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photograph of John A. Williams, undated.
Williams at age three, in Syracuse, N.Y. 1928.
Williams with his sister Lois. 1927.
Williams's mother, Ola. 1938.
Photograph of the Williams family: (l-r) sister Ruth; father, John Henry; Williams; sister Helen; mother, Ola Mae. 830 S. McBride St., Syracuse, N.Y.…
ACHEBE, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Fawcett Premier Book (1969). First paperback edition, inscribed to Williams.
ACHEBE, Chinua. Typed letter, signed. 21 May 1987.
BEARDEN, Romare. Autograph letter, signed, undated.
BEARDEN, Romare and Nanette. Christmas card, featuring a reproduction of Bearden's painting Black Mother and Child, signed "Love, Nanette and Romie."
BEARDEN, Romare. Autograph letter (postcard), signed, to Williams. 1969.
Printed paper jacket for Safari West. Designed by Raymond Beauchemin.
Typed letter, Raymond Beauchemin to Williams. 27 June 1997.
Article from publication announcing the American Book Awards, the Before Columbus Foundation, 1998.
PHILLIS WHEATLEY AWARD FOR INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LETTERS AND CULTURE, QBR The Black Book Review, 19 July 2002.
Advertisement for Williams's speech on 25 March (1983?) as a part of the Hall of Fame Celebrity Series at Bronx Community College.
BROOKS, Gwendolyn. Typed letter, signed, enclosing poem "Medgar Evers," undated.
CASH, Earl A. John A. Williams: The Evolution of a Black Writer. New York: The Third Press (1975). First edition, in dust jacket.
Black Writers Hall of Fame, Chicago State University, 1998.
COOKE, Dana L. Typed letter signed to Dennis and John A. Williams. 13 March 1992.
DICKINSON, Gloria Harper. "Self-Concept in the Novels of John A. Williams and Chinua Achebe." 18 January 1978. Howard University doctoral…
FABRE, Michel. Typed letter signed, to Williams. 11 January 1991.
From PROFILES OF NEW YORK AUTHORS, by Mildred Buchanan Flagg. New York: Carlton Press (1972).
LP RECORD. Special radio programming material for Captain Blackman, featuring Williams. Released by Garrison Systems Radio Network. Undated (1972?).
GOOD, Paul. Typed letter, signed. 3 April 1969.
"UNIT ONE: MINORITIES IN THE CITY," The City Today, edited by George L. Groman. New York: Harper & Row (1978).
HIMES, Chester. Typed letter signed, n.d. (1963?)
HIMES, Chester. Typed letter signed, to Williams. 3 December 1962.
HIMES, Chester. Typed letter, signed, to Williams. 22 July 1969.
HIMES, Chester. Typed letter signed, to Williams. 13 June 1969.
HIMES, Chester. The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes. Vol. 1. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1972). First edition, inscribed to…
HIMES, Chester. Carbon typescript, The Quality of Hurt: Book 1 (1972).
HIMES, Chester. Typed letter, signed. 30 May 1972.
HIMES, Chester. The Third Generation. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (1989). Foreword by Williams.
![HUGHES, Langston. Original telegram, to Williams. [1965].](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/d1bf62d5ac19c41c7f6f6caccae3ab08.jpg "HUGHES, Langston. Original telegram, to Williams. [1965].")
HUGHES, Langston. Original telegram, to Williams. [1965].
"ENDING WELL," in Men on Divorce. The Other Side of the Story. New York: Harcourt Brace (1997). Edited by Peggy Kaganoff and Susan Spano. Williams…
KILLENS, John Oliver. Typed letter signed. 16 April 1986.
Original photograph of Williams at his typewriter, 1964.
Photo by Jean Lattes.
Photo by Jean Lattes.
LEVINE, Philip. Autograph letter, signed, undated.
McNATT, Norman H. Autographed letter, signed, to Williams, 12 February 1990, announcing the appointment of Williams as the Paul Robeson Professor of…
"MIDDLETON," in An Ocean Apart: American Artists Abroad (exhibition) October 8, 1982 - January 9, 1983, The Studio Museum in Harlem. New York: The…
Sam Middleton (1987). Williams wrote the introduction to the catalog for a Middleton retrospective in the Netherlands.
Sam Middleton: Mischief and Melancholy (1998).
MIDDLETON, Sam. Autograph letter signed to Williams. 6 December 1982.
MIDDLETON, Sam. Autograph letter signed, to Williams. 7 October 1981.
PAINTING IN SOUND, Sam Middleton. Original typescript with author's corrections.
Miller Brewing Company's promotional brochure for GALLERY OF GREATS: BLACK AUTHORS, A VOICE FOR THE PEOPLE, 1990.
MULLER, Gilbert H. John A. Williams. Boston: Twayne Publishers (1984). First edition.
THE MCGRAW-HILL INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE. Co-edited with Gilbert H. Muller. New York: McGraw-Hill (1985). First edition, original wrappers.
WAYS IN: APPROACHES TO READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE. Co-edited with Gilbert H. Muller. New York: McGraw-Hill (1994). First edition.
BRIDGES: LITERATURE ACROSS CULTURES. Co-edited with Gilbert H. Muller. New York: McGraw-Hill (1994). First edition.
WAYS IN: APRROACHES TO READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE AND FILM. Co-edited with Gilbert H. Muller. New York: McGraw-Hill (2003). Second edition.
N'GOMA, Eugene. "Les Personnages Expatries Chez trois Romanciers Afro-Americains d'Apres-Guerre: James Baldwin, John A. Williams, William Gardner…
Picture of Williams and brief bio in Nugget. Vol. 3, No. 3. (October 1958).
INTERVIEWS WITH BLACK WRITERS, edited by John O'Brien. New York: Liveright (1973).
O'CONNOR, John J. "TV: Blacks on Way Up in "Sophisticated Gents," offprint from the New York Times. 29 September 1981
POWERMAN 5000. Tonight the Stars Revolt. Los Angeles: Dreamworks Records (1999). CD-ROM.
REED, Ishmael. Typed letter, signed. 24 September 1975.
REED, Ishmael. Mumbo Jumbo. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1972). First edition, signed by Reed.
Bust of Williams by James Reed, 6 September 1988. A reproduction of the bust was used for the Safari West jacket art.
ROTH, Henry. Typed letter signed. 25 July 1966.
Advertisement for Williams's speech on 24 February (1983?) as a part of the Paul Robeson Scholar Project at Livingston College, Rutgers University.
LINDBACK AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING. Presented by the president of The State University of New Jersey at Rutgers in recognition of Williams's…
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, appointing Williams to the position of Professor Emeritus, June 1994.
SIONS, Harry. Typed letter, signed. 29 July 1966.
Southeastern Massachusetts University Seventy-Eighth Commencement, Dartmouth, Mass., 4 June 1978. Williams received an Honorary Doctor of Literature…
Syracuse University Centennial Medal for Outstanding Achievement, 1970.
Honorary degree, Syracuse University, Doctor of Letters, 14 May 1995.
"Citation accompanying the awarding of the degree," Syracuse University, 14 May 1995.
"WE PALS," comic strip by Morrie Turner (1992).
Williams with friend Dave (Slick) Branch in “zoot suits.” Almond St., Syracuse, N.Y. 1941.
Williams holding his son Dennis, with his other son, Gregory. 1952.
"SLUGGERS." Photograph of sons Dennis and Gregory. Syracuse, N.Y. 1952.
Chester Himes. Alicante, Spain. June 1969.
Original Carl van Vechten photograph of John O. Killens. 1954.
"AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN A. WILLIAMS," by Dennis A. Williams, Forkroads (Winter 1995).
VANQUI. Original printed score with libretto by Williams and music by Leslie Savoy Burrs (1998). "Women's Deep Song," with Williams's corrections…
IF I STOP I'LL DIE: THE COMEDY AND TRAGEDY OF RICHARD PRYOR. Original typescript, with author's corrections and additions.
IF I STOP I'LL DIE: THE COMEDY AND TRAGEDY OF RICHARD PRYOR. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (1991). First edition, signed by Williams and Dennis…
WILLIAMS, Lori and John A. DEAR CHESTER, DEAR JOHN. (A work in progress.)
Camp Robert Smalls, Great Lakes Naval Training Center; with Williams's signed inscription: "To My Best Girl - Mom from Jon." May 1943.
"SON IN THE AFTERNOON." Original carbon typescript.
THE ANGRY ONES. New York: Ace Books, 1960. First edition. Signed by Williams. Williams's first regularly published book.
ONE FOR NEW YORK. Chatham, N.J.: The Chatham Bookseller (1975). Reissue of The Angry Ones under the title originally intended by Williams.
Williams when he was the president of the Syracuse University chapter of the NAACP and president of the Delta Zeta chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha…
Williams with brother, Joe, and son Greg. March 1949.
Poems. Syracuse, NY. Privately published by the author, 1952. "Limited edition," The author's first book.
"State Fair." Original typescript of article for the Syracuse Post-Standard, with Williams's corrections.
Printed dust jacket for Unconventional Prayers by Allen A. Stockdale. New York: Comet Press Books (1955). Designed by Williams with Barbara Koski.
One for New York. Chatham, N.J.: The Chatham Bookseller (1975). Reissue of the Angry Ones under the title originally intended by Williams.
The Angry Ones. New York: Pocket Books, 1970.
The Angry Ones. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (1996)
"A CAT NAMED JOE," in Gent. Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 1956).
"BRUBBIE DESBECK GOES TO MARS," in Dude. Vol. 2 No. 1 (September 1957).
"BOPPER'S HAMLET," in Gent. Vol. 2, No. 6 (August 1958).
"ROM AND JULIE," in Nugget. Vol. 3, No. 3. (October 1958).
Original photographs of the house where Williams lived in Castelldefels, Spain. 1958-1959.
NIGHT SONG. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1961). First edition.
SWEET LOVE, BITTER. New York: Dell (1966).
NIGHT SONG. London: Collins (1962). First British edition.
NIGHT SONG. London; Collins/Fontana Books (1965). First British paperback edition.
NIGHT SONG. London: the Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Collins (1964).
"SUBJECT: CHARLES PARKER," in Swank. Vol. 8, No. 3 (July 1961). Also appears in Flashbacks (1973).
"DICK GREGORY: DESEGREGATED COMIC," in Swank. Vol 8, No. 4 (September 1961). Also appears in Flashbacks (1973).
THE ANGRY BLACK. New York: Lancer Books (1962(. First edition, edited by Williams. Stories and articles by prominent writers.
DE ZWARTE WOEDE. Amsterdam: ABC-Boeken (1967). Dutch paperback edition of the Angry Black.
"WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT..." in Nugget (December 1962). Also appears in Flashbacks (1973).
SISSIE: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. Original typescript, second draft; with the author's corrections and additions. A dramatization of the novel for the…
SISSIE. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1963). First edition, proof copy.
SISSIE. New York: Farrar. Straus, & Cudahy (1963). First edition.
SISSIE. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books/Doubleday (1969). First paperback edition.
SISSIE. Stockholm: Raben & Sjogren (1964). Swedish paperback edition.
JOURNEY OUT OF ANGER. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (1965). First British edition.
"THE LITERARY GHETTO," in Saturday Review. Vol. XLVI, No. 16 (20 April 1963).
"NEGRO LITERATURE TODAY," in Ebony. Vol XVIII, No. 11 (September 1963).
"TALES OF CHILDHOOD," in Negro Digest. Vol. XII, No. 3 (January 1963).
"SEX IN BLACK & WHITE," in Cavalier. Vol. 13, No. 123 (September 1963). Also appears in Flashbacks (1973).
"GLAD SONG OF THE A-TRAIN," in Cavalier. Vol. 13, No. 117 (March 1963).
"NEITHER LIFE ENOUGH NOR TIME," in The New Leader. Vol. XLVI, No. 11 (27 May 1963).
THE PROTECTORS, by Harry J. Anslinger with J. Dennis Gregory. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy (1964). First edition. Williams used the pseudonym…
"THIS IS MY COUNTRY TOO, PART I," in Holiday, Vol. 36, No. 2 (August 1964).
"THIS IS MY COUNTRY TOO, PART II," in Holiday, Vol. 36, No. 3 (September 1964).
THIS IS MY COUNTRY TOO. New York: New American Library (1966). First edition.
THIS IS MY COUNTRY TOO. New York: New American Library (1966). First paperback edition.
THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. Original carbon typescript with author's corrections and additions.
THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. Boston: Little, Brown (1967). First hardcover edition.
![[THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM.] "The King Alfred Plan." Boston: Little, Brown (1967).](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/8c1c9769980e0d11dabfc759ed109667.jpg "[THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM.] \"The King Alfred Plan.\" Boston: Little, Brown (1967).")
[THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM.] "The King Alfred Plan." Boston: Little, Brown (1967).
THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. New York: Signet Books/New American Library (1968). First paperback edition.
THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. New York: Signet Books/New American Library (1968). First paperback edition.
THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. London: Penguin Books in association with Eyre & Spottiswoode (1971). Paperback edition.
THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (1985). New paperback edition.
NAAR JAMES TOWN EN TERUG. Urecht/Antwerpen: A.W. Brana & Zoon (1969). Dutch edition.
L'HOMME QUI CRIAIT JE SUIS. Paris: Quai Voltaire (1994). French edition.
THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press (2004).
THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. Autograph manuscript. Fragment of dramatization by Williams.
SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT. Setting typescript, with author's corrections and additions.
SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT. Boston: Little, Brown (1969). First edition, proof copy.
SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT. Boston: Little, Brown (1969). First edition, in dust jacket.
SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT. New York: Pocket Books (1970). First paperback edition.
THE KING GOD DIDN'T SAVE. New York: Coward-McCann (1970). First edition.
THE KING GOD DIDN'T SAVE. Paperback edition.