Payne, Ethel L. creator mixed material monographic eng 15,500 45 1 18 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. Open to research. Classified, in part. 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. 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 Social activists mm 95081191 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011042 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011042.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011042 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011042.3 Open to research. Classified, in part. DLC 950501 20260227111725.0 mm 95081191