45 linear feet (46 archival boxes, many of them oversize) of material relating to and collected by William McBride, including biographical documents; writings, particularly McBride’s early poems; correspondence, much of it from McBride’s friends affiliated with the South Side Community Art Center, including Margaret Burroughs, William S. Carter, and Fitzhugh Dinkins; material relating to the South Side Community Art Center, including official documents, writings and publicity materials depicting the center’s establishment, and programs and fliers for exhibitions several of William McBride’s Artists and Models Ball souvenir books; documents of other organizations, such as the Illinois Art Project and National Conference of Artists, as well as the McBride-designed production report books of the Federal Theater Project’s Little Black Sambo and promotional material of the Art Crafts Guild’s 1933 Artist’s Ball; programs and promotional materials of various art exhibitions collected by McBride, including several documents from the 1963 Century of Negro Progress fair; posters created and collected by William McBride; his files on Africa, the arts, business, Chicago, education and politics; magazines, booklets, and newspapers related to the study of art and to art, politics and the African diaspora, including the Black Power movement and the Black Arts movement; clippings; photographs; and memorabilia.