Letter to James Baldwin from W. Keith Davis, a young African American writer living in Paris. A request for the two authors to meet.
Letter from Bowling Green State University President Paul Olscamp to Paul Maginley of the BGSU English Department, on university budgeting procedures and the uncertainty of available funds with which to invite author James Baldwin to campus as a visiting professor for the upcoming semester.
Letters to author James Baldwin from the University of Massachusetts Office of the Chancellor, regarding Baldwin's upcoming commencement address at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Memorandum to Dr. Laura Kivlin, Acting Chairperson of the BGSU Honors Committee, recommending James Baldwin for an Honorary Doctorate.
Official press release for James Baldwin's residency at BGSU, with quotes from Provost Michael Ferrari and Dr. Ernest Champion, Assistant Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies
Darryl Pinckney's review in theNew York Review of Books of James Baldwin's novel "Just Above My Head". Pinckney succeeds in identifying Baldwin's "obsessions," including Harlem, the church, homosexuality, and "the social and political outrage that has inspired all of his work."
Letter from Urban Affairs Center of Warren A.M.E. Church , Inc. requesting Baldwin to speak to the senior citizens at the Church on being black and impoverished.
Students and faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University, including Dr. Ernest Champion (far left) and Dr. Robert L. Perry (far right).
Letter to James Baldwin from Bowling Green State University Associate Provost Ramona Cormier thanking him for guest lecturing on the evening of November 9, 1979.
Letter to author James Baldwin inviting him to participate in a Voice of American "forum" radio program.