| The
Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc. in New York began in 1975 while
Camille Billops (b. 1933), filmmaker and artist, and James V.
Hatch (b. 1928), theatre historian, were teaching art and literature
at the City College of New York. Realizing that very little had
been published about black American art, drama, and literature,
they began collecting primary materials for their students. |