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Series I: Correspondence, 1952-1990, undated
Series V: Teaching, circa 1970-1981
Series VIII: Books From James's Library
Addition to the Papers, 2017

C. L. R. James papers, 1933-2001, bulk 1948-1989

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Series IV: Printed Material, 1933-1992, undated

Contained here are many pamphlets, clippings, and a few assorted materials by C.L.R. James and others. Material from the Johnson-Forest Tendency period as well as material that pre-dates or follows that period is included.

Subseries IV.1: Pamphlets, 1933-1992, undated

The pamphlets in this subseries include James' first publication in Britain, "The Case for West Indian Government" (Hogarth Press, 1933) through his last, "Walter Rodney and the Question of Power" (Race Today Publications, 1983), and many of his writings, covering his varied interests, in between. Also here is "Down with Starvation Wages," which James helped striking share-croppers of South-East Missouri create during the Second World War.

The pamphlets produced by others include much literature of the radical left; these are arranged by writer or by topic.

By James


Box 19 Folder 8 Dialectic and History, An Introduction, undated

Box 19 Folder 9 Down with Starvation Wages in South-East Missouri, circa 1941

Box 19 Folder 10 From DuBois to Fanon, undated

Box 19 Folder 11 to 12 Every Cook Can Govern, 1956, 1966, 1986, 1992, 2 folders

Box 19 Folder 13 Facing Reality (with Grace Lee and Pierre Chalieu), 1958

Box 19 Folder 14 "Fanon and the Caribbean" in International Tribute to Frantz Fanon, 1978

Box 19 Folder 15 Federation: 'We Failed Miserably', 1959

Box 19 Folder 16 The Invading Socialist Society (with Forest and Ria Stone), 1947, 1972

Box 19 Folder 17 Lenin, Trotsky and the Vanguard Party, 1963-1964

Box 19 Folder 18 Marxism and Intellectuals, 1962

Box 19 Folder 19 Why Negroes Should Oppose the War, circa 1939-1940


Box 20 Folder 1 Nkrumah, Kwame and the West Indies, 1962

Box 20 Folder 2 PNM! Go Forward--A Critique of PNM's Internal Party Politics, Section I--by C. L. R. James, 1958-1960

Box 20 Folder 3 Rodney, Walter and the Question of Power, 1983

Box 20 Folder 4 State Capitalism and World Revolution--3rd Edition, 1969

Box 20 Folder 5 "Supplement" in Not For Sale--by Michael Manley, circa 1976

Box 20 Folder 6 West Indian Government, the Case for (Hogarth Press), 1933, 1967

Box 20 Folder 7 "West Indians of East Indian Descent"--and Response by H. P. Singh, circa 1960s

By Others

Box 20 Folder 8 General, 1971-1979, 1983

Box 20 Folder 9 Advocators--Publisher, 1974-1978

Box 20 Folder 10 Africa, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1982

Box 20 Folder 11 Boggs, Grace--Speeches, 1990

Box 20 Folder 12 Breitman, George, Editor--"Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism", 1967

Box 20 Folder 13 Caribbean, circa 1960s, 1975, 1985

Box 20 Folder 14 Castoriades, Cornelius, 1984, 1992

Box 20 Folder 15 Dunayevskaya, Raya, 1977-1989


Box 21 Folder 1 Eastman, Max--"Last Stand of Dialectic Materialism", circa 1934

Box 21 Folder 2 Glaberman, Martin, 1952, 1964-1975, 1980

Box 21 Folder 3 Gough, Kathleen, 1961-1962

Box 21 Folder 4 Great Britain, 1982, 1984, 1990

Box 21 Folder 5 Guérin, Daniel--"Cuba-Paris", 1968

Box 21 Folder 6 Guérin, Daniel-- Negroes on the March, 1956

Box 21 Folder 7 Poetry, 1981-1983

Box 21 Folder 8 Race Today Collective--Publisher, 1974-1975, 1983

Box 21 Folder 9 Romano, Paul and Ria Stone, "The American Worker", 1947, 1972

Box 21 Folder 10 Turner, Terisa E., 1985, 1989

Box 21 Folder 11 United States, 1974-1977, 1987, 1990, undated

Box 21 Folder 12 Webb, Constance--on Richard Wright, circa 1940s, 1949


Box 22 Folder 1 Women, 1970, 1976

Box 22 Folder 2 Williams, Eric--Addresses, 1973, 1977

Box 22 Folder 3 Workers and Farmers Party--Election Manifesto, 1966

Subseries IV.2: General, 1940-1980s

This small subseries holds announcements of lectures and events, many of which featured James; printed articles by James; and a few articles and writings annotated by James; and clippings of articles by or about James.

Box 22 Folder 4 to 5 Announcements--of Lectures and Events, 1940, 1950s-1980s, 2 folders

Box 22 Folder 6 to 7 Articles by James, circa 1960s-1980s, 2 folders

Box 22 Folder 8 to 10 Articles and Writings--Annotated by James, circa 1960s-1980s, 3 folders

Box 22 Folder 11 to 14 Clippings, 1960s-1970s, undated, 4 folders

Box 22 Folder 15 Clippings--The Keys (1930s)--Transcripts, 1980s