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Box Small Collections Box 11

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Contains 5 Results:

Screenplay

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: id321784
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Mack Screenplay is a Blaxploitation film written by Robert James Poole, referred to as Bobby Poole, a prison inmate who claimed to have written the screenplay on toilet paper.  It was made into a film directed by Michael Campus and starred Max Julien and Richard Prior.  The screenplay is about a man named John "Goldie" Mickens (Julien), a recent parolee who decides to become a pimp in Oakland, California in pursuit of wealth.  However, his brother Olinga, a Black Nationalist,...
Dates: 1972

Unpublished Paper, circa 1997

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: id314654
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Unpublished paper by Carmen Brissette Grayson titled, "Montgomery C. Meigs: Informal Power Behind the Scenes, 1861-1862" with accompanying newspaper article from the Washington Post dated August 16, 1997.  The article features Grayson's research and the story of the Civil War in the Williamsburg area, as it related to Meigs and his family. Grayson's work regarding Meigs was later published in an edited form in: The Peninsula Campaign of 1862:...
Dates: circa 1997

Letter, 1865 June 27

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: id321752
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Letter from Oscar F. Alston, Cleveland, Ohio, to his wife about his trip to Cleveland, partly by boat.  He took his children with him and tells his wife how much they miss her.  1865. Per a researcher, Mr. Alston was part of a major migration of free people of color to Ohio from North Carolina.

Dates: 1865 June 27

Letters, 1850 April 20, 1863 January 19

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: id321748
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letter to Elizabeth Burton in Williamsboro, Granville County, North Carolina from her Aunt Adeline Alston, dated 1850 and letter to niece Margaret Burton in Williamsboro, Granville County, North Carolina from Aunt M. P. Alston, dated 1863.  Family news, particularly health of family members.Per an Alston researcher: "Marina Priscilla Williams Alston (1810-1897) was married to George Washington Alston (1801-1849) in 1829. They had 3 sons, Philip, William, and George Jr. After...
Dates: 1850 April 20, 1863 January 19

Handbill, 1847

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: id321776
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Published handbill by H.T. Garnett, Jr. "calling out" to B.W. Mason and T.B. Baber to fight it out.  Includes text of notice posted by T.B. Baber asking B.W. Mason if he had indeed made an "exhibition" of the confidential letters that Baber's sister had written and calling Mason an "Infamous Scoundrel and Poltroon."  Includes text of B.W. Mason's reply.  King George County, Virginia, June 18,1847.

Dates: 1847