Research and drafts for 'Black and White', Shiva Naipaul's book reporting on the 1978 mass murder-suicide in Guyana of members of the People's Temple, mostly from California. Published in 1980. In the US the book published with the title: Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy
Two ringbound notbooks with autograph notes. Partly diary entries, research notes, quotes from secondary sources and notes relating to the drafting of 'Black and White'.
This sub-series consists of research collected by Shiva Naipaul while writing 'Black and White'. It includes notebooks containing notes about his trip, his reading around the subject, visits and the people he met and spoke to. It also includes ephemera
Typescript, transcripted interviews with various people and companies: Charles Garry, Huey Newton, Clark Kerr, Andrea Walker, Gary Scharf, Ed Sarsfield, John Frances Donohue, Lorri Cocke, Art Agnos, On Lok and Father Floyd Lotitiol.