Jerry Washington Ward Collection (T/032) Box List

Series 1: Personal: 1959-2010; n.d. 3 boxes.

Subseries 1.1: Personal Matters. 1959-2010; n.d. 34 folders.
Box 1, folder 1: Curriculum vita, including Chicken Bones journal, 1993- 2010; n.d.
Box 1, folder 2: Personal interview, 1993.
Box 1, folder 3: Personal letters: John H. Johnson; Sterling Stuckey, 1976; 1992.
Box 1, folder 4: Awards and certificates, 1978-2001.
Box 1, folder 5: Comprehensive bibliography of Ward’s works, compiled by Rose Marshall, 2009.
Box 1, folder 6: Political affiliation: Bumper stickers, correspondence (including signed letter from President Clinton), and mementoes, 1996.
Box 1, folder 7: Black Heritage stamp collection, 1989-1991.
Box 1, folder 8: “Remembering Willie,” a program for Willie Morris, 2001; and correspondence, program and poem for friends and colleagues: Briggs, Lovelace, and Brocks-Shedd, 1974; 1981; 1992.
Box 1, folder 9: Cultural Communication in a World Community, program for Tougaloo Annual Spring Arts Festival, 1959; Founders’ Day Convocation, program autographed by B. B. King, 1973.
Box 1, folder 10: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Matters, including MLK breakfast program for 1998, 1977; 1981; 1997; 1998.
Box 1, folder 11: Participation in events by Ward: Programs and flyers, 1977-2003.
Box 1, folder 12: Collected brochures and programs: General announcements and programs for national events, 1972-2001.
Box 1, folder 13: Collected brochures and programs: Brochures, pamphlets and programs for art, educational and literary events, 1988-1998.
Box 1, folder 14: Collected brochures and programs: Brochures, pamphlets and programs for general events, 1998-2004.
Box 1, folder 15: Collected brochures, flyers and programs: American History Association: Conference program, “The Study of Teaching of Afro-American,” 1988.
Box 1, folder 16: Collected brochures and programs: Ascension posters and programs of editors and poets, 1980-1982.
Box 1, folder 17: Collected brochures and programs: “An Evening of Jazz: From Duke to Cecil,” program, 1993.
Box 1, folder 18: Collected brochures and programs: Black filmmakers awards ceremony program (autographed by some recipients), 1981.
Box 1, folder 19: Collected brochures and programs: Black History, 198, Legacy, calendar, 1983.
Box 1, folder 20: Collected brochures and programs: Conference on African and African America Studies program, two copies, 1974.
Box 1, folder 21: Collected brochures and programs: Eudora Welty Programs: 7th Annual Americana Award, 1980; The Ponder Heart, a play presented by the New Stage Theatre, 1982; The Eudora Welty Film and Fiction Festival, 1995.
Box 1, folder 22: Collected brochures and programs: First National African American Crafts Conference and Jubilee, program, 1979.
Box 1, folder 23: Collected brochures and programs: Gentleman Caller, program for play, 1978.
Box 1, folder 24: Collected brochures and programs: Jackson Advocate Awards Banquet, program, 1982.
Box 1, folder 25: Collected brochures and programs: Jackson Branch of National Business League Award Presentation, program, 1984.
Box 1, folder 26: Collected brochures and programs: Mahogany Performing Arts Association: Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, play program, n.d.
Box 1, folder 27: Collected brochures and programs: Middle Atlantic Black Writer’s Association Conference, program, 1983.
Box 1, folder 28: Collected brochures, flyers and programs: Neighborhood Arts Program of the Arkansas Arts Center: Black History Week program, 1977.
Box 1, folder 29: Collected brochures, flyers and programs: Othello: Programs for opera and play presented by Liz White, 1979-1981.
Box 1, folder 30: Collected brochures, flyers and programs: Southern Conference for African American Studies Convention, 1990.
Box 1, folder 31: Collected brochures and programs: Southern Regional Black Arts Conference, program, 1979.
Box 1, folder 32: Collected brochures and programs: Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, conference and exhibition program, 1983.
Box 1, folder 33: Collected brochures and programs: Writers’ Workshop and Mississippi Literary Competition Awards program, 1993.
Box 1, folder 34: Notes: Personal notes and obituaries, 1981, 1989-1993, n.d.

Subseries 1.2: General Correspondence. 1971-2009; n.d. 43 folders.
Box 2, folder 1: 1971-1975.
Box 2, folder 2: 1976.
Box 2, folder 3: 1977.
Box 2, folder 4: 1978.
Box 2, folder 5: 1979.
Box 2, folder 6: 1980.
Box 2, folder 7: 1981.
Box 2, folder 8: 1982.
Box 2, folder 9: January-August 1983.
Box 2, folder 10: September-December 1983.
Box 2, folder 11: 1984.
Box 2, folder 12: 1985.
Box 2, folder 13: January-June 1986.
Box 2, folder 14: July-December 1986.
Box 2, folder 15: January-June 1987.
Box 2, folder 16: July-December 1987.
Box 2, folder 17: 1988.
Box 2, folder 18: 1989.
Box 2, folder 19: 1990.
Box 2, folder 20: 1991.
Box 2, folder 21: January-August 1992.
Box 2, folder 22: September-December 1992.
Box 2, folder 23: January-June 1993.
Box 2, folder 24: July-December 1993.
Box 2, folder 25: January-June 1994.
Box 2, folder 26: July-December 1994.
Box 2, folder 27: January-June 1995.
Box 2, folder 28: July-December 1995.
Box 2, folder 29: 1996.
Box 2, folder 30: January-June 1997.
Box 2, folder 31: July-December 1997.
Box 2, folder 32: 1998-1999.
Box 2, folder 33: 2000.
Box 2, folder 34: 2001.
Box 2, folder 35: 2002.
Box 2, folder 36: 2003.
Box 2, folder 37: 2004.
Box 2, folder 38: 2005.
Box 2, folder 39: 2006.
Box 2, folder 40: 2007.
Box 2, folder 41: 2008.
Box 2, folder 42: 2009.
Box 2, folder 43: Undated.

Subseries 1.3: Specific Correspondence. 1964-2009; n.d. 83 folders.
Box 2, folder 44: Dorothy Abbott: Outline for A Southern Literary Source Book and other correspondence, 1980-1989.
Box 2, folder 45: Margaret W. Alexander, 1975-1982.
Box 2, folder 46: Raymond Andrews, 1991.
Box 2, folder 47: Ron Arias, 1979.
Box 2, folder 48: Alvin Aubert, 1974-1997.
Box 2, folder 49: Laurence Avery, 1994.
Box 2, folder 50: Houston Baker, Jr., 1975-1988.
Box 2, folder 51: Gordon Ball, 1989-1993.
Box 2, folder 52: Barry Beckham, 1971-1983.

Box 3, folder 1: Paul Bjerk: Correspondence and photograph, 1998.
Box 3, folder 2: Ernst Borinski, 1981-1982.
Box 3, folder 3: Charlie Braxton, 1986-1995; n.d.
Box 3, folder 4: J. Braxton, 1976-1977.
Box 3, folder 5: Dana Chandler, 1971.
Box 3, folder 6: Kiara T.H. Cheatwood, 1991.
Box 3, folder 7: Thad Cochran, 1997.
Box 3, folder 8: Rose P. Davis, 1996.
Box 3, folder 9: Tom Dent, 1990-1993.
Box 3, folder 10: Charles Duke, 1994.
Box 3, folder 11: Gabrielle Edgecombe, 1987-1991.
Box 3, folder 12: Michael Fabre, 1979-1981.
Box 3, folder 13: Chester Fontenot, 1978-1980.
Box 3, folder 14: Gloria Gayles, 1975-1978.
Box 3, folder 15: Myrtle Glascoe, 1984.
Box 3, folder 16: Maryemma Graham, 1984-1993.
Box 3, folder 17: Sheldon Hackney, 1993.
Box 3, folder 18: Michael Harper, 1973-1985.
Box 3, folder 19: Stephen Henderson, 1980-1983.
Box 3, folder 20: Onita Estes Hicks, 1988-1992.
Box 3, folder 21: Judy Hogan, 1984-1991.
Box 3, folder 22: Alton Hornsby, 1984-1990.
Box 3, folder 23: Dolan Hubbard, 1982-1991.
Box 3, folder 24: David Jackson, 1973-1981.
Box 3, folder 25: Honoree Jeffers, 1995-1996.
Box 3, folder 26: Trellie Jeffers, 1991-1995.
Box 3, folder 27: Joanne Jimason, 1977-1985.
Box 3, folder 28: Nathaniel Johnson, 1974-1990.
Box 3, folder 29: Kirkland Jones, 1991-1992.
Box 3, folder 30: Suzanne Jones, 1993.
Box 3, folder 31: George Kent, 1975-1978.
Box 3, folder 32: Etheridge Knight, 1973.
Box 3, folder 33: Hillery Knight, 1978-1980.
Box 3, folder 34: Audra Lorde, 1973.
Box 3, folder 35: Walter Lunger, 1989.
Box 3, folder 36: Walter Lunger 1990-1994.
Box 3, folder 37: Naomi Madgett, 1975-1987.
Box 3, folder 38: Reginald Martin, 1991-1993; 2008.
Box 3, folder 39: C. Leigh McInnes, 2009.
Box 3, folder 40: Herman McKeever, 1976-1977.
Box 3, folder 41: Neil McMillan, 1994-1995.
Box 3, folder 42: Ethelbert Miller, 1975-2008.
Box 3, folder 43: Arthenia Bates Millican, 1973-1981.
Box 3, folder 44: Arthenia Bates Millican, 1991-2004.
Box 3, folder 45: Leonard Moore, 1983-1984.
Box 3, folder 46: Leonard Moore, 1985-1986.
Box 3, folder 47: David Morris and Tyree Guyton, 1993-1994.
Box 3, folder 48: Brenda Osby, 1978-1982.
Box 3, folder 49: John Paige, 1987-1989.
Box 3, folder 50: Raymond Patterson, 1991-1999.
Box 3, folder 51: Sterling Plump, 1980-1990.
Box 3, folder 52: Kevin Powell, 1997-2000.
Box 3, folder 53: Arnold Rampersad, 1993-1994.
Box 3, folder 54: Dudley Randall, 1975-1981.
Box 3, folder 55: Jeanne Reginald, 1964.
Box 3, folder 56: Charles Rowell, 1977-1979.
Box 3, folder 57: Kalamu ya Salaam of Bright Moments, 1990-1992.
Box 3, folder 58: John Salter, 1983.
Box 3, folder 59: John R. Sanders, 1993-1998.
Box 3, folder 60: Bettye Parker Smith, 1974-2006.
Box 3, folder 61: Alvin Sullivan, 1977-1978.
Box 3, folder 62: May M. Sullivan, 1975-1976.
Box 3, folder 63: Stephen H. Sumida, 1992.
Box 3, folder 64: Clyde Taylor, 1980-1981.
Box 3, folder 65: Lorenzo Thomas, correspondence with attachments, 1973-1991.
Box 3, folder 66: Joe Weixlmann, 1978-1993.
Box 3, folder 67: Thomas Whittaker, 1974-1976.
Box 3, folder 68: John Williams, 1979-1986.
Box 3, folder 69: William Winter, 1997.
Box 3, folder 70: Aurelia Young, 1995.
Box 3, folder 71: Ahmos Zu-Bolton, 1973-1990.
Box 3, folder 72: Ahmos Zu-Bolton, 1994-2001.
Box 3, folder 73: Ahmos Zu-Bolton, undated correspondence, Washington, D. C. highlighted.
Box 3, folder 74: Greeting and postcards, 1975-1995.

Series 2: Career: 1960-2009; n.d. 2 boxes.

Subseries 2.1: Tougaloo College. 1960-2009; n.d. 74 folders.
Box 4: folder 1: Administrative affairs: Owens administration: Correspondence (includes letter from Alice Walker to George Owens), programs and schedules, 1972-1983.
Box 4: folder 2: Administrative affairs: Lee administration: Correspondence, 1995-1997; Tougaloo News (Inauguration issue-Winter 1997).
Box 4: folder 3: Administrative affairs: Hogan administration: Correspondence, 2004-2007.
Box 4: folder 4: Administrative affairs: Administration survey of the African American Studies Department: Report by K.C. Morrison with correspondence, 1980.
Box 4: folder 5: Administrative affairs: Administrative memorandums: General topics, 1980; 1987; n.d.
Box 4: folder 6: Alumni affairs: English Alumni affairs, correspondence and accounts, 1983.
Box 4: folder 7: Alumni affairs: English/Journalism Alumni, correspondence/list, 1988-1989.
Box 4: folder 8: Alumni affairs: Class of 1964, Reunions, correspondence and accounts, 1984-1994.
Box 4: folder 9: Alumni affairs: English/Journalism: Correspondence, lists, and programs, 1988-1989.
Box 4: folder 10: Alumni affairs: Correspondence, 1994.
Box 4: folder 11: Alumni affairs: Hall of Fame Book, 2009; Induction of Theodore Jones, presentation notes, 1995.
Box 4: folder 12: Educational affairs: Alpha Kappa Mu (honor society): Correspondence, 1973-1982.
Box 4: folder 13: Educational affairs: Alpha Kappa Mu: Organizational documents and newsletters, 1980-1983, n.d.
Box 4: folder 14: Educational affairs: Alpha Kappa Mu: Programs from assemblies and ceremonies, 1979-1983.
Box 4: folder 15: Educational affairs: Alpha Kappa Mu: Applications, lists and receipts, 1981-1983.
Box 4: folder 16: Educational affairs: Alpha Lambda Delta: Accounting forms, 1979-1980.
Box 4: folder 17: Educational affairs: Art program proposal, Regina Turner, 1987; correspondence from Ron Schnell, n.d.
Box 4: folder 18: Educational affairs: Basic Studies Division: Work materials, 1978-1979.
Box 4: folder 19: Educational affairs: Basic Studies Division: Correspondence, 1978-1987.
Box 4: folder 20: Educational affairs: Basic Studies Division: Lists and schedules, 1978-1979.
Box 4: folder 21: Educational affairs: Ben Bailey: Correspondence, 1974-2003.
Box 4: folder 22: Educational affairs: Black Studies: “Selected Annotations in Black Studies,” 1991.
Box 4: folder 23: Educational affairs: Black Studies: Curriculum pamphlet, n.d.
Box 4: folder 24: Educational affairs: Black Studies report, 1980.
Box 4: folder 25: Educational affairs: Correspondence, 1974-2001.
Box 4: folder 26: Educational affairs: Speeches at Tougaloo College, 1980-2000.
Box 4: folder 27: English Department: Handbook, 1979-1980.
Box 4: folder 28: English Department: English and English Journalism Majors: Documents and syllabus, 1982-1983.
Box 4: folder 29: English Department: “Writing the Senior Paper,” 1995.
Box 4: folder 30: English Department: Position papers, 1981.
Box 4: folder 31: English Department: English 434, 1977.
Box 4: folder 32: English Department: English 439, poetry by Wes Miller, 1980.
Box 4: folder 33: English Department: English 440, memorandum, 1998.
Box 4: folder 34: English Department: English Seminar in Literary Topics: “Virgia Brocks Shedd: To Have Loved and Lost,” by Angela Lane, 1998.
Box 4: folder 35: English Department: “Notes for English Majors, Vol. 4,” 1983-1984.
Box 4: folder 36: English Department: “Notes for English Majors,” 1988-1990.
Box 4: folder 37: English Department: Writing across the Curriculum: Correspondence and documents, 1987-1989.
Box 4: folder 38: English Department: Workshops for Writing across the Curriculum, 2001.
Box 4: folder 39: English Department: Undergraduate literature conference, 1998.
Box 4: folder 40: Events: American Festival Project: Correspondence and documents, 1991-1993.
Box 4: folder 41: Events: American Festival Project: Mississippi Segment, documents, 1991.
Box 4: folder 42: Events: Assembly programs, 1976; 1978; 2000; 2001.
Box 4: folder 43: Events: Awards Banquet, 1992.
Box 4: folder 44: Events: Black College Quiz, 1981.
Box 4: folder 45: Events: Book Review Series, correspondence and schedules for faculty book review programs, 1978-1983.
Box 4: folder 46: Events: Commencement programs and address by Carl McCall, 1980; 1991; 1994.
Box 4: folder 47: Events: Forums for English Department: 1978; 1981; 2001.
Box 4: folder 48: Events: Forum for Tougaloo College Writers Group: “Our Being Multicultural in Mississippi,” 1994.
Box 4: folder 49: Events: “Freedom Summer Revisited,” programs and documents, 1979.
Box 4: folder 50: Events: “Freedom Summer Revisited,” correspondence, 1978-1979.
Box 4: folder 51: Events: Freedom Riders Conference program, 1991.
Box 4: folder 52: Events: Humanities Festival, 1993.
Box 4: folder 53: Events: “Celebrating King’s Dream,” faculty and staff reflections, 1986.
Box 4: folder 54: Events: Southern Black Cultural Alliance Meeting, 1980.
Box 4: folder 55: Events: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers: Correspondence, documents, schedules, 1984.
Box 4: folder 56: Events: Southern Literary Festival: Winners of writing competition, 1992.
Box 4: folder 57: Events: Symposium on Pan-Africanism, 1974.
Box 4: folder 58: Events: Symposium: African American History Symposium Review, 1995.
Box 4: folder 59: Events: “Tougaloo and the Humanities in the 1980’s,” campus conference with Margaret Walker Alexander and Aurelia Young as participants, program and report, 1981.
Box 4: folder 60: Faculty: Professional Development Plan for Jerry Ward, 1998.
Box 4: folder 61: Faculty writing: Ball, Gordon. “Seven Weeks in Poland.” Paper. n.d.
Box 4: folder 62: Faculty writing: Monro, John. “Literacy in College: Problems and Solutions.” Paper. 1986.
Box 4: folder 63: Faculty writing: Rotundo, Barbara. “Teaching at Tougaloo College.” n.d.
Box 4: folder 64: Library matters: Memos, pamphlets, and library information, 1973-2001.
Box 4: folder 65: Mellon program: Biographical project: Ernst Borinski, 1980.
Box 4: folder 66: Mellon program: Mellon grant: Jonathan Henderson Brooks project: Manuscript and notes, 1960; 1980; n.d.
Box 4: folder 67: Mellon program: Mellon grant: Jonathan Henderson Brooks project: Memorandum and notes, 1979-1980.
Box 4: folder 68: Mellon program: Mellon grant: Progress report, n.d.
Box 4: folder 69: Mellon program: Mellon scholars: Correspondence and schedules, 1981-1983, n.d.
Box 4: folder 70: Mellon program: Mellon scholars: Rian Bowie, correspondence, programs, 1997-2006.

Box 5, folder 1: Publications: Harambee, 1975; 1994; The Eagle Queen Report, 1994.
Box 5, folder 2: Publications: Tougaloo News, 1963-1964; 1973; 1980; 1982; 1983.
Box 5, folder 3: Publications: “The Tougaloo Knotbook,” n.d.
Box 5, folder 4: Publications: William Greaves Productions, correspondence and brochures, 1991-1994; n.d.

Subseries 2.2: Dillard University. 2002-2007. 4 folders.
Box 5, folder 5: Administrative: Correspondence and documents, 2002-2004.
Box 5, folder 6: Script for the Dillard University Crowning Ceremony, 2002-2003.

Subseries 2.3: Other Career Experiences. 1986-2000. 3 folders.
Box 5, folder 7: The Kwansei Gakuin University Program: Program summary, 2003.
Box 5, folder 8: University of Memphis: Correspondence, 1996.
Box 5, folder 9: National Humanities Fellow: Correspondence and documents, 1998-2000.
Box 5, folder 10: Agreements for consultant services, 1986.

Series 3: Works by Ward. 1970-2010; n.d. 5 boxes.

Subseries 3.1: Interviews: Written Transcripts. 1975-1995; n.d. 11 folders.
Box 6, folder 1: Margaret Walker Alexander, 1988.
Box 6, folder 2: Alvin Aubert, draft, 1988.
Box 6, folder 3: Houston A. Baker, Jr., 1980.
Box 6, folder 4: Tom Dent, draft, n.d.
Box 6, folder 5: Stephen E. Henderson, 1980.
Box 6, folder 6: Lance Jeffers, 1981.
Box 6, folder 7: A. Millican, 1975.
Box 6, folder 8: Hollis Watkins, March-April, 1995.
Box 6, folder 9: Hollis Watkins, May-June, 1995.
Box 6, folder 10: Hollis Watkins, July-October, 1995.
Box 6, folder 11: Hollis Watkins, November-December, 1995.

Subseries 3.2: Speeches. 1974-2010; n.d. 35 folders.
Box 6, folder 12: “Fathers and Sons: Reflections on ‘The Past is the Past’,” 1974.
Box 6, folder 13: “The Black Woman as Poet: Towards the Ideology,” incomplete copy, 1974.
Box 6, folder 14: “Black Fraternity, White University: A Statement on Continuing Relevance,” 1975.
Box 6, folder 15: Introductions and presentations, 1976-1979.
Box 6, folder 16: “The Black Educator and the Challenge of the Eighties,” 1977.
Box 6, folder 17: “Semantics and the Teaching of Writing,” 1977.
Box 6, folder 18: “Tougaloo College and Civic Involvement,” 1978.
Box 6, folder 19: “The Problem of Change in Recent Black Poetry,” 1978.
Box 6, folder 20: Introductions, presentations, tributes, and drafts, 1980-1983.
Box 6, folder 21: “How I Developed as a Writer,” 1981.
Box 6, folder 22: “Literature and Moral Development,” 1983.
Box 6, folder 23: “The 1960’s Civil Rights Movement in Retrospect: My Soul is Not Rested,” 1983.
Box 6, folder 24: “Retreat into Possibility: A Literary View of the Eighties,” 1983.
Box 6, folder 25: “Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander: The Transcendent Imagination,” 1983.
Box 6, folder 26: Introductions, presentations, tributes, 1985-1987.
Box 6, folder 27: “Dreams, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Quest for a World of Dignity,” 1987.
Box 6, folder 28: “Hirsch, Bloom, and the Proper Ends of Education,” 1988.
Box 6, folder 29: “Challenging the Dialogue: Some Contributions of Thomas C. Dent and Kalamu ya Salaam,” 1988.
Box 6, folder 30: “The Meaning of the Migration as Seen in Southern Literature,” with flyer, 1989.
Box 6, folder 31: “The Literature of Freedom (and Freed people),” lecture, 1989.
Box 6, folder 32: “Blueprint for the Study of Black South Literature,” 1990.
Box 6, folder 33: “Locating an American Reader,” 1990.
Box 6, folder 34: “Symposium: The Black Aesthetic,” opening remarks, 1990.
Box 6, folder 35: “Oral Narrative and Literature,” 1991.
Box 6, folder 36: Collected speeches on libraries and teaching, 1992.
Box 6, folder 37: “Literature: A Window on the Common Ground,” 1992.
Box 6, folder 38: “The Unfinished Inquiry of the Black Aesthetic,” 1993.
Box 6, folder 39: “The Choice and the Language of Honesty,” 1993.
Box 6, folder 40: “Race and Southern Literature: Imperative Fictions,” 1993.
Box 6, folder 41: “Memory and Black Experiences: The Making of Anthologies as Catalytic Activity and Responsibility,” 1993.
Box 6, folder 42: “CLA and the Black College: Toward the Year 2000,” 1994.
Box 6, folder 43: “Family Matters,” 1994.
Box 6, folder 44: “Lance Jeffers: His Life and Times,” 1994.
Box 6, folder 45: “African American Commitments: Military and Civilian Obligations,” 1995.
Box 6, folder 46: “Empowering Future Generations to Serve,” 1995.
Box 6, folder 47: “A Loss of Innocence: Redefining, Reading and Teaching American Literature,” with flyer, 1995.
Box 6, folder 48: “Words for the Silver Anniversary Gala of University Press of Mississippi,” 1995.
Box 6, folder 49: “Square Books Comments,” 1997.
Box 6, folder 50: “Narrative: A Shock of Recognition,” Charles Eaton Burch memorial lecture: speech, correspondence, and program, 2000.
Box 6, folder 51: “Values: Civil and Moral Responsibilities,” 2001.
Box 6, folder 52: “Reading Dubois When Color is not Blind,” 2003.
Box 6, folder 53: Speech at Community Book Center, 2009.
Box 6, folder 54: “Reading Race: Reading America,” 2010.
Box 6, folder 55: “A College Education: The 1980s and Beyond,” n.d.
Box 6, folder 56: “Toward Building a Poetic Community,” n.d.

Subseries 3.3: Reviews. 1970-2009; n.d. 59 folders.
Box 6, folder 57: “Hope Tied Up in Promises,” Julius Thompson, 1970.
Box 6, folder 58: “Wind Thoughts,” Pinky Gordon Lane, 1972.
Box 6, folder 59: “Pink Ladies in the Afternoon,” Naomi Madgett, 1972.
Box 6, folder 60: “The Old South,” Arna Bontemps, 1973.
Box 6, folder 61: “Interview with Black Writers,” John O’Brian, ed., 1973.
Box 6, folder 62: “The Poetry of the Negro,” Langston Hughes, ed., 1973-1974.
Box 6, folder 63: “The Salt Eaters, by Toni Cade Bambara,” and other reviews for the New Orleans Review, with correspondence, 1973-1981.
Box 6, folder 64: “Open Letter as Review,” 1975.
Box 6, folder 65: “Strains,” Dennis Brutus, 1975.
Box 6, folder 66: “New Directions from Don Lee,” Marlene Mosher, 1975.
Box 6, folder 67: “Inside the Devil’s Mouth,” Pamela Cobb, 1975.
Box 6, folder 68: “Aubert, Alvin, Feeling Through,” 1975.
Box 6, folder 69: “A Niggered Amen,” Ahmos Zu-Bolton, 1975.
Box 6, folder 70: “The Down of a Thistle,” Margaret E. Danner, 1976.
Box 6, folder 71: “Magnolia Street,” Tom Dent, 1976.
Box 6, folder 72: “Naked Against the Belly of the Earth,” Joanne Jimason, 1977.
Box 6, folder 73: “Women Surviving Massacre and Men: Nine Women Poets,” E. Ethelbert Miller, ed., 1977.
Box 6, folder 74: Review of Paulette Johnson’s work, 1979.
Box 6, folder 75: “Poetic Equation: Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker, 1979.
Box 6, folder 76: Mississippi: A View from Tougaloo, Clarice Campbell and Oscar Rodgers, 1979.
Box 6, folder 77: “Invisible Poets: African Americans of the Nineteenth Century,” Joan M. Sherman, 1979.
Box 6, folder 78: “On Reading Ellen Gilchrist: Contrasting Consciousness,” 1979.
Box 6, folder 79: “Children of Strangers: The Story of a Black Family,” Kathryn Morgan, 1980.
Box 6, folder 80: “To Raise, Destroy and Create,” Henry C. Lacy, 1981.
Box 6, folder 81: “Phyllis Wheatley’s Poetics of Liberation,” with correspondence, 1981.
Box 6, folder 82: “You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down,” Alice Walker, 1981.
Box 6, folder 83: “Black Novelists and Southern Literary Tradition,” Ladell Payne, 1982.
Box 6, folder 84: “Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980, by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley,” “Hush, Child! Can’t You Hear the Music? by Rose Thompson and Charles Beaumont,” with correspondence, 1982.
Box 6, folder 85: “Eagle Against Buzzard: The Dialect Poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson,” with correspondence, 1982.
Box 6, folder 86: “Language and Meaning: The Creation of Tragedy in Richard Wright,” 1983.
Box 6, folder 87: “An Evening Magical and Black,” 1983.
Box 6, folder 88: “Theater of Catalysis,” 1983.
Box 6, folder 89: “Dramatizing the Blues,” 1984.
Box 6, folder 90: General reviews, 1978-1990.
Box 6, folder 91: “SBCA Probes the Future,” 1986.
Box 6, folder 92: “Medgar Evers: Man in the Mirror of Film,” circa 1987.
Box 6, folder 93: “Guides to Folk Wisdom,” 1989.
Box 6, folder 94: Reviews for The Informer, 1991-1994; n.d.
Box 6, folder 95: “Roses for Sharon, by Philip Kolin,” “Comments on Philip Kolin’s Deep Wonder,” 1993; 2000.
Box 6, folder 96: “Evaluation of Writing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality by Aldon L. Nielsen,” with correspondence, 1993.
Box 6, folder 97: “A Black Blues Poet on Space in Time,” 1994.
Box 6, folder 98: “Watching Scout and Jem Play in the Dark,” Thomas Wallis, reader’s report, 1995.
Box 6, folder 99: “Scars on My Belly: Recovering Ursa’s Sexuality in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora,” 1996.
Box 6, folder 100: “Comments on ‘History and Psychoanalysis: Transforming the Real in Toni Morrison’s Beloved’,” with correspondence, 1996.
Box 6, folder 101: “Wrestling with the Muse,” Melba Joyce Boyd, 2002.
Box 6, folder 102: “African Americans, Slavery and the Gift,” with correspondence, 2002.
Box 6, folder 103: “Comments on Chummy’s Spirit, Chapter 1, by Harold Clark, Jr.,” with correspondence, 2003.
Box 6, folder 104: “The Addison Gayle, Jr., Reader,” reader’s report with correspondence, 2004.
Box 6, folder 105: “Memory/Gender/Geometry,” 2004.
Box 6, folder 106: “Neo-Slave Drama: Narratives of Resistance in Alice Childress’s Wedding Band,” with correspondence, 2004.
Box 6, folder 107: “Thulani Davis’s 1959: Telling a Transformative Tale of the Civil Rights Movement,” 2004.
Box 6, folder 108: “Riot Poetry: The Aesthetics of Politics in Contemporary Women’s Poetry,” 2004.
Box 6, folder 109: “A Temple Looming,” Leonard Moore, 2004.
Box 6, folder 110: Zora Neale Hurston, Laura Baskes Litwin, with correspondence, 2005.
Box 6, folder 111: “Excavated Rhythms: Materiality in Jayne Cortez’s Blues Body Politic,” 2006.
Box 6, folder 112: “Evil Gal Blues: A Reprise for Amy Winehouse,” by Ed Pavlic, 2009.
Box 6, folder 113: “Comment on The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South,” 2009.
Box 6, folder 114: Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, by William Ferris, 2009.
Box 6, folder 115: “Dizzy and All That Jazz,” n.d.

Subseries 3.4: Jackson Advocate. 1978-2008; n.d. 31 folders.
Box 6, folder 116: “Education: Before and After the Bakke Case,” article with draft, 1978.
Box 6, folder 117: “American Writers Congress: A Special Report to the Jackson Advocate,” report, 1981.
Box 6, folder 118: “Beyond Language: The Future of Black Colleges and Black People,” article, 1981.
Box 6, folder 119: “The Choice Revisited,” Black History issue, review, 1982.
Box 6, folder 120: “Education and Reconstruction of Reality,” “For the Sake of Our Sisters Everywhere,” editorials, 1982.
Box 6, folder 121: “Notes on Recent Publications,” reviews, 1982.
Box 6, folder 122: “Toward a Critique of Charles K. Chiplin’s For Black Men Only Who Have Not Found the End of Their Rainbow,” article, 1982.
Box 6, folder 123: “Notes on Recent Publications,” reviews, 1983.
Box 6, folder 124: “SBCA: Dream and Promise II,” article, 1983.
Box 6, folder 125: “The Writer as Creative Historian: Charles K. Chiplin,” article, 1983.
Box 6, folder 126: “1983: Comments on the Literary Year,” article, 1984.
Box 6, folder 127: “Notes on Recent Publications,” reviews, 1986.
Box 6, folder 128: “Covering: ‘Covering the South’,” editorial, 1987.
Box 6, folder 129: “Mindscapes,” Black History issue, review, 1987.
Box 6, folder 130: “Theater Reviews: Return to Black Drama,” review, 1990.
Box 6, folder 131: “Margaret Walker: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography of Primary Sources,” bibliography, 1992.
Box 6, folder 132: “Reading for 1993,” article, 1992.
Box 6, folder 133: “Notes on a Recent Publication: From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges, Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb,” review, 1993.
Box 6, folder 134: “Of the South: The Making of Black Southern Voices,” article, 1993.
Box 6, folder 135: “Book Notes: Writing Our Lives,” reviews, 1994.
Box 6, folder 136: “The Summer of 1994,” editorial, 1994.
Box 6, folder 137: “What is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self, by Kalamu ya Salaam,” a review 1994.
Box 6, folder 138: “Dent’s Southern Journey,” review, 1997.
Box 6, folder 139: “Notes on Recent Publications,” reviews, 2000.
Box 6, folder 140: “Memory in the Age of Terrorism,” review, 2003.
Box 6, folder 141: “Morrison’s Brutal Realities,” review, 2003.
Box 6, folder 142: “A Losing Democracy,” editorial, 2004.
Box 6, folder 143: “Readings in 2004,” parts one and two, Black History issue, reviews, 2004.
Box 6, folder 144: “Reading for 2009,” reviews, 2008.
Box 6, folder 145: “Hollywood’s Message to the Masses,” review, n.d.
Box 6, folder 146: “Questions of History: Julius E. Thompson,” Black History issue, article, n.d.

Subseries 3.5: Manuscripts. 1972-2010; n.d. 88 folders.
Box 7, folder 1: “Black Man’s Burden,” 1972.
Box 7, folder 2: “Black Fraternity, White University: A Statement on Continuing Relevance,” 1975.
Box 7, folder 3: “Illocutionary Dimensions of Black Poetry: An Hypothesis,” 1975.
Box 7, folder 4: Introduction to E. Ethelbert Miller’s Andromeda, 1975.
Box 7, folder 5: “The Vitality of Black Writing: 1970-1974,” 1975.
Box 7, folder 6: “Poetry: Revolution is a Natural Thing,” 1976.
Box 7, folder 7: “Governor’s Conference: A Black Perspective,” 1977.
Box 7, folder 8: “Richard Wright’s Hunger,” “Starving in the Region of Blue Devils,” 1977.
Box 7, folder 9: “Burning Through: The Creation of New Images and a New Identity in the Early Sixties,” 1978.
Box 7, folder 10: “John Alfred Williams: A Preliminary Assessment,” 1978.
Box 7, folder 11: “Black/Blues Theatre,” 1980.
Box 7, folder 12: Responses to the Survey, A-L, with correspondence, 1980.
Box 7, folder 13: Responses to the Survey M-Z, with correspondence, 1980.
Box 7, folder 14: “Inquiry of the Eighties,” with correspondence, 1980-1982.
Box 7, folder 15: “Beyond Language: The Future of Black Colleges and Black People,” 1981.
Box 7, folder 16: “Challenges for Black Literature in the 1980’s,” 1981.
Box 7, folder 17: “Inquiry for the Eighties: A Survey of African-American Literary Thought,” 1981.
Box 7, folder 18: “Inquiry for the Eighties: A Survey of African-American Literary Thought,” 1982.
Box 7, folder 19: “Some Notes on the Continuing Role of Black Colleges,” 1982.

Box 8, folder 1: “Images of Madness,” art display, articles, correspondence, notes, 1982-1983.
Box 8, folder 2: “Images of Madness,” correspondence, 1982-1983.
Box 8, folder 3: “Images of Madness,” draft, 1983.
Box 8, folder 4: “Images of Madness,” script, 1983.
Box 8, folder 5: “Black Humor,” with correspondence, 1983.
Box 8, folder 6: “Black South Cultural Action,” 1983.
Box 8, folder 7: “Open Letter to North Carolina Writers,” 1983.
Box 8, folder 8: “Some Philosophical Aspects of the Crisis in the Criminal Justice System,” 1983.
Box 8, folder 9: “On Being a Southern Writer,” 1984.
Box 8, folder 10: “One Jazz Afternoon,” 1984.
Box 8, folder 11: “Retreat to Possibilities: Black Culture Now,” 1984.
Box 8, folder 12: “The Words, the Sounds, the Paint, the Response in Me,” 1984.
Box 8, folder 13: “Public Television and Black Interest,” with correspondence, 1985.
Box 8, folder 14: “A Gathering of Roots: Two Mississippi Writers: Sterling D. Plumpp and Julius E. Thompson,” 1987.
Box 8, folder 15: “Racism and Racialism: Notes for a Seminar,” 1987.
Box 8, folder 16: “The Black Aesthetic/Black Aesthetics: A Short Bibliography,” 1990.
Box 8, folder 17: “Southern Black Aesthetics: The Case of Nkombo Magazine,” with correspondence, 1990.
Box 8, folder 18: “Oral Narrative and Literature,” 1991.
Box 8, folder 19: “Rereading Baldwin in a Time of War,” 1991.
Box 8, folder 20: “Scholarship and Reconsideration,” 1991.
Box 8, folder 21: “Race, Class and Gender,” 1992.
Box 8, folder 22: “Beginning, Middle, End,” 1993.
Box 8, folder 23: “Voices of the South: The Making of an Anthology,” 1993.
Box 8, folder 24: “Black Southern Cultural Development,” with correspondence, 1994.
Box 8, folder 25: “Criteria for Judging Poetry,” 1994.
Box 8, folder 26: “Racial Reading,” Southern Exposure, Summer 1994.
Box 8, folder 27: “Making Black Literary Anthologies: Past and Present,” remarks for panel discussion, 1997.
Box 8, folder 28: “To Shatter Innocence: Teaching African American Poetry,” 1997.

Box 9, folder 1: “Cut Your Razor Straight,” 2000.
Box 9, folder 2: “Values: Civil and Moral Responsibilities,” 2001.
Box 9, folder 3: “Amiri Baraka,” “Kalamu ya Salaam,” biographies, 2004.
Box 9, folder 4: “Truth-Telling: Texts, Contexts, and Memory,” 2004.
Box 9, folder 5: “What are We Teaching When We Teach Literature?” 2007.
Box 9, folder 6: “I Chose to Teach at HBCU’s,” 2008.
Box 9, folder 7: “Introduction for My SoulJourney in 17 Syllables,” 2008.
Box 9, folder 8: “Foreword: Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy,” 2008.
Box 9, folder 9: “A Tradition of Pain and Joy,” introduction for Morning Come Quick, 2008.
Box 9, folder 10: “When Language Explodes in Your Mouth, the Beauty of Your Brain Begins,” 2009.
Box 9, folder 11: “On Cultural Work,” 2009.
Box 9, folder 12: “China II Report, June 4-19, 2010,” 2010.
Box 9, folder 13: “At the Edges of the Eighties,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 14: “Biographical Sketches of Several Authors,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 15: “The Black Critic as Reader,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 16: “Black Ph.D.’s and Black Institutions,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 17: “Challenges for Black Literature in the 1980’s,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 18: “David,” short story, n.d.
Box 9, folder 19: “Directions: Black Literature in the Seventies,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 20: “Dreamwork/Eros Sections,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 21: “Escape from Trublem: The Fiction of Gayl Jones,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 22: “Exiting the Seventies: A Dialogue on Black Literature Between Two Modes of Feeling,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 23: “Galveston: Poetry is the Island,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 24: “Generation X,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 25: “Hirsch, Bloom and Humanistic Education,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 26: “Introduction for Artistry of Memory,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 27: “James ‘Son’ Thomas: Authentic Bluesman,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 28: “Jes Grew Seeking a Text,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 29: “Kenneth Thomas: Sounding Definitions,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 30: “Literary and Criticism: The Example of Carolyn Rodgers,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 31: “Literature and Moral Development,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 32: “On the Study of African American Literature: The Obligation of Literary History,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 33: “Proposal for an Anthology of African-American Poetry,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 34: “One Search for an Answer,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 35: “Race and Southern Literature: Imperative Fictions,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 36: “Scoping the Seventies,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 37: “Smoke, Fire and Liquid Blues,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 38: “Speaking Out,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 39: “The System of Dante’s Hell: Underworlds of Art and Liberation,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 40: “To Bear a Burden with Grace: Some Notes on John Steinbeck and Margaret Walker,” n.d.
Box 9, folder 41: “Thinking in Black Fiction: The Novels of Gayl Jones,” n.d.

Subseries 3.6: Richard Wright Material. 1991-2009; n.d. 37 folders.
Box 10, folder 1: “Introduction to Black Boy.” Harper Perennial edition- master proof. 1992.
Box 10, folder 2: “Richard Wright: A Legacy to Reclaim.” Article. Jackson Advocate. October 21-27, 1993.
Box 10, folder 3: “Richard Wright’s Work: Childhood on the Line.” Speech. Canton Public Library. 1994.
Box 10, folder 4: “Richard Wright: Locations of Violence and Commitment.” Article. Bookfriends. 1995.
Box 10, folder 5: Richard Wright Entry. Mississippi Encyclopedia. 2006.
Box 10, folder 6: “Queer Guerillas: On Richard Wright’s and Frantz Fanon’s Dissembling Revolutionaires.” Article. 2007.
Box 10, folder 7: “Reading Richard Wright in the 21st Century: Libraries and Culture Literacy.” Speech. Richard Wright Library, Jackson, MS. 2007.
Box 10, folder 8: “Jerry Ward Jr. talks about Richard Wright.” Interview. 2008.
Box 10, folder 9: “Richard Wright and the Common Reader.” Article. Black Magnolias. 2008.
Box 10, folder 10: “The Richard Wright Centennial.” Article and update. 2008.
Box 10, folder 11: “Notes from Utah,” and other notes and statements. 1995-2009.
Box 10, folder 12: “A Tension not Divisive: Hurston, Wright, and Cultural Imagination.” Speech. n.d.
Box 10, folder 13: “Mississippi Reads Uncle Tom’s Children.” Article. n.d.
Box 10, folder 14: “Native Son: The Novel and the Plays.” Manuscript. n.d.
Box 10, folder 15: “Richard Wright and Margaret Walker: Pre-Future Lessons in the South.” Article. Diaspora Quarterly (n.d.).
Box 10, folder 16: “Wright’s Prophetic Vision: Rite of Passage as Future Sign.” Manuscript. n.d.
Box 10, folder 17: Bauer, Margaret D. “‘Call me Paul’: The Long, Hot Summer of Paul Green and Richard Wright.” Article with correspondence. Richard Wright issue of Mississippi Quarterly (2007).
Box 10, folder 18: Bryan, Violet H. “Corruption, the Black Male, and Black/White Women in Wright’s The Long Dream: Relevance to the Twenty-first Century.” Article with correspondence. 2008.
Box 10, folder 19: Dixon, Nancy. “Did Richard Wright Get it Wrong? A Spanish Look at Pagan Spain.” Article. n.d.
Box 10, folder 20: Ferris, William. “Richard Wright and the Blues: Folklore and the Black Writer.” Article with correspondence. 2008.
Box 10, folder 21: Graham, Maryemma. “Prefiguring Malcolm X: Richard Wright and The Outsider for the 1990s and Beyond.” article with correspondence. 1992.
Box 10, folder 22: Graham, Maryemma and Jerry Ward. “Black Boy (American Hunger): Freedom to Remember.” Article draft. n.d.
Box 10, folder 23: Joly, Claire. “The American Critical Reception of Richard Wright in Historical and Contemporary Perspective.” Book project outline and review. 1995.
Box 10, folder 24: Kinnamon, Keneth. “A Richard Wright Bibliography.” Annotated bibliography. 1986.
Box 10, folder 25: Lanoue, David G. “America’s First Haiku Masters: Kerouac and Wright.” Article with correspondence. 2008.
Box 10, folder 26: Lowe, John. “Palette of Fire: The Aesthetics of Propaganda in Black Boy and The Castle of My Skin.” Article. 2008.
Box 10, folder 27: Rambsy II, Howard. “The Vengeance of Black Boys: How Richard Wright, Paul Beatty, and Aaron McGruder Strike Back.” Article with correspondence. 2008.
Box 10, folder 28: Rowley. Hazel J. “Biography of Richard Wright.” Project proposal with correspondence. 2000.
Box 10, folder 29: Rutledge, Gregory. “The (Richard) Wright Ecology: Epic Performance, Diasporic Blues, and Katrina.” Article with correspondence. 2009.
Box 10, folder 30: Werner, Craig. Richard Wright section in book. n.d.
Box 10, folder 31: Williams, Diana and Jerry Ward. “Conversation on Richard Wright.” Interview. 2008.
Box 10, folder 32: Correspondence: Julia Wright and James E. Cherry, 1994; 2002.
Box 10, folder 33: Richard Wright Newsletter. 1991-1996.
Box 10, folder 34: Mississippi Chautauqua Writers. Newsletter. September 2002.
 

Series 4: Anthologies, Collections, and Larger Works. 1966-2008; n.d. 6 boxes.

Subseries 4.1: Collected Poetry. 1966-1990; n.d. 5 folders.
Box 11, folder 1: Signs and Changes. Collected poetry. 1968-1976.
Box 11, folder 2: Speak Soft to Your Brother. Collected poetry. n.d.
Box 11, folder 3: Collected poems, alphabetically arranged, includes “At the Border of Constant Disaster.” 1966-1990, n.d.
Box 11, folder 4: Collected poems, alphabetically arranged, includes “Liberation Visions for W. E. B. and Our Alpha Brothers,” 1970-1988; n.d.
Box 11, folder 5: Three Poems. Collected poetry. 1975.

Subseries 4.2: Anthologies. 1980-1997; n.d. 18 folders.
Box 12, folder 1: Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth: correspondence, 1980-1983.
Box 12, folder 2: Abbott, Dorothy, ed. Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth. Photocopy of original transcript. 1988. A four volume anthology of works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama by Mississippi authors. Works by Ward appear in volume 3.

Box 13, folder 1: Killens, John Oliver, and Jerry Ward, ed. Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays. Uncorrected proof. 1988.

Box 14, folder 1: Proposal for an anthology of African American poetry, n.d.
Box 14, folder 2: Black Southern Voices: Selection List and Working Table of Contents, 1992.
Box 14, folder 3: Black Southern Voices: Correspondence with attachments, 1983-1993.
Box 14, folder 4: Black Southern Voices: Correspondence to Rose Ahern with corrections and draft of preface, 1991-1992.
Box 14, folder 5: Black Southern Voices: Corrected page proofs, n.d.

Box 15, folder 1: Trouble the Waters: An Anthology of African-American Poets, page proofs, edited by Jerry Ward, 1996.
Box 15, folder 2: Contributor notes in page proof form, as well as queries from the copy editor, correspondence, and reviews, 1997.
Box 15, folder 3-8: Publisher permission requests, correspondence, and related documents, 1992-1996.
Box 15, folder 9-10: Trouble the Waters, page proofs, 1996.

Subseries 4.3: Book. 2006-2008. 2 folders.
Box 16, folder 1: The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery: Excerpts and cover. 2006. 2: Ward, Jerry. The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery. Typescript. 2008.

Series 5: Scholarly Affiliation. 1939-2010; n.d. 6 boxes.

Subseries 5.1: General Scholar Affiliation. 1939-2010; n.d. 122 folders.
Box 17, folder 1: Aubert, Alvin. Literary works: “The Levee, The Blues, and The Mighty Mississippi.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 2: Aubert, Alvin. Correspondence on Komunyakaa essay, 1992.
Box 17, folder 3: Aubert, Alvin. Interview by Ward for Xavier Review, 1988.
Box 17, folder 4: Aubert, Alvin. Bibliography by Ward, n.d.
Box 17, folder 5: Bennette, Hermand. Correspondence and poetry, 1983.
Box 17, folder 6: Bickham, David P. “Fig Preserves,” n.d. and collected poetry, 1995.
Box 17, folder 7: Bishop, Edgar O. “The Sharers,” a play, n.d.
Box 17, folder 8: Borders, William H. “I am Somebody,” a poem, n.d.
Box 17, folder 9: Braxton, Charles R. “Reflections on Black Music,” manuscript, n.d.
Box 17, folder 10: Braxton, Charles R. “Artis Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” “The Bluesman,” plays by Charlie R. Braxton, n.d.
Box 17, folder 11: Braxton, Charles R. Nommo: Correspondence with documents, 1988; n.d.
Box 17, folder 12: Braxton, Charles R. Collected poetry by Charlie R. Braxton, 1993-1996.
Box 17, folder 13: Butler, Melvin. Black Poetry Festival 1974; Poetry Festival: A Lyceum Attraction, 1978.
Box 17, folder 14: Butler, Robert. “Alice Walker’s Vision of the South in the Third Life of Grange Copeland.” Correspondence and text. 1988-1996.
Box 17, folder 15: Butler, Robert. Text of “Alice Walker’s Vision of the South in the Third World of Grange Copeland.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 16: Butler, Robert. “Chester Himes.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. With correspondence. 1994.
Box 17, folder 17: Calhoun, Stanley. “Black on Black.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 18: Cheatwood, Kiarri. “Fire Casting An Eternal De-Fascination With Death.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 19: Chiplin, Charles. “For Black Men Only: Who Have Not Found the End of Their Rainbow.” With correspondence and interviews. 1981-1983.
Box 17, folder 20: Clayton, Jay. “The Narrative Turn in Recent Minority Fiction.” 1990.
Box 17, folder 21: Coleman, James W. “Black Male Writers.” With review by Ward. 1997-1998.
Box 17, folder 22: Dandridge, Rita B. “Meridian: Civil Rights Commentary and Feminist Statement: A Review Essay.” 1976.
Box 17, folder 23: Davis, Fred. Script for Back Porch Films, 1994.
Box 17, folder 24: Dearmon, Cheryl. Collected poems, 1974-1975.
Box 17, folder 25: Dunbar, Leslie. “Affirmative Action Affirms What?” Address at Forum of the Humanities Division of Tougaloo. 1978.
Box 17, folder 26: Estes-Hicks, Onita. “The Way We Were: Precious Memories of the Black Segregated South.” With correspondence. 1992.
Box 17, folder 27: Elie, Lolis. “Scotch and Curry.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 28: Ferris, William: Correspondence, 1971-1988; Prospectus, 2006.
Box 17, folder 29: Fontenot, Chester: “Modern Black Fiction: From Tragedy to Romance.” 1978.
Box 17, folder 30: Fowler, Carolyn: “Steps and Porches, Sidewalks and Lawns.” 1972-1973.
Box 17, folder 31: Fowler, Carolyn: “Balancing on the Brink.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 32: Gaver, Chasen. “White Art/Black Art.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 33: Glascoe, Myrtle G. Proposal for the Study of the Educational Thought of W.E.B. DuBois, with correspondence. 1983-1984.
Box 17, folder 34: Graham, Mary Ellen. Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander, 1991-1992.
Box 17, folder 35: Graham, Mary Ellen. Interview with Frank Yerby, n.d.
Box 17, folder 36: Gribbin, Donald. “Never Say No.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 37: Grisham, Sam L. “Mississippi Red.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 38: Guyton, Tyree. Heidelberg project and other works, 1990.
Box 17, folder 39: Hairston, Loyle. “Autobiographical Profile” and “Growing Up in Mississippi.” n.d.
Box 17, folder 40: Harris, Michael. “Spiritual.” 1980.
Box 17, folder 41: Hakutani, Yoshinobu and Robert Butler, editors. “The City in Black American Literature: Critical Essays.” Prospectus. n.d.
Box 17, folder 42: Holbrook, Wendell P. “African Literature, Historians, and the African Experience in the Second World War.” Draft, not for attribution. n.d.
Box 17, folder 43: Hubbard. Dolan. “The Sermon in the Making of the African-American Literary Imagination.” 1992.
Box 17, folder 44: Ingram. Elwanda D. “A Laying on of Hands: The Significance of Folk Healing in Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder, by Linda Brown Bragg.” Review. n.d.
Box 17, folder 45: Jackson, Angela. Shango Diaspora: An African-American Myth of Womanhood and Love. Play. 1982.
Box 17, folder 46: Jackson, Rhodesia. Untitled manuscript. n.d.
Box 17, folder 47: James, Kirkland. “Bontemps and the Old South.” Article with correspondence. 1992.
Box 17, folder 48: Jeffers, Lance. Correspondence, manuscripts, and notes. 1977-1981; n.d.
Box 17, folder 49: Jeffers, Trellie. “On the Second Birthday of My Grandson Mikki.” 1991.
Box 17, folder 50: Kent, George E. Writings. 1974.
Box 17, folder 51: Kolin, Philip C. “The Poet’s Page.” 1994.
Box 17, folder 52: Lane, Pinky Gordon. “Pinkie Gordon Lane: A Literary Profile;” “Angle of Song: Pinkie Gordon Lane, 1923-2008.” 1977-2008; n.d.
Box 17, folder 53: Lane, Pinky Gordon. Brochures, clippings, correspondence, and posters, 1984-1997.
Box 17, folder 54: Lane, Pinky Gordon. “Paul Vessey’s Ledger by Samuel Allen.” Review. 1975.
Box 17, folder 55: Lane, Pinky Gordon. Correspondence with attachments from Lane to Ward, 1990-1997.
Box 17, folder 56: Lane, Pinky Gordon. Correspondence with attachments from Lane to Ward, 1970-1988.
Box 17, folder 57: Mackey, William. “Going Home.” 1990.
Box 17, folder 58: Madgett, Naomi C. (Long). “Songs For a Rainy Day.” 1939. “No Need for Sound.” 1945. Copies of short stories.
Box 17, folder 59: Major, Clarence. Interview and bibliography, 1979-1987.
Box 17, folder 60: Mbolo, A. J. The Gathering of Thought Dealing with Ignorance and Racism. Collected poetry. 1993.
Box 17, folder 61: Mbolo, A. J. Shields & Spears, Triumphs & Tears. 1993.
Box 17, folder 62: McInnis, C. Leigh. “Scripts: Sketches & Tales of Urban Mississippi.” n.d.

Box 18, folder 1: Miller, R. Baxter. “Baptized Infidel: Play Barksdale or Baker?” n.d.
Box 18, folder 2: Miller, R. Baxter. “The Wasteland and the Flower: Through Blyden Jackson-A Revised Theory for Black South Literature.” 1981.
Box 18, folder 3: Miller, R. Baxter. “Window on the Night: Etymology of the Cultural Imagination.” 1981.
Box 18, folder 4: Miller, R. Baxter. “The ‘Etched Flame’ of Margaret Walker.” Partial copy of article by Miller with notes. n.d.
Box 18, folder 5: Millican, Arthenia B. “The Autobiography of an Idea.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 6: Moore, Leonard. Announcements, poems, and clippings. 1983-1992.
Box 18, folder 7: Moore, Leonard. Poems. 1992; n.d.
Box 18, folder 8: Moore, Leonard. Correspondence, certificates, resumes, 1987-2007.
Box 18, folder 9: Murray, Albert. “Literary Reconstruction of the Vernacular Community.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 10: Obanyani, Kambon. “A Song of Her and Him.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 11: Papa, Lee. “‘His Feet on Your Neck’: The New Religion in the Works of Ernest Gaines.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 12: Parker, Bettye. “Black Women Writers: Persisters of Change.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 13: Parker, Bettye. “Levels of Endurance in Alice Walker’s Women.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 14: Parker, Bettye. “Dimensions of Black Womanhood.” Materials and programs. 1973-1976; n.d.
Box 18, folder 15: Parker, Bettye. “Robert Staples and Gerda Lerner: Self Ordained Curators of Black Womanhood.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 16: Parker, Bettye. Reviews of “Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature” by Bettye Parker. With accompanying notes and invitations. 1979.
Box 18, folder 17: Parker, Bettye. Wait for the Sign. Excerpt from an unpublished novel. n.d.
Box 18, folder 18: Reed, Ishmael. “Ishmael Reed and the Problem of Modernity.” Article. Jerry Ward. 1974.
Box 18, folder 19: Reed, Ishmael. “Ishmael Reed: The City and Multiculturalism.” Article. Jerry Ward. 1997.
Box 18, folder 20: Reed, Ishmael. “A Skeleton Key to Ishmael Reed’s Fiction.” Speech with correspondence. Jerry Ward. 1973-1983.
Box 18, folder 21: Reed, Ishmael. “Fade to White.” Ishmael Reed on Precious. New York Times opinion. 5 February 2010.
Box 18, folder 22: Robinson, Kysha Brown. “Spherical Woman.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 23: Rogers, Gloree. “Love or a Reasonable Facsimile.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 24: Rogers, Gloree. The Leaning Trees. Novel excerpt with correspondence. 1993.
Box 18, folder 25: Rowell, Charles. Correspondence with manuscript. 1973-1976.
Box 18, folder 26: Saba, Furahaa. On My Way to Jupiter. Novel draft, 1981.
Box 18, folder 27: Salaam, Kalamu ya. Tom Dent interview. n.d.
Box 18, folder 28: Sanders, James. Correspondence on manuscript review. 1990-1993.
Box 18, folder 29: Sanders, Mark. “Theorizing the Collaborative Self.” Essay with correspondence. 1991-1993.
Box 18, folder 30: Thomas, Lorenzo. “It’s Later Than You Think: The Tradition of Afro-American Party Songs.” 1979.
Box 18, folder 31: Thomas, Lorenzo. “Cultural Pluralism and Public Arts Funding in the 1980s.” 1980.
Box 18, folder 32: Thomas, Lorenzo. “The Heart of Another Era.” 1991.
Box 18, folder 33: Thomas, Lorenzo. “An Organic Prism: Permanence and Change in the Critical Methods of the Black United States from DuBois to Kent.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 34: Toure, Askia. “Tonal Drawings.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 35: Traylor, Eleanor W. “James Baldwin and the Academy: Challenging Conventional Pedagogies: The Example of ‘Sonny’s Blues’.” 2000.
Box 18, folder 36: Traylor, Eleanor W.“ The Blues Mode of Margaret Walker’s Jubilee.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 37: Traylor, Eleanor W. “A Tribute to James Baldwin.” “Developing the Next Generation of the Black Professoriate.” 2000.
Box 18, folder 38: Traylor, Eleanor W. “Bolder Measures Crashing Through: Margaret Walker’s Poem of the Century.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 39: Traylor, Eleanor W. “Two Afro-American Contributions to Dramatic Form.” 1987.
Box 18, folder 40: Turner, Melvin. Short stories, including, “Love, Piece and Happiness.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 41: Verner, Brenda. “Africana Womanism: Why Feminism has Failed to Lure Black Women.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 42: Wakefield, John. “Nicaragua.” Manuscript with correspondence. 1981.
Box 18, folder 43: Wakefield, John. “Nicaragua.” Part 1. 1981.
Box 18, folder 44: Wakefield, John. “Nicaragua.” Part 2. 1981.
Box 18, folder 45: Wakefield, John. “Nicaragua.” Part 3. 1981.
Box 18, folder 46: Wakefield, John. “Nicaragua.” Part 4. 1981.
Box 18, folder 47: Wakefield, John. “Nicaragua.” Part 5. 1981.
Box 18, folder 48: Walton, James. “The Black Image in Contemporary Japanese Culture.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 49: White, Marcus. “Moody’s Blues.” Five chapters. 2004.
Box 18, folder 50: Williams, Benjamin. “The Old Voodoo Gods Are Dead.” 1975.
Box 18, folder 51: Written work by an unknown author. “Ain’t Nothing Real but Laughter.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 52: Yow, Valerie. “‘Do I Like Them Too Much?’ Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa.” 1997.
Box 18, folder 53: Zu-Bolton, Ahmos: “Ain’t No Spring Chicken: New and Selected Poetry.” 1994.
Box 18, folder 54: Zu-Bolton, Ahmos: “Ethridge Knight: A Memoir.” n.d.
Box 18, folder 55: Zu-Bolton, Ahmos: “Literary Commentary Summer 1994: Memoirs.” 1994.
Box 18, folder 56: Zu-Bolton, Ahmos: Open Places. Spring 1980.
Box 18, folder 57: Zu-Bolton, Ahmos: “1946;” “Dudley Randall;” “Alexandria Revisited” Poems. 2000-2001.
Box 18, folder 58: Zu-Bolton, Ahmos: Review of Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences, by Richard Pryor with Todd Gold. 1995.
Box 18, folder 59: Zu-Bolton, Ahmos:  Interview of Zu-Bolton by Ward. 1980.
Box 18, folder 60: Zu-Bolton, Ahmos: Flyers, newsletters, and pamphlets. 1976-1995.

Subseries 5.2: The Works of Julius Thompson. 1973-2007; n.d. 55 folders.
Box 19, folder 1: Correspondence: 1973-1975.
Box 19, folder 2: Correspondence: 1976.
Box 19, folder 3: Correspondence: 1977-1978.
Box 19, folder 4: Correspondence: 1980.
Box 19, folder 5: Correspondence: 1981-1982.
Box 19, folder 6: Correspondence: 1983-1985.
Box 19, folder 7: Correspondence: 1986.
Box 19, folder 8: Correspondence: 1987.
Box 19, folder 9: Correspondence: 1988.
Box 19, folder 10: Correspondence: 1989.
Box 19, folder 11: Correspondence: 1990.
Box 19, folder 12: Correspondence: 1991-1992.
Box 19, folder 13: Correspondence: January-June 1993.
Box 19, folder 14: Correspondence: July-December 1993.

Box 20, folder 1: Correspondence: 1994.
Box 20, folder 2: Correspondence: 1995.
Box 20, folder 3: Correspondence: 1996-1998.
Box 20, folder 4: Correspondence: 2000-2001.
Box 20, folder 5: Correspondence: 2002.
Box 20, folder 6: Correspondence: 2004.
Box 20, folder 7: Correspondence: 2005.
Box 20, folder 8: Correspondence: 2006.
Box 20, folder 9: Correspondence: May-September 2007.
Box 20, folder 10: Correspondence: September-October 2007.
Box 20, folder 11: Correspondence: Cards. 1979-2007.
Box 20, folder 12: News articles: News articles, 1988-1993.
Box 20, folder 13: Thompson poetry: “Civil Rights Era” and other poems. 1974.
Box 20, folder 14: Thompson poetry: Blues Said: Walk On: Poems, 1969-1975. Collected poems. 1978.
Box 20, folder 15: Thompson poetry: General, 1978. n.d.
Box 20, folder 16: Thompson poetry: General, 1980.
Box 20, folder 17: Thompson poetry: General, 1982.
Box 20, folder 18: Thompson poetry: General, 1993-1998; n.d.
Box 20, folder 19: Thompson poetry: General, 2000-2005; n.d.
Box 20, folder 20: Thompson poetry: “A Feast of Poetry: Celebrating Lotus Press and Its Poets.” Program. 2002.

Box 21, folder 1: “The Black Newspaper in Mississippi.” Jackson State University research proposal. 1975.
Box 21, folder 2: “Hopes Tied up in Promise.” Article copy. Afrika News 1976.
Box 21, folder 3: Freedom’s Road Journal. Proposal. 1978.
Box 21, folder 4: The Black Press in Mississippi reviewed in The Journal of Mississippi History (February 1994).
Box 21, folder 5: University of Missouri Master of Arts Emphasis: Africana Literature. 2001.
Box 21, folder 6: “Leadership Development and Africana Studies.” International Journal of African Studies (Summer 2001).
Box 21, folder 7: Pilgrim Journey: An Autobiography by Naomi Long Madgett. Book review. College Language Association Journal (September 2006).
Box 21, folder 8: “Black Life in Mississippi: Essays on Political, Social and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State.” Research proposal and author’s statement. n.d.
Box 21, folder 9: Rites of Living. Collected poetry. n.d.
Box 21, folder 10: “Aaron Edd Henry: A Biography.” Prospectus. n.d.
Box 21, folder 11: “On the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Delta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.” Speech. 1975.
Box 21, folder 12: “Our Historical Task On the Eve of the American Bicentennial.” Speech. 1975.
Box 21, folder 13: “The Age of Lynching in Mississippi: 1865-1965.” Speech. 2004.
Box 21, folder 14: University of Missouri: Material from Black Studies Program, 2004-2006.
Box 21, folder 15: Interview with Thompson by Ward, 1975.
Box 21, folder 16: Biographical and professional materials, 1986; n.d.
Box 21, folder 17: Teaching dossier and other documents, 1995-2002.
Box 21, folder 18: Health matters, 2007.
Box 21, folder 19: Author’s statement and poetry, n.d.

Subseries 5.3: Other Major Works. 1986-1999; n.d. 7 folders.
Box 22, folder 1: Crawford, Valerie M. Middle Ground: Frank Yerby’s Novels in the African American Tradition. Dissertation. 1999.
Box 22, folder 2: Demirturk, E. The Female Identity in Cross Cultural Perspective: Immigrant Women’s Autobiographies. Dissertation. 1986.
Box 22, folder 3: Heglar, Charles J. Narratives of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave: Written by Himself. Introduction and notes on the text of new edition. 1998.
Box 22, folder 4: Holmes, Clarence. Rev. Two act play. n.d.
Box 22, folder 5-7: Reference Works: Collection of works used by Ward for teaching and writing. Includes works by Gwendolyn Brooks and William Faulkner, n.d.

Series 6: Organizational and Journal Affiliation. 1963-2007; n.d. 4 boxes.
Box 23, folder 1: African American Review: Correspondence, 1993.
Box 23, folder 2: American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1988.
Box 23, folder 3: American Writers’ Conference: Correspondence, 1981.
Box 23, folder 4: American Writers’ Conference: Documents and resolution, 1981.
Box 23, folder 5: Amistad Research Center: Correspondence, 1988-1992.
Box 23, folder 6: Arts in the Community: Governor’s Conference on the Arts: Brochures, correspondence, and lists, 1977.
Box 23, folder 7: Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH): Pictorial Tour of Black America: Past and Present, 1972.
Box 23, folder 8: ASALH: Journal of Negro History (JNH): Report, 1991.
Box 23, folder 9: ASALH: Proposed Blackwell Companion to African American History, n.d.
Box 23, folder 10: ASALH: Black History study kits, 1984.
Box 23, folder 11: ASALH: Azevedo, Mario. “Power and Slavery in Southern Chad.” Manuscript. n.d.
Box 23, folder 12: ASALH: Merimee, Prosper. “Tamango.” Lisa Forester, trans. Manuscript. n.d.
Box 23, folder 13: ASALH: Redd, Lawrence.“Rock Music, It’s Still Rhythm and Blues.” Manuscript. n.d.
Box 23, folder 14: ASALH: Brochures, documents, and reviews, n.d.
Box 23, folder 15: ASALH: Hine, Darlene Clark. “The Ethel Johns Report: Black Women in the Nursing Profession, 1925.” Manuscript. n.d.
Box 23, folder 16: ASALH: Baldwin, Lewis. “‘A Home in Dat Rock’: African American Folk Sources and Slave Visions of Heaven and Hell.” Manuscript. n.d.
Box 23, folder 17: ASALH: Bishop, David W. “The Affirmative Action Cases: Bakke, Webber, and Fullilove.” Manuscript. n.d.
Box 23, folder 18: Association of Departments of English: Correspondence, 1983-1990.
Box 23, folder 19: Black American Literature Forum. Ward, Jerry W., Jr. “The Black Critic as Reader.” (Spring 1980).
Box 23, folder 20: Black American Literature Forum: Correspondence, 1989-1992.
Box 23, folder 21: The Black Scholar: Correspondence, 1977-1988.
Box 23, folder 22: Callaloo: Ward, Jerry W. Jr. “Signifying Possibility.” Review. 1987.
Box 23, folder 23: Callaloo: Correspondence, 1976-1987; n.d.
Box 23, folder 24: Callaloo: Tribute to Ernest J. Gaines, special issue. (May 1978).
Box 23, folder 25: College Language Association: Brochures, correspondence, lists, and programs, 1979-1987.
Box 23, folder 26: College Language Association: Convention bulletins, 1975-1981; 1985.
Box 23, folder 27: College Language Association: Fowler, Carolyn. “The College Language Association: A Social History.” Manuscript. 1988.
Box 23, folder 28: College Language Association: Boone, William. “The College Language Association in the Context of the African American Intellectual Experience.” Essay. n.d.

Box 24, folder 1: Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM): Correspondence, documents and proposals, 1979.
Box 24, folder 2: CCLM: Correspondence, documents, and minutes, 1979.
Box 24, folder 3: CCLM: Regional meeting documents, 1980.
Box 24, folder 4: CCLM: Board of Directors: Correspondence and newsletter, 1978-1982.
Box 24, folder 5: CCLM: Board of Directors meeting, New Orleans, LA: Documents and minutes, 1980.
Box 24, folder 6: CCLM: “Project Description: Implementation Grant Proposal,” 1980.
Box 24, folder 7: CCLM: Correspondence, documents, and minutes, 1981.
Box 24, folder 8: CCLM: Correspondence, documents, and minutes, 1982.
Box 24, folder 9: Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change: Correspondence, 1990-1993.
Box 24, folder 10: Danforth Foundation: Correspondence, 1972-1980.
Box 24, folder 11: Erotique Noire: Correspondence and story, 1990.
Box 24, folder 12: Field Foundation: Correspondence, 1978.
Box 24, folder 13: Free Southern Theater: Correspondence, documents, and newsletter, 1963-1980; n.d.
Box 24, folder 14: George Moses Horton Society: Correspondence, documents and programs, 1997-1998.
Box 24, folder 15: Hoodoo 8: Writings and correspondence, 1974-1978.
Box 25, folder 1: Mississippi Committee on the Humanities: Correspondence and proposal, 1979.
Box 25, folder 2: Mississippi Committee on the Humanities/Mississippi Humanities Council: Ben Bailey nomination, correspondence, program, and proposal, 1984-2007.
Box 25, folder 3: Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters: Correspondence, invitations, organization documents, 1988-2005.
Box 25, folder 4: Mississippi Quarterly: Hakutani, Yoshinobu. “Racial Oppression and Alienation in Richard Wright’s ‘Down by the Riverside’ and ‘Long Black Song’.” Manuscript with correspondence, 1992-1995.
Box 25, folder 5: Modern Language Association: Gras, Vernon. “Myths and the Reconciliation of Opposites.” Manuscript. For the New Literary Directions Seminar. 1977.
Box 25, folder 6: Modern Language Association: Correspondence, 1980-1997.
Box 25, folder 7: National Endowment to the Humanities: Correspondence, 1976-1994.
Box 25, folder 8: Obsidian: Black Literature in Review: Correspondence, 1974-1990.
Box 25, folder 9: Piney Woods School: 75 Years of Progress 1909-1984: Annual Report of the President, and One-Parent Families: Influences on Educational Experiences, booklets, 1984.
Box 25, folder 10: Shooting Star Review: Correspondence and Winter 1988 issue, 1988-1990.
Box 25, folder 11: Southern Black Cultural Alliance: Organizing documents, n.d.
Box 25, folder 12: Southern Black Cultural Alliance: Program activities, bulletins, posters, and programs, 1976-1977.
Box 25, folder 13: Southern Black Cultural Alliance: Correspondence, memorandums, and posters, 1978.
Box 25, folder 14: Southern Black Cultural Alliance: Meetings and correspondence, 1979.
Box 25, folder 15: Southern Collective of African American Writers (SCAAW): Workshop materials, 1978-1979.
Box 25, folder 16: Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies: Correspondence, memorandum, and posters, 1983-1984.
Box 25, folder 17: Special Committee for Development of Communication with Negro Colleges and Universities: Reports, 1969-1972.
Box 25, folder 18: Steppingstones: Correspondence, 1983-1987.
Box 25, folder 19: The Nation Institute: American Writer’s Conference: Correspondence and information, 1981; n.d.
Box 25, folder 20: United Church of Christ: Materials for meetings of Committee on Corporate Responsibilities, 1984.
Box 25, folder 21: United States Commission on Civil Rights: Correspondence and meeting transcript, 1987-1996.
Box 25, folder 22: United States Congress: Correspondence, 1978-2006; n.d.

Box 26, folder 1: University of Mississippi Medical Center: “The Values of Literature for Medicine,” program with correspondence, 1984.
Box 26, folder 2: University Press of Mississippi: Correspondence, 1995.
Box 26, folder 3: Urthkin: Prose and Verse: Ward, Jerry. “Indian/ In D End.” March 1978.

Series 7: Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, and Newsletters. 1965-2004; n.d. 2 boxes.
Box 27, folder 1: ABBWA (American Black Book Writers’ Association) Journal, 1988.
Box 27, folder 2: African Commentary, 1989.
Box 27, folder 3: African Commentary, 1990-1991.
Box 27, folder 4: Afro Chronicles, 1991.
Box 27, folder 5: ALA (African Literature Association) Bulletin, 1983.
Box 27, folder 6: The Alternate, July 1980.
Box 27, folder 7: Alternate Roots, 1988.
Box 27, folder 8: American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities, January 1980-January 1981.
Box 27, folder 9: The American Writers Congress: Correspondence and procedures, n.d.
Box 27, folder 10: The Amistad Research Center: Amistad Log, Amistad Reports, The Amistad Chronicles, 1983-1997.
Box 27, folder 11: BAMS Keynotes, 1983.
Box 27, folder 12: Bill: “Establishment of an American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.” Congressional bill. 1973.
Box 27, folder 13: Black Collegiate Sports Magazine, 1976; n.d.
Box 27, folder 14: Black Southerner Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, 1982.
Box 27, folder 15: Brown Alumni Monthly, March 1981.
Box 27, folder 16: The Burning Spear, 1983.
Box 27, folder 17: Buzzards Luck, 1965-1966.
Box 27, folder 18: ByWords, 1982.
Box 27, folder 19: CAAS (Center for Afro-American Studies) Newsletter, 1982; 1988.
Box 27, folder 20: The Capaha Arrow, 1986.
Box 27, folder 21: Celebration of Black Cinema V, 1989.
Box 27, folder 22: Civil Rights Update, 1988.
Box 27, folder 23: Encore, 1973.
Box 27, folder 24: Emergence, 1978.
Box 27, folder 25: Faculty Resource Network, 1993.
Box 27, folder 26: Fair Measure Newsletter, 1983.
Box 27, folder 27: Folk Arts Notes, July 1989.
Box 27, folder 28: Gap, n.d.
Box 27, folder 29: Greenfield Review Literary Center, March/April 1982.
Box 27, folder 30: The Hermes Exchange, 1968; 1969.
Box 27, folder 31: The Horse We Lie Down In, n.d.
Box 27, folder 32: IAH (Institute for the Arts and the Humanities) News, 1975; 1977-1978.
Box 27, folder 33: Images, February/March 1989.
Box 27, folder 34: Intermedium, n.d.
Box 27, folder 35: Jazz Times, 1982; 1985.
Box 27, folder 36: Jes’ Grew, 1981-1982.
Box 27, folder 37: Joe Louis and the American Press, 1991.
Box 27, folder 38: Kettering Review, 1988-1990.
Box 27, folder 39: Maize, vol. 2, 1978-1980.
Box 27, folder 40: Maize, vol. 3 and vol. 4, 1980-1981.
Box 27, folder 41: Mississippi Black Student Caucus, 1984.
Box 27, folder 42: Mississippi History Newsletter, 1978; 1983.
Box 27, folder 43: Mississippians for Education (MET), May 1980.
Box 27, folder 44: The MPS Journal, 1992.
Box 27, folder 45: National Humanities Center Newsletter, 2000.
Box 27, folder 46: The Nations, 1981.
Box 27, folder 47: New Direction for Women, 1989.
Box 27, folder 48: New York University Libraries, Biographical Series, 1965; 1968.
Box 27, folder 49: The No Streets Poet Voice, 1983.
Box 27, folder 50: Number Seventeen, 1992.
Box 27, folder 51: The Obsidian, 1977.
Box 27, folder 52: Open Places, 1979.
Box 27, folder 53: Our Voices, 1991.
Box 27, folder 54: Personal Lives and Professional Careers: The Uneasy Balance, n.d.
Box 27, folder 55: The Pikestaff Review, 1981.
Box 27, folder 56: Point of View, 1988.
Box 27, folder 57: Professional Ethnics Report, 1988; 1989.
Box 27, folder 58: Public Law, 1965; 1972.
Box 27, folder 59: Regional Brief, February 1989.
Box 27, folder 60: Shango, 1973.
Box 27, folder 61: Small Press Review, 1975.
Box 27, folder 62: Solid Ground, Spring 1986.
Box 27, folder 63: Soundings, 1996.
Box 27, folder 64: The Southern Advocate, June 1981.
Box 27, folder 65: Southern Reader Magazine, 1989.
Box 27, folder 66: Sol, 1980-1983.
Box 27, folder 67: Southern Black Culture, Spelman College, 1981; 1982.
Box 27, folder 68: Sunbelt, 1979-1980.
Box 27, folder 69: United Negro College Fund Annual Report, 1982.
Box 27, folder 70: The Washington Review, June/July 1985.

Box 28, folder 1: News clippings: 1972-1996.
Box 28, folder 2: News clippings: Ward, 1975-1986; n.d.
Box 28, folder 3: Newspaper: The Capaha Arrow (Missouri), 12 February 1986: 4-7.
Box 28, folder 4: Newspaper: Eyeball, No. 4, n.d.
Box 28, folder 5: Newspaper: The Hilltop (Howard University), February 1976.
Box 28, folder 6: Newspaper: The Informer (Hattiesburg, Miss.), Vol. 3, issues 1-8, 11-12, 1992.
Box 28, folder 7: Newspaper: The Informer (Hattiesburg, Miss.), Vol. 4, issues 1-6, 8-11, 1993.
Box 28, folder 8: Newspaper: Jazz Times, 1982; 1985.
Box 28, folder 9: Newspaper: New Directions for Women, January/February, 1989: 4-19.
Box 28, folder 10: Newspaper: Oxford Town (Oxford, Miss.), 17 September 1997.
Box 28, folder 11: Newspaper: Sojourner: The New England Women’s Journal of News, Opinions, and the Arts, Vol. 3, no. 9, 1978.
Box 28, folder 12: The Southern Advocate, June 1981.
Box 28, folder 13: Tougaloo News, Summer 1989.
Box 28, folder 14: Newspaper: Washington Review, April/May, 2004.

Series 8: Posters and Placards. 1976-1992; n.d. 1 box.
Box 29, folder 1: “Women Talk about Men and Other Things Strange,” 1977 and The National Black Arts Festival, 1990.
Box 29, folder 2: “The Time Has Come,” 1982 and “Discover the World of Ideas in Your Library,” 1984.
Box 29, folder 3: Mississippi American Festival Project,” 1991-1992.
Box 29, folder 4: National Conference of Afro-American Writers, 1976.
Box 29, folder 5: Roots Festival ’88, 1988.
Box 29, folder 6: Black Writers Speak, n.d.
Box 29, folder 7: Black Collegiate Sports Magazine, n.d.
Box 29, folder 8: Farish Street Yesterday, 1981.
Box 29, folder 9: “War Resisters League-West Presents an Evening of Poetry and Song,” 1981.
Box 29, folder 10: “Lecture and Poetry Reading: Professor Jerry Wright,” and “The Legacy of Richard Wright,” n.d.

Series 9: Audio Cassette Tapes and Photographs. 1974-1995; n.d. 2 boxes.
Box 30, folder 1: Photographs, 1974-1983; n.d.
Box 31, Audiotapes, 1980-1995; n.d.

List of Audio Cassette Tapes:
Law and Civil Rights, welcome, n.d.
Law and Civil Rights, panel 1, tapes 1-3, n.d.
Law and Civil Rights, panel 2, tapes 1-3, n.d.
Law and Civil Rights, panel 3, tapes 1 and 2, n.d.
American Writers Congress: The Tastemakers, tape 1349, n.d.
American Writers Congress: Concentration and Conglomerates, tape 1350, n.d.
American Writers Congress: Eros, Language and Pornography, tape 1351, n.d.
American Writers Congress: Varieties of American Literature, tape 1352, n.d.
American Writers Congress: The Politics of Literacy, tape 1353, n.d.
American Writers Congress: Writers and Social Responsibility, tape 1354, n.d.
American Writers Congress: Welcoming Addresses, tape 1355, n.d.
American Writers Congress: Culture Industry, tape 1356, n.d.
American Writers Congress: Ideology, Truth and Self-censorship, tape 1357, n.d.
American Writers Congress: The Book Wars: Censorship of Language and Ideas, tape 1358, n.d.
American Writers Congress: Federal Control of Information, tape 1359, n.d.
Samuel F. Yette interview, 7 March 1993.
Interview with Sterling D. Plumpp, Tougaloo College, 17 March 1984.
Interview with Sterling D. Plumpp, Tougaloo College, sides 3 and 4, 17 March 1984.
Interview with Sterling D. Plumpp, Tougaloo College, side 5, 17 March 1984.
Passwords: Jerry Ward on Sterling Plumpp, 30 March 1995.
Interview with Alvin Aubert, 15 October 1986.
Interview with Alvin Aubert, Detroit, 4 March 1988.
Interview with Alvin Aubert, Detroit, 11 March 1988.
Stephen E. Henderson, tape 1, 19 March 1980.
Stephen E. Henderson, tape 2, 19 March 1980.
“The Heavy Blues of Sterling Brown,” Stephen E. Henderson, Tougaloo, tape 1, 20 March 1980.
“The Heavy Blues of Sterling Brown,” Stephen E. Henderson, Tougaloo, tape 2, 20 March 1980.
Eugene Redmond interview, Tougaloo College, 12 April 1995.
“The Image of Man Through Western Literature,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute, tape 6, n.d.
“The Death of Man in Twentieth Century Literature,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute, tape 7, n.d.
“The Resurrection of Man in Modern Literature,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute, tape 8, n.d.
“The Resurrection of Man in Modern Literature,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute, tape 9, n.d.
Lance Jeffers, 18 September 1980.

Series 10: Restricted. n.d. 3 boxes.
The restricted material contains newspapers, personal correspondence, and duplicate materials.

Boxes 32-34

Return to Jerry Washington Ward Papers (T/032) Finding Aid