Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

405 Another box is dedicated to her 1969 trip to Africa, where she attended the Pan-African Cultural Festival of Algiers and visited several other countries. It includes transcripts of many symposium papers, programs, travel papers, and more. Included is a manuscript note to “Eldridge” on Algerian hotel letterhead. Other highlights include Merritt College Student Council minutes and notes circa 1966; and a set of index cards with Swahili vocabulary. Her earlier life is documented by dozens of reels of 8mm home movies, hundreds of family photographs, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and other material from circa 1940-43, and a glamour shot of Miss Harriet Smith as queen in a church beauty contest, circa 1942. Also included is a box of papers from her mother Willette L. Smith (1903-1977), mostly relating to her involvement with St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Oakland circa 1946-75, and other local organizations. The collection extends beyond paper. 29 reel-to-reel tapes include (to judge by their labels) lectures recorded circa 1969 and 1970 in Africa and in the Bay Area, as well as commercially reproduced tapes of speakers such as Malcolm X and Ron Dellums. Artifacts include a Daughters of IBPOE of W ceremonial sash, ribbons, and velvet necklace; International Order of Twelve badge and ribbon; Willette Smith’s plaque and ribbon for Order of Calanthe; Native Daughters of California ribbon; A-Phi-A fraternity charm, 1953; and more. A metal briefcase still bears inspection tags from her return from Africa in October 1969. A pair of street signs for Dowling Street and Tuam Street come from Emancipation Park in Houston, TX, founded by freedmen in 1872, and today the oldest public park in Texas. A box-by-box inventory is available upon request. E N D O F S A L E lot 405, continued