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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/
Stephanie Ricker
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation
MSS 16674 Explorations in Black Leadership project papers, box number, folder number, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.
Biographical Note
Phyllis Leffler is a professor emerita at the University of Virginia with a focus on oral history, public history, and the history of the University of Virginia. Julian Bond was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement, helping to found the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971. Bond also served in the Georgia House of Representatives, was the chairman of the NAACP from 1998 to 2010, and was a professor at the University of Virginia. Explorations in Black Leadership was a joint project co-directed by Leffler and Bond within the School of Arts and Sciences, conducted between 200 and 2015. The project consisted of oral histories of leaders from the Black community, from all areas including law, education, religion, public service, the arts, and business. It examined how leaders are nurtured and how historical circumstances shape them.
Content Description
This collection contains briefings with preparatory materials, questions and notes for oral histories conducted as part of the Explorations in Black Leadership project. The briefings were often compiled by interns with the Institute for Public History and included interview questions, possible answers prepared for Julian Bond (the primary interviewer), biographical information, handwritten notes, and correspondence. The collection also includes audio and video cassettes, CDs, and DVDs of interviews and other project related materials.
Related Material
https://blackleadership.virginia.edu/
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Interviews
- Leadership
Container List
This series contains the briefing books for each subject of the Explorations in Black Leadership project. This includes articles on the person, the writing of that person, and correspondence between that person or their representatives, and Phyllis Leffler and Julian Bond.
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 1
Clarence Thomas2008
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 2
Lawrence Douglas Wilder2008
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 3
Carol Moseley Braun2005
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 4
Diane E. Watson2005
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 5
Aaron S. Williams2013
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 6
Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich2003
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 7-11
Earl G. Graves2000-2001
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 12-16
Julian Bond2001-2006
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 17
Barbara Lee2005
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 18
Gwen Moore2007
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 19
Bobby L. Rush2005
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 20
Charles Ogletree2004
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 21
Bakari Sellers2009
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 22
Major General Lucius Theus2002
- Mixed Materials [X031780973] box: 1 folder: 23
Vivian Pinn2004
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 1
William J. Raspberry2006
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 2
Eleanor Holmes Nortonc. 2005
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 3
James Clyburn2004
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 4
Charles Rangel2007
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 5
Sanford Bishop2005
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 6
Mary Frances Berry2006
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 7-8
Julius L. Chambers2000
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 9
Calvin O. Butts III2008
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 10-12
Henry Marsh2000
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 13
Anthony Williams2005
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 14
Rita Dove2011-2012
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 15
Bill T. Jones2011
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 16
Angela Davis2009
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 17
John Lewis2007
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 18-19
Armstrong Williams2006
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 20
Dick Gregory2003
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 21
Dorothy Height2003
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 1
Freeman A. Hrabowski III2008
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 2-4
Roger Wilkins2001
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 5-8
Freddie Warren Nicholas Sr.1999
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 9
Gwendolyn Ifill2009
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 10
Benjamin Jealous2009
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 11-13
Vernon Jordan2000
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 14-5
Benjamin Hooks2001
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 16-17
Elaine R. Jones2000
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 18-20
Oliver Hill2000
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 21-22
Geoffrey Canada2008
- Mixed Materials [X031780971] box: 3 folder: 23
Nikki Giovanni2004
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 1-3
William Gray2001
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 4-7
Mary Hatwood Futrell2000
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 8-9
Floyd Flake2001
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 10-11
Johnnetta Cole2000
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 12-14
Robert Franklin2001
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 15
Robert Moses2014
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 16
Ron Brown2008
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 17
Katori Hall2008
- Mixed Materials [X031780972] box: 2 folder: 22-23
Amiri Baraka
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 18
Historiographical Background2009-2010
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 19
Historiographical Research on Mary Berry, Barbara Lee, John Lewis, Roger Wilkinsc. 2007
- Mixed Materials [X031780974] box: 4 folder: 20
Control Folder2021
Original digital media (floppy disks, zip disks, thumb drives, born-digital files, etc.) and other media formats such as LPs, audiocassettes, videotapes, films, CDs, and DVDs cannot be handled directly by patrons. Appointments must be made in advance to request these items held by Special Collections. Please use our online reference request form (https://small.library.virginia.edu/services/reference-request) to request access to these materials, or to ask for further information.
Master and copy files of all oral history interviews conducted as part of the Explorations in Black Leadership project.
Book drawing on the interviews conducted by Julian Bond and Phyllis Leffler.