“LIFE STUDIES,” 1966-1976

JUNE JORDAN

Conor Tomás Reed and Talia Shalev, Editors

SERIES 7 , NUMBER 3, FALL 2017

GENERAL EDITOR Ammiel Alcalay

TEXTUAL CONSULTANT EMERITUS David Greetham

CONSULTING EDITOR Kate Tarlow Morgan

MANAGING EDITOR Stephon Lawrence

PUBLISHER Kendra Sullivan

PUBLICITY COORDINATOR Sampson Starkweather

DESIGN Megan Mangum (wordsthatwork.net)

Copyright © 2018 June M. Jordan Literary Estate Trust. Reprinted by permission. (www.junejordan.com)

“Brief History of the Lower East Side,” June Jordan Papers, Series XI; Box 75; Folder 2, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

“The Determining Slum,” June Jordan Papers, Series XI; Box 75; Folder 2, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

“Voice of the Children youth writing program – visitor guidelines,” June Jordan Papers, Series

V; Box 55; Folder 10, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

“Ocean Hill-Brownsville Graduation Speech for I.S. 55 (a middle school),” June Jordan Papers, Series VI; Box 55; Folder 6, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

“Children and the Hungering For” speech at Lehigh U. (1969), June Jordan Papers, Series VI; Box 55; Folder 14, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

“Our Eyes Have Grown” (1970), June Jordan Papers, Series VI; Box 56; Folder 19, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

“The City and City College,” June Jordan Papers, Series XI; Box 75; Folder 11. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

“Statement at CUNY Board of Higher Ed,” June Jordan Papers, Series XII; Box 76; Folder 14. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Leslie Scalapino–O Books Fund, Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Provost’s Office at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Early Research Initiative, the Sylvia Klatzkin Steinig Fund, André Spears, Margo & Anthony Viscusi, and Engaging the Senses Foundation.