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. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
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.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
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Article on Octavia E. Butler and interview about her writing.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Octavia Butler Article, May 1, 2000
Date Created
2000-05-01
Description
Article on Octavia E. Butler and interview about her writing.
Subject
African American authors, African American women
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Correspondence to Audre Lorde from Bernard Bell accepting her poetry for an upcoming anthology.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Corrrespondence to Audre Lorde From Bernard Bell, December 11, 1970
Date Created
1970-12-11
Description
Correspondence to Audre Lorde from Bernard Bell accepting her poetry for an upcoming anthology.
Subject
African American authors, African American poets
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Letter ro faculty members asking for a pledge to support the National Association of Black Students.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Letter to Faculty Members, October 27, 1970
Date Created
1970-10-27
Description
Letter ro faculty members asking for a pledge to support the National Association of Black Students.
Subject
African American educators, African American students, Race discrimination
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about permission to reprint poems.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Corrrespondence to Bernard Bell From Audre Lorde, October 24, 1970
Date Created
1970-10-24
Description
Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about permission to reprint poems.
Subject
African American authors, African American poets
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about the value of her poetry.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Corrrespondence to Bernard Bell From Audre Lorde, October 24, 1970
Date Created
1970-10-24
Description
Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about the value of her poetry.
Subject
African American authors, African American poets
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Correspondence to Audre Lorde from Bernard Bell requesting permission to reprint her poetry in an upcoming anthology.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Corrrespondence to Audre Lorde From Bernard Bell, October 3, 1970
Date Created
1970-10-03
Description
Correspondence to Audre Lorde from Bernard Bell requesting permission to reprint her poetry in an upcoming anthology.
Subject
African American authors, African American poets
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Letter from the Emergency Conference to Defend the Right of the Black Panther Party to Exist, concerning fundraising.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
"Give a Week to End Genocide" Letter, October 1970
Date Created
1970-10
Description
Letter from the Emergency Conference to Defend the Right of the Black Panther Party to Exist, concerning fundraising.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, Political campaigns
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Letter to Brother Jones announcing the acceptance of poetry in a new anthology.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Poetry Acceptance Letter, circa 1970
Date Created
1968/1972
Description
Letter to Brother Jones announcing the acceptance of poetry in a new anthology.
Subject
African American authors, African American poets
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
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.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Boycott Letter, circa 1970
Date Created
1968/1972
Description
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.
Subject
African American authors, African American poets, African Americans--Civil rights, Race discrimination
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Etheridge Knight introduces his book, Poems from Prison, followed by a selection of poetry from the book.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Poems from Prison, Etheridge Knight, circa 1969
Date Created
1968/1971
Description
Etheridge Knight introduces his book, Poems from Prison, followed by a selection of poetry from the book.
Subject
African American poets, Crime
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection