson, National Guardian: the Progressive Newsweekly to Tom Dent, 1964 September 28.

Folder 31: Dr. Strangelove and Seven Days in May: film review, pp. 1-5, circa 1964

[typescript carbon]

Folder 32: Go Up for Glory, Russel, Bill. Coward-McCann, Inc.: New York, 1966: book review, 1966

[typescript carbon]

Folder 33: Exit 13, by Monte Piliawsky, South End Press, 1982. 252pp.: book review, 1982

[typescript photocopy]

Folder 34: Hand script reviews for Freedomways: untitled, undated

Folder 9: Untitled: typescript, undated

Includes: Letter from Jim Aronson, National Guardian: the Progressive Newsweekly, 1967 April 10.

Box 40

Folder 1: Book Reviews: Interviews with Civil Rights Activitist /published in Freedomways: photocopy, 1978

Review of My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. By Howel Raines. G.P. Putnam's Sonts. New York. 472 pages.

Folder 2: The JJ Behind the GWH (Great White Hope), by Howard Sackler: book review, circa 1970

[typescript and typescript carbon]

Folder 3: A Life in Jazz, by Danny Barker, edited by Alyn Shipton. Oxford University Press, New York. 1986. 223 pages: book review, 1986

[typescript]

Folder 4: Medicine Man, by Calvin Hernton (Reed, Cannon & Johnson) 1976: book review., 1976

[typescript photocopies with rewrites]

Folder 5: Mississippi Earthworks: A Collection of Poems: book review, 1982 September 1

[typescript carbon and article photocopy from the Jackson Advocate]

Folder 6: My Name is Afrika, by Keorapetse Kgositsile. Doubleday. 1971: book review, 1971

[typescript carbon with rewrites]

Folder 7: Negro Politics, by James Q. Wilson. The Free Press: New York City, 1960: book review, 1960

[typescript carbon with corrections]

Folder 8: Notes on Burrough's Junkie: typescript, 1964 December 12

Folder 9: Notes on Ellison's Shadow & Act: typescripts, 1964

Item 1: Notes on Meeting with Ellison: typescript, pp. 1-7, 1964 October 5
Item 2: Notes on Ellison's Shadow & Act: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-4, 1964
Item 3: Notes on Ellison's Shadow and Act: typescript carbon, pp. 1-5, 1964
Item 4: Notes on Shadow and Act: typescript carbon with corrections, pp. 1-3, 1964

Folder 10: Notes on Nobody Waved Goodbye: typescript, pp. 1-4, circa 1964

[review of film]

Folder 11: Notes on Nothing But a Man: typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-8, circa 1964

[review of film]

Folder 12: Notes on "One Potato, Two Potato": typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-6, circa 1964

[review of film]

Folder 13: Notes on 'The Toilet' and 'The Slave': typescripts, circa 1964

[review of plays by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)]

Item 1: The Language of The Toilet: typescript carbon, pp. 1-2
Item 2: Notes on 'The Toilet' and 'The Slave': typescript with rewrites, pp. 1-7

Folder 14: Notes on Nell Irvin Painter. The Narratives of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.

[Notes found in book forwarded to the library]

Folder 15: A Review of Obsidian: typescript carbon, pp. 1-3, 1976 September

Folder 16: Review of Snake-Back Solos and Chances Are Few: typescript with rewrites, circa 1980

Review of:

Snake-Back Solos, by Quincy Troup, I. Reed Books, New York, New York, 1978.

Chances are Few, by Lorenzo Thomas, Blue Wind Press, Berkely, California, 1979.

Folder 17: South Louisiana: New and Selected Poems, by Alvin Aubert, The Lunchroom Press, Grosse Point Farms, Michigan. 1985: book review, 1988

[typescript photocopies and a copy of Black American Literature Forum 22:1 (Spring 1988), pp. 127-129.]

Folder 18: Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, by Donald Bogle. Viking. 1973: book review, circa 1973

[typescript carbon]

Folder 19: Review of The Third World Writer: His Social Responsibility, Revolutionary Love, and Born into a Felony: book review, 1978

[typescript photocopies]

Review of:

The Third World Writer: His Social Responsibility, by Peter Nazareth, Kenya Literature Bureau, Noirobi, Kenya. 1978.

Revolutionary Love, by Kalamu ya salaam, Ahidiana, New Orleans, Louisiana. 1978.

Born into a Felony, edited by Stewart Brisby and Walt Shepperd, Pulpart Forms Unltd, Teall Station, Syracuse, NY. [1978.]

Sub-Series 3: Publications, 1968-1997

The bulk of the publications contained within this sub-series consist of published versions of Dent's literary manuscripts of poetry, essays, and articles. The various publications consist mainly of Dent's essays; however, some of his published poetry is included, such as "Magnolia Street," which was first published in Black World in 1974. Dent's book of poetry Blue Lights and River Songs (1982) and an unpublished book of poetry "Home to New Orleans" (1975) are present.

Of note are working papers, galleys, and proofs of two literary magazines, Black River Journal (1977) and Nkombo (1969-1974), in which Dent was publisher and editor. Also, the first issue of Nkombo published under the title Echoes from the Gumbo (1969) is available as a photostatic copy. The files for Nkombo Publications, a partnership between Dent and Val Ferdinand III (Kalamu ya Salaam), encompass not only issues of the magazine, but also three autographed books of poetry, The Blues Merchant by Val Ferdinand III, Dark Waters by Quo Vadis Gex, and The Impatient Rebel by Ronaldo Fernandez that were published by BLKARTSOUTH in 1969. Financial records for Nkombo Publications are also included within this group of materials.

Dent was interviewed by Dennis Formento in 1996 and discussed his project Southern Journey. The transcript was published in Mesechabe: The Journal of Surre(gion)alism in the Spring1996 issue. He was also interviewed by Kalamu ya Salaam in 1993 regarding Dent's experiences living in New York City and as a participant in the Umbra Writers' Workshop.

The publications are arranged in general alphabetical order by title to correspond with Dent's original literary manuscripts. The files for Nkombo Publications have been grouped at the end of the sub-series.

Box 40

Folder 20: Dent, Tom. "African Notes." Catalyst: A Magazine of Heart and Mind (Summer 1988): 10-11
Folder 21: Dent, Tom. "Annie Devine Remembers." Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement 22:2 (Second Quarter 1982): 81-92
Folder 22: Dent, Tom. "Beyond Rhetoric Toward a Black Southern Theater." Black World 10:6 (April 1971): 14-24
Folder 23: Dent, Tom. "Black Culture: New Theatre, Poetry Reveal Black Identity." South Today: A Digest of Southern Affairs 3:6 (January - February 1972): 3
Folder 24: Black River Journal (Summer 1977)
Folder 25: Black River Journal: grant acceptance agreement, 1979 June 6
Folder 26: Black River Journal: typescripts and galley proofs, 1977
Folder 27: Dent, Tom. Blue Lights and River Songs. Lotus Press: Detroit, 1982
Folder 28: Blue Lights and River Songs: book reviews, 1982
Folder 31: Dent, Tom. "Come Visit My Garden." 1969 Poetry Calendar
Folder 29: Callaloo: correspondence, synopsis, flyers, and financial notes, 1976, 1977
Folder 30: Callaloo: galley and preface, 1976
Folder 32: Dent, Tom. "For Lil Louis (for Louis Armstrong)." Black World 24:11 (September 1975): 64-65
Folder 33: Dent, Tom. "The Free Southern Theater." Negro Digest 16:6 (April 1967): 40-44, 95-98

Box 41

Folder 1: Dent, Tom. "The Great White Hope." Colloquy 4:10 (November 1971): 44-45

Folder 2: Dent, Tom. Home to New Orleans: A Book of Poems. Tom Dent, 1975

Folder 3: Dent, Tom. "Inner Peace: For Slow Drag Pavageau." Pacific Moana Quarterly: An International Review of Arts and Ideas 4:2 (April 1979): 177-180

Folder 4: Dent, Tom. "Interviews with Civil Rights Activists." Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement 18:3 (Third Quarter 1978): 164-169

Review of:

My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. By Howell Raines. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 472 pages.

Folder 5: Formento, Dennis. "An Interview with Tom Dent." Mesechabe: The Journal of Surre(gion)alism 14:15 (Spring 1996): 8-11

Folder 6: McRae, Pat interview with Tom Dent, David Henderson and Lorenzo Thomas: transcript, 1981, 1983

Includes: Letter from Michel Oren, University of Houston Downtown College, Houston, TX, 1983 June 27.

Folder 7: Dent, Tom. "Jet Profile: Paul B. Zuber: N.Y. Bias Fighter." Jet (March 2, 1961)

Includes: Letter from Bob (sic), editor Jet, 1961 February 28.

Folder 8: Dent, Tom. "Lorenzo Thomas," in DLB, vol. 41, Afro--American Poets since 1955, eds. Trudier Harris and Thadious M. Davis, 1985, pp. 315-326

[off-prints]

Folder 9: Dent, Tom. "Lower East Side Coda." African American Review 27:4 (Winter 1993): 597-598

[off-prints]

Folder 10: Dent, Tom. "Magnolia Street." Black World 23:11 (September 1974): 63

Folder 11: Dent, Tom. "Marcus B. Christian: A Reminiscence and an Appreciation." Black American Literature Forum 18:1 (Spring 1984): 22-26

Folder 12: Dent, Tom. "A Memoir of Mardi Gras 1968." Black River Journal [1977]: 14-16

Folder 13: Dent, Tom. "A Message for Langston.": invitation, 1982 May 27

Folder 14: New Negro Poets: book review, 1964

Folder 15: Dent, Tom. "New Orleans Versus Atlanta: Power to the Parade." Southern Exposure 7:1 (Spring 1979): 64-68

Folder 16: Dent, Tom. "Octave Lilly, Jr.: In Memoriam." The Crisis 83:7 (August/September 1976): 243-246

Folder 17: Dent, Tom. "Once A Year, There are Indians for a Day." Ricochet (Spring 1988): 44-45

Folder 18: Photocopies of articles by Tom Dent, 1983, undated

Item 1: Grand Marshal of New Hall, undated
Item 2: A Living Tradition of Traditional Jazz, 1983
Item 3: Nostalgia: St. Joseph's Day Celebrations or the Origins of Super Sunday, undated

Folder 19: Dent, Tom. "Poetry by Tom Dent." Louisiana Cultural Vistas 8:1 (Spring 1997): 59

Folder 20: Dent, Tom. "Portrait of Three Heroes." Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement 5:2 (Spring 1965): 250-262

Box 42

Folder 1: Dent, Tom. "Report on Black Theater: New Orleans." Negro Digest 18:6 (April 1969): 25-26

Folder 2: Dent, Tom. "Southern Black Cultural Alliance." First World: An International Journal of Black Thought 1:2 (March/April 1977): 42-45

Folder 3: Southern Black Cultural Alliance Newsletter 1:1 (November 1980): typescripts, 1980

Folder 4: Dent, Tom. "Southern Journey." Louisiana Cultural Vistas 8:2 (Summer 1997): 56-63

Includes letter from Michael Sartisky, Executive Editor to Tom Dent, 1997 July 17 and typescript draft copy.

Folder 5: Dent, Tom. "Two Views of New Orleans." African American Review 27:1 (Spring 1993): 51-52

[off-prints]

Folder 6: Umbra 2 (December 1963)

Folder 7: Dent, Tom. "Umbra Days." Black American Literature Forum 14:3 (Fall 1980): 105-114

Folder 8: Umbra Days: photograph lists, 1980

Folder 9: Umbra Writer's Workshop: transcripts of interview with Tom Dent, 1993

Salaam, Kalamu ya. "Enriching the Paper Trail: An Interview with Tom Dent." African American Review 27:2, 1993.

Folder 10: Dent, Tom. "Walter 'Wolfman' Washington, Wolf Tracks." Living Blues: A Journal of the Black American Blues Tradition 74 (1987): 42

Folder 11: Appointment book: Nkombo Publications, 1972

Folder 12: Ferdinand III, V. The Blues Merchant. New Orleans: Blkartsouth, 1969

Nkombo Publications NP23.

Autograph: "Dirty Old Men, Dig it/we done it, Peace and Liberation, VF."

Folder 13: Quo Vadis Gex. Dark Waters. New Orleans: Blkartsouth, 1969

Nkombo Publications NP 25.

Autograph: "for Tom & understanding & the (sic) done of age (etc), Peace & Love, Quo."

Folder 14: Echoes from the Gumbo. New Orleans: Free Southern Theater, 1968

[photostatic copy]

Folder 15: Fernandez, Ronaldo. The Impatient Rebel. New Orleans: Blkartsouth, 1969

Nkombo Publications NP24.

Autograph: "for my weusi morunda, Asool Akiba."

Folder 16: Washington, Raymond. Vision from the Ghetto. New Orleans: Blkartsouth, 1969

Nkombo Publications NP27.

Folder 17: Memorandum to Kalamu from Tom Dent regarding Nkombo Files, 1974 October 25

Folder 18: Nkombo 2:2 (June 1969)

Folder 19: Nkombo 2:3 (September 1969)

Folder 20: Nkombo 2:4 (December 1969)

Folder 21: Nkombo 3:1 (N6) (March 1971

Folder 22: Nkombo 3:2 (N7) (June 1971)

Folder 23: Nkombo N8 (August 1972)

Box 43

Folder 1: Nkombo N9 (June 1974)
Folder 2: Nkombo Publications: bank statements and deposit slips, 1970-1974
Folder 3: Nkombo Publications: cash receipts and disbursements journal, 1970-1972
Folder 4: Nkombo Publications: grant fiscal report, checkbook, and receipts, 1970-1973
Folder 5: Nkombo Publications: checks, 1970-1971
Folder 6: Nkombo Publications: checks, 1972-1974
Folder 7: Nkombo Publications: invoices and receipts, 1973-1974
Folder 8: Nkombo Publications: blank stationary, circa 1971-1974

Sub-Series 4: Southern Journey, 1988-1997

Dent felt his work in oral histories during the late 1970s and early 1980s for the Mississippi Oral History Project, as well as his extensive historical research and writing done for the Andrew Young book should be used in some fashion. To do this, he set out to travel again to document historic African American communities and the era of civil rights in the South by expanding his interviews beyond Mississippi and the River to encompass what he considered the "Deep South" from 1991 to 1996. The culmination of these interviews resulted in his final book, Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement (1997).

This series encompasses multiple working drafts for the book with earliest identified drafts placed first in the order of the sections of the book. The first group of materials includes the book synopsis, collected memorabilia for various states Dent was planning to visit, and a small amount of research materials. There are few transcripts of the interviews which Dent conducted; however, there is a transcript of Dent's 1991 interview with Japhat Nkonge of Greensboro, North Carolina and an interview with Dwight Presley and L.C. Dorsey at Parchman Prison, Mississippi in 1993. Notebooks follow with some transcriptions of interviews within them. These notebooks also contain Dent's impressions or written portraits of the individuals he interviewed. Other notebooks contain original drafts of the narrative of the book in the order in which the final chapters were published and his driving tour was conducted. The notebooks also contain background notations, and notes about focus and planning depending upon the topic and coincide with Dent's journal entries. Dent's traveled to the towns and cities of Greensboro, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; St. Augustine Florida; Albany, Georgia; Selma, Alabama; and the state of Mississippi mainly during the year 1991. The bulk of the manuscripts, in both hand script and then typescript form, encompass editing and rewrites by Dent, as well as, Janet Hulstrand of Brooklyn, NY and Corinne Nelson, Editorial Assistant at Library Journal with which Dent submitted the various drafts for comment. Lastly, publisher's copies can be found at the end of the manuscripts group.

Box 43

Folder 9: Book Synopsis, circa 1988
Folder 10: Book Synopsis, circa 1988
Folder 11: Book Synopsis, circa 1988
Folder 12: Book Synopsis, 1988
Folder 13: Book Synopsis, 1990

Box 44

Folder 1: Book Synopsis Addendum, 1990 January
Folder 2: Book synopsis, undated
Folder 3: Book Synopsis and budget, 1988-1989
Folder 4: Form letter and mailing list of interviewees, 1992
Folder 5: Memorabilia for Mississippi, 1991
Folder 6: Memorabilia and notes for South Carolina and North Carolina, 1991
Folder 7: Mailing lists for interviewees, 1991, 1996
Folder 8: News clippings, 1985-1991
Folder 9: News clippings regarding public schools, 1989-1991
Folder 10: Notes for Southern Journey from 1980: typescript, undated
Folder 11: Proposal, undated
Folder 12: Publication: Nichols, Elaine, ed. The Last Miles of the Way: African-American Homegoing Traditions 1890-Present. Columbia, SC: Commissioners of the South Carolina State Museum, 1989.
Folder 13: Speech: Perils of Tracking in Elementary and Secondary Schools /by Norward Roussell, 1991
Folder 14: Transcript: Dent, Tom., Greensboro, NC interview with Japhat Nkonge, PP. 1-95, 1991 June 3
Folder 15: Transcript: Dent, Tom., Greensboro, NC interview with Japhat Nkonge, PP. 1-96, 1991 June 3
Folder 16: Transcript: Dent, Tom., Greensboro, NC interview with Japhat Nkonge, PP. 1-96, 1991 June 3: (Copy)
Folder 17: Transcript: Dent, Tom., Greensboro, NC interview with Japhat Nkonge, PP. 1-120, 1991 June 3

Box 45

Folder 1: Transcript: Dent, Tom., Greensboro, NC interview with Japhat Nkonge, PP. 1-120, 1991 June 3: (Copy)
Folder 2: Transcript: Dent, Tom., Parchman Prison, MS interview with Dwight Presley and L.C. Dorsey, PP. 1-52, 1993 October 1
Folder 3: Transcript: Dent, Tom., Albany, GA interview with Dr. Norwood Rouselle, PP 1-55, 1991 August 6
Folder 4: Transcript: Dent, Tom., Selma, AL interview with Rose Sanders, PP. 1-22, 1991 August 8
Folder 5: Greensboro Interviews: notebook, undated
Folder 6: Orangeburg Interviews: notebook, 1991
Folder 7: Charleston Interviews: notebook I, 1991
Folder 8: Charleston Interviews: notebook II, 1991
Folder 9: St. Augustine Interviews: notebook, 1991

Box 46

Folder 1: Albany Interviews: notebook I, 1991
Folder 2: Albany Interviews: notebook II, 1991
Folder 3: Selma Interviews: notebook, 1991
Folder 4: Mississippi Interviews: notebook, undated: Includes: Driving notes and notes from ongoing notebooks.
Folder 5: Local People, History Notes: notebook, undated
Folder 6: Temporary outlines: notebook, undated
Folder 7: Narrative prose: notebook, undated
Folder 8: Prologue and preliminary notes: notebook, undated
Folder 9: Outline draft (prologue) and preliminary notes, undated
Folder 10: Greensboro outline and driving notes: notebook, 1990-1991

Box 47

Folder 1: Greensboro beginning and outline: notebook, undated
Folder 2: Greensboro preliminary notes: notebook, undated
Folder 3: Greensboro preliminary notes: notebook, undated
Folder 4: Orangeburg outline: notebook, undated
Folder 5: Orangeburg II: notebook, undated
Folder 6: Charleston outline: notebook, undated
Folder 7: Charleston outline: notebook, 1993
Folder 8: Charleston and St. Augustine outlines and inserts: notebook, undated
Folder 9: Charleston inserts and Albany outline: notebook, undated
Folder 10: Charleston on-going outlines II: notebook, undated
Folder 11: Charleston outlines III: notebook, undated

Box 48

Folder 1: Charleston outlines: notebook, undated
Folder 2: Florida notes and Albany outline notes: notebook, undated
Folder 3: Albany inserts and notes: notebook, undated
Folder 4: Albany and Selma notes and outlines: notebook, undated
Folder 5: Selma outlines: notebook, undated
Folder 6: Selma notes and outline: notebook, undated
Folder 7: Selma notes and outline: notebook, undated
Folder 8: Selma (2) workbook: notebook, undated

Box 49

Folder 1: Selma inserts: notebook, undated
Folder 2: Selma inserts: notebook, undated
Folder 3: Mississippi outlines: notebook, undated
Folder 4: Mississippi notes: notebook, 1990
Folder 5: Mississippi subject outline: notebook, undated
Folder 6: Mississippi inserts: notebook, undated
Folder 7: Mississippi inserts: notebook, undated
Folder 8: Mississippi notes and Greensboro re-writes: notebook, undated
Folder 9: Mississippi re-writes and inserts: notebook, undated

Box 50

Folder 1: Greensboro inserts: notebook, undated: Includes: Claire Walhtel's (sic) editorial notes.
Folder 2: Re-writes, inserts, and notes from Claire's editing: notebook, 1995
Folder 3: Greensboro and Orangeburg re-write notes: notebook, undated
Folder 4: Orangeburg, Charleston, and St. Augustine re-write notes: notebook, undated
Folder 5: St. Augustine and Albany re-write notes with conclusionary notes: notebook, undated
Folder 6: Albany re-write and Selma (workbook): notebook, undated
Folder 7: Afterword notes: notebook, undated
Folder 8: Southern Journey (Greensboro, Charleston, and Orangeburg): notebook, circa 1991

Box 51

Folder 1: Southern Journey Beginning: notebook, 1991 January 7
Folder 2: Southern Journey II: notebook, 1991 April 9: Includes: Orangeburg and Charleston, South Carolina.
Folder 3: Southern Journey III: notebook, 1991 April 24: Includes: Charleston, Charleston physical notes on interviewees, and Charleston telephone numbers and addresses.
Folder 4: Southern Journey IV: notebook, 1991 June 10: Includes: St. Augustine and Albany
Folder 5: Southern Journey V: notebook, 1991 July 31: Includes: Albany, Selma/mostly, and Canton (beginning).
Folder 6: Southern Journey VI: notebook, 1991 September 13: Includes: Canton, Philadelphia, and West Point.
Folder 7: Southern Journey VII: notebook, 1991 October 18: Includes: Indianola and the Delta and outline notes.

Box 52

Folder 2: Southern Journey IX: notebook, 1992 November 8: Includes: Breakdown of Charleston sites.
Folder 3: Southern Journey X: notebook, 1993 May 14, 1993 December 1: Includes: Dwight Presley interview, October 1, 1993.
Folder 4: Southern Journey XI: notebook, 1993 October 10: Includes: Albany and Selma history notes.
Folder 5: Southern Journey XIII: notebook, 1995 February 1: Includes: Mississippi and conclusion notes.
Folder 6: Southern Journey XII: notebook, 1994 March 1, 1994 May 10: Includes: Xavier (sic) notes and Zellner (sic) notes - 5/10/94.
Folder 7: Southern Journey Outline VIII: notebook, 1991 December 23: Includes: Prologue, imaginative devices, basic propelling questions, Greensboro, Greensboro to bunking (sic) to Orangeburg, Orangeburg, and Southern Exposure facts on Greensboro - Nelson Johnson shootings of Nov. 3, 1979.

Box 53

Folder 1: Southern Journey XIV: notebook, 1995 November 27: Includes: Additional interviews, endings to all cities, some re-write notes, deductions on-going-13 and beginning of afterword notes.
Folder 2: Southern Journey XV: notebook, 1996 June 23: Includes: Afterword notes and numbers.
Folder 3: James Blake (sic), Charleston: hand script notes, undated
Folder 4: Owen Brooks, Mississippi: hand script notes, undated
Folder 5: Steele Case, Philadelphia, Mississippi: hand script notes, undated
Folder 6: Acknowledgements: hand script, undated
Folder 7: Prologue fragment: hand script, undated
Folder 8: Prologue and outline: hand script, undated
Folder 9: Hand script, PP. 30-63: hand script, undated
Folder 10: Greensboro, PP. 67-79a: hand script, undated
Folder 11: Greensboro, PP. 1-41, undated
Folder 12: Greensboro, PP. 1-9: hand script, undated
Folder 13: Greensboro, PP. 1-16: hand script, undated
Folder 14: Greensboro, PP. 8-57: hand script, undated
Folder 15: Greensboro, PP. 81-121: hand script, undated

Box 54

Folder 1: Greensboro inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 2: Greensboro inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 3: Greensboro fragments: hand script, undated
Folder 4: Orangeburg fragments: hand script, undated
Folder 5: Orangeburg, PP. 17-53: hand script, undated
Folder 6: Orangeburg, PP. 53-114: hand script, undated
Folder 7: Albany, PP. 19-29: hand script, undated
Folder 8: Albany inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 9: Albany, PP. 194-204: hand script, undated
Folder 10: Charleston, PP 69-124 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 11: Charleston, PP.172-213 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 12: Charleston (and St. Augustine, FL), PP 202-324 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 13: Charleston and Greensboro, PP.125-171 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 14: Hand script fragments, undated

Box 55

Folder 1: Charleston, PP. 115-154; PP. 1-9 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 2: Charleston, PP. 231-280 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 3: Charleston, PP. 281-330 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 4: Charleston, PP. 331-386 and St. Augustine, PP. 1-4: hand script, undated
Folder 5: Charleston fragment: hand script, undated
Folder 6: Charleston inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 7: Charleston and Greensboro inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 8: Charleston inserts and introduction: hand script, undated
Folder 9: St. Augustine to Albany, PP. 1-49: hand script, undated
Folder 10: St. Augustine, PP. 1-52: hand script, undated
Folder 11: St. Augustine, PP. 71-123 with inserts, undated
Folder 12: St. Augustine, PP. 124-160 with inserts: hand script, undated

Box 56

Folder 1: Albany, PP. 50-93: hand script, undated
Folder 2: Albany, PP. 93-142: hand script, undated
Folder 3: Albany, PP. 143-193: hand script, undated
Folder 4: Selma, PP. 1-34: hand script, undated
Folder 5: Selma, PP. 35-85: hand script, undated
Folder 6: Selma, PP. 71a-117: hand script, undated
Folder 7: Selma, PP. 118-156: hand script, undated
Folder 8: Selma, PP. 157-206: hand script, undated
Folder 9: Selma, PP. 207-255: hand script, undated
Folder 10: Selma, PP. 256-306: hand script, undated
Folder 11: Mississippi prologue and fragments: hand script, undated
Folder 12: Mississippi Drafts with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 13: Mississippi, PP. 1-50: hand script, undated

Box 57

Folder 1: Afterword: hand script, undated
Folder 2: Bibliography: hand script, undated
Folder 3: Hand script, PP. 2-27, undated: Includes letter to Claire on page 1.
Folder 4: Inserts, PP. 101-485 (Selma and Mississippi): hand script, undated
Folder 5: Inserts, PP. 10-31: hand script, undated
Folder 6: Inserts, PP. 54-63: hand script, undated
Folder 7: Inserts, PP. 63-73, PP 10: hand script, undated
Folder 8: Inserts, PP. 77-97: hand script, undated
Folder 9: Inserts, PP. 97-121: hand script, undated
Folder 10: Inserts, PP. 121-157: hand script, undated
Folder 11: Inserts, PP. 443-553: hand script, undated
Folder 12: Mississippi inserts, PP. 626-663: hand script, undated

Box 58

Folder 1: Inserts - 1: hand script, undated
Folder 2: Inserts - 2 and outlines: hand script, undated
Folder 3: Inserts, Outlines, Letters - 3: hand script, undated: Includes inserts for Albany.
Folder 4: Rewrite Notebook - 4: hand script, undated: Includes inserts for Albany and Selma.
Folder 5: Rewrite Notebook - 5: hand script, undated: (Selma Continued)
Folder 6: Rewrite Notebook - 6; hand script, undated: Includes Selma end inserts, Mississippi, and prologue drafts.

Box 59

Folder 1: Letter to Claire regarding manuscript, 1992 February 12
Folder 2: Acknowledgements: typescript, undated
Folder 3: Prologue and beginning, PP. 1-6 (book synopsis): typescript, undated
Folder 4: Prologue and beginning, PP. 1-36 (book synopsis): typescript, undated
Folder 5: Prologue and beginning, PP. 1-35; PP 6-36 (book synopsis): typescript, undated
Folder 6: Prologue: typescript, undated
Folder 7: Prologue (edited): typescript, undated
Folder 8: Chapter introductions: typescript, undated
Folder 9: First Draft, PP. 1-98: typescript, undated
Folder 10: First Draft, PP. 98-188: typescripts, undated
Folder 11: First Draft (edited), PP. 1-188: photocopy, undated
Folder 12: Greensboro (from notebooks): typescript, undated
Folder 13: Greensboro, PP. 1-105: typescript, 1995
Folder 14: Greensboro draft fragments: photocopy, undated

Box 60

Folder 1: Greensboro, PP. 1-38 (inserts): typescript, 1996 January 24
Folder 2: Greensboro, PP. 54-76 with inserts: typescript, undated
Folder 3: Greensboro, PP. 77-106 with inserts: typescript, undated
Folder 4: Greensboro, PP. 5-105: photocopy with corrections, 1995 November 22
Folder 5: Greensboro, PP 1-39 with inserts: photocopy and typescript with corrections, 1996 January 31: Includes note to Corinne, January 31, 1996.
Folder 6: Greensboro, PP. 1-79 with inserts: photocopy, 1996 February 1: Includes note: "To Corinne 2/1/96"
Folder 7: Greensboro, PP 80-106: photocopy, 1996 March 13: Note: "To Corinne 3/13"
Folder 8: Greensboro, PP. 80-104; PP. 54-60 inserts: photocopy, 1996 March 13: Note: "To Corinne 3/13"
Folder 9: Greensboro, PP. 1-116: photocopy, 1996 March
Folder 10: Greensboro, PP. 49-116: photocopy, 1996 April 23: Includes note to Corinne, April 23, 1996.
Folder 11: Greensboro, PP. 1-39: photocopy, undated: Includes note from Corinne to Tom, undated.
Folder 12: Greensboro, PP. 40-53: photocopy, undated
Folder 13: Greensboro, PP. 1-38: photocopy, circa 1996 May 14: Note: "Claire's Final Greensboro"

Box 61

Folder 1: Greensboro, PP. 39-192: photocopy, circa 1996 May 14: Note: "Claire's Final Greensboro"
Folder 2: Greensboro, PP. 3-27; 67-92: photocopy, undated
Folder 3: Greensboro, PP. 1-101 (final): typescript, undated
Folder 4: Greensboro, PP 3-112: photocopy, undated
Folder 5: Greensboro, PP. 3-106: photocopy, undated
Folder 6: Greensboro, PP. 1-101 (Publisher's Copy): photocopy, undated
Folder 7: Orangeburg (from notebooks): typescript, undated
Folder 8: Orangeburg, PP. 106-161: photocopy, undated
Folder 9: Orangeburg, PP. 106-161: photocopy, undated: Note: "Saddi's (sic) Checking"
Folder 10: Orangeburg, PP 106-196: photocopy, undated

Box 62

Folder 1: Orangeburg, PP. 113-153 (working copy): photocopy, undated
Folder 2: Orangeburg, PP. 101a-130 (CT copy): photocopy, undated
Folder 3: Orangeburg inserts, PP. 112-133: typescript, undated
Folder 4: Orangeburg inserts, PP. 173-176: photocopy, undated
Folder 5: Orangeburg, Section II, PP. 103-141 (finished): photocopy, undated
Folder 6: Orangeburg, Section II, PP. 117-145 (finished): photocopy, circa 1996: Note: "beginning of Orangeburg"
Folder 7: Orangeburg, Section II, PP 103-192: photocopy, undated: Notes: "Ready for Corinne" "Clair's Orangeburg"
Folder 8: Section II: Southward to Orangeburg, South Carolina, PP. 107-161 and Section II: Charleston and the Carolina Lowlands, PP. 162-218: photocopy, undated
Folder 9: Section II: Southward to Orangeburg, South Carolina, PP. 1-130 and Section III: Charleston and the Carolina Lowlands, PP. 131-226: photocopy, undated
Folder 10: Charleston, PP. 1-67b: typescript, undated
Folder 11: Charleston, PP. 1-64 with inserts: photocopy, undated
Folder 12: Charleston, PP 189-255: photocopy, undated: Note: "This is an early version of Charleston."
Folder 13: Charleston, PP. 2-22 (rewrites from P. 71): typescript, undated

Box 63

Folder 1: Charleston, PP 162-288: photocopy, 1996 April 13: Includes note and letter to Corinne from Tom Dent, April 13, 1996.
Folder 2: Charleston inserts: typescript, undated
Folder 3: Charleston, PP 311-361 (Manuscript #27): typescript and photocopy, 1993 December 24
Folder 4: Charleston, PP. 178-309: typescript, undated
Folder 5: Charleston, PP. 130a-226 (CT copy): photocopy, undated
Folder 6: Charleston, PP. 178-259: photocopy, undated
Folder 7: Section III: Charleston and the Carolina Lowlands, PP. 162-226 (working copy): photocopy, undated: Notes: "Saddi (sic)," "TCD copy/New Orleans," and "All Charleston"
Folder 8: Charleston, PP. 163-226: photocopy, undated: Note: "For Myrtle Glascol Charleston"
Folder 9: Charleston, PP. 227-273: photocopy, undated
Folder 10: Charleston, PP. 227-273 (Saddi's Checking): photocopy, undated
Folder 11: Charleston, PP 1-26 (edited copy): photocopy, undated
Folder 12: Charleston, PP. 274-299: typescript, undated

Box 64

Folder 1: Charleston, PP. 274-299: photocopy, undated
Folder 2: Charleston, PP. 247-296: photocopy, undated: Note: "This was to be previously. Pick up p. 259"
Folder 3: Section III: Charleston and the Carolina Lowlands, Pp. 209-299 with inserts: typescript and photocopy, 1996 May 8: Includes note to Corinne, 5/8/96 and notation by Dent "Charleston sent to Corinne for second editing."
Folder 4: Charleston, PP. 300-325 with inserts: typescript, undated: Note: "Tom--with Janet's inserts but not my edit."
Folder 5: Section III: Charleston and the Carolina Lowlands, PP. 131-209 with inserts: photocopy, undated
Folder 6: Section III: Charleston and the Carolina Lowlands, PP. 193-146 with inserts: photocopy, undated: Notes: "Ready for Corinne" and "Claire's Final Charleston"
Folder 7: St. Augustine, Manuscript Tape 31, 32, 33 & 34, pp. 362-396: photocopy, 1993 December 18
Folder 8: St. Augustine, Chapter 15, PP. 49-97: typescript, 1994 November 3: Notes: "For Corinne"
Folder 9: St. Augustine, Manuscript Tape 31, PP. 323-371: typescript, 1995 March 13
Folder 10: St. Augustine, PP. 300-371: photocopy, undated: Note: "Myrtle's Comments"
Folder 11: St. Augustine, PP. 300-322: typescript, undated
Folder 12: St. Augustine, PP. 228-367 with inserts: typescript and photocopy, undated: Notes: "after Claire's second edit"
Folder 13: St. Augustine, PP. 228-275: typescript, undated
Folder 14: St. Augustine, PP. 227-274 (CT copy): photocopy, undated

Box 65

Folder 1: St. Augustine, PP. 228-272: photocopy, undated: Note: "my copy in that Claire's corrections"
Folder 2: St. Augustine inserts: photocopy, undated
Folder 3: St. Augustine inserts: photocopy, undated
Folder 4: Albany/FST, PP 5-10: photocopy, undated
Folder 5: Albany, PP. 397-460 with inserts: typescript, undated
Folder 6: Albany Tape #1-#8, PP. 397-485: typescript, undated
Folder 7: Albany, PP. 397-478: photocopy, undated: Note: "Janet's notes -- first part Albany"
Folder 8: Albany, PP. 372-455 (Chapter 16: On To Albany): photocopy, undated
Folder 9: Albany, PP. 399-455 with inserts: typescript and photocopy, undated
Folder 10: Chapter 16: From St. Augustine to Albany, PP. 399-470: typescript, 1996 January 9: Note: "My Copy, sent to Corinne to put in inserts 1/9/96"
Folder 11: Albany, PP. 450-470 (Chapter 17): typescript, undated
Folder 12: Albany, PP. 456-474 (Chapter 17): photocopy, undated
Folder 13: Albany, PP. 456-489: photocopy, undated
Folder 14: Albany, PP. 471-489 (Chapter 18): typescripts, undated

Box 66

Folder 1: Albany, PP. 275-325; 600-606 (CT copy): photocopy, undated
Folder 2: Albany, PP. 271-322: typescript, undated
Folder 3: Albany, PP. 304-321: typescript, updated: Note: "duplicates"
Folder 4: Selma, PP. 486-518: typescript, undated: Notes: "First draft Selma/ to be corrected" and "Janet has"
Folder 5: Selma, PP. 2-136: typescript, circa 1995: Includes memorandum from Janet Hulstrand to Tom Dent and Lawrence Jordan regarding editing the manuscript, May 9, 1995.
Folder 6: Selma, PP. 1-136: typescript, undated: Notes: "Some of this is retyped out of sequence. This is draft from type. I needed to just edit." and "Freedmen"
Folder 7: Selma, PP. 1-136: photocopy, undated: Note: "Gene's copy Selma"
Folder 8: Selma, PP. 493-615 with inserts: typescript, undated
Folder 9: Selma, PP. 493-615 with inserts: photocopy, undated

Box 67

Folder 1: Selma, PP. 493-556 with inserts: typescript, undated: Note: "Claire's Selma"
Folder 2: Selma, PP. 493-556 with inserts: typescript, undated: Note: "Claire's Selma"
Folder 3: Selma, PP. 493-624: photocopy, undated: Note: "extra copy: Claire's Selma"
Folder 4: Selma, PP. 492-624: typescript, undated
Folder 5: Selma (final), PP. 497-630: typescripts, undated
Folder 6: Selma inserts: typescript, undated
Folder 7: Selma inserts placement, PP. 510-611 and fragments: typescript, undated
Folder 8: Selma inserts, PP. 617-625: typescript, undated
Folder 9: Selma, PP. 324-443: photocopy, undated: Includes note to Corinne from Dent, undated.
Folder 10: Selma, PP. 326-447 (CT copy): photocopy, undated

Box 68

Folder 1: Selma, PP. 322-443: typescript, undated
Folder 2: Mississippi, 18 pages (reflections): typescript, undated
Folder 3: Mississippi, PP. 137-182 with inserts: typescript, undated
Folder 4: Mississippi (working copy), PP. 137-182: photocopy, undated
Folder 5: Mississippi, PP. 444-490: typescript, undated
Folder 6: Mississippi: Land of Cotton, Fear, and Struggle, PP. 444-490: typescript, undated
Folder 7: Mississippi inserts, PP. 444-490: typescript, undated
Folder 8: Mississippi: Land of Cotton, Fear, and Struggle, PP. 444-491: typescript, undated
Folder 9: Mississippi, PP. 623-665: typescript, undated
Folder 10: Mississippi: Land of Cotton, Memories of Fear and Struggle, PP. 626-673 with inserts: typescript, 1995: Note: "Edited version up to page 666, 11/9/1995"

Box 69

Folder 1: Mississippi: The Heart of Darkness, PP 626-665: typescript, undated: Note: "Claire's Mississippi"
Folder 2: Mississippi, PP. 626-665: typescript, undated
Folder 3: Mississippi inserts: photocopy, undated
Folder 4: Mississippi with Afterword, PP. 448-495 (CT copy): photocopy, undated
Folder 5: Afterword: typescript, undated: Includes note from Corinne.
Folder 6: Bibliography: typescript, undated
Folder 7: Book reviews, 1996-1997
Folder 8: Book reviews, 1996-1997
Folder 9: Book reviews and press releases, 1997
Folder 10: Correspondence regarding editing, 1994-1996
Folder 11: Correspondence regarding Japhet Nkonge and transcript of interview, 1994, 1997
Folder 12: Editing page checklist: photocopy, undated

Box 70

Folder 1: Galley photographs and captions: photocopy, 1996
Folder 2: Editing, uncorrected bound galleys: book, 1996
Folder 3: Editing; page proofs and galleys: typescript, 1996
Folder 4: Drafts on floppy disks, 1990-1994: Includes letter from Nilma Mwendo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1998 July 15. Twelve disks are in 5.25 inch format.
Folder 5: Draft of press release: typescript, undated
Folder 6: Guest book, 1997 January 22: Title page reads: "Tom Dent for Southern Journey Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York, NY, January 22, 1997."
Folder 7: List of readers and reviewers: typescript, 1996
Folder 8: Notebook for book signings, 1997
Folder 9: Notebook for book signings, 1997
Folder 10: Programs and flyers, 1997
Folder 11: Tour schedule, 1997

Box 71

Item 1: Southern Journey, PP. 1-135: Publisher's copy, undated

Sub-Series 5: An Easy Burden, 1977-1986

As early as 1979, Dent was working on the autobiography of his childhood friend, Andrew Young, though he wasn't officially hired as a consultant until 1981 to 1982 and he continued to work on the book until 1986. Dent traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, to conduct a series of interviews with Young, then researched New Orleans and civil rights era history for the draft of the book, with the working title "An Easy Burden." The manuscript was submitted to a variety of publishers and finally to Bantam Books in 1985. The manuscript was stalled during the editing stage with Bantam wanting to bring in a new writer to re-work the manuscript to be less focused on the Civil Rights Movement. In the end, the project with Bantam did not come to fruition and was abandoned. Andrew Young published the biography in 1996 and the book did encompass the civil rights focus that was such a bone of contention to the previous publisher. Unfortunately, though Dent's manuscript was used for the final book he was not given credit as a contributing writer.

Collected research materials, articles about and by Andrew Young, collected speeches, collected transcripts of interviews of Andrew Young by others, and transcripts of interviews that were conducted by Dent have been placed at the beginning of this group of materials. Dent placed notations on the front cover of his notebooks. These notations are specified in the item description of the finding aid. Notebooks start with workbooks for outlines and manuscript planning, followed by a series of numbered notebooks that contain narrative drafts and possible inserts, information from the oral history interview tapes, prose on people, outlines and planning notations. Dent's hand script manuscripts for the book follow, and are arranged alphabetically by era, topic, or place name, such as Birmingham, Childhood, United Nations Period, etc. Dent's typescript working drafts are arranged with the earliest identified drafts first, with topics noted, followed by later drafts often in the form of photocopies of original typescripts.

The drafts are arranged according to Dent's chapter titles within the finished manuscript and coincide chronologically with Young's life. Photocopies of drafts with Andrew Young's inserts and editing notations are also included within this group. Of note are final drafts of Part III of the manuscript covering Young's Congressional and United Nations period, as well as a manuscript of excerpts with the working title "Civil Rights Book." Lastly, a final copy of the manuscript, with the working title "An Easy Burden" has been placed at the end of this group.

Box 72

Folder 3: Angola Prison Questionnaires, undated
Folder 4: Articles and news clippings, 1977-1980
Folder 5: Articles and news clippings, 1981-1988
Folder 6: Contract, 1984
Folder 7: Book outline: typescript, circa 1980
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1961-1980
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1981-1985
Folder 10: Collected articles and essays /by Andrew Young: photocopies, 1965-1980
Folder 11: Ephemera, 1972-1982
Folder 12: Publication: Brown, Vincent J., and Norma O. Leonard, ed. Bibliography of holdings of the Civil Rights Documentary Project. Washington, D.C.: Howard University, 1974.: Includes letters from Elinor DesVerney Sinnette, Head, Oral History Department, Moorland-Springarn Research Center, Washington, D.C., 1984.

Box 73

Folder 1: Publication: Information Bank Deferred Print. Parsippany, N.J.: The New York Times, 1970.
Folder 2: Speeches by Andrew Young, 1977-1978
Folder 3: Speeches by Andrew Young, 1979-1985
Folder 4: Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 April 3
Folder 5: Transcript of interview with Andrew Young, 1976 August 6
Folder 6: Transcripts of interviews with Andrew Young, 1979-1980
Folder 7: Transcripts of Tom Dent's interviews with Andrew Young, 1981 July 18, July 21: Topics include the Carter Campaign and election in 1976.
Folder 8: Transcripts of Tom Dent's interviews with Andrew Young, 1981 July 21: Topics include Young's decision to take the UN post and his impressions about Nigeria/Tanzania.
Folder 9: Transcripts of Tom Dent's interviews with Andrew Young, 1981: Topics include Young's impressions of African Leaders and his approach to the UN Job.
Folder 10: Transcripts of Tom Dent's interviews with Andrew Young, 1981: (Fragments)

Box 74

Folder 1: Transcripts of interviews with Andrew Young, 1985
Folder 2: Transcripts of interviews with Andrew Young, undated
Folder 3: Transcripts by topic, undated: Topics include Andrew Young's comments on New Orleans background, Birmingham, Alabama, and the Poor People's Campaign.
Folder 4: Transcripts by topic, undated: Topics include Andrew Young's comments on the Poor People's Campaign and portraits of people.
Folder 5: Transcripts by topic: Africa, undated
Folder 6: Transcript of interview with Jean Young, undated: Includes Jean Young's comments on the United Nations and Andrew Young's resignation.
Folder 7: Transcript of interview with Ella Baker, undated
Folder 8: Transafrica Transcript, 1979 May 29: (Interviewee unknown)
Folder 9: Note fragments: hand scripts and typescripts, 1980, undated
Folder 10: Notebook, 1980 May 22 - August 20
Folder 11: Notebook, 1984 January 12 - May 2: Notation: "ADY - 1/12/84 - workbook"
Folder 12: Notebook, 1984 May 29: Notation: "ADY workbook - 5/24/84"
Folder 13: Notebook, 1984 November 1: Notation: "ADY workbook - 11/1/84, includes Alvin Jones notes"

Box 75

Folder 1: Notebook, 1985 April 11: Notation: "ADY workbook - 4/11/85"
Folder 2: Notebook, 1985-1986: Notation: "Workbook - 1985-86" and "This is New Orleans"
Folder 3: Notebook, undated
Folder 4: Notebook, undated: Notation: "Andy Young II"
Folder 5: Notebook, undated
Folder 6: Notebook, undated
Folder 7: Notes regarding parts of the manuscript, undated
Folder 8: Notes, undated: Notation: "ADY book/special moments"
Folder 9: Notebook: Andrew Young Notes - I, 1981 March 17 - August 8: Notation: "Notes on MLK 3/17/1981"
Folder 10: Notebook: Andrew Young Notes - II, 1980 May 31 - August 20: Notations: "Albany, Birmingham, Chicago" and "Notes/ Smith & DYP (sic), The Beloved Community (near) on (sic) basis of King Philosophy"

Box 76

Folder 1: Notebook: Andrew Young Notes - III, 1981 April 13 - December 7

Notations: "Notes on Assassination/Gerald Fronk (sic)/at end"

"Anti-War, PPC, Memphis, Charleston, personal portraits of the SCLC people, Mail Chauvanism in Movment & SCLC/p.34, (sic) with SCLC & discussion to leave for congressional campaign, fear/how we dealt with it/p.44, Andrews (sic) notes from NYR review of Where Do We Go From Here, SCLC Board notes."

Folder 2: Notebook: Andrew Young - IV, 1981 February 17

Notations: "Taping notes picked up after 2/17/1981 from crisscross notebook. Also, Andy IV on notes/from black notebook, and Auxiliary notebook. Most notes taken while taping."

Folder 3: Notebook: Andrew Young V, 1981 April 21 - December 14

Folder 4: Notebook: ADY Notebook VI, 1984 January 4

Folder 5: Notebook: ADY-On-going Notebook VII, 1984 June 7 - November 27

Notation: "Beginning of on-going notes, continued in ADY VIII"

Folder 6: Notebook: ADY - On-Going Notebook VIII, 1984 December 12

Box 77

Item 1: Notebook: Andrew Young, undated: (Draft of manuscript)
Item 2: Notebook: Andrew Young II, undated: (Draft of manuscript)

Box 78

Folder 1: Outline: hand script, undated
Folder 2: Prologue: hand script, undated
Folder 3: Atlanta Election 1971, PP. 1-44: hand script, undated
Folder 4: Birmingham, PP. 1-45: hand script, undated
Folder 5: Birmingham, PP. 1-50: hand script
Folder 6: Childhood, PP. 18-24 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 7: Chronology of Key Events, Memphis 1968: hand script, undated
Folder 8: Civil Rights Era, pp. 1-98: hand script, undated
Folder 9: Civil Rights Era, PP. 1-71 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 10: Civil Rights Era, PP. 72-100: hand script, undated
Folder 11: Civil Rights Era, pp. 23-62: hand script, undated
Folder 12: Civil Rights Era inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 13: Civil Rights Era inserts: hand script, circa 1984
Folder 14: Dorchester/Albany inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 15: Martin Luther King, Jr., PP. 7-14 with inserts: hand script, undated

Box 79

Folder 1: Montgomery, PP. 1-11; PP. 101-119 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 2: National Scene, PP. 45-79: hand script, undated
Folder 3: New Orleans outline: hand script, undated
Folder 4: New Orleans notes: hand script, undated
Folder 5: New Orleans, PP. 1-32, undated
Folder 6: New Orleans, PP. 69a-69h, 70-106: hand script, undated
Folder 7: New Orleans (music and musicians), PP. 1-2: hand script, undated
Folder 8: New Orleans (music and musicians), PP. 3-12 with notes and inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 9: Philadelphia (William Steele), PP. 51-84: hand script, undated
Folder 10: SCLC, PP. 10-58 with typescript inserts for P. 30: hand script, undated
Folder 11: Selma, PP. 1-5 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 12: Selma Campaign inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 13: Thomasville and Civil Rights Era inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 14: Vietnam Protest Phase, PP. 1-38: hand script, undated
Folder 15: United Nations Period, 31 pages: hand script, undated

Box 80

Folder 1: United Nations Period, South Africa, PP. 1-12 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 2: Washington and United Nations, PP. 1-16 with inserts: hand script, undated
Folder 3: Hand script, PP. 1-17, undated
Folder 4: Hand script, PP. 33-69, undated
Folder 5: Hand script, PP. 45-78, undated
Folder 6: Hand script, PP. 101-141, undated
Folder 7: Hand script, PP. 161-205, undated
Folder 8: Hand script, PP. 206-230, undated
Folder 9: Hand script, PP. 1-44 with inserts, undated
Folder 10: Hand script, PP. 25-50 with inserts, undated
Folder 11: Hand script inserts, PP. 36-246, undated
Folder 12: Hand script inserts, PP. 250-282, undated
Folder 13: Hand script inserts, undated
Folder 14: Hand script inserts, undated
Folder 15: Hand script inserts, undated
Folder 16: Hand script inserts, undated

Box 81

Folder 1: Hand script inserts, undated
Folder 2: Hand script inserts, undated
Folder 3: Summer of '64 (FDP Atlantic City Challenge, 19640, PP. 1-12; Jean and the Family (Moving to Atlanta) PP 61-76; photocopy of hand script, undated
Folder 4: Birmingham I, PP. 1-49: photocopy of hand script, undated
Folder 5: Birmingham contd. II, Negotiations, PP. 50-60, 89, 90-92: photocopy of hand script, undated
Folder 6: Birmingham contd. III, PP. 77-88, 1-10: photocopy of hand script, undated: [Includes insert for P. 420 regarding Assassination, PP. 1-5]
Folder 7: Chicago Settlement, Inserts, PP. 341-386: photocopy of hand script, undated
Folder 8: Inserts, PP. 17-20, 387-418: photocopy of hand script, undated
Folder 9: Draft and inserts, PP. 45-78: photocopy of hand script, undated
Folder 10: AJY Book/Special Moments (page summaries): typescript, undated
Folder 11: Prologue, PP. 1-13 and prologue notes and inserts: typescript, undated
Folder 12: Outlines: typescripts and photocopies, undated
Folder 13: Beginning I (outline and draft): photocopy of typescript, undated
Folder 14: Part II (outline and draft), PP. 1-59: photocopy of typescript, 1982 May 8: Includes notation: "Replaced with Andy's edited copy 5/8/82 TD"
Folder 15: Part III (outline and drafts), PP 165-203: photocopy of typescript, undated: Includes drafts for Selma and Meredith March, Chicago.

Box 82

Folder 1: Memo from Eunice Riedel, William Morrow Notes, 1983 August
Folder 2: Overall Considerations (planning notations): typescript, undated
Folder 3: New Orleans, PP. 1-55: typescript, undated
Folder 4: Gilbert/Hartford: typescript with corrections, undated: Includes three drafts.
Folder 5: Hartford/Marriage, PP. 1-31: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 6: Thomasville, Georgia, PP. 1-30: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 7: NCC (National Council of Churches) Period, PP. 1-51: typescript, undated
Folder 8: Albany, PP. 1-26: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 9: Post-Birmingham, PP. 165-203: typescript with rewrites, undated: Includes: St. Augustine, FBI Harassment, and Nobel Prize.
Folder 10: After Nobel Prize, Selma, PP. 1-37: typescript with corrections and inserts, undated
Folder 11: Chicago/Meredith March: typescript with corrections, undated: [Incomplete]
Folder 12: Poor People's Campaign, PP. 1-18: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 13: New Orleans, PP. 1-55: photocopy of typescript with rewrites and notations, undated
Folder 14: Hartford/Marriage, PP. 2-51: photocopy of typescript with notations, undated
Folder 15: Albany, PP. 58-90: photocopy of typescript, undated
Folder 16: Completion of Birmingham, PP. 118-164: photocopy of typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 17: After Nobel Prize, Selma, PP. 1-37: photocopy of typescripts with corrections, undated
Folder 18: Chicago/Meredith March, PP. 1-53: photocopy of typescript, undated
Folder 19: Typescripts and photocopies of fragments with rewrites, undated

Box 83

Folder 1: New Orleans, PP. 21-83: typescript, undated
Folder 2: Martin Luther King and fragments: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 3: Birmingham draft fragments: typescripts with rewrites, undated
Folder 4: Beginning of Birmingham, PP. 1-24: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 5: Birmingham, PP. 5-36: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 6: Nobel Prize/ FBI Harassment, PP. 273-302: typescript, undated
Folder 7: Selma (Selma Campaign), PP. 285-332: typescript, undated
Folder 8: Poor People's Campaign, PP. 2-15: typescript with rewrites and inserts, undated
Folder 9: Poor People's Campaign, PP. 1-11: typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 10: Thomasville/ NCC (National Council of Churches)/ New York City/ Dorchester, PP. 87-174: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 11: NCC (National Council of Churches)/ New York City/ Dorchester, PP. 118-167: photocopy, undated
Folder 12: Birmingham, PP. 1-16: photocopy, undated
Folder 13: SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) Executive Director, PP. 248-271: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 14: NCC (National Council of Churches)/ New York City/ Dorchester, PP. 118-167: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 15: Birmingham inserts: photocopy and typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 16: Birmingham, PP. 3-21: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 17: Nobel Prize/ FBI Harassment, PP. 19-46: photocopy of typescript with rewrites, undated
Folder 18: Nobel Prize/ FBI Harassment, PP. 273-300: photocopy, undated
Folder 19: Selma II, PP. 313-344: photocopy, undated
Folder 20: Selma II, PP. 315-344: photocopy with rewrites, undated

Box 84

Folder 1: Birmingham, PP. 248-273: photocopy, undated
Folder 2: Chicago through Leaving SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), PP. 365-488: photocopy with inserts, undated
Folder 3: Poor People's Campaign, PP. 1-20: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 4: Memphis, PP. 1-23: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 5: Memphis, PP. 1-5: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 6: Resurrection City, PP. 1-12: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 7: Leaving SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), PP. 1-28: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 8: Congressional Campaign through Congressional Alliances, PP. 1-46: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 9: South African and Arthur Ashe (Congressional Alliances), PP. 47-59: photocopy, undated
Folder 10: Photocopy with rewrites, PP. 229-248; 285-388, undated
Folder 11: Photocopy with rewrites, PP. 313-337; 391-396, undated
Folder 12: Photocopy with rewrites, PP. 87-120, undated
Folder 13: Memphis, PP. 1-44: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 14: Resurrection City/ Charleston, PP. 1-13: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 15: Leaving SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), PP. 1-13: photocopy with rewrites, undated
Folder 16: Photocopy with rewrites, PP. 111-160, undated
Folder 17: Photocopy with rewrites, PP. 248-284, undated
Folder 18: Photocopy with rewrites, PP. 339-400, undated
Folder 19: Photocopy with rewrites, PP. 401-462, undated

Box 85

Folder 1: Photocopy, PP. 463-601, undated
Folder 2: Photocopy with rewrites, PP. 521-560, undated
Folder 3: Photocopy with rewrites and notations, PP. 1-47, undated
Folder 4: Photocopy with rewrites and notations, PP. 15-110, undated
Folder 5: Photocopy with rewrites and notations, PP. 161-228, undated
Folder 6: Andrew Young's rewrites and notations, PP. 1-92: photocopy, undated
Folder 7: Andrew Young's rewrites for Selma, PP. 285-332: photocopy, undated
Folder 8: Andrew Young's rewrites for Birmingham, PP. 172-271: photocopy, undated
Folder 9: Andrew Young's inserts for Birmingham and Selma: photocopy, undated
Folder 10: Andrew Young's inserts for St. Augustine, Nobel Prize, and FBI Harrassment, PP. 271-306B: photocopy, undated
Folder 11: Andrew Young's inserts, PP. 307-341: photocopy, undated
Folder 12: Andrew Young's inserts for Meredith March through Poor People's Campaign, PP. 345-398: photocopy, undated

Box 86

Folder 1: Andrew Young's inserts for Congress through United Nations, PP. 463-520: photocopy, undated
Folder 2: Andrew Young's inserts for Resignation, PP. 575-601: photocopy, undated
Folder 3: Introduction and inserts, PP. 14-159: photocopy, undated
Folder 4: New Orleans inserts: photocopy, undated
Folder 5: Andrew Young's inserts for draft of An Easy Burden, PP. 1-43: photocopy, undated
Folder 6: Andrew Young's inserts for draft of An Easy Burden, PP. 50-80: photocopy, undated
Folder 7: Andrew Young's inserts for draft of An Easy Burden, 81-171: photocopy, undated
Folder 8: Inserts for draft of An Easy Burden, PP. 121-167: photocopy, undated
Folder 9: Inserts for draft of An Easy Burden, PP. 148-169: photocopy, undated
Folder 10: Andrew Young's inserts for draft of An Easy Burden, PP. 192-223: photocopy, undated
Folder 11: Andrew Young's inserts for draft of An Easy Burden, PP. 224-252: photocopy, undated
Folder 12: Tom Dent's draft of An Easy Burden, PP. 1-126: photocopy, undated

Box 87

Folder 1: Tom Dent's draft of An Easy Burden, PP. 127-252: photocopy, undated
Folder 2: UN Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 1-63: draft, undated
Folder 3: Civil Rights Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 1-110: draft, undated
Folder 4: Civil Rights Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 110-217: draft, undated
Folder 5: Civil Rights Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 1-90: draft, undated
Folder 6: Civil Rights Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 91-183: draft, undated
Folder 7: Civil Rights Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 184-320: draft, undated
Folder 8: Civil Rights Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 321-461: draft, undated

Box 88

Folder 1: Civil Rights Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent: PP. 462-532: draft, undated
Folder 2: Civil Rights Book / by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 533-575: draft, undated
Folder 3: Andrew Young Autobiography/ Part III, PP. 1-46: draft, undated
Folder 4: Andrew Young Autobiography/ Part III, PP. 1-111: draft with rewrites, undated
Folder 5: Andrew Young Autobiography/ Part III, PP. 1-38: draft, undated
Folder 6: Andrew Young Autobiography/ Part III, 197p.: draft with rewrites, undated
Folder 7: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 1-44: draft, undated
Folder 8: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 45-97: draft, undated
Folder 9: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 98-159: draft, undated

Box 89

Folder 1: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 160-217: draft, undated
Folder 2: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 281-287: draft, undated
Folder 3: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 288-327: draft, undated
Folder 4: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 328-376: draft, undated
Folder 5: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 377-432: draft, undated
Folder 6: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 433-482: draft, undated
Folder 7: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 483-514: draft, undated
Folder 8: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 550-582: draft, undated: [incomplete]
Folder 9: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 583-619: draft, undated
Folder 10: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 620-658: draft, undated
Folder 11: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 659-688: draft, undated
Folder 12: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 689-734: draft, undated
Folder 13: An Easy Burden by Andrew Young with Tom Dent, PP. 735-779: draft, undated

Sub-Series 6: Collected Writings, 1966-1998

The bulk of this group encompasses collected manuscripts of poetry, essays, and articles sent to Dent for review. Main topics covered throughout the series are literary criticism, scholary papers on the Civil Rights Movement, and music. Letters that accompanied the manuscripts have been kept with their corresponding typescript, typescript carbons, or photocopies of manuscripts written by the authors. A group of student papers from institutions and classes in which Dent was an instructor is also located within this series and includes student publications from Mary Holmes College (Mississippi), Tougaloo College (Mississippi), United States Virgin Islands High School, and the University of Wisconsin. At the end of the group are published writings (articles and essays) in the form of photocopies, which Dent collected throughout his lifetime. The series is arranged in alphabetical order by author, with published materials placed at the end of the series. Occasionally, the collected manuscripts are accompanied by their published version. Authors who have more than one manuscript in this series include David Henderson, Penelope Brindley, Kalamu ya Salaam, Julius E. Thompson, and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Of note are manuscript drafts of Julius E. Thompson's A Check List of the Black Poet in Mississippi, 1900-1988, in which Tom Dent contributed the foreword for the book and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.'s essays on literary criticism focused on southern Black writers.

Box 90

Folder 1: Letter from DeWitt L. Myers, Jr., Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1964 October 13: Includes poems by D.D. Clark, Tom Dent, Wesley Carl Ewert, Vera Haile, Ethel Haskell, Hudson B. Phillips, Jr., Margaret Rader, Valerie Russell, Bob Simonton, and Bernadine Whitaker. Two poems by Tom Dent are "The Mystery Deepens" and "Nightdreams (Black)."
Folder 2: Glimpse: Lower Nine / by Tom Adams: photocopy, undated
Folder 3: The Hyena People (A Short Story) / by Asante Sona Amana Ajanaku: typescript, circa 1978: Includes: Letter from Asante Sona Amana Ajanaku, Memphis, Tennessee, undated.
Folder 4: Duke Ellington Playing Piano at 70 / by Ana (sic), 1988
Folder 5: Book review, poems and letters / by Alvin Aubert, 1978, 1991, 1992
Folder 6: And Futher Mo'...!: A New Musical with the Cast of "One Mo' Time" / script by Vernel Bagneris, 1988
Folder 7: Let the Resurrection Be Complete: Critical Word Panel on Lawrence Paul Neal / by Amiri Baraka, 1996 July 3
Folder 8: Danny Barker / by Blue Lu Barker, undated
Folder 9: De Funny Man / by Earl Billings: script, undated: Includes: synopsis and outline for "The Blind" by Earl Billings.
Folder 10: For Something Beyond the Battlefield: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War / by David W. Blight, undated
Folder 11: Essays / by Jean Carey Bond, undated: Includes: Untitled and "Roots" / by Jean Carey Bond.
Folder 12: Essays and poem / by James Borders: typescripts and typescript carbons, undated: Includes: essays "Carifesta, and the Absence of New Orleans Therein; or Score One for the CIA," "Capital, Color, and Joblessness," "Unemployment," and "SBCA - New Orleans." Poem titled "St. Augustine - Seventh Ward - Another Catholic High."
Folder 13: Poems / by Charlie R. Braxton, 1985: Includes: Letter from Charlie R. Braxton, McComb Mississippi, undated.
Folder 14: The Need for Alternative Radio / by Quo Vadis Gex Breaux, undated
Folder 15: Essays / by Raymond Breaux: typescripts and photocopies, undated: Includes: essays "New Orleans, Therefore Jazz" and "Evaluating the Superport."
Folder 16: Poems, short story and letters / by Penelope Brindley, 1974, 1980: Includes: short story "Portrait of an Artist as Young Woman."
Folder 17: Paul Robeson Rediscovered / speech by Lloyd L. Brown, 1976
Folder 18: James Baldwin: A New Orleans Tribute / by Violet Harrington Bryan, 1987 December 9: Includes: Letter from Violet Harrington Bryan, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989 May 26.
Folder 19: Ideological Forces in the Work of Negro Writers / by Horace R. Cayton, 1966
Folder 20: Guerilla War in South Africa / by Charlie Cobb, undated
Folder 21: Poems / by Christine Coleman: hand script, 1968: Includes: poems "Life" (9/8/1968) and "Last Night" (12/31/1968).
Folder 22: We Just Natural Actors...Naturally!! / by Bob Costley: typescript, undated
Folder 23: Book review / by James Covington, undated: Review of Calvin Hernton's book, Coming Together. Random House, 1971.

Box 91

Folder 1: Destination: Misery / by Aubrye "Sky" Danielson, undated
Folder 2: The Mandingo Syndrome / by N.R. Davidson: typescript carbon, undated
Folder 3: Poems / by Gregory Dominigue: typescript carbons, 1975 March - September
Folder 4: Introduction to A Long Way From Home / by St. Clair Drake: typescript carbon, undated
Folder 5: Essays, poem and letter / by Lois Elie: hand script, typescript photocopies, undated
Folder 6: Poems / by Jason J. Favaroth-Peters: typescripts, 1997: Includes: Letter from Donna Peters, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1997 November 18.
Folder 7: History and Memory in Afro-American Culture / by Genevieve Fabre, 1987 August
Folder 8: Essays, poems and letters / by Michael Goodwin: typescripts and photocopies, 1981, 1988, 1992: Includes: essays "Chalkdust: Four-Time Calypso Monarch," "Talking Backwards: The Mighty Spoiler Project (intro)," "Before the Gods Depart: Professor Longhair's Mardi Gras in New Orleans," and "French Quarters."
Folder 9: In the Sweet Balance of the Flesh / poems by Lee Meitzen Grue: manuscript draft, 1990: Includes two additional poems "Jazzmen" and "Monument to Pork Chop." Also includes letter from Lee Meitzen Grue, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1990 April 11.
Folder 10: Poems / by Nicolas Guillen: hand script and typescript carbons, 1967: Sent by W. Myers, Laurelton, NY, 1967 June.
Folder 11: Poems / by Xaid (Al Haynes), 1978: Includes letter from Xaid (Al Haynes), Tallahassee, Florida, 1980 September 10.
Folder 12: Poems and letters / by David Henderson: typescripts and photocopies, 1964, 1966, 1974, 1980: Includes poems "Keep on Pushing (Harlem Riots/Summer/1964)," "Elvin Jones Gretsch Freak (John Coltrane Quartet/Half Note NYC)," "From Minstrel Sy to Magic: The Ballad of Marie Laveau," and "Third Eve/ World."
Folder 13: Poems / by Calvin Hernton: typescript and photocopies, 1980, undated: Includes letter from Calvin Herton, Riverside, Rhode Island, 1980 April 21. Poems include "A Canicle for the 1960's (for Ree Dragonette, in memorial)," "45," "Fatally Wounded," "A Ballad for Tommie Smith," and "Hands."
Folder 14: Poems / by Donald Hicks: hand scripts and photocopies, 1978: Includes letter from Donald Hicks, Madison, Wisconsin, 1978 November 4.
Folder 15: Hear No Evil, See No Evil: A Look at the Apathetic Sentiment Towards Black Student Activism at the University of Rhode Island / research paper by Danielle Hill and Darran Simon: typescript, 1998 March
Folder 16: The Character of Black Politics in a Small Southern Town Dominated by a Multinational Corporation: Bogalusa, Louisiana 1965-1975 / a thesis by Rickey Hill: photocopy, 1977 May
Folder 17: Black Political Life and the New South Development Strategy: An Analysis of Black Political Authority in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 1975-1980 / a dissertation by Rickey Hill: photocopy, 1982 July
Folder 18: Ethics and Accountability in the Political Empowerment of African Americans in South Carolina / by Rickey Hill, Ph.D.: typescript, undated

Box 92

Folder 1: Border Street and Borderlines: A Civil Rights Memoir / by Peter Jan Honigsberg, PP 1-112: typescript, 1998 February 10
Folder 2: Border Street and Borderlines: A Civil Rights Memoir / by Peter Jan Honigsberg, PP. 113-201: typescript, 1998 February 10
Folder 3: Border Street and Borderlines: A Civil Rights Memoir / by Peter Jan Honigsberg, PP. 202-276: typescript, 1998 February 10
Folder 4: Untitled article about Alvin Fielder / by Hull, 1981: Includes letter from Hull, 1981 August 14.
Folder 5: The Amistad Incident / by Dr. Clifton H. Johnson: typescript carbon, 1974
Folder 6: Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found: The Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection / by G. Williams Jones, Ph.D., undated
Folder 7: This Way I Salute You: Selected Poems / by Keorapetse Kgositsile: typescript draft, undated
Folder 8: Poems / by Saddi Khali, 1994, undated
Folder 9: The Cosmocentric Cult and Black Religion / by C. Eric Lincoln, undated
Folder 10: The Role of Citizenship Schools in the Civil Rights Movement: Discussion Document for the Winter 1998 Spencer Meeting / by David Levine, 1998
Folder 11: Mardigras / by Paul Laraque: poem, 1976, 1983
Folder 12: Articles, essays, and letters / by Pinkie Gordon Lane, 1977, 1992: Includes reprint of "Lake Murry." The Southern Review 8:1 (Spring 1977) and typescript essay "Remembering."
Folder 13: Spiritual Striving of a Black Poet and Historian in Louisiana: The Papers of Marcus Christian / by Joseph S. Logsdon, undated
Folder 14: Back Down There / by Wynton Marsalis, 1989
Folder 15: Workin' Roots: A Review of "Roots" / by Sharon Stockard Martin, undated

Box 93

Folder 1: Trade Unions and Nation Building in Francophone Africa / by George R. Martens, 1976 October 20

Folder 2: Short Stories / by Tololwa Marti Molle: typescript and photocopies, 1987, undated

Includes short stories "A Night Out" and "Rino's Boy."

Folder 3: Jazz Improvision in Amos / by Rev., Dr. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., 1990

Folder 4: Articles and essays / by Peter Nazareth: typescripts, photocopies, and publications, 1965-1982, 1994

Item 1: "Brave New Cosmos." Origin East Africa London, England: African Writers Series, 1965: play script
Item 2: Santan Rodrigues. I Exist. Writers Workshop. 1976: review in typescript form
Item 3: Eccentric Ferns, 1977
Item 4: How I Wrote Radio Plays / presented at the Third Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association, Madison, Wisconsin, 1977 March 25
Item 5: Where are the Indians?: American Bicentennial Essay, 1977
Item 6: "The Clown in the Slave Ship." Caribbean Quarterly Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies (June-September 1977): photocopy of reprint
Item 7: Survive the Peace: Cyprian Ekwesi, As a Political Novelist / presented at the 20th Annual ASA Meeting, Houston, Texas, 1977 November
Item 8: The Confessor: short story
Item 9: Two Radio Plays Nairobi, Kenya: East African Literature Bureau, 1976: publication
Item 10: "The Fiction of Idi Ami." Rikka 4:3-4 Toronto, Canada: Aurora Doubleday Canada Limited (Autumn/Winter, 1977): photocopy: Includes letter from Peter Nazareth, Iowa City, Iowa, 1978 July 1.
Item 11: "Mama's Umbrella." Pacific Quarterly 3:2 Hamilton, New Zealand (1978): photocopy
Item 12: "An Interview with Ishmael Reed." The Iowa Review 13:2 (Spring, 1982): photocopy
Item 13: Heading them off at the Pass: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, 1983
Item 14: Lauching the Trickster, 1994

Folder 5: Poetry / by Stella Ngahto: hand scripts, 1972, undated

Folder 6: Excerpts from Introduction to La Republique, Volume I of Les Lieux de memoire / by Pierre Nora, undated

Folder 7: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the Methodist Episcopal Church: The Career of Robert E. Jones, 1904-1944 / by Henry Nathaniel Oakes, Jr., 1973

Folder 8: Essays / by Akinahiju Chinua Ola; typescripts, undated

Includes essays "Prison Letters, Prison Writings" and "The Way of Black Theater."

Folder 9: Say Yes (for the Freedom Fighters in Southern Africa) / by O'Modelle Ra (Jeanette Williams): poem, 1973, 1976

Folder 10: Jerusalem Gallows Dream / by John O'Neal: play script, 1987

Folder 11: Poetry, essays and letters / by Niyi Osundare, 1991-1992, 1998

Folder 12: The Umbra Poets' Workshop, 1962-65: Some Socio-literary puzzles / by Michael Oren, undated

Includes letter from Michael Oren, Houston, Texas, 1984 August 8.

Folder 13: Literary reviews / by James Perry, 1995

Includes letter from John Cooke, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1995 October 27. [Articles submitted for external review.]

Folder 14: Poems / by Robert N. Perry, Jr., 1937-1939, 1990

Includes letter from Al Kennedy, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1990 February 2 and Tome Whalen (sic), New Orleans, Louisiana, 1990 February 6.

Folder 15: My Name is New Orleans (for Marcus Christian) / by Arthur Pfister (ARTURO): poem, 1988 August 23

Folder 16: Fat Tuesday / screenplay by Kevin Ramsey, 1989 September 24

[Second Draft]

Box 94

Folder 1: African and Caribbean Stilt Dance Masquerade, 1986, undated

Folder 2: The Lives of New Orleans' Black Protest Leaders / by Kim Lacy Rogers, 1988 October 28

Folder 3: Essays and poems / by Kalamu ya Salaam: typescripts, circa 1969, 1977, undated

Item 1: Black Liberation Army /by Val Ferdinand: playscript, undated
Item 2: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.: typescript with Tom Dent's edits
Item 3: Tearing the Roof off the Sucker: The Fall of South Africa: typescript with Tom Dent's edits, 1977 April
Item 4: Poems
Item 5: James Black: typescript
Item 6: I Just Heard John Buffington Died: poem
Item 7: We Are New Afrika: RNA and The Promise of Pan-Afrikan Nationalism in America: photocopy with rewrites
Item 8: Thinking About Home...: typescript
Item 9: Worth More Than a Dollar: typescript

Folder 4: Poems / by Andrew Salkey, 1983, undated

Includes letter from Andrew Salkey, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1983 March 5.

Folder 5: Elizabeth Catlett: Reflections by a Friend and Admirer / by John T. Scott, undated

Folder 6: The Carver School Complex / by William Smith and Gordon Saussy: typescript, 1978

Folder 7: It Is Traditional / by Larry Sewer: hand script poem, 1981 April 13

Includes letter from Larry Sewer, 1981 April 17.

Folder 8: Poems / by Robin Smith: typescript carbons, 1965

Includes letter from Hoyt W. Fuller, Managing Editor, Negro Digest, Chicago, Illinois, 1965 April 1.

Folder 9: Poems and essays / by Students of Mary Holmes College: typescripts, 1969

Includes two student publications from the Creative Writing Class, West Point, Mississippi "Black Progressive Writers at Mary Holmes College" and "Soul Socking Writers on Mary Holme's Campus Present The Rhythm of Soul."

Folder 10: Pound: Poetry Workshop Tougaloo College publication, 1968

Folder 11: Our Strummo: A Literary Publication / written and produced by students of St. Croix Central High School, Charlotte Amalie High School, Julius Sprauve School and Ivanna Eudora Kean High School, 1977 June

Sponsored by the Department of Education, United States Virgin Islands.

Folder 12: Black Roots: Roots/Branches/Offshoots: An Anthology of Afro-American Poetry Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1977.

Folder 13: Essays / by Lorenzo Thomas: typescripts, 1978, 1995, undated

Includes:

"Leadership and Advocacy Issues: Who Articulates Our Perspective?" and "Black Art & the Civil Rights Movement."

"Music: Juke Boy Bonner San the Blues." 2:9 City Houston Magazine (October 1978), 32-36.

Folder 14: A Check List of the Black Poet in Mississippi, 1900-1988 / by Julius Eric Thompson, PP. 1-83, 1989

Folder 15: A Check List of the Black Poet in Mississippi, 1900-1990 / by Julius E. Thompson: draft galley, 1989

Includes letter from Julius E. Thompson, Carbondale, Illinois, 1989 October 14.

Folder 16: A Check List of the Black Poet in Mississippi, 1900-1990 / by Julius E. Thompson: revisions, 1989

Includes letter from Julius E. Thompson, Carbondale, Illinois, 1989 October 20.

Folder 17: A Check List of the Black Poet in Mississippi, 1900-1990 / by Julius E. Thompson, PP. 1-90: draft, 1990

Includes letter from Julius E. Thompson, Carbondale, Illinois, 1990 May 14.

Folder 18: Essays and poems / by Julius E. Thompson, 1978, 1991

Item 1: Black History: The Struggle Ahead, Comments on the Occasion of the Umoja Workshop Creative Arts Festival, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 7-8 February 1976 / by Julius E. Thompson: typescript
Item 2: Rites of Living / by Julius E. Thompson: poetry, 1978 April 17: Includes a copy of Stephan E. Henderson's essay "The Question of Form and Judgment in Contemporary Black American Poetry: 1962-1977."
Item 3: Poems and letter / by Julius E. Thompson, 1991 July 8

Box 95

Folder 1: A Check List of the Black Poet in Mississippi, 1900-1990 / by Julius E. Thompson: Appendices, undated

Folder 2: Poems / by Askia Muhammad Toure, undated

Includes letter from Askia Muhammad Toure, 1980 May 19.

Folder 3: "Super Fly" A Political and Cultural Condemnation by the Kuumba Workshop / by Francis Ward: typescript, undated

Folder 4: Essays / by Jerry W. Ward: typescripts, 1975-1989

Item 1: A Necessary Fiction: book review of Al Young's Who is Angelina? (Holdt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975)
Item 2: Initial Inquiry: typescript preface, 1976: Includes letter from Jerry Ward, 1976 June 23.
Item 3: N.J. Loftis's Black Anima: A Problem in Aestetics: draft photocopy
Item 4: "N. J. Loftis' Black Anima: A Problem in Aestetics." Journal of Black Studies 7:2 (December 1976): reprint: Includes letter from Jerry Ward, 1977 February 8.
Item 5: Burning Through: The Creation of New Images and A Now Identity in the Early Sixties, 1976 May 4
Item 6: Inquiry for the Eighties: A Survey of African-American Literary Thought / compiled by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.: typescript, 1981
Item 7: Some Materials for the Study of Southern Black Literature in the Twentieth Century / compiled by Jerry W. Ward, Jr., 1982
Item 8: Black South Cultural Action, 1983
Item 9: Thomas C. Dent: From Academe to Activity (Interview: New Orleans, June 4, 1975), 1986: Includes letter from Jerry Ward, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1986 June 17.
Item 10: Tom Dent Talking: New Orleans as a Recource of Genius: for the Xavier Review, 1986
Item 11: Challenging the Dialogue: Some Contributions of Thomas C. Dent and Kalamu ya Salaam, 1988 December 27
Item 12: Collected poetry for the Congo Square Writer's: typescript carbons, 1976 March 14, 1989: Includes poems by Jerry W. Ward, and Leroy Ben (May 1989).

Folder 5: "Thomas Covington Dent (1932-): Notes on a Writer's Work." Obsidian II 4:3 (Winter 1989)

Folder 6: Essays / by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.: typescripts and photocopies, 1990-1995, undated

Item 1: Blueprint for the Study of Black South Literature, 1990
Item 2: Ralph Ellison: The Other Side of Invisibility, 1995 March 25
Item 3: Jerry W. Ward, Jr.: Bibliography
Item 4: Thomas C. Dent: A Preliminary Bibliography / compiled by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Item 5: Existing the Seventies: A Dialogue on Black Literature Between Two Modes of Feeling
Item 6: The Humanities and the Reinvention of Community: typescript
Item 7: Reading Race, Reading America / by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.: proposal

Folder 7: Jazz South / by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.: typescript, undated

Folder 8: Poems / by Ben Williams: typescripts, undated

Includes letter from Ben Williams, undated.

Folder 9: Truth, Reconciliation and the Power of Oral History Recovering South Africa's Denied Past / by Lindy Wilson, undated

Folder 10: Untitled / by Andrew Young, undated

Folder 11: The House of Dent / by Ahmos Zu-Bolton: typescript poem, undated

Folder 12: Essays / by unknown authors, 1987-1988

Item 1: Carnival Notes March 7, 1988 - March 14, 1988, PP. 1-36
Item 2: What I Keep in My Freezer or You are What You Eat: Signed: "Tom thanks for a good evening. I include my piece on N.O. food & a New York Times article you might find interesting. Yours Gilbert (sic)."
Item 3: A Rite of Privacy: second installment of autobiography, 1987 December 13

Folder 13: Poetry and chapter drafts / by unknown authors, undated

Box 96

Folder 1: Collected articles: Authors A-B, 1978-1993
Folder 2: Collected articles: Authors C-G, 1982-1989, undated
Folder 3: Collected articles: Authors H-M, 1974-1980, undated
Folder 4: Collected articles: Authors O-R, 1968-1998, undated
Folder 5: Collected articles: Authors S-Z, 1968-1994, undated