Leslie Brown papers, 1936-2016 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Brown, Leslie, 1954-
Abstract:
Leslie Brown was a Professor of History at Williams College, Williamstown, MA. She was born in 1954 and died in 2016. The Leslie Brown papers span the years 1936-2016 and undated and cover her entire career as a historian, from her doctoral training to her final position at Williams College. There is also extensive information regarding her professional interest in African-American history and the preparation of oral histories. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
Extent:
24.3 Linear Feet
6.71 Gigabytes
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11750

Background

Scope and content:

The Leslie Brown papers span the years 1936-2016 and undated and cover her entire career as a historian, from her doctoral training to her final position at Williams College. There is also extensive information regarding her professional interest in African-American history and the preparation of oral histories, especially those related to the Behind the Veil project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. The Interviews series includes those conducted privately by Brown as well as those from various institutions that she used in her research. There are typescripts and audiocassettes. The Research/Subject files series focuses on her courses and publications, with a particular focus on Durham, NC, African-American organizations, and well-known individuals. A few research items predate Brown's birth. The Course Materials series contains subject and course files she used in her teaching, with an emphasis on African-American studies and oral histories. The Academia series provides information regarding her preparation as a historian, as well as material related to her job talks and lectures, professional activities, and book projects. The Publications series provides various publications related to African-American history, both privately published and from the popular press.

Biographical / historical:

Leslie Brown was born in 1954 in New York City and was raised in Albany, N.Y. She was a Professor of History at Williams College, Williamstown, MA (2008-2016). She also taught History and African and African-American Studies at Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1999-2008), and History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri--St. Louis (1997-1999). She served as Co-Coordinator for "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South," Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (1990-1995). Her first book, Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South, won the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award. She and Anne Valk, her life partner, co-authored Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Jim Crow South in 2010 which won the Oral History Association's Biennial Book Award. Brown died from leukemia in 2016.

Acquisition information:
The Leslie Brown Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2018 and 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Alice Poffinberger and Emile Therrien, June 2019

Additions 2019-0138 and 2019-0169 processed by Alice Poffinberger, January 2020

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2018-0098, 2019-0046, 2019-0138, and 2019-0169

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: Interviews, Research/subject files, Course Materials, Academia, and Publications.

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