Belton, Don mss., 1907-2009

Papers of Don Belton, 1907-2009, at the Lilly Library, Indiana University

Finding aid created by Mary McSparran

Creator: Belton, Don
Title: Belton, Don mss.
Collection No.: LMC 2761
Dates: 1960-2009
Quantity:

Quantity: 37 Boxes

Abstract: The Belton, Don mss., 1907-2009, consists of the papers, writings, and correspondence of Indiana University Assistant Professor of English Don Belton, 1956-2009.
Location: ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility)
Language: English .
Repository: Lilly Library
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500
Business Number: 812-855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu
URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library

Biographical Note

Don Belton was born on August 7, 1956, to Charles and Dora Belton in Philadelphia, PA. Educated in the Philadelphia school system, his talent, gifts and potential won him a scholarship to William Penn Charter School. Belton earned a B.A. from Bennington College in 1981 and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins College in 1982.

Belton's publications include the highly-regarded novel Almost Midnight (1986). He was also the editor of the anthology Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream (1996), considered a groundbreaking contribution to representations of black male experience. He published widely in in literary reviews, literature anthologies, cultural journals, popular magazines and newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Black Film Review, Artpaper, Transition, The Utne Reader, and The Indiana Review. Prior to coming to IU Bloomington, Belton taught at Shippensburg University, the University of Michigan, Macalester College, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he had been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference at Middlebury College, Macdowell and Yadoo artists' colonies, the Rockefeller Center in Italy, and the Center for Media Studies at Brown University until his untimely death in 2009.

Scope and Contents

Journals consist of hardbound diaries featuring regular handwritten entries by Don Belton covering the years 1984-2009. Notebooks consist of spiral pads, with handwritten entries also by Belton, covering the years 1967-2008. The journals contain mainly personal reflections whereas the notebooks tend to feature ideas for writing and teaching, although there is occasional overlap between these topics.

Writings include drafts, proofs, and print materials for the works of Don Belton and other authors. Correspondence includes letters from: Chinua Achebe; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; William Kennedy; Jonathan Lethem; Terry McMillan; Jane Meara; Theoharis C. Theoharis; Paule Turner. Professional files include Belton's contract and agreements, conference and workshop materials, and materials for promotion and tenure. Course materials include class notes and exercises, student papers, projects, and assignments, course descriptions, and syllabi for classes taught by Belton.

Research files are comprised of articles and other writings collected by Don Belton pertaining to his wide-ranging personal and professional interests, including African-American culture, black masculinity, GLBT studies, blues, jazz, pop and hip-hop music, cinema, Toni Morrison, Diana Ross, and James Baldwin. Miscellaneous files include Belton's elementary school grades, financial records, newspaper clippings, magazines, ephemera, and assorted personal notes. Photographs include images of Don Belton, James Baldwin, and several of Belton's personal photo albums. Artwork includes Belton's loose-leaf sketches and sketchbooks. Audiovisual includes audiocassettes and videocassettes, some featuring readings and interviews conducted by Belton, others containing copyrighted material.

The Postcards series consists of a voluminous assortment of picture postcards collected by Don Belton over the years, and arranged by Belton according to "People, Places and Favorite Things," "Writers, Other Creative Artists and Athletes," "Music Artists," and "Vintage Places and Holidays." Memorabilia includes a string-less violin, an alligator head (preserved by taxidermy) filled with index cards featuring literary terms and used presumably for classroom exercises, and a bulletin board with assorted paraphernalia collected by Don Belton.

Additions consist of a 2005 journal, undated postcards, a couple of Belton's books and bibliography, and removed items.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into the following series: I. Journals; II. Notebooks; III. Writings; IV. Correspondence; V. Professional; VI. Courses; VII. Research; VIII. Miscellaneous; IX. Photographs; X. Artwork; XI. Audio-Visual; XII. Postcards; XIII. Memorabilia; XIV. Additions.

Restrictions

Conditions Governing Access:

This collection is open for research.

Many collections are housed offsite; retrieval requires advance notice. Please make an appointment a minimum of one week in advance of your visit.

Conditions Governing Use:

Photography and digitization may be restricted for some collections. Copyright restrictions may apply. Before publishing, researchers are responsible for securing permission from all applicable rights holders, then filling out the Permission to Publish form.

Indexed Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item], Belton, Don mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquired: 2010

Processing Information

Processed by Craig Simpson. Completed in 2011.

Collection Inventory

Box 1

Series:

Journals

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically. There are intermittent gaps between years and occasional overlap between dates.

Box 1
May 18, 1984-August 8 [1984?]
Box 1
December 15, 1988-March 26, 1989
Box 1
April 3, 1989-July 14, 1989
Box 1
July 18, 1989-August 8, 1989
Box 1
September 10, 1989-February 1, 1990
Box 1
and , October 15, 1990-March 21, 1992, May 13, 2000-June 1, 2000 (same journal)
Box 1
and , February 10, 1990-March 10, 1990, March 12, 2005-April 19, 2005 (same journal)
Box 1
and , March 22, 1990-June 23, 1990, October 24, 1999-November 15, 1999 (same journal)
Box 1
May 5, 1990-October 12, 1990
Box 1
and , March 22, 1991-April 5, 1991, October 29, 2001-October 30, 2001 (same journal)
Box 1
May 26, 1991-October 19, 1991
Box 1
August 28, 1992-October 26, 1992
Box 1
July 10, 1993-October 21, 1994
Box 1
October 22, 1994-July 5, 1995
Box 1
July 5, 1995-October 8, 1995
Box 1
"Remember This House" , 1996
Box 1
October 12, 1995-January 15, 1996
Box 1
January 17, 1996-April 18, 1996
Box 1
April 18, 1996-July 18, 1996
Box 1
July 20, 1996-December 1, 1996
Box 1
December 4, 1996-May 4, 1997
Box 1
January 6, 1997-May 3, 1997
Box 1
May 6, 1997-July 28, 1997
Box 1
July 30, 1997-October 17, 1997
Box 1
October 21, 1997-January 12, 1998
Box 1
January 14, 1998-May 11, 1998
Box 1
May 25, 1998-September 10, 1998
Box 2
September 17, 1998-June 28, 1999
Box 2
July 6, 1999-September 30, 1999
Box 2
December 25, 1999-February 26, 2000
Box 2
July 17-25, 2000
Box 2
August 21, 2000-October 4, 2000
Box 2
October 9, 2000-November 8, 2000
Box 2
December 9, 2000-December 30, 2000
Box 2
January 5, 2001-February 18, 2001
Box 2
February 20, 2001-April 8, 2001
Box 2
April 11, 2001-December 12, 2001
Box 2
April 16, 2001-May 27, 2001
Box 2
May 29, 2001-August 3 or 4, 2001
Box 2
August 7, 2001-October 28, 2001
Box 2
December 13, 2001-January 27, 2002
Box 2
January 28, 2002-March 26, 2002
Box 2
March 31, 2002
Box 2
April 1, 2002-July 18, 2002
Box 2
July 24, 2002-August 17, 2002
Box 2
December 7, 2002-March 26, 2003
Box 2
March 27, 2003-June 12, 2003
Box 2
August 24, 2003-October 18, 2003
Box 2
August 24, 2003-October 18, 2003
Box 2
October 18, 2003-December 25, 2003
Box 2
February 8, 2004-April 21, 2004
Box 2
April 22, 2004-May 31, 2004
Box 2
June 1, 2004-July 4, 2004
Box 2
July 7, 2004-August 29, 2004
Box 2
August 30, 2004-November 23, 2004
Box 2
December 3, 2004-February 6, 2005
Box 3
February 9, 2005-May 16, 2005
Box 3
July 15, 2005-October 7/8, 2005
Box 3
October 15, 2005-November 30, 2005
Box 3
November 25, 2005-June 23, 2006
Box 3
November 26, 2005-February 18, 2006
Box 3
April 2, 2006-April 29, 2006
Box 3
July 4, 2006-August 13, 2006
Box 3
August 17, 2006-September 21, 2006
Box 3
September 26, 2006-December 25, 2006
Box 3
December 31, 2006-January 27, 2007
Box 3
January 29, 2007-March 4, 2007
Box 3
March 9, 2007-April 15, 2007
Box 3
April 15, 2007-June 20, 2007
Box 3
June 12, 2007-August 8, 2007
Box 3
August 8, 2007-October 15, 2007
Box 3
October 20, 2007-December 17, 2007
Box 3
January 13, 2008-November 13, 2009
Box 3
July 17, 2008-August 23, 2008
Box 3
November 19-20, 1999

Physical Description: [loose-leaf pages]

Box 3
November 1, 2008

Physical Description: [loose-leaf pages]

Box 3
March 17-March 26 [year unidentified]
Box 3
June 14-October 14 [year unidentified]
Box 4

Series:

Notebooks

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically.

Box 4
September 25, 1967-October 27, 1967
Box 4
March 15, 1981-May 2, 1981
Box 4
March 10, 1985-April 15, 1985
Box 4
Summer-Autumn, 1985
Box 4
March 20, 1987-July 18, 1987
Box 4
July 25, 1987-October 24, 1987
Box 4
October 25, 1987-January 30, 1988
Box 4
February 1, 1988-May 9, 1988
Box 4
May 10, 1988-November 25, 1988
Box 4
January 22, 1989-October 3, 1989
Box 4
February 14, 1992-March 17, 1993
Box 4
May 6, 1998-July 17, 1998
Box 4
September 16, 1998-1999
Box 4
October 3, 1999-March 10, 2000
Box 4
March 6, 2000
Box 4
August 11, 2000-August 17, 2000
Box 4
December 4, 2000-March 3, 2001
Box 4
September 5, 2002-September 20, 2002
Box 4
October 18, 2002-November 26, 2002
Box 4
December 15, [2007]-January 29, [2008]
Box 4
November 11-14 [year unidentified]
Box 4
October 20-January 17 [year unidentified]
Box 4
Undated

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 5
Undated

Physical Description: (17 folders)

Box 6
Undated

Physical Description: (16 folders)

Box 7

Series:

Writings

Arrangement: Divided into two subseries: Don Belton; and Other Authors. Arranged alphabetically by title of story, novel, poem, or article.

Box 7

Subseries:

Don Belton
Box 7
Almost Midnight , drafts

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 7
" Berryman's Dream Songs " draft
Box 7
" The Black Mariah ," draft
Box 7
" Black Mary ," draft
Box 7
Crying in the Streets , drafts, proofs

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 7
" Delaney Article ," draft
Box 7
Egypt (A Novel in Progress) , drafts

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 7
" From a Collection of Masks ," draft
Box 7
" Gary at the Table ," draft
Box 7
" The Girl of My Dreams ," drafts
Box 7
" Her Mother's Prayers on Fire ," drafts
Box 7
" If I Were Your Girlfriend ," and other works, drafts
Box 7
" Jumping Back to the Natural " and other poems, drafts
Box 7
" Leavima ," drafts
Box 7
" The Love Ghetto ," draft
Box 7
" Malcom Profile ," draft
Box 7
" Man's Work ," drafts
Box 7
" Morrison's Jazz " draft
Box 7
" My Father's House ," draft
Box 7
" My Soul is a Witness ," drafts
Box 7
"Naughty"
Box 7
" Nina Simone's Musical Theater of Gest ," draft
Box 7
" A Novelist's Bibliography ," draft
Box 7
" The Pentecostal Bridegroom ," printed
Box 7
Poems, miscellaneous, drafts, proofs

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 7
" Populuxe/Blackglama ," draft
Box 7
Reviews, miscellaneous, printed
Box 7
The Sins of My Father , drafts

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 7
" Soul Station ," draft
Box 7
" Speak Demon ," draft
Box 7
Speak My Name: Introduction , draft
Box 7
"Voodoo for Charles," draft
Box 7
"A Voyage for Materialized Ghosts," draft
Box 7
"Whose Masculinity is This?" draft
Box 7
"Work-in-Progress: Sample Chapter," draft
Box 7
"You are My Heart," draft
Box 8
Unidentified manuscripts (5 folders)
Box 8

Subseries:

Other Authors
Box 8
" Albert Murray On Stage: An Interview ," by Louis Edwards, draft
Box 8
" Carrying the Staff ," by Sam Hasselby and Michael McMahon, draft
Box 8
" Impasse ," by Assamala Amoi, draft
Box 8
" In Memoriam to Rudolph Valentino ," by Alberta Austin, draft
Box 8
" Malcolm Q: Malcolm X's Wild Side ," by Charley Shively, draft
Box 8
Malcolm X , screenplay, by James Baldwin and Arnold Perl, photocopied drafts

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 8
Malcolm X , treatment, by James Baldwin, photocopied draft
Box 8
" The Midnight Hour ," by James Campbell, draft
Box 8
" Nelson Perry Interview ," by Ron Edwards, draft
Box 8
" Now You See It ," by Samuel R. Delany, draft
Box 8
" Raised and Written in Contradiction: Jan Kott's Final Interview ," with Allen J. Kuharski, draft
Box 8
" Separation Anxiety ," by Sana K. Younis, draft
Box 8
" Sparkle: The Musical ," screenplay, by Ntozake Shange, draft
Box 8
" Swift and His Three Loves ," by Alberta Austin, draft
Box 8
" Touched ," by Paule Turner, draft
Box 8
" Two Flutes Playing ," and other works, by Andrew Ramer, photocopied draft
Box 8
" The Welcome Table ," by James Baldwin, photocopied draft
Box 8
Reviews of Belton's works, printed
Box 8
Unidentified manuscripts
Box 9

Series:

Correspondence

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically, the first few folders by subject, the rest by last name of correspondent.

Box 9
Almost Midnight
Box 9
Belton, Don
Box 9
Belton Family
Box 9
A-E
Box 9
F-L
Box 9
M-R
Box 9
S-Z
Box 9
Unidentified
Box 9

Series:

Professional

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Box 9
Applications
Box 9
Appointments
Box 9
Author Questionnaires
Box 9
Bestseller Lists
Box 9
Biographical Notes
Box 9
Bulletins
Box 9
Business Cards
Box 9
Center for Arts Criticism
Box 9
Certificates, Honors, Awards
Box 9
Conferences and Workshops

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 9
Contracts and Agreements

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 9
Critical Responses [i.e., Pull-Quotes]
Box 9
Curriculum
Box 9
Dean's Evaluations
Box 9
Editing
Box 9
Expenses
Box 9
Faculty Activities
Box 9
Fellowships
Box 9
Grants
Box 9
Job Descriptions
Box 9
Lectures
Box 9
Letters of Recommendation
Box 9
Pamphlets
Box 9
Pedagogical Statements
Box 9
Permissions
Box 9
Programs
Box 9
Promotion and Tenure
Box 9
Proposals
Box 9
Publicity
Box 9
Readings
Box 9
Resumes
Box 9
Royalty Agreements
Box 9
Salary
Box 9
Taxes
Box 9
Teaching
Box 9
Travel
Box 9
Web Design
Box 9
Writing
Box 10

Series:

Courses

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Box 10
Attendance Lists
Box 10
Class Notes
Box 10
Class Exercises
Box 10
Course Calendars
Box 10
Course Descriptions

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 10
Discussion Questions
Box 10
Reading Surveys
Box 10
Readings
Box 10
Readings
Box 10
Student Papers

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 10
Student Projects and Assignments

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 10
Study Guides
Box 10
Syllabi
Box 10
Teaching Evaluations

Physical Description: (5 folders)

Box 10
Workshops

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 10
Miscellaneous
Box 11

Series:

Research

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Box 11
African-American Culture
Box 11
African-American Fiction
Box 11
African-American History
Box 11
Agee, James
Box 11
Almodovar, Pedro
Box 11
American History
Box 11
American Literature
Box 11
Architecture
Box 11
Arts Initiatives
Box 11
Baldwin, James

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 11
Bennington College
Box 11
Black Masculinity
Box 11
Black Panthers
Box 11
Blues Music
Box 11
Books
Box 11
Brazil
Box 11
Brecht, Bertolt
Box 11
Capote, Truman
Box 11
Celebrity
Box 11
Christianity
Box 11
Civil Rights
Box 11
Crime
Box 11
Cuisine
Box 11
Dance
Box 11
Day, Tom
Box 11
Deep Springs
Box 11
Disco
Box 11
DuBois, W.E.B.
Box 11
Education
Box 11
Ellison, Ralph
Box 11
Family
Box 11
Fashion
Box 11
Feminism
Box 11
Fiction
Box 11
Film Noir
Box 11
Folklore
Box 11
Funerals
Box 11
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Box 11
Ginsberg, Allen
Box 11
GLBT (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender)
Box 11
Gospel Music
Box 11
Hip-Hop Music
Box 11
Huckleberry Finn
Box 11
Hudson, Rock
Box 11
Hughes, Langston
Box 11
Hurst, Fannie
Box 11
Immigration
Box 11
India
Box 11
Interior Design
Box 11
Jackson, Michael
Box 11
Jazz
Box 11
Jones, Grace
Box 11
Jordan, Michael
Box 11
Judaism
Box 11
Kafka, Franz
Box 11
King, Jr., Martin Luther
Box 11
Latino Art
Box 11
Lee, Spike
Box 11
Literary Criticism
Box 11
Malcolm X
Box 11
Masculinity (General)
Box 11
Media
Box 11
Midwifery
Box 11
Miller, Robert
Box 11
Modernism
Box 11
Morrison, Toni
Box 11
Movie Theaters
Box 11
Movies
Box 11
MTV
Box 11
Multiculturalism
Box 11
Multiple Personality Disorder
Box 11
Mythology
Box 11
Nature
Box 11
The 1960s
Box 11
Opera
Box 11
Painting
Box 11
Parenting
Box 11
Phallic Studies
Box 11
Photography
Box 11
Poetry
Box 11
Politics
Box 11
Pop Music
Box 11
Poitier, Sidney
Box 11
Prison
Box 11
Psychology
Box 11
Publishing
Box 11
Quilting
Box 11
Racism
Box 11
Radio
Box 11
Religion
Box 11
Robeson, Paul
Box 11
Ross, Diana
Box 11
Simone, Nina
Box 11
Slavery
Box 11
Sports
Box 11
Storytelling
Box 11
Thoreau, Henry David
Box 11
Theater
Box 12
Tourism
Box 12
Travel
Box 12
Urban Studies
Box 12
Voodoo
Box 12
Walker, Alice
Box 12
Warhol, Andy
Box 12
Washington, Harold
Box 12
White, Edmund
Box 12
Williams, Tennessee
Box 12
Wilson, August
Box 12
Women's Studies
Box 12
Wright, Richard
Box 12
Miscellaneous
Box 12

Series:

Miscellaneous
Box 12
Printed Don Belton photos
Box 12
Printed photos (male genitalia)
Box 12
Don Belton exhibit label
Box 12
Don Belton grades
Box 12
Financial
Box 12
Rental/Lease Agreements
Box 12
Catalogs
Box 12
Handbook for Inmates, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA
Box 12
Interviews
Box 12
Maps
Box 12
Newspaper clippings

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 12
Newsletters
Box 12
Notes

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 12
Pamphlets

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 12
Programs
Box 12
Publications
Box 12
Publicity
Box 12
Ephemera

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 12
Max Protetch materials
Box 13
Day-Minder Calendar , 1985
Box 13
Appointment Calendar , 1985-1986
Box 13
Weekly Schedule Portfolio
Box 13
Planning and Record Book
Box 13
Sixteen Miles in Twenty-One Days , whale camp book
Box 13
Stormy Weather sheet music
Box 13
Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet sheet music
Box 13
Tuscaloosa, AL, telephone directory , 1953
Box 13
Air Force Training Certificate, Morris J. Belton
Box 13
The Supremes' program and autographed pages
Box 13
The Incomparable Nat King Cole celebrity book, collector's edition
Box 13
Magazine clipping, autographed by Linda Goss
Box 13
Magazines, A-B
Box 13
Magazines, C
Box 13
Magazines, E
Box 13
Magazines, F-M
Box 13
Magazines, N
Box 13
Magazines, P-U
Box 30
Notes
Box 30
Newspaper clippings
Box 31
Magazines, B-L
Box 32
Magazines, B-S
Box 33
"Leaves of Grass," envelope of collected outdoor leaves
Box 33
Assorted paraphernalia
Box 33
Items removed from frames
Box 33
Magnets from Belton's office door
Box 33
Stamps and tattoos
Box 33
Paper banner, hung in Belton's office
Box 33
Tip-Top Weekly youth publication (3)
Box 35
Posters
Box 14

Series:

Photographs

Arrangement: Divided into four subseries: Photo Albums; Persons; Places; and Other.

Box 14

Subseries:

Photo Albums
Box 14
Albums

Physical Description: (9)

Box 15
Albums

Physical Description: (2)

Box 15

Subseries:

Persons
Box 15
Belton, Don

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 15
Belton, Don: 6th grade class photo , 1968
Box 15
Baldwin, James
Box 15
Beal, Chester
Box 15
Brown, James
Box 15
Caldwell, Fred and Berry, Freeman
Box 15
Douglas, Aaron
Box 15
Electric Shop Night Employees
Box 15
First Boy Students of Carlisle , October 1879
Box 15
Hinson, Carole Ann
Box 15
James, Henry and Barrie, James M.
Box 15
Phillips, Earl and Reed
Box 15
Robeson, Paul
Box 15
Unidentified

Physical Description: (5 folders)

Box 15

Subseries:

Places
Box 15
London

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 15
Unidentified
Box 15

Subseries:

Other
Box 15
Miscellaneous
Box 15
Contact sheets
Box 15
Negatives
Box 15
Slides

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 15
Digital images

Physical Description: (3 CD-ROMS)

Box 33
Unidentified woman, framed photograph
Box 36
Miscellaneous photographs
Box 15

Series:

Artwork
Box 15
Sketches, loose-leaf
Box 15
Sketchbooks

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 30
Sketchbook
Box 34
Original art
Box 35
Printed art
Box 16

Series:

Audio-Visual
Box 16

Subseries:

Audiocassettes
Box 16
Mowgli's Brothers by Rudyard Kipling (Book-on-tape)
Box 16
"Once Upon a Time/Summer"
Box 16
"Speak My Name/An Interview with Doris Belton"
Box 16
"Conversations with KAB and excerpts from Almost Midnight "
Box 16
"Madame Besse"
Box 16
"(William) Styron interview"
Box 16
"Bill Styron interview"
Box 16
"Bill Styron continued"
Box 16
"Styron: Interview conclusion"
Box 16
"Carol McGee Johnson on Earl Craig/MPLS BLK Community"
Box 16
"Craig Hanson/Locke House, Alabama"
Box 16
"Robert Lantz on JB"
Box 16
"Southern American Literature tape"
Box 16
"Jamaica Kincaid interview and reading"
Box 16
"Camille Paglia, Louis Armstrong: 'Wade in the Water'"
Box 16
"Mornson radio interview"
Box 16
"Isaac and Essex"
Box 16
"Heath Reads Schenk"
Box 16
"Rochelle Davis interview" , 1985, August 13
Box 16
"Ron Edwards interviewed on Earl Craig"
Box 16
"Second taped Moses interview" , 1992, August 13
Box 16
"Grace Paley interviewed by Kay Boneti"
Box 16
"The Mythology of the The Call: Interview with Joseph Campbell"
Box 16
"Talk of the Nation: Black Masculinity" , 1996, January 10
Box 16
"Under Our Skin: Frank, interview" , 1988, June 18
Box 16
"Pat Parker, radio interview" , 1985, September 10
Box 16
"Talking 'Bout a Good Time: Mr. Bilgen"
Box 16
"James Baldwin's Life Celebration"
Box 16
"Home & Away: Writing & a Sense of Place"
Box 16
"Hannibal"
Box 16
"Hannibal Peterson"
Box 16
"Laurent" , 1991, June 5
Box 16
"Counterpointed Characterization," by Charles Baxter , July 1989
Box 16
"Nelson Peery interviewed by Ron Edwards" , 1995
Box 16
"Grace & Essex"
Box 16
"Doing It Now: Edwin C. Bliss"
Box 16
"Baldwin Panel, Sorbonne" , 1992, February 7
Box 16
"Anne Sawyer"
Box 16
"Rei Momo"
Box 16
"Crying in the Streets/Dialect"
Box 16
"Essex & Isaac"
Box 16
"Etta James interviewed by Terry Gross" , August 1994
Box 16
"Don Belton: 11/1"
Box 16
"James Baldwin discusses Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Going with Columnist Robert Cromie"
Box 16
"Authentic Presence" , January 1990
Box 16
"Isaac and Essex"
Box 16
"Essex and Isaac"
Box 16
"Angelou/Perl Interviews re: Baldwin"
Box 16
"Cote D'Ivoire: 5th Annual Writers Conference, Official Opening Ceremony and Presentation by Don Belton"
Box 16
"Diana Ross/Sound of Jazz"
Box 16
"Etta James and Martha Reeves Interview on Fresh Air"
Box 16
"David Leeming: Phone Interview"
Box 16
"A Conversation between Manil Suri ( The Death of Vishnu ) and Michael Cunningham"
Box 16
"Joan Worth on JB (James Baldwin)"
Box 16
"David Moses on JB"
Box 16
"Isaac Julien"
Box 16
"Folklore, Brer Rabbit Tales"
Box 16
"Alice Walker interviewed and reading Nineteen Fifty-Five "
Box 16
"Don Belton…in honor of Black History Month" , 1994, February 2
Box 16
"Alice Walker: My Life as Myself "
Box 16
"Ellington: A Tone Parallel to Harlem/Nina Simone"
Box 16
"James Baldwin interviewed by Kay Boneti"
Box 16
"Walter Mosley interview and reading"
Box 16
"Marc Chenetier"
Box 16
"Gloria Naylor interview with Kay Bonetti"
Box 16
"Ishmael Reed on the radio" , 1985, December 6
Box 16
"Marion Williams interview"
Box 16
"Selected Shorts – Symphony Space/ My Soul is a Witness by Don Belton, read by Glory Van Scott"
Box 16
"Alice Walker: Philadelphia Free Library Lecture" , 1998, May 28
Box 16
"Glenn Ligon interview" , 1994, October 11
Box 16
"Frederic Bruly Brouabre" , 1994, December 10
Box 16
"Robert Cordier"
Box 16
"Eugene Clarence Braun-Monk" , 1991, June 8
Box 16
"Interview with Mahmoud El-Kati"
Box 16
"Gary Willis: Macalester College Commencement Address" , May 1995
Box 16
"Grandmother Reed Alabama" , 1999
Box 16
"Giving Birth, Finding Form: Alice Walker, Isabel Allende, Jean Shinoda Bolen"
Box 16
"Marvin Worth interview"
Box 16
"Erik Christensen: Interview/Conversation" , 1995, June 3
Box 16
"Bernard Hassell"
Box 16
"My Soul is a Witness/If I Had My Way : Blues and Gospel"
Box 16
"Joe Ryan" , 1985, August 29
Box 16
"Diva Dressing Interlude" , 1992
Box 16
"M. Prat director Maeght Foundation"
Box 16
"Rev. Grams Night #3"
Box 16
"Baldwin Panel, Sorbonne" , 1992, February 8
Box 16
"Surviving the Siege of Sarajevo"
Box 16
"Dhyani Ywahoo: Public Lecture, North Church, Golden Valley, MN"
Box 16
"Erik Christensen" , 1995, June 3
Box 16
"Don Belton rehearsing…."
Box 16
"Toni Morrison interview"
Box 16
Unidentified

Physical Description: (30 tapes)

Box 17

Subseries:

Videocassettes
Box 17
Portrait of Jason
Box 17
"Don Belton: Reading at the Hungry Mind," November 14
Box 17
Malcolm X: Parts 1 and 2
Box 17
"Don Belton-Absalom, Absalom"
Box 17
Looking for Langston/Frantz Fanon
Box 17
"Touched (a work-in-progress excerpt)" , September 9, 2003
Box 17
Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life
Box 17
August Wilson: A Conversation with August Wilson
Box 17
Blood of Jesus
Box 17
Dakan Destiny
Box 17
Allen Ginsberg
Box 17
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Box 17
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Box 17
A Gathering of Men
Box 17
James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
Box 17
Workshop of the World
Box 17
Amiri Baraka
Box 17
Lowndes County
Box 17
"Out of Darkness"
Box 17
Whale Camp..Poetry..2003
Box 17
Black Girl
Box 17
"Belton on The Painted Bird "
Box 17
"Readings: D. Belton"
Box 17
"Written and Performed by Don Belton"
Box 17
"Belton on Fences by Wilson"
Box 17
"Don Belton: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Visiting Writer Reading" , 2000
Box 17
Festival du Voyeur: Scott Watson, Don Belton-Queer Readings , February 10, 1993
Box 17
Garcia Group #38
Box 17
"bell hooks at UMass Boston: 'Remembering Paolo Freire,'" , March 24, 1998
Box 17
"Belton on Tracks by Erdrich"
Box 17
The Attendant by Isaac Julien , 1992
Box 17
Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs
Box 17
"Don Belton: Populuxe/Blackglama " Belfast , 1995
Box 17
In Search of Our Fathers
Box 17
The Castro
Box 17
The Vanishing Black Male-Saving Our Sons , February 1, 1995
Box 17
Shindig! Presents Motor City Magic
Box 17
No Regret (Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien), by Marlon Riggs , 1992
Box 18
"Belton, Don" , May 31, 1994
Box 18
Black Is…Black Ain't by Marlon Riggs
Box 18
"Talking with Paul & videotaping him when I got back From Paris"
Box 18
"Don Belton at Bellagio"
Box 18
Illusions dir. Julie Dash
Box 19

Series:

Postcards
Box 19

Subseries:

People, Places and Favorite Things
Box 19
Boys
Box 19
Girls
Box 19
Children
Box 19
Fathers
Box 19
Mothers
Box 19
Africa
Box 19
Amsterdam
Box 19
London
Box 19
American South
Box 19
Japan
Box 19
Gods
Box 19
Angels
Box 19
Society
Box 19
American Indians
Box 19
Men
Box 19
Women
Box 19
Politics
Box 19
Dogs
Box 19
Bears
Box 19
Babar
Box 19
Barbie
Box 19
Money
Box 19
Bennington
Box 19
Christmas
Box 19
Food & Wine
Box 20

Subseries:

Writers, Other Creative Artists and Athletes
Box 20
Black Writers
Box 20
Zora Neale Huston
Box 20
Langston Hughes
Box 20
James Baldwin
Box 20
Jamaica Kincaid
Box 20
Writers (General)
Box 20
Oscar Wilde
Box 20
Walt Whitman
Box 20
Allen Ginsberg
Box 20
James Joyce
Box 20
Henry James
Box 20
Ernest Hemingway
Box 20
W.H. Auden
Box 20
Don Belton
Box 20
Books
Box 20
Choreographers
Box 20
Visual Artists
Box 20
Beckmann
Box 20
Cassatt
Box 20
Brancusi
Box 20
Gauguin
Box 20
Frank Lloyd Wright
Box 20
Hockney
Box 20
Chagall
Box 20
Van Gogh
Box 20
Modigliani
Box 20
Kahlo
Box 20
O'Keefe
Box 20
Basquiat
Box 20
Jean Cocteau
Box 20
Picasso
Box 20
William Blake
Box 20
Photographers
Box 20
Fashion
Box 20
Coco Chanel
Box 20
Joe Louis
Box 20
Sports
Box 20
Einstein
Box 20
Martin Luther King
Box 20
Kennedys
Box 20
Malcolm X
Box 20
Paul Robeson
Box 20
Eleanor Roosevelt
Box 21
Film Directors
Box 21
Hitchcock
Box 21
Movie Stars
Box 21
Leading Men
Box 21
Humphrey Bogart
Box 21
Cary Grant
Box 21
Marlon Brando
Box 21
Rock Hudson
Box 21
Paul Newman
Box 21
James Dean
Box 21
Keanu Reeves
Box 21
Leading Women
Box 21
Elizabeth Taylor
Box 21
Hepburn (Kate and Audrey)
Box 21
Sophia Loren
Box 21
Garbo
Box 21
Marilyn Monroe
Box 21
Comedians
Box 21
Chaplin
Box 21
Groucho Marx
Box 21
Buckwheat
Box 21
Movies
Box 21
TV Stars
Box 21
Comic Book Heroes
Box 21
John C. Russell
Box 22

Subseries:

Music Artists
Box 22
Blues Artists
Box 22
Jazz Artists
Box 22
Count Basie
Box 22
Basic & Holiday
Box 22
Billie Holiday
Box 22
Louis Armstrong
Box 22
Duke Ellington
Box 22
Cab Calloway
Box 22
Miles Davis
Box 22
Ella Fitzgerald
Box 22
Josephine Baker
Box 22
Lena Horne
Box 22
Eartha Kitt
Box 22
Nina Simone
Box 22
Divas & Maestros
Box 22
Composers
Box 22
Motown
Box 22
Diana Ross
Box 22
Stax
Box 22
Bob Marley
Box 22
James Brown
Box 22
Aretha Franklin
Box 22
Tina Turner
Box 22
Grace Jones
Box 22
Elvis Presley
Box 22
Beatles
Box 22
Pop and Rock Artists
Box 23

Subseries:

Vintage Places and Holidays
Box 23
South
Box 23
New Orleans
Box 23
Alabama
Box 23
Colorado
Box 23
California
Box 23
Philadelphia
Box 23
Temple University
Box 23
Central PA (Pennsylvania)
Box 23
Atlantic City
Box 23
Newark, NJ
Box 23
NY State
Box 23
Manhattan
Box 23
Boston
Box 23
Bennington
Box 23
Maine
Box 23
Rhode Island
Box 23
Torrey Pines
Box 23
India
Box 23
West Indies
Box 23
Restaurants
Box 23
Holidays
Box 23
Miscellaneous
Box 24

Subseries:

Miscellaneous Postcards
Box 24
H-K
Box 25
Miscellaneous
Box 26 (Oversize)

Series:

Memorabilia
Box 26 (Oversize)
Bulletin board with miscellaneous paraphernalia
Box 27
Alligator head, with index cards featuring literary terms, used presumably for classroom exercises
Box 28
Violin, without strings
Box 29
Miscellaneous trinkets
Box 33
Cracker tin with squirt guns
Box 33
Jar with coins

Series:

Additions
box 37

Subseries:

Journals
box 37
"Soul Catcher" , 5 June 2005

Subseries:

Postcards
box 37
Undated

Scope and Contents: Individual items include notes from processor

Subseries:

Books
box 37
Higgins Jr, Chester - Connections (book of postcards)
box 37
Thackeray, W. M. - Letters to a Young Man...
box 37
Items removed from books, undated

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Scope and Contents: Individual items include notes regarding the book from which they were removed and further information on the item

Subseries:

Miscellaneous
box 37
"Belton's Bibliography," undated

Subseries:

Removed Items
box 37
Guides
box 37
A , 1927-1999
box 37
B , 1791-1997
box 37
C , 1969-2002
box 37
D , 1986-2006
box 37
E , 1967-2003
box 37
F , 1907-2000
box 37
G , 1949-2006
box 37
H , 1957-2003
box 37
J , 1946-1992
box 37
K , 1959-2002
box 37
L , 1948-1999
box 37
M , 1947-2003
box 37
N , 1924-1993
box 37
O , 1974-1999
box 37
P , 1957-2000
box 37
R , 1934-1995
box 37
S , 1928-2008
box 37
T , 1986-2001
box 37
V , 1912-1994
box 37
W , 1930-2000
box 37
Unknown

Subseries:

Writings
box 37
Undated