Journalist Wil Haygood will leave his collection of writings and documents to Miami University

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
...""It's probably one of the more robust collections of this type of material amassed by any single writer anywhere on this subject matter," Haygood said. "It is my goal that students, scholars from Europe or Africa or anywhere, are able to come to Miami and look at this collection."

Haygood graduated from Miami University in 1976 before embarking on a life of storytelling on everything from the Berlin Wall and Nelson Mandela's release from prison and rise to president of South Africa to the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles and the 20th anniversary of the March on Washington. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist at the Boston Globe and later went on to the Washington Post. One of his articles there became the basis for the 2013 award-winning motion picture The Butler, directed by Lee Daniels and starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey.

Haygood is also the author of several books, including biographies of Thurgood Marshall, Sammy Davis Jr, Sugar Ray Robinson and others. His acclaimed work Tigerland is the historical retelling of how a basketball team from segregated East High School in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, found success after overcoming enormous obstacles. The book is set in context of the racially charged '60s and weaves its events against the backdrop of the national Civil Rights movement."...