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The Black Man: A Monthly Magazine of Negro Thought and Opinion was a magazine created and edited by Marcus Garvey beginning in 1938. Garvey printed many of his own speeches and writings in the magazine, and the periodical highlights the work and accomplishments of the UNIA. Robert Hill published a compilation of Black Man issues in his 1975 book of the same name. Related facsimiles, correspondence, and drafts are described at folder level.

The Crusader was a magazine edited by Cyril V. Briggs. Like Marcus Garvey, Briggs immigrated to the U.S. from the Caribbean in the early 1900s. Briggs worked as a journalist for the New York Amsterdam News before starting The Crusader in 1918. A Garveyite turned Communist, Briggs founded the "African Blood Brotherhood" in 1919, an activist group that opposed imperialism and colonialism. Initially, The Crusader praised the accomplishments of Garvey and the UNIA, but Briggs later used it as a venue to attack Garvey, specifically targeting his Black Star Line and drawing attention to Garvey's arrest. Robert Hill published issues of The Crusader in his 1987 publication of the same name. Related facsimiles, correspondence, and drafts are described at folder level.

The FBI's "Racial Conditions in the United States during World War II" (RACON) was an investigative effort conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during World War II to monitor black radicalism and racial protests in various regions of the U.S. Beginning as a security review entitled, "Foreign-Inspired Agitation Among the American Negroes," which aimed to find the individuals responsible for encouraging black resistance and attempted to connect certain African American activists with spies, Communists, and foreign officials, it later morphed into a comprehensive look at racial conditions. Commissioned in June of 1942 and coming to a close the following August, RACON was created from individual reports supplied by all fifty-six field divisions of the FBI. As such, it highlights the many different struggles faced by African Americans during the war years and provides a look into their everyday efforts to contest discrimination. Hill published the report in its entirety in The FBI's Racon: Racial Conditions in the United States During World War II. The collection contains copies of RACON and other FBI records, some of which the FBI intended to discard but sent to Hill instead. Related facsimiles, correspondence, and drafts are described at folder level.

George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977) was an African American author and journalist published in The Crisis, Nation, Negro Digest, American Mercury, and National Review under multiple pen names from the 1920s to the 1960s. Schuyler's political views ranged from socialist in the 1920s to describing himself as an American patriot in the 1960s, who believed the Civil Rights Movement was a communist plot to destroy America. Robert Hill collected many of Schuyler's essays, short stories, and novellas. Two of Schuyler's novellas, "The Ethiopian Murder Mystery: A Story of Love and International Intrigue" and "Revolt in Ethiopia: A Tale of Black Insurrection Against Italian Imperialism," were republished in Hill's Ethiopian Stories. This series also includes Schuyler's unpublished short stories. Related facsimiles, correspondence, and drafts are described at folder level.

Life and Lessons is a companion to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers published by Hill in 1987. The book is a collection of autobiographical and other works written by Garvey, dating from the time of his imprisonment in 1923 to his death in 1940. Related facsimiles, correspondence, and drafts are described at folder level.

Walter Anthony Rodney (1942–1980) was a Guyanese historian, political activist and scholar, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980. Rodney and Robert Hill were friends and collaborators. The materials in this series are from Hill's research on Rodney to aid him in editing Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual, and writing the foreword for the volume. Related facsimiles, correspondence, and drafts are described at folder level.

C.L.R. James (Cyril Lionel Robert James), 1901-1989 was a Trinidadian born, Marxist historian, writer, and founding member of the Pan-African movement. Robert Hill is also literary executor of the James' estate and General Editor of The C.L.R. James Archives at Duke University Press. Hill's research, writings, correspondence, and contracts relating to James are included and described at folder level.

Robert Hill's Pan-African Biography is a collection of essays that were featured in a colloquium held in the spring of 1982 at the African Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hill was the editor of the project, which was published in 1987. Related facsimiles, correspondence, and drafts are described at folder level.

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