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 Other literary projects covered in the collection include the unpublished manuscript drafts of Andrew Young's autobiography, Easy Burden: the Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America and Dent's book Southern Journey: A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 3: Journals and Notebooks, 1959-1998

There are approximately 289 journals and notebooks within the papers of Tom Dent. Dent's journals and notebooks are fundamentally intertwined with his creative and historical writing, as well as his creative process. He mainly wrote by hand in his journals; however he also alternated between typing his daily prose and hand writing in book form. As an avid reader, Dent's journals contain numerous personal critiques of various authors' work, including that of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison done in the early 1970s. Of note are Dent's early notebooks describing the activities of the Free Southern Theater during the summer seasons for the years 1965-1968. They also describe actors and production people involved in the tours of the group. The workshops and plays are also described in the context of the venue and audience.

The notebooks and journals contain numerous topics on which Dent was concentrating including, New Orleans and New York scenes; people, such as Amiri Baraka and his work; multiple poetry drafts; concerts and various New Orleans festivals; visiting Charleston, South Carolina with Andrew Young, and more. Dent's notebook entries are inherently different from his journals, though both contain series of creative writings within them. Dent's notebook and journals often contain his planning, plot summaries, and characterizations for the various writing projects he was undertaking. The entwining nature of his collection can be seen with the example of a 1986 journal entry detailing Dent's frustration with Bantam Books and the stalling of his manuscript for "An Easy Burden." This topic is also detailed within his correspondence and manuscript files for the project. Dent's notebooks and journals are a rich resource for the study of New Orleans culture and society.

Notebooks for literary projects are also contained within this group of materials and include notebooks titled "Mississippi Documentary," which correspond with Dent's project of interviewing Mississippi civil rights workers and "New Orleans Journal," an unpublished book project based on this notebooks and journals written from 1968 to 1975. Typescript transcripts of these journal entries are also located in this series, as well as Dent's journals in typescript form written during the 1970s to the 1980s. Journal entries often contain his thoughts and impressions on various books he read, news about friends and their trials and tribulations, financial difficulties, book ideas, and his work.

Dent's notebooks have been placed first in the series in chronological order, followed by his journals. Dent often noted the main topics or projects on the covers or flyleaves of the volume. These descriptions have been detailed in the finding aid; however, they do not encompass the full breath of topics within the volumes. Small sized notebooks, dating circa 1975-1988, contain appointments with to-do lists and addresses for individuals rather than narratives. At the end of the series are Dent's appointment books and day planners arranged in chronological order.

Box 97

Item 1: Notebook: Army, 1958
Item 2: Notebook: Army, 1958
Item 3: Notebook: Army, circa 1958
Item 4: Notebook: Umbra Writer's Workshop, 1963-1964
Item 5: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) #1, New York City, circa 1965
Item 6: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) #2, New York City, circa 1965
Item 7: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 3, circa 1965
Item 8: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 1, 1966
Item 9: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 2, 1966
Item 10: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 3, 1966
Item 11: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 4, 1966
Item 12: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 5, 1966
Item 13: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 6, 1966
Item 14: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 7, 1966: Includes: "FST Bogalusa Notes"
Item 15: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 8, 1966
Item 16: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 9, 1966: Includes: "Gabrison-Show"
Item 17: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 10, 1966: Includes: "Praline"
Item 18: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 11, 1966
Item 19: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 12, 1966: Includes: "Southern, exception and rule, Jackson Street, and LaBront (sic)"
Item 20: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 13, 1967: Includes: "Sunflower and Negro College"
Item 21: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 14, 1967: Includes: "LeMoyne Journal and Second Line"
Item 22: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 15, 1967: Includes: "Journal-Texas, Gulfport, and Biloxi"
Item 23: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 16, 1967: Includes: "Tuskegee-Albany"
Item 24: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 17, 1967: Includes: "Journal-July 17 and Portrait"

Box 98

Item 1: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 18, 1967: Includes: "Journal August 7 - September 9 and Ritual Murder Notes"
Item 2: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 19, 1967: Includes: "Miss election, James Cleveland Concert and Notes on FST in light of NEC"
Item 3: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater) # 20, 1968: Includes: "Ben Chandler (sic), Braithwaite, and West Point"
Item 4: Notebook #21, 1968: Includes: "Mardi Gras Eve, Plight from West Point, and Zulu Parade"
Item 5: Notebook # 22, 1968: Includes: "Mardi Gras Night"
Item 6: Notebook # 23, 1968: Includes: "Hattiesburg"
Item 7: Notebook # 24, 1968: Includes: "New Orleans King March"
Item 8: Notebook # 25, 1968: Includes: "King Funeral"
Item 9: Notebook # 26, 1968: Includes: "Hattiesburg Jail"
Item 10: Notebook # 27, 1968: Includes: "Early Jazz Festival and Ray (sic) Brown Trial"
Item 11: Notebook # 28, 1968: Includes: "Green Berets"
Item 12: Notebook, 1968 October 9 - November 1: Includes: "Black Music and Enrout Columbus - New Orleans"
Item 13: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Notes on Writing and Johnson's Review"
Item 14: Notebook: FST (Free Southern Theater), undated: Includes: "Portrait"
Item 15: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Galveston, Gentilly Section, and Bourbon Street"
Item 16: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Drawings"
Item 17: Notebook, undated
Item 18: Notebook, 1969 February: Includes: "Mardi Gras, Calvin and David at FST, and Galveston"
Item 19: Notebook, 1969 March: Includes poems: "Nigger Teachers, License Plate, American Skyarand (sic), National Haircuts, and Dream of Black Vanity"
Item 20: Notebook, 1969 April: Includes poems: "US Blk Blues Singers and Garvey Poem"
Item 21: Notebook, 1969 April - June: Includes: "Enrout to Urbana, IL"
Item 22: Notebook, 1969 June: Includes: "Blk Community Organizer and poems Ode to Willie Mays, Gifts from the Blk University, and New Orleans Nights'
Item 23: Notebook, 1969 July: Includes poems: "The Funeral of Slow Drag and Message from Langston"
Item 24: Notebook, 1969 August: Includes: "A Summer Sunflower Trip and poems Whispers, Mississippi Beauty, Greenville Blues, and Zulu Parade"
Item 25: Notebook, 1969 September: Includes: "Time of Autumn Reflection, Uptown Blues and other poems"
Item 26: Notebook, 1969 September - October: Includes: "Galveston Sea and Houston Notes"
Item 27: Notebook, 1969 October - November: Includes: "Return from Galveston, New Orleans Fall, FST Blkartsouth Texas, and Town Notes"
Item 28: Notebook, 1969 December: Includes: "Attempting New Birth"

Box 99

Item 1: Notebook, 1970 February: Includes: "Spring of Uncertainty
Item 2: Notebook, 1970 March: Includes: "Spring May Be Over The Hill and Blues Time"
Item 3: Notebook, 1970 July: Includes: "Hectic Summer"
Item 4: Notebook, 1970 November: Includes: "Galveston Fall, Clear/Clearing/Green-Blue, and Time for Breathing"
Item 5: Notebook, 1970 November - December: Includes: "Busy Fall and Got To Drive At It"
Item 6: Notebook, 1971 January: Includes: "Blue New Year"
Item 7: Notebook, 1971 May: Includes: "Time of Hot Quick Summer, Walter W. at Off Limits, and Louis Armstrong Memorial"
Item 8: Notebook, 1971 July: Includes: "Middle Blue Summer"
Item 9: Notebook, 1971 October: Includes: "Time of Sharpening Identity, (sic) Epic Notes, Notes on Journey, and Guet Poem"
Item 10: Notebook, 1972 February: Includes: "Time of Realization"
Item 11: Notebook, 1972 April: Includes: "Time of Keeping Busy"
Item 12: Notebook, 1972 August: Includes: "Middle Summer, West Point, Mississippi, and poem Roberts at the Lakefront"
Item 13: Notebook, 1973 April: Includes: "San Fran Days"
Item 14: Notebook, 1973 May: Includes: "Time of Crucial Summer and Mark Essex Notes"
Item 15: Notebook, 1973 August: Includes: "Middle Vermont Summer, Goddard, Hartford (sic), Poughkeepsie/Oakwood, and Harlem Heat"
Item 16: Notebook, 1973 September: Includes: "Nonpolk Summer/Discovery, Nat Turner, South Hampton Country Notes, and Nonpolk Notes
Item 17: Notebook, 1973 October: Includes: "Time of Reparation for Major Work"
Item 18: Notebook, 1974 January: Includes: "Poem Ideas and Notes on Poems"
Item 19: Notebook, 1975 January: Includes: "Poem Ideas, SBCA Conference, and Notes on Ara Aitoo (sic)"
Item 20: Notebook, 1975 November: Includes: "Robeson"
Item 21: Notebook, undated
Item 22: Notebook, 1982 February - September
Item 23: Notebook, 1982 September - 1983 August
Item 24: Notebook, 1983 September - 1986 August
Item 25: Notebook, 1986 September - 1987 February
Item 26: Notebook, 1986 December - 1987 February
Item 27: Notebook, 1987: Includes: "Cleveland Notes and Original Notes"
Item 28: Notebook, 1987 March - October: Includes: "New Plays Ideas and Covington Property"
Item 29: Notebook, 1987 October - 1988 March

Box 100

Item 1: Notebook, 1988 March - September
Item 2: Notebook, 1988 September - 1989 March
Item 3: Notebook, 1989 March - June: Includes: "Dakar"
Item 4: Notebook, 1989 August - November
Item 5: Notebook: summer and fall, 1989: Includes: "Journal Notes"
Item 6: Notebook, circa 1989
Item 7: Travel log, 1989 December - 1990 April
Item 8: Travel log, 1990 April - June
Item 9: Travel log, 1990 July - November
Item 10: Travel log, 1990 December - 1991 March
Item 11: Travel log, 1991 March - September
Item 12: Travel log, 1991 September = 1992 May
Item 13: Travel log, 1992 June - 1993 February
Item 14: Travel log, 1993 March - September
Item 15: Travel log, 1993 September - 1994 January: Includes: "Dimensions - All Bags"
Item 16: Travel log, 1994 February - 1995 February
Item 17: Travel log, 1996 June - 1997 May
Item 18: Travel log, 1997 December
Item 19: Travel log, 1998 April - June

Box 101

Item 1: Notebook, 1995-1997: Includes: "Poetry Slo, Faith (sic) Childs Notes, Hoyt Fuller Pard (sic), John Comes (sic) Towns, and Gina (sic) Book Notes"
Item 2: Notebook, circa 1995: Includes: autobiographical narrative.
Item 3: Notebook, circa 1997: Includes: autobiographical narrative.
Item 4: Notebook, 1996 August - October
Item 5: Notebook, 1997 January - February: Includes: "New York"
Item 6: Notebook, 1997 February - March
Item 7: Notebook, 1997 November - 1998 April
Item 8: Notebook, 1997 July - 1998 February: Includes: "General Notes, African Notes 7/7 Gambia, Activist Psychological Problems, and Country of Strangers 8/19"
Item 9: Notebook, 1997 November - 1998 January
Item 10: Notebook, 1997 December - 1998 January
Item 11: Notebook, 1998 February
Item 12: Notebook, 1998 April - June

Box 102

Item 1: Notebook, undated: Includes: untitled poems.
Item 2: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Philadelphia, Mississippi (sic) Outline, Poems, and NAACP"
Item 3: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Dirty Dozen Tapes, Andrew Young, and Charleston"
Item 4: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Big D"
Item 5: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Selma Workbook, Outline of Work, Mississippi Content Outline, and Tuskegee"
Item 6: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Various Notes"
Item 7: Notebook, undated
Item 8: Notebook, undated
Item 9: Notebook, undated
Item 10: Notebook, undated
Item 11: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Country of Strangers"
Item 12: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Selma Notes and Gilbert Academy"
Item 13: Notebook, undated
Item 14: Notebook, undated
Item 15: Notebook, undated
Item 16: Notebook, undated: Includes: "African Notes and Brass Band Notes"

Box 103

Item 1: Notebook, undated
Item 2: Notebook, undated
Item 3: Notebook, undated
Item 4: Notebook, undated
Item 5: Notebook, undated
Item 6: Notebook, undated
Item 7: Notebook, undated
Item 8: Notebook: Mississippi Delta, undated
Item 9: Notebook: Autobiography, undated
Item 10: Notebook: Autobiography, undated: Includes: "Oakland Notes-USC"
Item 11: Notebook, undated: Includes: "Diaspora Notes"
Item 12: Note fragments, undated
Item 13: Note fragments, undated

Box 104

Item 1: Notebook: Journal Meetings, 1975 November 11 - 1979 January 21
Item 2: Notebook: Louisiana History Notes, 1978 December 30 - 1979 December 11
Item 3: Notebook: Mississippi Documentary, 1979
Item 4: Notebook: Mississippi Documentary, 1989
Item 5: Notebook: Mississippi Outlines, undated
Item 6: Notebook: New Orleans Journal, 1986 September 23 - November 4
Item 7: Notebook: New Orleans Journal I, undated

Box 105

Item 1: Notebook: New Orleans Journal II, 1987 November 15 - 1989 July 29
Item 2: Notebook: New Orleans Journal, undated
Item 3: Notebook: New Orleans Journal, undated
Item 4: Notes: New Orleans Journal, undated

Box 106

Item 1: Notebook, 1974 January: Includes: "Goddard Poems, Unused Poems, and Introspection No. 4"
Item 2: Notebook, 1974 August: Includes: "Poems, Poems not used, and On Claiborne Avenue"

Box 107

Item 1: Notebook, 1977: Includes: "Danced draft"
Item 2: Notebook, 1980: Includes: "Legacy, River Road Sketches, and Prospectus for book on Black New Orleans"
Item 3: Notebook, 1996-1997: Includes: "Essay Notes, and General Theory Note"

Box 108

Item 1: Notebook, 1974 January - June
Item 2: Notebook, 1974 June - September: Includes: "St. Thomas Notes, Mark Essex Salute, and poems - Dear Gilbert Academy and Saturday Canal Street"
Item 3: Notebook, 1974 October - 1975 April: Includes: "Armstrong Poem, Secret Messages, Octave Lilley Notes, Frankenstein Poem, City Fragment Selections, and The Groppitti (sic) of Springfield"
Item 4: Notebook, 1975 April - August: Includes: "Poems - Octave Lilley Funeral, African Proverbs from Finnegon (sic), English Turn (draft of final version), and Bit & Pieces"
Item 5: Notebook, 1975 August - October: Includes: "Memories of Covington House, Funeral of Ingrid Kelly, Marigny, Free Men of (sic) Reflection, Concert at Superdome, Ten Years Since Return, String of New Orleans Memories, and New Notes on Notes of Fiction and Cinema"
Item 6: Notebook, 1975 November - 1976 January: Includes: "Morris Jeff in the (sic), and Lux Charlie's"

Box 109

Item 1: Notebook, 1976 January - March: Includes: "River Road Notes, Robeson Funeral Notes, Several Stories, Discussion of Robeson & CP with Paul Jr., Her I Stand, and letter to Kgositsile in rear"
Item 2: Notebook, 1976 March - May: Includes: "Original Draft of River Book Material"
Item 3: Notebook, 1976 May - June: Includes: "Notes on Gustav as story, Research on St. John the Baptist Rebellion and other notes on Louisiana Slavery, re: McDorough's marumission (sic) program, Notes for John Cook at Dillard, New Orleans Notebook, Charlie Green, Death of Alvin St. Cyn, Seventies poem, 1730 Rebellion plot, Leroy/rear end/as poem, 1795 Pointe Coupe Parish Insurrection Plot, and Poydras' Marumission (sic)"
Item 4: Notebook, 1976 July - September: Includes: "Ed Brown suggestions for Mississippi Documentary, Notes on Annie Devine/Canton, Miss, Notes on Yerby/Girl from Storyville, Notes on CADT proposal, Notes on poem for Willie, and Tennis Notes"
Item 5: Notebook: workbook, 1976 September - 1977 January: Includes: "Kgositsile notes and Poem - If You Whisper"
Item 6: Notebook, 1976 October - December: Includes: "Notes on the Moon, Notes on Black American atypical (sic) journeys (theoretical background for SJ and the concept of journey for me), Notes on Wilson Harris-Henry (sic), story theory notes/with Wilson Harris, fiction notes, Idaho, fiction notes/journeys, great pyramid mathematical principals, Marcus Christian Memorial, Leonard Lee Funeral, and Mister Jelly Roll"
Item 7: Notebook, 1976 August - October
Item 8: Notebook, 1976 December - 1977 March: Includes: "Hernton Me Decline Man notes, Death of Hutton Meise (sic) notes, police brutality hearing, and Ishmael Read & radical writing"

Box 110

Item 1: Notebook, 1977 March 18-21: Includes: "Notes on River Shores, Notes on River Book, Fannie Lou Hamer Funeral, and Akan (sic) terms"
Item 2: Notebook: workbook, 1977 April - July
Item 3: Notebook, 1977 June - November: Includes: "Beginning of Idaho, breakdown of readings and fees, copy for River Book section to First World, St. Helena poem, Tennis notes, and 1977 readings"
Item 4: Notebook, 1977 December - 1978 January: Includes: "Idaho notes, poems - Night Letter for D, Governor's Funeral, and Lux Charlie's"
Item 5: Notebook: Hot, hot summer..., workbook, 1977 July - August: Includes: "Mrs. Devine, comments by Bannerman, Bouie, and Monet"
Item 6: Notebook: workbook, 1977 August - September: Includes: "Viewing Robeson's Body, Notes on 'Governor's" Second Line, Notes on African Aesthetics/Okike (sic), Perkins & James notes, and Irving Johnson notes"
Item 7: Notebook: workbook, 1977 July 28 - 31: Includes: "Idaho - continued, Mrs. Devine, comments by Flukie (sic), Ed Brown, and Unita Blackwell Wright"

Box 111

Item 1: Notebook, 1977 September - October: Includes: "Harlem Memories, Idaho, idea for Company Meeting, and Himes notes/service"
Item 2: Notebook, 1977 November 2-25: Includes: "Idaho notes, Dancing notes, Carol Gaudin (sic)/Concert, SBCA/Thanksgiving/Atlanta, notes on George Jackson book, and River Road notes"
Item 3: Notebook, 1978 January - March: Includes: "detailed Idaho notes, St. Thomas notes, Robeson interview notes, Company Meeting notes, River Road notes for interviews with interview with Pinkie Williams and St. Thomas research, Tulane Library slave research notes, Oakwood and Syracuse, On Rivers, and Annie Devine notes"
Item 4: Notebook, 1978 March - May: Includes: "Poetry, Slow Poem 'We Speak to you...', Idaho, and Company Meeting Ideas"
Item 5: Notebook, 1978 May - August: Includes: "SBCA Tougaloo, detailed train station/Idaho notes, and poems - Waveland, For Kgositsile, and In the Land Below Sea Level"
Item 7: Notebook, 1978 August - September: Includes: "Current writing projects poems, essays, and reviews, Mississippi Documentary, Afro-American Lit Background notes, notes on Bolden book, and poems - Bathing, The LES, and Water Attracts Us"
Item 8: Notebook, 1978 October - December: Includes: "Beihet (sic) notes, notes for Governor's Funeral, South Carolina research, SBCA notes Austin, Mystery of Bolden, visit & St. Louis No. 2, and poem - For Denmark Vesey (sic)"

Box 112

Item 1: Notebook, 1978 August - 1979 March: Includes: "Review of Howard (University) and SBCA (sic), and Idaho draft and notes"
Item 2: Notebook, 1978 December - 1979 February: Includes: "Train Station Notes, The Boy Who Danced, Idaho, and Maguiz (sic) & us of the supernatural"
Item 3: Journal, 1979 February - March: Includes: "Kalamu & Hernton Notes, Congo Square Poetry & how notes, and poems"
Item 4: Journal, 1979 May - September: Includes: "Poems - For Willie and Mississippi Documentary Interviews"
Item 5: Journal: Time of Pisces, 1979 March - May: Includes: "Poems - Gone Like It Come, Idaho, and Lecture notes on Black Culture at Loyola"
Item 6: Journal, 1979 September - December: Includes: "Sterling Brown, River Road, and Poems - Governor's Funeral notes, Aunt Lula's Funeral, Marlin (sic), Texas notes, fiction notes, Train Stations (last design), Danced details (Boy Who Danced Story), and Dusmane Timbere (sic) visit and conversation"
Item 7: Journal, 1979 December - 1980 March: Includes: "Longhair's Wake, Longhair's Funeral, Man Going Beserk in Mule's, Disco Scenes, Geddes and Sue Jan, Voodoo, Dr. John, and working with Andrew"

Box 113

Item 1: Journal, 1980 March - July: Includes: "Marcus Christian notes, For D notes, and Dr. Andrew Young's Funeral"
Item 2: Journal, 1980 July - November: Includes: "Marchus Christian notes, Covington Photo Identifications, Governor's Funderal, Snake's Embassy, and Tommy Watson poem"
Item 3: Journal, 1980 November - 1981 March: Includes: "Sterling Brown reading and Snake's Embassy notes"
Item 4: Journal: Time of New Beginning, 1981 March - June: Includes: "For D notes"
Item 5: Journal, 1981 August - December: Includes: "Notes from conversation with Andy on Selma Bridge March, Quotes from Jim Forman book on the Movement, Danced notes, and Idaho note"
Item 6: Journal, 1981 December - 1982 March: Includes: "Cliff Jone's Father's Funeral"
Item 7: Journal, 1982 June - September: Includes: "Lorenzo Thomas notes"

Box 114

Item 1: Journal, 1982 March - June
Item 2: Journal, 1982 September - December: Includes: "Lorenzo (Thomas), budgets, Barry's games, New Orleans notebook, Idaho, and Second Line"
Item 3: Journal, 1982 December - 1983 March: Includes: "Idaho, Magic Realism, Dorothy Medallion (sic) poem notes, notes on Tolson's Odyssey, CORE history notes, Magic Realism, and For D notes"
Item 4: Journal, 1983 March - June: Includes: "Before I Die notes, and Glass House poem"
Item 5: Journal, 1983 June - September: Includes: "Notes on discussion with Clayton Riley re: King and Idaho notes"
Item 6: Journal, 1983 September - December: Includes: "Fiction notes, Idaho, Zydeco Festival and Northup Country, Ponter's Funeral, and Secrets of the Great Pyramid notes"

Box 115

Item 1: Journal, 1983 December - 1984 March: Includes: "Book notes on voice and Treme, and Idaho"
Item 2: Journal, 1984 March - April: Includes: "Notes on (sic) of Cleveland Avenue, lessons as theme, Andy as aggressive ambassador - youth to maturity, father to Father to Father, New Orleans background, notes on E.D. Nixon and King, and Benjamin Mays Funeral and reflections"
Item 3: Journal, 1984 April - May
Item 4: Journal, 1984 May - July: Includes: "post-Birmingham notes, Larry's critical notes, New Orleans section, notes from Worth Long on Selma, outline for book, John Lewis notes on SACC/SCLC conflicts, good on Albany and Selma, and Portrait of MLK"
Item 5: Journal, 1984 July - September: Includes: "Sexuality and Racism (MLK), Memphis Oral History, and Idaho"
Item 6: Journal, 1984 September - December: Includes: "Selma notes and King notes"

Box 116

Item 1: Journal, 1984 December - 1985 February
Item 2: Journal, 1985 February - April: Includes: "Idaho notes, Stylistic notes, Camara Faye memoir, Jim Farmer book notes and comparisons to SCLC, and Henry Mitchell notes"
Item 3: Journal, 1985 April - June: Includes: "Gustav notes"
Item 4: Journal, 1985 June - September: Includes: "Idaho"
Item 5: Journal, 1985 September - November: Includes: "River Road narrative"
Item 6: Journal, 1985 November - 1986 January: Includes: "Composite Idaho notes, and Andrew Young re-outline notes"

Box 117

Item 1: Journal, 1986 January - February
Item 2: Journal, 1986 February - May: Includes: "Memphis, Southern Journey towns and notes"
Item 3: Journal, 1986 May - August: Includes: "New Orleans Journal notes, Southern Journey notes, and letter to Larry London notes"
Item 4: Journal, 1986 August - October: Includes: "Poems, story notes, For D, Governor's Funeral, and Ellena Tatum's Funeral"
Item 5: Journal, 1986 October - December: Includes: "AJY (Andrew Young) re-outline in rear"
Item 6: Journal, 1986 December - 1987 January: Includes: "Voyage to West Africa"

Box 118

Item 1: Journal, 1987 January - March: Includes: "Gambia"
Item 2: Journal, 1987 March - June
Item 3: Journal, 1987 July - September
Item 4: Journal, 1987 July - December
Item 5: Journal, 1987 September - 1988 January
Item 6: Journal, 1988 January - March

Box 119

Item 1: Journal, 1988 March - June: Includes: "Buddy Bolden, Uncle Louie's (sic) Funeral, Robert Costley Memorial, Suicide of Jean Kidd's son, and Gabriel's Wedding"
Item 2: Journal, 1988 June - September: Includes: "James Black's death, funeral, and wake"
Item 3: Journal, 1988 June - July
Item 4: Journal, 1988 September - November: Includes: "Notes on Aunt Bell on family history"
Item 5: Journal, 1988 November - 1989 January: Includes: "BTW Notes"
Item 6: Journal, 1989 January - April: Includes: "Naipaul - A Time in the South, Gambia/Dakar, Kover's (sic) Mother"

Box 120

Item 1: Journal, 1989 April - July
Item 2: Journal, 1989 July - September: Includes: "On Great African Writers"
Item 3: Journal, 1989 September - October
Item 4: Journal, 1989 October - December: Includes: "Assessing New York, notes on Free Southern Theater, its value in New Orleans, and character notes"
Item 5: Journal, 1989 December - 1990 January: Includes: "Funeral of Daisy Young, Brass Band Film, original drafting notes from Southern Journey proposal"
Item 6: Journal, 1990 January - March: Includes: "Release of Nelson Mandella from prison and vote on WWOZ"
Item 7: Journal, 1990 March - June

Box 121

Item 1: Journal, 1990 June - August
Item 2: Journal, 1990 August - September: Includes: "Isaquera County and Greenville Notes"
Item 3: Journal, 1990 September - November: Includes: "Civil Rights Oral History, Southern Journey, New Orleans, and Freddy Kohlman Funeral"
Item 4: Journal, 1990 November - 1991 January
Item 5: Journal, 1991 January - February
Item 6: Journal, 1991 March - April: Includes: "Orangeburg and Charleston"

Box 122

Item 1: Journal, 1991 April - July: Includes: "Charleston, St. Augustine, Gonzales, Albany, and Jackson Freedom Riders Conference"
Item 2: Journal, 1991 July - November: Includes: "Albany Notes, Selma Notes, and Mississippi Notes"
Item 3: Journal, 1991 November - 1992 January
Item 4: Journal, 1992 January - March
Item 5: Journal, 1992 March - June
Item 6: Journal, 1992 June - August

Box 123

Item 1: Journal, 1992 August - November
Item 2: Journal, 1992 November - 1993 January
Item 3: Journal, 1993 January - April: Includes: "Thurgood's Funeral, and '...only from the skill of the slain.'"
Item 4: Journal, 1993 April - June
Item 5: Journal, 1993 June - August
Item 6: Journal, 1993 August
Item 7: Journal, 1993 September - November

Box 124

Item 1: Journal, 1993 November - 1994 January: Includes: "notes on Lower East Side and Umbra, and Morehouse Notes"
Item 2: Journal, 1994 January - March: Includes: "New Orleans, A.C. Dutton, and baseball memories - Drake Robinson and Don Newcombe"
Item 3: Journal, 1994 March - May: Includes: "New Orleans (structure), death of Danny Barker, New Orleans (My I Story? Structure)"
Item 4: Journal, 1994 May - July: Includes: "Signing of Southern Journey with Morrow, interview with Roger Xavier of Vicksburg on Mississippi River, and O. J. Simpson Case beginning"
Item 5: Journal, 1994 July - August: Includes: "Coup in Gambia"
Item 6: Journal, 1994 August - October

Box 125

Item 1: Journal, 1994 October - December: Includes: "New Orleans book"
Item 2: Journal, 1994 December - February: Includes: "Perec/New Orleans"
Item 3: Journal, 1995 February - March: Includes: "Notes on Ellison, Tennessee Williams Festival, Saddi, and AJY (Andrew Young) Chimes to Central Church"
Item 4: Journal, 1995 March - April: Includes: "Buffington and New Orleans"
Item 5: Journal, 1995 April - June: Includes: "Notes on Greenville, Heart of Darkness (sic), Politics - it's value, West Point, Special African American Readiness, Indians, La, limitations of the NAACP, Delta (sic) I after L.C. Dorsey interview, and Atlanta fine schools in Harlem"
Item 6: Journal, 1995 June - July: Includes: "Approaching Completion and Saddi"
Item 7: Journal, 1995 July - September: Includes: "New Orleans"

Box 126

Item 1: Journal, 1995 September - November: Includes: "Poncham Prison notes from interview"
Item 2: Journal, 1995 November - December
Item 3: Journal, 1995 December - 1996 February: Includes: "New Orleans"
Item 4: Journal, 1996 February - April
Item 5: Journal, 1996 April - June: Includes: "New Orleans"
Item 6: Journal, 1996 June - September

Box 127

Item 1: Journal, 1996 July - August: Includes: "New Orleans"
Item 2: Journal, 1996 September - October
Item 3: Journal, 1996 October - December: Includes: "Stories and history notes"
Item 4: Journal, 1996 December - 1997 July
Item 5: Journal, 1997 March - May
Item 6: Journal, 1997 May - June: Includes: "Atlanta, NY, Philadelphia, poems, and Kwaku's (sic) funeral"
Item 7: Journal, 1997 July: Includes: "(sic) Africa, Gambia, Africa - luggage and other necessities, Guinea - Bissau, from Senekundu (sic) to Guinea-Bissau, and return from Africa"

Box 128

Item 1: Journal, 1997 July - October
Item 2: Journal, 1997 October - November: Includes: "Notes on my poems"
Item 3: Journal, 1997 November - 1998 January: Includes: "Outline for autobiography/memoir"
Item 4: Journal, 1998 January - March: Includes: "New York"
Item 5: Journal, 1998 January
Item 6: Journal, 1998 March - May
Item 7: Journal, 1998 May

Box 129

Folder 1: Transcript of 1965 journal, undated
Folder 2: Transcript of 1966 journal, undated
Folder 3: Transcript of 1967 journal, undated
Folder 4: Typescript journal: Memphis, TN, 1976 June 14 - 21: [photocopy]
Folder 5: Transcript of 1968 journal, undated
Folder 6: Typescript journal, circa 1974: [Topics include: Armstrong poem; Barker poem; River poem; River Project; Roy Lewis; Pan Africanism and Marxist themes in Amiri Baraka's work and the term "reverse racism"; writing themes; and analysis of the work of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison with particular reference to Morrison's Sula (1974).]
Folder 7: Typescript journal [incomplete], circa 1975: [Topics include: Octave Lilly; Ritual Murder plot notations; finances; house renovations; and daily happenings.]
Folder 8: Typescript journal [incomplete], circa 1976: [Topics include: Andrew Young; River book; the work of Harnett Kane; Treme project; Robeson piece; The Game; Claiborne article; and daily happenings with impressions and opinions of various sports figures.]
Folder 9: Typescript journal [incomplete], circa 1977: [Topics include: Brutality hearing; St. Marks; Black and politics in New Orleans; piece on the Southern Black writer; Gustav and character descriptions; Octave Lilly piece; and fundraising for Black documentary history project.]
Folder 10: Typescript journal [incomplete], circa 1978: [Topics include: Interview with Longhair; the perspective basis of the story Gustov; Poem for Willie; writing fiction; analysis of the work of Sirley Anne Grau; stories and poems including The Game, Radio (for Jim), Idaho, Robeson poem; the work of Kalamu ya Salaam; and Charles Rowell and Callaloo.]
Folder 11: Typescript journal [incomplete], circa 1979: [Topics include: the work of Marcus Christian; interview with Calvin Hernton; Andrew Young; current work the River Book and Boy Who Danced.]
Folder 12: Typescript journal, circa 1980: [Topics include: Professor Longhair's funeral; characterizations of current writing projects; notes for the piece For D; planning work with Andrew Young; Southern Exposure piece; Annie Devine piece; Jazz book piece; Marcus Christian piece; discussion of the history of slavery and New Orleans as it relates to his writing; and Dent's various views regarding the disenfranchised Black community in New Orleans.]
Folder 13: Typescript journal [incomplete], circa 1981: [Topics include: the Andrew Young project; story notes and ideas; writing narratives; the Hoo-Doo Festival piece; The Boy Who Danced; The Listener notes and ideas; and outline for a piece about Brathwaite.]
Folder 14: Typescript journal [incomplete], circa 1985: [Topics include: a book review for James Farmer; a description of a performance by Nina Simone; planning format for an oral history book; story notes for Cleveland Avenue (fiction); Dent's views on racism in New Orleans including his perception of race and culture; a description of Celestine Cook's funeral and reflection about her life; notes the completion of the draft of Andrew Young's book; and Dent's perception about the start of gentrification of the Treme neighborhood in New Orleans.]
Folder 15: Typescript journal fragments, undated
Folder 16: Typescript journal: notes, undated

Box 130

Item 1: Appointment book, undated
Item 2: Appointment book, undated
Item 3: Appointment book, 1959
Item 4: Appointment book, undated
Item 5: Appointment book, undated
Item 6: Appointment book, undated
Item 7: Appointment book, 1961
Item 8: Appointment book, 1962
Item 9: Appointment book, 1963
Item 10: Appointment book, 1964
Item 11: Appointment book, 1965
Item 12: Appointment book, 1966
Item 13: Appointment book, 1967
Item 14: Appointment book, 1968
Item 15: Appointment book, 1969
Item 16: Appointment book, 1969
Item 17: Appointment book, 1970
Item 18: Appointment book, 1970: Includes: "BLKARTSOUTH and two business cards"
Item 19: Appointment book, 1971
Item 20: Appointment book, 1972
Item 21: Appointment book, 1973

Box 131

Item 1: Appointment book, 1974
Item 2: Appointment book, 1975
Item 3: Appointment book, 1976
Item 4: Appointment book, 1977
Item 5: Appointment book, 1978
Item 6: Appointment book, 1979
Item 7: Appointment book, 1980
Item 8: Appointment book, 1981
Item 9: Appointment book, 1982
Item 10: Appointment book, 1983
Item 11: Appointment book, 1983
Item 12: Appointment book, 1984
Item 13: Appointment book, 1985
Item 14: Appointment book, 1986
Item 15: Appointment book, 1987
Item 16: Appointment book, 1987
Item 17: Appointment book, 1988

Box 132

Item 1: Appointment book, 1989
Item 2: Appointment book, 1990
Item 3: Appointment book, 1991
Item 4: Appointment book, 1992
Item 5: Appointment book, 1993
Item 6: Appointment book, 1994
Item 7: Appointment book, 1995
Item 8: Appointment book, 1995
Item 9: Appointment book, 1996
Item 10: Appointment book, 1996
Item 11: Appointment book, 1996
Item 12: Appointment book, 1997
Item 13: Appointment book, 1997
Item 14: Appointment book, 1998
Item 15: Appointment book, 1998
Item 16: Appointment book, 1998

Box 133

Item 1: Day planner, 1984
Item 2: Day planner, 1985
Item 3: Day planner, 1987
Item 4: Day planner, 1987
Item 5: Day planner, 1987

Box 134

Item 1: Day planner, 1988
Item 2: Day planner, 1990
Item 3: Day planner, 1991
Item 4: Day planner, 1992
Item 5: Day planner, 1993

Box 135

Item 1: Day planner, 1994
Item 2: Day planner, 1995
Item 3: Day planner, 1996
Item 4: Day planner, 1997
Item 5: Day planner for travel, 1997

Box 136

Item 1: Day planner, 1997
Item 2: Day planner, 1997
Item 3: Day planner, 1998