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Erskine Peters Correspondence
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Erskine Peters was a professor of English and Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Notre Dame.
The collection consists of approximately 170 letters received by Peters. Included are letters from friends, fellow educators, authors, poets, playwrights, black activists, and prison inmates, such as Angela Davis, Carlos Baker, Wolfgang Binder, Frances Foster, Leon Chai, Doris Davenport, Jim Haynes, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Walker, and Richard Yarborough.
Arranged alphabetically.
Gift of Susie J. Stevens.
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Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '2014 in 2012.
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Subject
- African American authors. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- African American dramatists. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- African American poets -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- African American women authors. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Education -- United States. -- 20th century
- Authors, American -- 20th century. -- Correspondence
- Dramatists, American. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- Educators -- United States. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- Gay people -- United States. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- Human rights workers. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- Poets, American. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- Prisoners -- United States. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
- Women authors, American. -- Correspondence -- 20th century
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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