Part 1 (U.S. Mss 93AF): Original Collection, 1943-1969
Physical Description: 6.6 c.f. (16 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note

The collection, 1943-1969, consists primarily of the private business files of Creed Black as a newspaperman and editor. It includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, office memoranda, printed and near-print material, notebooks, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous items. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject, retaining the folder titles used by Black. Material within folders is arranged chronologically by day where possible and practical, although items of a non-correspondence nature have usually been segregated to the backs of the folders. Much of the collection consists of inter-office memoranda concerned with technical and professional aspects of journalism such as editorial policy, and reporting and writing techniques. Of particular interest are the files on Black's resignation from the Wilmington papers, notebooks from his trip to Russia with the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and notes and interviews relating to his trip to the Middle East in 1958. Also of note are six scrapbooks of his editorial clippings from the Nashville Tennessean from 1950 to 1956.

Selected List of Significant Correspondents:

The correspondents listed below are to be found in the “General Correspondence” section (Box 3, folder 3-5) and in the “Fat File” (Box 2, folder 6) unless otherwise noted.

Correspondents	Date	T=To/F=From
Ashmore, Harry	1958, January 29	T
	1958, February 14	F
Hall, Grover	1968, May - September	T and F
Kefauver, Estes	Scattered	T and F
Kennedy, Robert F.	1968, February 19	F
Lippmann, Walter	1958, May 2	F (Box 4, folder 5)
	1958, November 19	T
	1958, November 21	F
Nixon, Richard M.	1958, January 15	F
	1968, November 9	F
Percy, Charles H.	1966, December 22	F
Royster, Vermont	Scattered	T and F

All-Day Operation; correspondence, 1961, August 14 - November 13; miscellaneous

American Newspaper Guild

American Press Institute; correspondence, 1962, December 21 - 1963, December 24; miscellaneous

American Society of Journalism School Administrators; correspondence, 1963, August 14 - 1964, January 8; miscellaneous

American Society of Newspaper Editors

Annual Reports - Wilmington News-Journal

Awards, Contests; correspondence, 1963, January 9 - 1964, May 14; miscellaneous

Biographical - miscellaneous

“Bipartisan Foreign Policy,” Honors Thesis, Northwestern University, 1949

The Bulletin - ASNE, 1960-1966

Chicago Daily News

Correspondence, 1964, June 26 - 1968, March 7, undated; memoranda, , 1964, August 11 - 1968, September 9

Memoranda, undated; clippings; miscellaneous

Letters of congratulations

1964, August 2 - 1965, September 13

1968, February 6 - March 13

Delaware State News; correspondence, 1963, December; clippings

Editorial Exchanges with R.R.M. Carpenter, Jr.

#1-#29

#30-#75

#76-#100 with final letter, 1964, January 20

“Fat File,” (general thank you and congratulations), correspondence, 1960, August 12 - 1964, May 19

Freedom of Information

Includes Freedom of Press, Fair Trial; 1960, November 26 - 1968, March 4

Statements, 1958-1965; clippings

Gallagher v. The News Journal

1965, January 18 - 1966, October 7

1966, December 9 - 1967, July 18

General Correspondence

1943, January 11 - 1965, November 29

1966, March 7 - 1967, December 22

1968, January 8 - 1969, January 27, undated

“Hits and Misses”

1960, July 25 - 1962, October 1

1962, November 19 - 1964, April 23

Job Letters, 1946, April 23 - 1957, December 17

Letters to the Editor

1956, 1958-1961

1962

1963-1964, undated

“Masthead” articles, 1956-1957

Middle East Trip and Articles; correspondence, 1958, April 28 - November 20; clippings; miscellaneous

Nashville Tennessean

Clippings and miscellaneous

Columns, stories, et cetera

Correspondence, 1955, August 3 - 1959, May 19; miscellaneous

Editorials, clippings

1953, May - July

1953, August - November

1953, December - 1954, February

1954, March - May

1954, June - August

1954, September - November

1955, January - March

1955, April - June

1955, July - September

1955, October - December

1956, January - July

1956, August - December

1957-1959

Letters of congratulations regarding Editorship, 1957, April A-Z

Paducah Sun-Democrat, clippings, articles

Personal Property Tax Fight - Nashville, 1957

Red Raider

Savannah congratulations correspondence

1959, May 27 - June 19

1959, June 24 - 1960, May 6

Savannah News-Press

Correspondence, 1959, May 21 - 1960, August 22, undated; clippings; miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Southern Newspapers Inc., correspondence, 1960, February 1 - April 27; clippings; miscellaneous

Soviet Union Trip and Articles, 1962

Speeches, talks, and miscellaneous articles; clippings

Syndicate Rights, correspondence, 1960, July 21 - 1965, May 12; printed material

University of Delaware, correspondence, 1961, March 10 - 1962, January 19; clippings; miscellaneous

Wilmington Assignment, correspondence, 1960, May 2 - June 23, undated

Wilmington News-Journal

Correspondence and memos, 1960, January 29 - 1961, December 13

Correspondence and memos, 1962, April 5 - 1964, April 17, undated; miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Wilmington News Policies

Correspondence, 1956, October 3 - 1964, January 22; memoranda, , 1960, July 26 - 1964, March 16, undated

Clippings

Wilmington Resignation

Correspondence

1958, October 10 - 1963, May 27

1964, January - 1966, November 7, undated

Clippings, printed material, miscellaneous

Letters, correspondence

1964, May 19 - 27

1964, May 28 - September 11

Miscellaneous

Photographs

Editorial Scrapbook

1950, August 22 - 1951, March

1951, April - December

1952, January - August

1952, September - 1953, March

1953, May - 1954, December

1955, January - 1956, January

Sigma Delta Chi Award Scrapbook, 1956-1957

Part 2 (MCHC77-010): Additions, 1970-1977
Physical Description: 3.4 c.f. (3 record center cartons and 1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Black's partial correspondence files from his tenure as the vice president and editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer for the years circa 1970 to 1976. Intermingled in the files is information related to the General Assembly of the International Press Institute for 1976 and to Black's 1975 trip to China. There is also correspondence for the year 1977 from Black's tenure as publisher and chairman of The Lexington Herald-Leader Company.

Correspondence

A-K, 1970-1976

L-Z, 1970-1976

Mrs. Robowski

Congratulations

International Press Institute

General Assembly, 1976

Thank you letters

Miscellaneous

Crank letters

Visit to Japan, 1971

Visit to China, 1975

1977, during tenure as publisher and chairman of The Lexington Herald-Leader Company

Part 3 (MCHC81-048): Additions, undated
Physical Description: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Miscellaneous memoranda and correspondence.

Part 4 (M85-386): Additions, 1981-1984
Physical Description: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Primarily correspondence, articles, and press materials, 1981-1984, pertaining to Creed Black's year as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. A portion of the material deals with the reaction of ASNE to lack of press coverage regarding the 1983 invasion of Grenada.

American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)

Invasion of Grenada

Black-Marcil Special Committee

Report, February 14, 1984

Meetings, November 30, 1983, January 9, 1984

Correspondence

Grenada

Wisconsin

President

Vice-President

Secretary

Soviet exchange

John C. Quinn - correspondence

Miscellaneous

NBC - John Chancellor

Part 5 (M86-217): Additions, 1985
Physical Description: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1985, including the book Believing the News.

Part 6 (M88-130, VHA 210): Additions, 1950-1988
Physical Description: 3.8 c.f. (2 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 3 scrapbooks in 3 flat boxes) and 1 videorecording 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1950-1988, mainly relating to Black's career as chairman and publisher of The Lexington Herald-Leader Company (Kentucky), but also present are earlier files some probably from his tenure at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Materials consist of correspondence, clippings, memoranda, speeches, scrapbooks, and a videorecording.

Miscellaneous, 1967-1988

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1985-1987

Memos to editors and division directors, 1982-1987

American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)

1977-1985

Program, 1984

Russian exchange, 1979-1981

Proceedings, 1984

Telepress, 1981-1983

Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) Journalism Education Committee, 1979-1981

Lexington Herald-Leader Pulitzer correspondence, 1986

Letters of appreciation, 1982-1987

Letters of complaint, 1985-1987

Wilmington, 1964-1978

Tom R. Underwood, 1977-1978

Lexington Herald-Leader merger letters, 1982-1983

Correspondence with Lee Hills, 1969-1979

Correspondence with John S. Knight, 1969-1979

American Press Institute, 1975 (editorial page)

Poynter Seminar, 1985-1986

Knight-Ridder , 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Speeches

1950-1980

Miscellaneous speeches, 1978-1987

Trips

Soviet trip, 1984

China trip, 1975

Japan trip, 1972

University of Kentucky series, 1985

MacArthur, 1980

Government Information Plans and Policies - News Media Panel Discussion, March 19, 1963

Chicago Daily News, March 4, 1978 - final issue

Reaction to Mr. Black's column, 1978-1985

Black's column - Publisher's Notebook, 1978-1985
Note: Probably duplicates in one of the scrapbooks.

“Send to Wisconsin Historical Society” - miscellaneous correspondence, clippings, 1985-1987

American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) convention, 1987

For review, 1977-1984

Lexington Herald, 1977-1982

Lexington Leader, 1982

Correspondence - corporate executives, 1978-1986

Don Carter

W.H. Harwell, Jr.

Montgomery Curtis

Congratulatory letters, 1985-1988

A.B. “Happy” Chandler, 1983-1986

Flesch project, 1987

Landers letters, 1986

Herald editorial memos, 1978-1981

Letters of appreciation, 1977-1981

Letters of complaint, 1980-1981

China reprints, 1958-1975
Note: Includes other reprints, as well.

Leader editorial memos, 1977-1982

Miscellaneous, 1976-1983

The Kentucky Review, Volume VII, Number 3, 1987

Scrapbooks

Reflections editorials and column

1970-1974

1974-1977

Publisher's Notebook column, 1978-1981

Videorecording, WKYT - “Heart of the Matter”

Part 7 (M90-267): Additions, 1984-1990
Physical Description: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1984-1990, of clippings, correspondence, and addresses. Also included are audio tapes of addresses and videotapes of his appearances on television programs.

Part 8 (M2000-073): Additions, 1971-1998
Physical Description: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1971-1998, including correspondence to and from Black in his capacity as president of the Knight Foundation and referring to dealings with the American Society of Newspaper Editors, photocopies of letters to Black from Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and George Bush, and from Betty Ford, assorted speeches given by Black at various functions, programs from assorted tributes to Black, various news articles on Black, and other assorted correspondence from Black.