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{"value"=>"Philip M. Jenkins papers"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Philip Merriman Jenkins was a friend of Magdalene Lewis Collymore's. It is likely that, as a member of the White Plains Urban League, he had been an acquaintance of Errold Collymore's as well. Jenkins worked in the White Plains office of the State Employment Service as a selective placement interviewer and, relatedly, trained African Americans for sales positions in Harlem stores through a State University of New York adult education course. In addition to being a member of the White Plains Urban League, in the late 1940s Jenkins served as Chairman of the White Plains Friends of Interracial Cooperation. Later he became a master clock repairer and appraiser.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains, among other things, some correspondence; a brief sketch of Jenkins's father, George Armstrong Jenkins (the first African American to be appointed to public service in Westbury, Connecticut); a 1954 essay on the Negro Mutual Fund Market; a 1971 statement given by Jenkins against building on a vacant plot in the town of Greenburgh; and two manuscript drafts, \"Bean Pole Bean\" and \"The Huckleberry\", the latter self-described as a \"sort of an autobiography of a country boy growing up\". Jenkins's family lived in the northern Connecticut city of Bristol and the memoir documents his reminisces as well as gives a sense of the race relations of that time. It also records herbal remedies his mother used to cure ailments suffered by her family and neighbors.</p>"}