Accession number
PML 198542.1
Creator
Johnson, Mildred D. (Mildred Dawes)
Published
Chicago, Illinois, 1981 September 27.
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Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
This letter is folded and laid in to Gwendolyn Brooks's copy of Black American literature and humanism (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981), inscribed to her by the book's editor, R. Baxter Miller; cataloged separately as PML 198542.
Mildred Johnson (1906?-2005) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. From 1977 to 1981, she was the Director of the Academic Skills Center at Olive-Harvey College in Chicago, and principal of Howalton Day School from 1982 to 1986. She founded SAY Children's Theater in 1963 and wrote plays and poetry for the group. In 1983, she received the Carl Sandburg Award for Children's Literature for her book "Wait, skates!" Under her own imprint, she published poetry, prose, and biographies documenting the lives of Black role models. Johnson was also an educational associate for the Afro-Am Publishing Company and associate editor for the Historic Black series. From 1991 to 1992, she sponsored Books for All Africa, a charity that raised money to send books to poor African schools. (Sourced from the Mildred Johnson papers at Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, Woodson Regional library).
Mildred Johnson (1906?-2005) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. From 1977 to 1981, she was the Director of the Academic Skills Center at Olive-Harvey College in Chicago, and principal of Howalton Day School from 1982 to 1986. She founded SAY Children's Theater in 1963 and wrote plays and poetry for the group. In 1983, she received the Carl Sandburg Award for Children's Literature for her book "Wait, skates!" Under her own imprint, she published poetry, prose, and biographies documenting the lives of Black role models. Johnson was also an educational associate for the Afro-Am Publishing Company and associate editor for the Historic Black series. From 1991 to 1992, she sponsored Books for All Africa, a charity that raised money to send books to poor African schools. (Sourced from the Mildred Johnson papers at Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, Woodson Regional library).
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1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.4 cm
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"Dear Gwen, Thanks for my lovely hardback gift of To Disembark. I consider it a privilege to be in contact with do-ers, contributors to life, lifting up, keeping on. sharing, giving, pursuing. / I'm waxing wordy! / My children's theater SAY which I have just re-opened has functioned for the past two Saturdays. I'm between funding at Olive-Harvey and I kept asking myself what I could or would do in the interim. Having had a children's theater from 1963 to 1976 and which I phased out during my heavy duty period at Olive Harvey, I thought well here's my chance to reactivate it. I've talked with Nora and she tells me she's going through a funding period-- but there will be some good interchange between our groups. / Take care, now. I get a feeling there's something lovely cooking on your back burner! / Sincerely, Mildred."
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