An invitation from Hollis A. Moore, president of Bowling Green State University, to James Baldwin to receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the summer commencement on August 27, 1980.
Memorandum to Dr. Laura Kivlin, Acting Chairperson of the BGSU Honors Committee, recommending James Baldwin for an Honorary Doctorate.
Article in the February 13, 1978 edition of the BGSU publication The Green Sheet, announcing James Baldwin's teaching residency and providing further information on the courses he will be co-instructing.
Flier promoting the special courses co-instructed by James Baldwin during the spring 1978 semester at Bowling Green State University. Courses offered include "Baldwin and Contemporary Fiction" at the graduate level, and "Selected Essays and Novels of James Baldwin" at the undergraduate level.
This September 1979 article by Obsidian writer Albert Smith grants James Baldwin a warm welcome back to Bowling Green State University, and pays mention to the timeliness of his visit and the 'Departmentalization of the Ethnic Studies'.
Flyer presented by the BGSU Department of Ethnic Studies promoting James Baldwin's public lectures in May 1977, the first of a series of visits Baldwin made to Bowling Green State University. There's a glimpse of show times for the Third World Theatre's production of Message From A Region of His…
Photograph of James Baldwin lecturing at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Ernest Champion is seated in the background.
Photographs of James Baldwin lecturing to students at Bowling Green State University.
An article in the Bowling Green State University Monitor on James Baldwin's teaching at BGSU. Baldwin states, "I had to feel my way. It was something I had never done before. I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't care about the students. We learned something from each other."
A tribute to James Baldwin written by Dr. Ernest A. Champion on the occasion of Baldwin's death in 1987. Dr. Champion discusses Baldwin's importance as a writer and remembers Baldwin's tenure as a writer-in-residence and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bowling Green State University's…
A letter from Dr. Ernest A. Champion to James Baldwin regarding some administrative and financial details in connection with Baldwin's recent visiting professorship at Bowling Green State University.
An article in the Bowling Green State University Monitor on James Baldwin's visiting professorship at BGSU's Department of Ethnic Studies.