Box 2
Container
Contains 4 Results:
J. Chester Johnson Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0041
Scope and Content Note
This collection documents J. Chester Johnson’s literary work. Contents include publications - essays, poetry, and books - as well as research materials, publicity materials, reviews, and copies of personal awards and honors. Johnson's writing focuses on the Civil Rights Movement and the Episcopal Church.
Dates:
2005 - 2014
General, 1971, 2005-2022
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series III
Scope and Contents
Contains a “Profile of the Poet” plus other material relating to Johnson’s life and works, such as announcements of book and poetry readings, publicity materials, copies of personal/biographical items, clippings, and reviews. There is also a reproduction of a 1971 letter from W.H. Auden to Johnson.
Dates:
1971, 2005-2022
Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation, 2020
File — Box: 2, Volume: 1
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents
Hard cover, inscribed copy of Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation (Pegasus, 2020).
Dates:
2020
Damaged Heritage Research Materials, 1919 - 2014
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents
Materials used in Johnson's research for his 2020 book Damaged Heritage, including The Arkansas Race Riot by Ida Wells-Barnett (1920), Civil rights and the Making of the Modern American State by Megan Ming (2014, Cambridge University Press), and On the Laps of Gods: the Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation by Robert Whitaker (2008, Crown Publishers)....
Dates:
1919 - 2014
