| Title | Date Created | Description | Subject | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Octavia Butler Article, May 1, 2000 | 2000-05-01 | Article on Octavia E. Butler and interview about her writing. | African American authors, African American women | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| Corrrespondence to Audre Lorde From Bernard Bell, December 11, 1970 | 1970-12-11 | Correspondence to Audre Lorde from Bernard Bell accepting her poetry for an upcoming anthology. | African American authors, African American poets | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| Letter to Faculty Members, October 27, 1970 | 1970-10-27 | Letter ro faculty members asking for a pledge to support the National Association of Black Students. | African American educators, African American students, Race discrimination | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| Corrrespondence to Bernard Bell From Audre Lorde, October 24, 1970 | 1970-10-24 | Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about permission to reprint poems. | African American authors, African American poets | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| Corrrespondence to Bernard Bell From Audre Lorde, October 24, 1970 | 1970-10-24 | Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about the value of her poetry. | African American authors, African American poets | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| Corrrespondence to Audre Lorde From Bernard Bell, October 3, 1970 | 1970-10-03 | Correspondence to Audre Lorde from Bernard Bell requesting permission to reprint her poetry in an upcoming anthology. | African American authors, African American poets | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| "Give a Week to End Genocide" Letter, October 1970 | 1970-10 | Letter from the Emergency Conference to Defend the Right of the Black Panther Party to Exist, concerning fundraising. | African Americans--Civil rights, Political campaigns | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| Poetry Acceptance Letter, circa 1970 | 1968/1972 | Letter to Brother Jones announcing the acceptance of poetry in a new anthology. | African American authors, African American poets | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| Boycott Letter, circa 1970 | 1968/1972 | Draft letter to publishing company Allyn and Bacon announcing a dissolution of a poetry anthology with the company due to Black poets boycotting the use of White publishers to represent their works. | African American authors, African American poets, African Americans--Civil rights, Race discrimination | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
| Poems from Prison, Etheridge Knight, circa 1969 | 1968/1971 | Etheridge Knight introduces his book, Poems from Prison, followed by a selection of poetry from the book. | African American poets, Crime | Bernard W. Bell Collection |
Nov 3, 2022
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Dr. Bernard William Bell is an emeritus research professor at The Pennsylvania State University and an internationally known scholar of American and African American literature, language, and culture. Throughout his forty-year career in academia, Dr. Bell’s contributions to African American scholarship included serving as a co-founder and acting head of one of the nation’s first African American Studies programs, authoring and editing nine books and more than seventy articles and reviews, and teaching and lecturing in eight countries.
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