Amiri Baraka / Leroi Jones collection

The collection consists of 2 folders of photocopies of articles and clippings relating to Amiri Baraka (1964-1984), "A Checklist to Primary and Secondary Sources Related to Amiri Baraka" (1971), and 18 folders of printed material. The printed material consists largely of writings of Baraka published by the Newark-based Jihad Productions and other publishers, and material by others published by Jihad Productions.

Items by Amiri Baraka include: "The Dead Lecturer" (1964), "Afro-Arts," an anthology with works by Baraka and others (1966), "Spirit Reach" (1972), "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note...." (1961),

"A Black Value System" (1969), "Tales by LeRoi Jones" (1967), "Home: Social Essays" (1966), "Toward the Creation of Political Institutions for All African Peoples" (1972), "Strategy and Tactics of a Pan African Nationalist Party" (1971), and "Kawaida Studies: The New Nationalism" (1972).

Other Newark-related material in the collection includes: "The First Militant Preacher" written by Ben Caldwell during the mid-1960s when Caldwell resided in Newark; and Jihad Productions publications, not by Baraka, including "Cabral on Nkrumah" ( 1972), "The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution" (1969), "Mwanamke Mwananchi" (The Nationalist Woman) by Mumininas of the Committee for Unified NewArk (1971), "Ujamaa -- The Basis of African Socialism," by Mwalimu Nyerere, "The Political Leader Considered as the Representative of a Culture," by Ahmed Sekou Toure, and "Soul Session: Anthology of the B.C.D." (1969).