Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Scope and Contents
- Arrangement
- Immediate Source of Acquisition
- Conditions Governing Access
- Processing Information note
- Indexed Terms
- Indexed Terms
- Inventory
Collection Access
Richard Wright Black Power Collection
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
- Title
- Richard Wright Black Power Collection
- Creator
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Identifier
- MS5
- Size
- 1 Boxes
- Dates
- 1908-1960
- Abstract
- This collection consists primarily of the original typescript for Richard Wright's book Black Power. The manuscript contains corrections, additions, and deletions, including long holograph passages. Much of the material in this draft was never published, so it is significant for documenting Wright's original intentions in recording his experiences in Ghana. The collection includes some fifty pages of other material, perhaps intended as a supplement to the book.
- Language
- English .
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of the original typescript for Black Power. It contains corrections, additions, and deletions, including long holograph passages. Much of the material in this draft was never published, so it is significant for documenting Wright's original intentions in recording his experiences in Ghana. Besides the typescript, there are some fifty pages of material perhaps intended as a supplement to the book. Included are an interview with Ghana radical Dzenkle Dzenku; a detailed account of a political meeting in 1950 which resulted in several arrests; a discussion of Kwame Nkrumah; and a four-page sheet, "Memorandum submitted to the Executive of the Convention People's Party in Protest against its Present Policy--6th Jan. 1952," which is bitterly anti-Nkrumah.
Arrangement
The typescript of Black Power is arranged in folders by page number. This is followed by a folder of additional material, and a post card.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was acquired by Northwestern University Library in 1968 from a New York dealer.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions.
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2010 March 15 by Lisa Calahan and Lauren Kalal.
Indexed Terms
- Ghana--Social conditions--20th century
- Ghana--Politics and government--To 1957
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Travel -- Ghana
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Black power
Indexed Terms
Inventory
- Title
- Black Power, Annotated typescript, pp. 1-111 (missing pp 99-101, 107-110)
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.
- Title
- Black Power, Annotated typescript, pp. 112-190 (missing pp 144-146)
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.
- Title
- Black Power, Annotated typescript, pp. 191-269 (missing p 247)
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.
- Title
- Black Power, Annotated typescript, pp. 270-336 (missing pp 304, 312-313)
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.
- Title
- Black Power, Annotated typescript, pp. 337-436
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.
- Title
- Black Power, Annotated typescript, pp. 437-509 (missing pp 441-442, 446)
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.
- Title
- Black Power, Annotated typescript, pp. 510-592 (missing pp 521, 561-564)
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.
- Title
- Black Power, Unpublished Additional Material, pp. 707, 908-948)
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.
- Title
- Postcard with Richard Wright's photo
- Dates
- undated
- Language
- English.