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1942
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1963
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1942
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{"value"=>"Hugh H. Smythe papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</span>"}
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{"value"=>"Smythe, Hugh H. (Hugh Heyne), 1913-1977", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<div class=\"bioghist\"> <div class=\"head\">Hugh Smythe</div> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1913, August 19</span> <span class=\"event\">Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: son of William and Mary Barnhardt Smythe.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1936</span> <span class=\"event\">Received A.B. degree from Virginia State College, Petersburg, Virginia.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1937</span> <span class=\"event\">Received M.A. degree from Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1937</span> <span class=\"event\">Assistant Instructor in Anthropology, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia,.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1938</span> <span class=\"event\">Field Research and Administrative Assistant for the American Youth Commission of the American Council of Education, Atlanta, Georgia.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1938-1939</span> <span class=\"event\">Research Assistant and Instructor in the Department of Social Sciences (Sociology) University, Nashville, Tennessee.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1939, July 26</span> <span class=\"event\">Married Mabel Murphy</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1942</span> <span class=\"event\">Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1944</span> <span class=\"event\">Professor of Sociology and Antropology at Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1945</span> <span class=\"event\">Received Ph.D. in Antropology African Studies) from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1945-1946</span> <span class=\"event\">Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Tennessee State College, Nashville, Tennessee</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947-1949</span> <span class=\"event\">Assistant Director, Department of Special Research, New York City Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1949-1950</span> <span class=\"event\">Research Director for W.B. Graham & Associates, New York, New York</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1950-1951</span> <span class=\"event\">Graduate Student, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1951-1953</span> <span class=\"event\">Visiting Professor of Sociology-Anthropology at Yamaguchi National University, Yamaguchi City, Japan</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1953, March-June</span> <span class=\"event\">Returned from Japan to U.S.A. via a trip around the world</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1953-</span> <span class=\"event\">Member of Faculty in Department of, Sociology-Anthropology, Brooklyn College, New York, New York. On leave since 1965</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1957-1958</span> <span class=\"event\">Recipient of Ford Foundation Grant to do field research in Nigeria.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1959-1960</span> <span class=\"event\">Field Director of Operation Crossroads Africa</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1961-1962</span> <span class=\"event\">Member of United States Delegation to the 16th United Nations General Assembly</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1961-1963</span> <span class=\"event\">Lecturer at Foreign Service Institute of the United States Department of State</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1964-1965</span> <span class=\"event\">Chief Consultant to Youth In Action, Office of Economic Opportunity</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1965-1967</span> <span class=\"event\">Appointed Ambassador to Syria by President Lyndon B. Johnson</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1967</span> <span class=\"event\">Appointed Ambassador to Malta by President Lyndon B. Johnson</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1968</span> <span class=\"event\">Received LL.D, Virginia State College</span></li></ul> <p>Co-Author of: <span class=\"title\">The New Nigerian Elite,</span>1960, <span class=\"title\">Educating the Culturally Dis-Advantaged Child</span>, 1966. Author of numerous articles and chapters in cooperative books; Editorial Consultant for Zenith (Doubleday)</p></div> <div class=\"bioghist\"> <div class=\"head\">Mabel Murphy Smythe</div> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1918, April 3</span> <span class=\"event\">Born in Montgomery, Alabama</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1933-1936</span> <span class=\"event\">Attended Spelman College, Atlanta Georgia</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1937</span> <span class=\"event\">Received B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College, Holyoke Massachusetts</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1940</span> <span class=\"event\">Received M.A. degree in Economics from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1942</span> <span class=\"event\">Received Ph.D. in Economics and Law from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1942-1945</span> <span class=\"event\">Instructor in Economics and Business Administration at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1945-1946</span> <span class=\"event\">Instructor in Economics and Business Administration at Tennessee State College, Nashville, Tennessee</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1946-1947</span> <span class=\"event\">Lecturer in Economics, Brooklyn College, New York, New York</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1951-1953</span> <span class=\"event\">Visiting Professor of Economics, Shiga University (Japan)</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1954-</span> <span class=\"event\">Member of the staff of New Lincoln School, New York, New York</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1959-</span> <span class=\"event\">Principal of New Lincoln High School</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1961</span> <span class=\"event\">Member of United States Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1962-1965</span> <span class=\"event\">Member of United States Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs</span></li></ul> <p> Co-Author of: <span class=\"title\">The New Nigerian Elite</span>(1960),<span class=\"title\">Intensive English Conversation</span>(1953/54), Co-Editor of: <span class=\"title\">Curriculum for Understanding,</span>Union Free School District No.13, Valley Stream, New York, September, 1965.</p></div>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Hugh Smythe Papers, cover Smythe's professional career from 1942 through 1963. During this period Smythe's activities centered upon research, writing, and university teaching in the fields of sociology and anthropology, with special emphasis on East Asian and African studies. He also wrote extensively on American race relations and increasingly pursued interests in governmental affairs.</p> <p>The Collection comprises correspondence; books, articles, and manuscripts; and material relating to Smythe's many professional interests and activities. Included are some papers of Mabel Murphy Smythe, his wife and sometime co-author; and manuscripts by W. E. Burghardt DuBois. The Papers have been organized into five series as follows: Correspondence; Manuscripts; Professional Activities and Interest; Mabel Smythe; W.E.B. DuBois Papers.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Hugh H. Smythe papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20775#c650683'>Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The <span class=\"emph\">CORRESPONDENCE</span>is arranged chronologically, and in some instances topically. Several folders contain correspondence relating to Smythe's Ford Foundation grant in 1957.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20775#c650714'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The <span class=\"emph\">MANUSCRIPT</span> series is subdivided topically by articles and alphabetically therein. The specified topics are: Africa, Japan, and American Race Relations. Of special interest in the African section is the preliminary data relating to the Smythes' <span class=\"title\">The New Nigerian Elite</span>(1960). Included are manuscripts for articles, monographs, book reviews and speeches.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20775#c650780'>Professional Interests And Activities</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series on Hugh Smythe's <span class=\"emph\">PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES</span>contains syllabi, bibliographies, lecture notes, etc., pertaining to his teaching at Yamaguchi National College (Japan) and Brooklyn College. Also included is material illustrating Smythe's extra-academic interests such as, United Nations affairs, Crossroads Africa, and civil rights activities.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20775#c650826'>Mabel Smythe</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p><span class=\"emph\">MABEL SMYTHE'S PAPERS,</span>arranged alphabetically by form and therein by subject, include personal memorabilia (a scrapbook), manuscripts, and some correspondence. Of particular interest is her research material on segregation in education, which was used by the N.A.A.C.P. legal staff in their cases, and was instrumental in the 1954 Supreme Court Decision barring segregation in public schools.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20775#c650842'>W.E.B. Dubois</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The fifth series comprises manuscripts of articles and speeches and some correspondence by <span class=\"emph\">W. E. B. BURGHARDT DUBOIS.</span>This material, also arranged alphabetically by form and therein by subject, was included in the papers of Hugh Smythe at the time of receipt.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Hugh Smythe, 1965</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<div class=\"head\">Separation Record</div> <p>The following items were removed from:</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Name of Collection/Papers</span>Hugh Smythe Papers</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Accession Number</span>Sc Micro R966-971</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Donor:</span>Hugh Smythe</p> <p> <span class=\"emph\">Purchase</span></p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Date received:</span>1965</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Date transferred:</span>1968</p> <p>The item(s) listed below have been sent to the division indicated, either to be retained or disposed of there. Any items that should receive special disposition are clearly marked.</p> <p> <span class=\"emph\"> <span class=\"emph\">Schomburg Photographs and Print Division:</span></span></p> <p>A collection of photographs</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Sc MG 4", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library; Master negative *ZZ-7407</p>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Papers covering Smythe's professional career centering upon research, writing, and university teaching in the fields of sociology and anthropology, with special emphasis on East Asian and African studies. Correspondence including that written about his fieldwork in Nigeria. Smythe's manuscripts for articles, books, book reviews, and speeches pertaining to Africa, Nigeria, Japan, and race relations in the United States. Preliminary data relates to Hugh and Mabel Smythe's book, THE NEW NIGERIAN ELITE (1960). Material relating to Smythe's professional interests and activities includes syllabi, bibliographies, and lecture notes pertaining to his teaching at Yamaguchi National University (Yamaguchi Daigaku) in Japan and Brooklyn College. Also included is material illustrating Smythe's extra-academic interests including United Nations affairs, Crossroads Africa, and civil rights activities. The papers of Mabel Smythe (Hugh Symthe's wife) include a scrapbook, manuscripts, and some correspondence. Of particular interest is her research material on segregation in education, which was used by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People legal staff in the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education barring segregation in public schools. Also, manuscripts of articles and speeches, and some correspondence by W.E.B. Du Bois including \"Economic Illiteracy,\" 1947, and \"Race Relations in the U.S.,\" 1948."}
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{"value"=>"Hugh H. Smythe papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Stanton F. Biddle; Machine-readable finding aid created by Apex Data Services; revised by Terry Catapano.</p>"}
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1942
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1963