Research Catalog

Title

William Strickland research files.

Author

Strickland, William, 1937-

Publication

1950-2008.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Dunham, Katherine.
• Thelwell, Michael.

Description

1.87 linear feet (5 boxes)

Summary

• Bill Strickland is a scholar, activist, and professor emeritus of the Department of Afro-American Studies at University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. A native of Boston, Strickland graduated from Boston Latin School and Harvard University. After serving in the Marine Corps, he became active in civil rights and Black liberation work, serving as Executive Director of the Northern Student Movement; working in Mississippi for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; and serving as the Northern Coordinator of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s Congressional Challenge. He was a founding member of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1964, and in 1969, he also was a founding member of the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta. Strickland was a key member of the faculty in Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst, teaching history and politics, and serving as Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers. Strickland consulted on various documentaries including "Eyes on the Prize" (1987), about the civil rights movement; "Malcolm X: Make It Plain" (1994), for which he also wrote the companion book, also published in 1994; and "W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices"(1996). He retired in 2013.
• This collection consists of the research files of William Strickland on various topics. These topics include the documentary "Eyes on the Prize," for which Strickland served as a consultant, and Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow/Push Coalition (now the National Rainbow Coalition); Strickland worked on Jackson's presidential campaign in 1988. Other topics include the Black Panther Party, Black Radical Congress, Arna Bontemps, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Benjamin Chavis and the NAACP, civil rights leaders and movements, Katherine Dunham, Maulana Karanga, racism, and "Roots" (television program). Most of the files include notes and some writing by Strickland, but the majority of the files consist of printed matter (clippings, articles, mailings, conference materials), correspondence, and writing by some of the previously mentioned individuals. Additionally, there is one folder of correspondence to and from Strickland, mostly unrelated to the research files.

Subject

• Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943-
• Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
• Chavis, Ben, 1948-
• Haley, Alex
• Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
• Black Panther Party
• Black Radical Congress
• Mississippi Freedom Project
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Rainbow Coalition (U.S.)
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
• Roots (Television program : 1977)
• African American college teachers
• African American educators
• African American scholars
• Authors, Black
• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements > Mississippi
• Civil rights workers, Black

Source (note)

• Gift of William Strickland, 2008.

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• William Strickland Papers, FS 159, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries

Call Number

Sc MG 806

OCLC

1344298017

Author

Strickland, William, 1937- creator.

Title

William Strickland research files.

Production

1950-2008.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Location of Other Archival Materials

William Strickland Papers, FS 159, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries

Materials Separated from the Resource: Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.

Source

Gift of William Strickland, 2008.

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Finding aid

Added Author

Dunham, Katherine.

Thelwell, Michael.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 806