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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Virginia Hamilton papers, 1938-2003 (bulk 1970-1999)</title>
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    <namePart>Hamilton, Virginia</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1936-2002</namePart>
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    <extent>18.8</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, drafts, printing proofs, biographical material, research material, publicity items, reviews, illustrations, and other papers pertaining chiefly to the production of Hamilton's children's books.  Includes drafts of Anthony Burns : The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (1988); Bluish : A Novel (1999); The House of Dies Drear (1968); M.C. Higgins, The Great (1974); Paul Robeson : The Life and Times of a Free Black Man (1974); and W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography (1972).</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Some audiotapes transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>African American children's author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burns, Anthony</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1862</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1963</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robeson, Paul</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1898-1976</namePart>
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      <title>Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave. 1988</title>
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      <namePart type="date">1936-2002</namePart>
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      <title>M.C. Higgins, the great. 1974</title>
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