Series 4: Professional papers, 1967-2008, inclusive

The series is comprised of documents relating to Naison's career as a historian and educator, dating from 1967 to 2008. It includes files related to job searches, recommendations, writing for Radical America and The Journal of Ethnic Studies, the African American studies program at Fordham University, the Mid-Atlantic Radical Historians Organization, and the Organization of American Historians (OAH). This includes files on the protest against the Adams Mark Hotel in St. Louis (the site of the 2000 OAH annual meeting) for their record of discriminating against Black employees and guests. It also includes files relating to an exhibition honoring Paul Robeson and one file of student papers written by the recording artist Lana Del Ray (restricted for privacy reasons until 2083).