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Finding Aid for the Anne Romaine Collection, 1958-1995


MS-2032

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, September 8, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Anne Romaine Collection

Date/Date Range :   1958-1995

Extent: 6.0 linear feet

Abstract:
Anne Romaine was the official biographer of Alex Haley. The collection consists of her research material gathered for the never-completed biography.

Call number: MS-2032

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
The Special Collections Library purchased this collection in 1993.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Anne Romaine Collection, MS-2032. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of six boxes divided into two series: Subject Files and Lawsuits Arising from Roots.


Biography / History

Anne Romaine, a well-known Southern folksinger, was the official biographer of Alex Haley. She met Haley while she worked for the Haley House Museum in Henning, Tennessee. Romaine received her masters in history from UVA and completed all the course work on a Ph. D. at Vanderbilt. Romaine was, also co-founder and director of the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project and the producer of a PBS cultural series. In 1995, Anne Romaine went to the emergency room in pain, but when not treated within what she considered sufficient time, she went home. Her appendix burst, causing peritonitis and death. Her biography of Haley was uncompleted.


Collection Scope and Content Note

Contained within this collection is the research material gathered by Anne Romaine for her uncompleted official biography of Alex Haley. Alex Haley, best known for his book Roots, was also the prolific author of magazine articles. Many of his articles can be found in Box One, Folders 15, 19, 31, 32, and 56. Box Three contains several of the interviews Haley had with people. (Folders 1-5, 8). There are also the newspaper articles following the events in Haley's life and career (Box Four, Folders 5-8). Extensive material within the collection relates to the various law suites filed against Haley by other authors. Also within the collection are transcriptions of various interviews on Haley conducted by Anne Romaine. In the collection is also information about Anne Romaine herself (Box One, Folder 49; Box Two Folder 12, 18).

Subject Terms

  • Haley, Alex.
  • Haley, Alex. Roots.
  • Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996.
  • Romaine, Anne.
Contents List
   

Series I: Subject Files, 1958-1995
Box   1     Folder   1    
Agreements, 1993
Box   1     Folder   2    
Airline Tickets to the Gambia, undated
Box   1     Folder   3    
Article: African Americans from Mythology to Reality, undated
Box   1     Folder   4    
Article: Afro-American Writers After 1955-Dramatists and Prose Writers, undated
Box   1     Folder   5    
Article: An American Family, undated
Box   1     Folder   6    
Article: Answer to Critique of Roots, 1977
Box   1     Folder   7    
Article: The Black 100, undated
Box   1     Folder   8    
Article: Black Defenders of America 1775-1973, undated
Box   1     Folder   9    
Article: Black Literature Critique Volume II, undated
Box   1     Folder   10    
Article: The Black Man's Burden, undated
Box   1     Folder   11    
Article: Cher, 1987
Box   1     Folder   12    
Article: Contemporary Authors Vol. 77: 80, undated
Box   1     Folder   13    
Article: Contemporary Literary Critique Vol. 8: 12, undated
Box   1     Folder   14    
Article: Dionysus in Public. Barney Rossett Grove Press, undated
Box   1     Folder   15    
Article: A Drama in Real Life. Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   16    
Article: Evolution of American Folk Music, undated
Box   1     Folder   17    
Articles of Alex Haley in foreign languages, undated
Box   1     Folder   18    
Article: The Gambia, undated
Box   1     Folder   19    
Articles by Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   20    
Articles: Alex Haley after his death-copies, undated
Box   1     Folder   21    
Articles: Alex Haley's Real estate Auction, undated
Box   1     Folder   22    
Articles: Alex Haley's widow, undated
Box   1     Folder   23    
Article: Alex Haley, Hoax from Village Voice, undated
Box   1     Folder   24    
Articles on Queen Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   25    
Articles on Malcolm X, undated
Box   1     Folder   26    
Articles on Malcolm X by Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   27    
Article: A Mate for the Aladdin B, undated
Box   1     Folder   28    
Article: Misc. Newspaper and Magazine articles: Xeroxed, undated
Box   1     Folder   29    
Article: Mythological Effect, undated
Box   1     Folder   30    
Articles: Newspaper and Magazines: Xeroxed, Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   31    
Articles:Outlines by Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   32    
Articles from Reader's Digest: Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   33    
Article: Redeemer Period, undated
Box   1     Folder   34    
Article: Revolution in Iran. Mansour Farhang, undated
Box   1     Folder   35    
Article: Roots A New Approach to Teaching Black History, undated
Box   1     Folder   36    
Article: Roots: It's Impact on White and Black Viewers, undated
Box   1     Folder   37    
Article: Similarities between Roots and The African, undated
Box   1     Folder   38    
Article: Social Impact of Roots, undated
Box   1     Folder   39    
Article: Story of Grove, undated
Box   1     Folder   40    
Article: Suggested Courses Using Books and Films, undated
Box   1     Folder   41    
Article: A Tale of Two Towns: Plains, GA and Jufereh, The Gambia, undated
Box   1     Folder   42    
Article: TV Week : Search for Roots, 1977
Box   1     Folder   43    
Article: Uncle Remus and the Ubiquitous Rabbit, 1974
Box   1     Folder   44    
Article: Virginia Magazine, Roots and the New Faction, undated
Box   1     Folder   45    
Article: Thomas Wolfe Once Again, undated
Box   1     Folder   46    
Biography: Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   47    
Biography: Ella and Rodnell Collins (family of Malcolm X), undated
Box   1     Folder   48    
Biography: Stan Marguiles, undated
Box   1     Folder   49    
Biography: Anne Romaine, undated
Box   1     Folder   50    
Biography: David Wolper and Filmography and Awards, undated
Box   1     Folder   51    
Book: Historical Development of Gambia Legislation, 1991
Box   1     Folder   52    
Book: Investor's Guide to The Gambia and Conditions for Foreign Investment, undated
Box   1     Folder   53    
Book: Proposal for Alex Haley's Biography, undated
Box   1     Folder   54    
Book Review, undated
Box   1     Folder   55    
Book Review, 1978
Box   1     Folder   56    
Book Draft: Alex Haley's trip to the Gambia, undated
Box   1     Folder   57    
Brochures: Alex Haley Remembers collection, undated
Box   1     Folder   58    
Miscellaneous materials for Gambia trip, undated
Box   1     Folder   59    
Romaine's correspondence with Alhagi A.E. Cham-Joof, undated
Box   1     Folder   60    
F.B.I. file on Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   61    
Miscellaneous photographs from Savannah, Tennessee, undated
Box   1     Folder   62    
Unidentified photographic negatives, undated
Box   1     Folder   63    
Photograph and Ithaca, New York newspaper articles on doctor who delivered Alex Haley, undated
Box   1     Folder   64    
Steamboat Days on the Tennessee River by Frank Teuton, undated
Box   1     Folder   65    
Warner Brothers publicity poster for Roots, undated
Box   1     Folder   66    
Miscellaneous Haley family photographs, undated

Box   2     Folder   1    
Brochure: North Carolina Museum of History, 1995
Box   2     Folder   2    
Brochure: Thanksgiving and Homecoming Celebration, undated
Box   2     Folder   3    
Biography of Bud Schulberg, undated
Box   2     Folder   4    
Business Cards, undated
Box   2     Folder   5    
Chapter from Alex Haley Book, undated
Box   2     Folder   6    
Chapter from Alex Haley Book, Return to Africa, undated
Box   2     Folder   7    
Chapter II from Roots, by Alex Haley, undated
Box   2     Folder   8    
Chapter V from Roots, by Alex Haley, undated
Box   2     Folder   9    
Christian Index: Alex Haley, undated
Box   2     Folder   10    
Computer Disks, undated
Box   2     Folder   11    
Computer Disks, undated
Box   2     Folder   12    
Concert Flyers: Anne Romaine, undated
Box   2     Folder   13    
Copy of Slave Lists-1857-Holt Family, undated
Box   2     Folder   14    
Draft: Roots, by Alex Haley, Chapter V, undated
Box   2     Folder   15    
Envelopes: Anne Romaine, undated
Box   2     Folder   16    
FBI File: Nation of Islam, Malcolm X and Alex Haley, undated
Box   2     Folder   17    
Flyers: Reincarnation, Christian Science, undated
Box   2     Folder   18    
Flyers: Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project Inc., 1983
Box   2     Folder   19    
History: Kintes of Juffure and Niomi, undated
Box   2     Folder   20    
Hymnbook: Edgewill United Methodist Church, undated
Box   2     Folder   21    
Index: Alex Haley's Papers, undated
Box   2     Folder   22    
Interviews, undated
Box   2     Folder   23    
Inderviews: for and about the Movie Roots, undated
Box   2     Folder   24    
Interview: Melvin Belli, undated
Box   2     Folder   25    
Interview with Lou Blan by Anne Romaine, undated
Box   2     Folder   26    
Interviews: Coast Guard: People who worked with Alex Haley between 1939-1959, undated
Box   2     Folder   27    
Interview: Cassious Clay (Mohammed Ali) Playboy Interview, 1964-1975
Box   2     Folder   28    
Interview: Barbara Conrad with Anne Romaine for Haley Book, 1993
Box   2     Folder   29    
Interview: Miles Davis-Playboy Interview, 1962
Box   2     Folder   30    
Interview with Alex Haley, undated
Box   2     Folder   31    
Interview with Anne Romaine, 1989-1991
Box   2     Folder   32    
Interview: Alex Haley by Anne Romaine, 1990
Box   2     Folder   33    
Interview: Bill Haley, 1993
Box   2     Folder   34    
Interview: George Haley with Anne Romaine, 1989
Box   2     Folder   35    
Interview: J Haley with Anne Romaine, 1989
Box   2     Folder   36    
Interview: Lydia Annette Haley for Alex Haley Book, 1989
Box   2     Folder   37    
Interview: Nan Haley with Anne Romaine, 1992
Box   2     Folder   38    
Interview: Quincy Jones-Playboy Interview with Alex Haley, undated
Box   2     Folder   39    
Interview: Martin Luther King Jr. Playboy interview with Alex Haley, undated
Box   2     Folder   40    
Interview: George Lincoln Rockwell-Playboy Interview with Alex Haley, 1966
Box   3     Folder   1    
Interview: Fred Montgomery, undated
Box   3     Folder   2    
Interview: Malcolm X Playboy Interview, 1963
Box   3     Folder   3    
Interview: Jackie Naipo by Anne Romaine, undated
Box   3     Folder   4    
Interview: Palyboy and Alex Haley Vol. II, undated
Box   3     Folder   5    
Interview: Barney Rossett, undated
Box   3     Folder   6    
Interview: Betty Shabazz with Anne Romaine, 1989
Box   3     Folder   7    
Interview: "Who Killed Malcolm X?" by Mike Wallace, undated
Box   3     Folder   8    
Interview: Mike Wallace with Alex Haley, 1991
Box   3     Folder   9    
Haley Book Interview with Irene Chippman by Anne Romaine, undated
Box   3     Folder   10    
Haley Book Interview with Lisa Drew, undated
Box   3     Folder   11    
Haley Book Interview with Dr. Paula Ebron and Dr. Fran White, undated
Box   3     Folder   12    
Haley Book Interview with George Frederickson- Stanford University, undated
Box   3     Folder   13    
Haley Book Interview with John Hawkins, undated
Box   3     Folder   14    
Haley Book Interview with Dr. C Eric Lincoln, undated
Box   3     Folder   15    
Haley Book Interview with Ebou Mange, undated
Box   3     Folder   16    
Haley Book Interview with Bernice Reagon, undated
Box   3     Folder   17    
Haley Book Interview with Elsie Stern, undated
Box   3     Folder   18    
Introduction to Alex Haley Playboy Interview, undated
Box   3     Folder   19    
Kunte Kinte, undated
Box   3     Folder   20    
Letters: Business to Anne Romaine, undated
Box   3     Folder   21    
Letters from People in Coast Guard with Alex Haley, undated
Box   3     Folder   22    
Letters and Inventory of Alex Haley Papers, 1993
Box   3     Folder   23    
Letters from Alex Haley, 1958-1990
Box   3     Folder   24    
Letters from Alex Haley, 1963-1965
Box   3     Folder   25    
Letters from Alex Haley, 1966-1975
Box   3     Folder   26    
Letters to Alex Haley, 1963-1965
Box   3     Folder   27    
Letters to Alex Haley, 1966-1976
Box   3     Folder   28    
Letters to Alex Haley, 1977-1995
Box   3     Folder   29    
Letters: Misc, undated
Box   3     Folder   30    
Letters from Anne Romaine, undated
Box   3     Folder   31    
Letters to Anne Romaine, 1987-1994
Box   3     Folder   32    
Letterhead: Anne Romaine, undated
Box   3     Folder   33    
Lists: Interviews, undated
Box   3     Folder   34    
Lists: Libraires and other Repositories, undated
Box   3     Folder   35    
Lists: Organizations and Lectures, 1967-1977
Box   3     Folder   36    
Magazine Articles-Copies, undated
Box   3     Folder   37    
Magazine: The Bulletin, 1992
Box   3     Folder   38    
Magazine: Common Boundary, 1992
Box   3     Folder   39    
Magazine: Jet Magazine, 1992
Box   3     Folder   40    
Magazine: Library Development Review University of Tennessee, 1990-1991
Box   3     Folder   41    
Malcolm X, undated
Box   3     Folder   42    
Memorandum: Report on Anne Romaine Collection, undated
Box   3     Folder   43    
Memorandum: Symposium on Roots, undated
Box   3     Folder   44    
Misc, undated
Box   3     Folder   45    
Misc, undated
Box   3     Folder   46    
Misc, undated
Box   3     Folder   46    
Misc, undated
Box   3     Folder   47    
Misc: The Gambia Airline and Hotel Information, undated
Box   3     Folder   48    
Misc: Alex Haley Information, undated
Box   3     Folder   49    
Misc: Magazine Articles, undated
Box   3     Folder   50    
Misc: Military Paycheck Stubs and Health Reports, undated
Box   3     Folder   51    
Misc: Notes, undated
Box   4     Folder   1    
Misc: Notes, undated
Box   4     Folder   2    
Misc: Notes, undated
Box   4     Folder   3    
Newsletter: Highland Reports, undated
Box   4     Folder   4    
Newspaper Articles: Chavis and NAACP, 1994
Box   4     Folder   5    
Newspapers: Alex Haley, undated
Box   4     Folder   6    
Newspapers: Alex Haley- Secondary Articles, undated
Box   4     Folder   7    
Newspapers: Death of Alex Haley, undated
Box   4     Folder   8    
Newspapers: Copies, undated
Box   4     Folder   9    
Newspaper Articles- Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan, undated
Box   4     Folder   10    
Newspapers: Misc, undated
Box   4     Folder   11    
Newspapers: Reviews on Alex Haley's Roots, 1976-1987
Box   4     Folder   12    
Newspapers: Anne Romaine Folksinger, undated
Box   4     Folder   13    
Newspaper Clippings, undated
Box   4     Folder   14    
Notes: Bibliography, undated
Box   4     Folder   15    
Notes: Chapters on The Gambia, undated
Box   4     Folder   16    
Notes: Alex Haley Biography, undated
Box   4     Folder   17    
Notes: Interview about Alex Haley, undated
Box   4     Folder   18    
Notes: Misc, undated
Box   4     Folder   19    
Notes: Alex Haley, undated

Box   4     Folder   20    
Outlines: Alex Haley's Observations, undated
Box   4     Folder   21    
Oral History Research: Kenneth D. McCormick, undated
Box   4     Folder   22    
Oral History Research: Kenneth D. McCormick, 1975 April 4
Box   4     Folder   23    
Oral History Research: Kenneth D. McCormick, 1976
Box   4     Folder   24    
Pamphlets and Postcards: Henning TN, undated
Box   4     Folder   25    
Photographs, undated
Box   4     Folder   26    
Programs: Anne Romaine-Mill Songs, 1994
Box   4     Folder   27    
Program Flyers: Anne Romaine-Uprising of '34, undated
Box   4     Folder   28    
Program Flyers: Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, undated
Box   4     Folder   29    
Proposal for "Roots of Alex Haley" , undated
Box   4     Folder   30    
Quick Copy Service Sheets: New York City Library, undated
Box   4     Folder   31    
Receipts, 1993-1994
Box   4     Folder   32    
Resume: Anne Romaine, undated
Box   4     Folder   33    
Reviews of Alex Haley, undated
Box   4     Folder   34    
Reivews of Roots, undated
Box   4     Folder   35    
Slides: Haley Family and Alex Haley's trip to The Gambia, undated
Box   4     Folder   36    
Slides: Boyhood Home-Henning TN, undated
Box   4     Folder   37    
Slides: Misc, undated
Box   4     Folder   38    
Speech: Alex Haley at Loudon Conference on Mandika Culture, 1974
Box   4     Folder   39    
Speech: George Haley, 1993
Box   4     Folder   40    
Statement on Alex Haley's Roots by Warren Robbins, undated
Box   4     Folder   41    
Study: Roots Its Impact on White and Black Viewers, 1977
Box   4     Folder   42    
Syllabus: History 2000-601, 1994
Box   4     Folder   43    
Sympathy Cards from Alex Haley Family, undated
Box   4     Folder   44    
Travel Brochures: The Gambia, undated
Box   4     Folder   45    
Travel Packet: "Adventure to the Homeland"" -The Alex Haley Family, undated
Box   4     Folder   46    
Tribute and Celebration on Alex Haley Pamphlets, 1992
Box   4     Folder   47    
Torchbearer, 1993
Box   4     Folder   48    
Working Report: Before the Anger, undated
   

Series II: Lawsuits Arising from Roots,1977-1978
Box   5     Folder   1    
Lawsuit: Answers to Interrogations, undated
Box   5     Folder   2    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley, undated
Box   5     Folder   3    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley-Afternoon Session, undated
Box   5     Folder   4    
Lawsuit: Courlander Cross Examination, undated
Box   5     Folder   5    
Lawsuit: Continued, undated
Box   5     Folder   6    
Lawsuit: Defense Proposed Findings, undated
Box   5     Folder   7    
Lawsuit: Direct Examination of Alex Haley, undated
Box   5     Folder   8    
Lawsuit: Direct Examination of Alex Haley, undated
Box   5     Folder   9    
Lawsuit: Direct Examination of Alex Haley, undated
Box   5     Folder   10    
Lawsuit: Hanning Cross Examination, undated
Box   5     Folder   11    
Lawsuit: Direct, undated
Box   5     Folder   12    
Lawsuit: Misc, undated
Box   5     Folder   13    
Lawsuit Information, undated
Box   5     Folder   14    
Lawsuit: Objections to Interrogations, undated
Box   5     Folder   15    
Lawsuit: Outline of Testimony for Alex Haley, undated
Box   5     Folder   16    
Lawsuit: Margaret Walker Alexander vs. Alex Haley, undated
Box   5     Folder   17    
Lawsuit: Wood-Direct, undated
Box   6     Folder   1    
Lawsuit: Depostion of Harold Courlander, 1977
Box   6     Folder   2    
Lawsuit: Letters, 1977-1979
Box   6     Folder   3    
Lawsuit: Objections to Interrogations, 1977
Box   6     Folder   4    
Lawsuit: MW Alexander vs. Alex Haley, 1977 Dec 20
Box   6     Folder   5    
Lawsuit: Harold Courlander Resumed, 1978
Box   6     Folder   6    
Lawsuit: Trial, 1978
Box   6     Folder   7    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley, 1978 November 6
Box   6     Folder   8    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 November 7
Box   6     Folder   9    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 November 8
Box   6     Folder   10    
Lawsuit: Alex Haley and Doubleday Co vs. Harold Courlander and Crown Pub, 1978 November 13
Box   6     Folder   11    
Lawsuit: Harold Courlander vs. Alex Haley, 1978 November 14
Box   6     Folder   12    
Lawsuit: Wood Cross Examination, 1978 November 16
Box   6     Folder   13    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley, 1978 November 17
Box   6     Folder   14    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley, 1978 November 22
Box   6     Folder   15    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley, 1978 November 27
Box   6     Folder   16    
Lawsuit: Haley Direct, 1978 November 28
Box   6     Folder   17    
Lawsuit: Haley Resumed, 1978 November 29
Box   6     Folder   18    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 November 30
Box   6     Folder   19    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 December 4
Box   6     Folder   20    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 December 5
Box   6     Folder   21    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 December 6
Box   6     Folder   22    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 December 7
Box   6     Folder   23    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 December 11
Box   6     Folder   24    
Lawsuit: Courlander vs. Haley Trial Resumed, 1978 December 11