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Title No: 4581

Title: I'll make me a world [research]

Medium: Documentation

Original Medium: Paper

Original Summary:

Includes documents relating to production research for "I'll Make Me A World." Includes biographical information, articles and bibliographies. Materials are collected for notable individuals including  African American artists, writers, actors, and musicians, as well as general research materials on broader subjects related to African American life and art.

Box 01 - Contains biographies on the following: Alvin Ailey ; Chris Albertson ; Ira Aldridge ; Charles Alston ; Jacques d'Ambroise ; Benny Andrews ; Maya Angelou ; Louis Armstrong ; James Baldwin ; Toni Cade Bambara ; Amina Baraka ; Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) ;  Jean-Michel Basquat ; Romare Bearden ; Sidney Bechet ; Harry Belafonte ; Coby Bell ; Gwendolyn Bennett : Lerone Bennett, Jr. ; Chuck Berry ; Mary McLeod Bethune ; John Biggers ; Camille Billops ; Robert Blackburn ; Eubie Blake ; Nora Brooks Blakely ; Buddy Bolden ; Perry Bradford ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; James Brown ; Lloyd Brown ; Oscar Brown Jr. ; Tony Brown ; Delores Browne ; Robert Brustein ; Charles Burrett ; Busta Rhymes ; Cab Calloway ; Elizabeth Catlett ; Mary Schmidt Campbell ; Dana Chandler ;  Kenny Clarke ; Lucille Clifton ; George Clinton ; Nat King Cole ; Ornette Coleman ; Janet Collins ; John Coltrane ; Will Marion Cook ; Bill Cosby ; Ernest Crichlow ; Stanley Crouch ; Countee Cullen ; Sean Curran ; Cypress Hill ; Dorothy Dandridge ; Julie Dash ; Miles Davis ; Ossie Davis ; Sammy Davis Jr. ; Ruby Dee ; De La Soul ;  Warren "Baby" Dodds ; Johnny Dodds ; Jeff Donaldson ; Thomas Dorsey ; Aaron Douglas ; W.E.B. DuBois ; Gerald Early ; Duke Ellington ; Ralph Ellison ; James Reese Europe ; Jesse Redmon Fauset ; Fisk Jubilee Singers ; Aretha Franklin ; the Fugees ; Edmund Barry Gaither ; Gang Starr ; Herbert Gentry ; Haile Gerima ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Nikki Giovanni ; Savion Glover ; Whoopi Goldberg ; Brenda Dixon Gottschild ; Uta Hagen ; Alex Haley ; Wynn Handman ; William Christopher Handy ; Lorraine Hansberry ; Coleman Hawkins ; Riva Helfond ; Nat Hentoff ; Earl Hines ; Lena Horne ; Reginald Hudlin ; Langston Hughes ; Alberta Hunter ; Zora Neale Hurston ; Mahalia Jackson ; Michael Jackson ; Judith Jamison ; Blind Lemon Jefferson ; Charles Spurgeon Johnson ; George Johnson ; James P. Johnson ; James Weldon Johnson ; Joseph Johnson ; Noble Johnson ; Virginia Johnson ; William H. Johnson ; Bill T. Jones ; James Earl Jones ; Kellie Jones ; Quincy Jones ; June Jordan ; Freddie Keppard ; Woodie King Jr. ; Maxine Hong Kingston ; Eartha Kitt ; Etheridge Knight ; Gwendolyn Knight ; Hilton Kramer ; KRS-One ; Nella Larsen ; Jacob Lawrence ; Leaders of the New School ; Spike Lee ; Alain Locke ; Audre Lorde ; Haki Madhubuti (Don Lee) ; Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) ; Wynton Marsalis ; Kerry James Marshall ; Curtis Mayfield ; Christian McBride ; Dianne McIntyre ; Claude McKay ; Richard Milner ; Oscar Micheaux ; Arthur Mitchell ; Thelonius Monk ; Jessica Care Moore ; Toni Morrison ; Jelly Roll Morton ; Gloria Naylor ;  Joe "King" Oliver ; Edward "Kid" Ory  ; Harry Pace ; Charlie Parker ; Gordon Parks ; Charley Patton ; Nicholas Payton  ; John Pierson ; Howardena Pindell ; Sidney Poitier ; Preservation Hall Jazz Band ; Leontyne Price ; Public Enemy ; Queen Latifah (Dana Owens) ; Sun Ra ; Bruce Raeburn ; Ma Rainey ; Dudley Randall ; Ishmael Reed ; Martha Reeves ; Charlene Regester ; Lloyd Richards ; Faith Ringgold ; Max Roach ; Marcus Roberts ; Paul Robeson ; Smokey Robinson ; Tricia Rose ; Helena Rosen ; Tony Russo ; Run DMC ; Salt-n-Pepa ; Sonia Sanchez ; Raymond Jennings Saunders ; Augusta Savage ; Gunther Schuller ; Ntozake Shange ; Jesse Shipp ; Bessie Smith ; Mamie Smith ; Vincent Smith ; Gloria Steinem; Sugarhill Gang ; the Supremes ; Henry Ossawa Tanner ; Billy Taylor ; Clyde Taylor ; The Temptations ; Henry Wallace Thurman ; Jean Toomer ; Melvin Van Peebles ; Sarah Vaughan ; Ben Vereen.


Box 02 - Contains other Research. Includes: Arts bibliography - recommended readings - General ; Arts bibliography - recommended readings - Individual Artists ; Arts bibliography - recommended readings - Weblinks ; Bios - Imman Website ;  General articles - Film ; General articles - Theater ; General articles - Dance ; General articles - Music ; General articles - Visual Arts ; General articles - Music ; General - Panels - Opening, Community ; General - Panels - Literature ; General - Panels - Film, Theater, Dance ; General - Panels - Visual Arts ; General - Panels - Music ; General - Panels - Millenium ; General - Panels - Guest Artists ;  Hollywood projects ; Hollywood Reporter articles  ; Integration articles ; King press clippings ; Multiple artists - bios.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Subjects: Jazz musicians; Jazz singers; American drama--African American authors; American fiction--African American authors; American literature--African American authors; Art, Black; Art and race; Artists, Black; Arts, African; Authors, Black; Fashion; Blacks--Study and teaching; Blues (Music); Blues musicians; Bop (Music); Composers, Black; Race relations; Ragtime music; Rap (Music); Rap musicians; Soul music; Soul musicians; Drama--Black authors; Riots; African American authors; African American women artists; African American women authors; African American women musicians; African American women poets; Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--History.; African American entertainers; African Americans in art; African American dancers; African American dramatists; Hip-hop; Actors, Black; African American actors; African American art; Poetry--Black authors; United States--Race relations--History--20th century; African American dance; Beat generation; United States. Work Projects Administration.; Funk (Music); Vaudeville; African American musicians - United States - 20th century; African American artists--20th century; African American authors--20th century; Jazz; Fiction--Black authors; Harlem Renaissance; Literature--Black authors

Name As Subjects: Angelou, Maya; Andrews, Benny; Lawrence, Jacob; Pierson, John; Lee, Spike; Lorde, Audre; Marsalis, Wynton; Marshall, Kerry James; Mitchell, Arthur; Moore, Jessica Care; Payton, Nicholas; Pindell, Howardena; Richards, Lloyd; Ringgold, Faith; Rosen, Helen; Parks, Gordon; d'Amboise, Jacques; Dash, Julie; Brown, Lloyd L.; Brown, Oscar, Jr.; Browne, Delores; Brustein, Robert; Campbell, Mary Schmidt; Catlett, Elizabeth; Curran, Sean; Dee, Ruby; Jackson, Michael; Knight, Etheridge; Basquiat, Jean Michel; Kramer, Hilton; Reed, Ishmael; Shange, Ntozake; Morrison, Toni; Hurston, Zora Neale; Naylor, Gloria; Regester, Charlene; Randall, Dudley; Bearden, Romare; Bennett, Lerone, Jr.; Blackburn, Robert Hamilton; Blakely, Nora Brooks; Brooks, Gwendolyn; Belafonte, Harry; Madhubuti, Haki R.; Davis, Ossie; Baraka, Amiri; Sanchez, Sonia; McIntyre, Dianne; Smith, Vincent; Cosby, Bill; Jones, James Earl; Ellington, Duke; Bethune, Mary McLeod; Brown, Jim; Roberts, Marcus; Micheaux, Oscar; Hughes, Langston; Locke, Alain LeRoy; Rainey, Ma; Smith, Bessie; Smith, Mamie; Robeson, Paul; Gillespie, Dizzy; Ailey, Alvin; Gaither, Edmund B.; Harmon Foundation, inc.; Douglas, Aaron; Du Bois, W. E. B.; Parker, Charlie; Hansberry, Lorraine; Gerima, Haile; Horne, Lena; Price, Leontyne; Vaughan, Sarah; Blake, Eubie; Davis, Miles; Dandridge, Dorothy; Aldridge, Ira; Alston, Charles; Armstrong, Louis; Bambara, Toni Cade; Bechet, Sidney; Coby, Bell; Bennett, Gwendolyn; Biggers, John Thomas; Billops, Camille; Bolden, Buddy; Bradford, Perry; Burrett, Charles; Busta Rhymes; Calloway, Cab; Chandler, Dana; Clarke, Kenny; Clifton, Lucille; Clinton, George; Cole, Nat King; Coleman, Ornette; Collins, Janet; Coltrane, John; Cook, Will Marion; Crichlow, Ernest; Crouch, Stanley; Cullen, Countee; Cypress Hill; Davis, Sammy; De La Soul; Dodds, Baby; Dodds, Johnny; Donaldson, Jeff; Dorsey, Thomas Andrew; Dove, Rita; Ellison, Ralph; Europe, James Reese; Fauset, Jesse Redmon; Mayfield, Curtis; McBride, Christian; McKay, Claude; Milner, Richard; Monk, Thelonious; Motley, Archibald John; Neal, Oliver; Ory, Kid; Pace, Harry; Patton, Charley; Poitier, Sidney; Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Public Enemy; Latifah Queen; Sun Ra; Raeburn, Bruce Boyd; Reeves, Martha; Roach, Max; Robinson, Smokey; Rose, Tricia; Russo, Tony; Run-D.M.C.; Jubilee Singers; Franklin, Aretha; Fugees; Gang Starr; Goldberg, Whoopi; Handy, W. C.; Hawkins, Coleman; Hines, Earl; Hudlin, Reginald; Hunter, Alberta; Jackson, Mahalia; Jamison, Judith; Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Johnson, Charles Spurgeon; Johnson, George; Johnson, James P.; Johnson, James Weldon; Johnson, Noble; Jones, William H.; Keppard, Freddie; Kitt, Eartha; KRS-One, Musician; Larsen, Nella; Leaders of the New School; Wonder, Stevie; X, Malcolm; Temptations; Salt-n-Pepa; Shipp, Jesse; Sugar Hill Gang; Supremes; Tanner, Henry Ossawa; Thurman, Henry Wallace; Toomer, Jean; Black Swan (Sound recording label); Atlantic Recording Corporation; Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School; Black Emergency Cultural Coalition; Black Women Organized for Action; National Black Feminist Organization; Clef Club (New York, N.Y.); EPMD; Motown Record Corporation.; Common; Redman; Stax Records; Combahee River Collective; Eric B. & Rakim; OKeh Records; Paramount; Baraka, Amina; Berry, Chuck; Brown, Tony (Journalist); Morton, Jelly Roll; Saunders, Raymond; Taylor, Billy; Baldwin, James; Haley, Alex; Young, Gene; Steinem, Gloria; Taylor, Clyde; Van Peebles, Melvin; Vereen, Ben; Early, Gerald Lyn; Gentry, Herbert; Giovanni, Nikki; Glover, Savion; Hagen, Uta; Handman, Wynn; Helfond, Riva; Hentoff, Nat; Gottschild, Brenda Dixon; Johnson, Joseph; Johnson, Virginia; Jones, Bill T.; Albertson, Chris; Jones, Kellie; Jones, Quincy; Jordan, June; King, Woodie; Kingston, Maxine Hong; Knight, Gwendolyn; Savage, Augusta; Schuller, Gunther

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Compiler	Blackside, Inc.

Items ^x2

	Item	Description
	4581-1	Paper : Carton
	4581-2	Paper : Carton

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	5439	I'll Make Me A World [production]