African American poets

Scope and Contents The papers include Ella Robinson's correspondence, poetry, lectures, short stories, essays, and publications as well as two audio cassettes--one of a KZUM radio interview and the other labeled Side A: "Coffee House," Side B: "Voices".The majority of Robinson’s poems are single page typescripts, some of these may include edits. There are occasional handwritten poems. The initial arrangement of the poems are alphabetical and later, chronological. Robinson included her handwritten...