04984cpcaa2200817 4500 mm 95081191 DLC 20260227111725.0 cr ||||||||||| 950501|||||||||||| eng mm 95081191 DLC DLC DLC dacs B lcmd Payne, Ethel L. Ethel L. Payne papers, 1857-1991 (bulk 1973-1991). 15,500 items. 45 containers plus 1 classified. 18 linear feet. Open to research. Classified, in part. Correspondence, speeches, reports, articles, syndicated columns, transcripts of radio broadcasts, notes, biographical subject file, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Payne's career as a foreign correspondent (1950s); syndicated columnist (1957-1989) for two African American newspaper chains, Afro-American Newspapers and Sengstacke Enterprises; and commentator (1972-1982) with the Columbia Broadcasting System, inc., (later CBS Inc.) Spectrum radio program. Documents Payne's coverage of the war in Vietnam and her involvement as a journalist and activist in African and Third World causes especially her work in Southern Africa, with Africare, and at the 1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. Documents her activities in the Democratic Party official especially with the Metropolitan Women's Democratic Club of Washington, D.C., and her year as a professor at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Also includes material pertaining to the Payne family and to the allied Austin and Boswell families. Family correspondents include Payne's sisters Thelma E. Gray and Avis Ruth Johnson and a nephew James A. Johnson. Other correspondents include Clifford L. Alexander, Faith Berry, Hyman Harry Bookbinder, Dennis Brutus, Ofield Dukes, Joseph C. Dumas, John H. Hicks, Mal Johnson, Winnie Mandela, Fatima Meer, Richard M. Nixon, A. Philip Randolph, Charles R. Sadler, Mal Whitfield, and Aurelia Norris Young. Audiotapes and videotapes transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Some photographs and posters transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Journalist and social activist. Born 1911; died 1991. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011042 Alexander, Clifford L., 1933- Correspondence. Berry, Faith Correspondence. Bookbinder, Hyman Harry, 1916- Correspondence. Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009 Correspondence. Dukes, Ofield, 1932- Correspondence. Dumas, Joseph C. (Joseph Cardozo) Correspondence. Gray, Thelma E. (Thelma Elizabeth), 1905-1987 Correspondence. Hicks, John H., 1928- Correspondence. Johnson, Avis Ruth, 1918- Correspondence. Johnson, James A. (James Avery), 1944- Correspondence. Johnson, Mal, 1924- Correspondence. Mandela, Winnie Correspondence. Meer, Fatima Correspondence. Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 Correspondence. Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 Correspondence. Sadler, Charles R. Correspondence. Whitfield, Mal, 1924- Correspondence. Young, Aurelia Norris Correspondence. Austin family. Boswell family. Payne family. Africare (Organization) African American Newspapers. CBS Inc. Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. Democratic Party (U.S.) Fisk University Faculty. Metropolitan Women's Democratic Club. Sengstacke Enterprises. Asian-African Conference. Spectrum (Radio program) African American newspapers. Congresses and conventions Indonesia Bandung. Foreign correspondents Africa, Southern. Foreign correspondents Developing countries. Social problems Africa, Southern. Social problems Developing countries. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Journalists. Journalists. itoamc Social activists. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011042 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011042.3 44331 44331