Inventory of the Darlene Clark Hine Papers, circa 1879-1996 and undated, bulk 1950-1996

Contains professional correspondence between Hine and her professors, colleagues, and students over the course of her career, and some administrative and interdepartmental memoranda from each of the universities at which Hine served as professor. Correspondence also includes some letters of congratulation, History Department Faculty Speakers Committee correspondence, departmental meeting minutes, correspondence related to commencement addresses, college advisory committee meeting minutes. There are also two groups of correspondence files for Hine's exchanges with publishers and foundations. Records are arranged chronologically with some gaps present.

Chiefly materials associated with Hine's years as an undergraduate at Roosevelt University, and as a graduate student at Kent State University. Items include Kent State newsletters, course notes and papers, copy of master's thesis, report on black students' concerns. Other documents included in the student years material include personal correspondence between Hine and her friends, correspondence with her husband, William Hine, photographs, and greeting cards. Arranged in two groups: Course Material and Other Student Material, and within in chronological order.

Divided into three subseries: Organizations; Committees, Advisory, and Editorial Boards; and Speaking Engagements and Conferences. Consists of files relating to Hine's work with African American and historical organizations, conferences she attended, and correspondence related to lectures. Records are typically arranged within subseries in alphabetical order by topic or organization, and within by year. Included are extensive files of correspondence for major organizations such as the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH), and the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH). The latter includes letters from Hine to black women historians concerning the establishment of the ABWH. Organization files can include records on membership criteria; the election of officers; formation of committees; materials related to organization newsletters; membership questionnaires and mailing lists; program and awards files; annual reports; and meeting minutes. Other files in this series include information relating to numerous advisory and editorial boards that Hine has served on and information pertaining to conferences and symposia that she has attended.

Arranged into two subseries, Major Writings and Other Writings and Projects. Contains drafts, correspondence, reviews, and supporting research materials for Hine's major publications: Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (1979); When the Truth is Told: a History of Black Women's Culture and Community in Indiana (1981); Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 (1989); More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (1995); and a historical research project, Black Women in the Middle West, which led to the creation of an archives on the topic at the Indiana Historical Society, and to a journal article in Signs on black women and rape in the Midwest. Early dates represent reproductions of archival materials, chiefly photographs for Hines' work on African American nurses in the U.S. There is also material in the Major Writings Subseries on Hines' work on the Blacks in the Diaspora Series, published by Indiana University Press. The Other Writings and Projects Subseries houses similar documentation for writings appearing in journals, encyclopedias, and works edited by Hine. Most notable is the material on Eyes on the Prize, History of the Civil Rights Era Reader, for which Hine contributed two chapters; these two boxes contain many folders of interviews, including correspondence and interviews both conducted by and with Fred D. Gray, prominent civil rights era attorney who represented both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the sixties. Finally, the Other Writings and Projects Subseries contains documentation on Hines' numerous media projects on black women and African American history. Files are either arranged chronologically or alphabetically by folder title.