Research Catalog

Title

Ewart Guinier papers, 1910-1989.

Author

Guinier, Ewart.

Supplementary Content

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Additional Authors

• Guinier, Ewart.
• Rosovsky, Henry.
• Patterson, Orlando, 1940-
• Turner, James.
• Walters, Ronald W.
• Stuckey, Sterling.
• Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1906-1977.
• Dunlop, John T. (John Thomas), 1914-2003.
• Ford, Franklin L. (Franklin Lewis), 1920-
• Leonard, Walter J.
• Bok, Derek Curtis.
• Cuney, William Waring, 1906-1976.
• Harvard University. Afro-American Studies Department.

Description

23.7 lin. ft. (63 boxes).

Summary

The Ewart Guinier Papers document Guinier's professional and political career as a labor leader and community organizer from 1938 to 1962, and his role in the founding and development of Harvard University's African American Studies Department (AASD) from 1969 to 1975.

Subjects

• Black people > Study and teaching
• Government employee unions > United States
• Harlem Affairs Committee
• African Americans scholars
• African American studies
• Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard and Radcliffe
• Harvard University Alumni and alumnae
• African American labor union members
• Labor movement > United States
• Harvard University Administration
• Community organization > Queens (New York, N.Y.)
• National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (U.S.)
• African AmericanxEducation
• Local government > Queens (New York, N.Y.)
• W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
• Harvard University Faculty
• Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
• Harvard University Employees
• Kilson, Martin
• African American college teachers > Selection and appointment
• Black studies
• Detente
• National Association of Black and Ethnic Studies Directors
• Local elections > New York (State) > New York
• Columbia University > Urban Center
• Student movements > United States
• Harvard University Strikes
• Jamaica Coordinating Committee
• Harvard University > Afro-American Studies Department
• Gulf Oil Corporation
• Harvard University > DuBois Institute
• New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > Queens
• African American > Study and teaching > United States
• Panama Canal (Panama) > Social conditions
• Campaign literature
• Douglass Urban Corporation
• Community development > Queens (New York, N.Y.)
• Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center
• Guinier, Ewart
• United Public Workers of America
• Community organization > New York (State) > New York > Queens
• Affirmative action programs
• Community development > New York (State) > New York > Queens
• Harvard University Curricula
• African American college students > Political activity
• African American college administrators
• Pan-African Liberation Committee
• Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation > United States
• Loyalty oaths > United States
• Labor unions and communism > United States
• Student Organization of Black Unity
• Urban League of Greater New York
• Discrimination in employment > Panama > Panama Canal
• Civil service > Minority employment

Note

• Photographs and recordings have been transferred to the Photograph and Prints and to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Divisions.

Access (note)

• closed until 2041.

Source (note)

• Mrs. Eugenia Guinier.

Biography (note)

• Labor leader, former presidential candidate for the Borough of Manhattan, and the first chairman of Harvard University's Department of African American Studies.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository.

Processing Action (note)

• Processed.
• Cataloged.

Call Number

Sc MG 420

OCLC

NYPW91-A105

Author

Guinier, Ewart.

Title

Ewart Guinier papers, 1910-1989.

Access

Student records, personnel and tenure files closed until 2041.

Biography

Labor leader, former presidential candidate for the Borough of Manhattan, and the first chairman of Harvard University's Department of African American Studies. Born in Panama of West Indian parents in 1910, Ewart Guinier migrated to the United States in 1925 and studied at Harvard University, the City University of New York, Columbia University and New York University. He became the International Secretary of the United Public Workers of America in 1940, and was the Liberal Party candidate for the presidency of the Borough of Manhattan in 1949. In the 1930s, Guinier helped organize community efforts to break the traditional pattern of lily-white employment in the main shopping district in Harlem and to open jobs for African Americans in New York's public transportion system. An active figure in progressive and labor circles, he served as vice-president of the National Negro Labor Council in the 1950s, and also worked with the National Urban League, the Harlem Affairs Committee and the Jamaica Coordinating Council. He served as the first chairman of the African American Studies Department at Harvard University from 1969 to 1976, and held a full professorship until his retirement in 1980. Ewart Guinier died in 1990.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository.

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Finding Aid

Local Subject

Community organization -- Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Community development -- Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Local government -- Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Black studies.

African American studies.

Added Author

Guinier, Ewart.

Rosovsky, Henry.

Patterson, Orlando, 1940-

Turner, James.

Walters, Ronald W.

Stuckey, Sterling.

Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1906-1977.

Dunlop, John T. (John Thomas), 1914-2003.

Ford, Franklin L. (Franklin Lewis), 1920-

Leonard, Walter J.

Bok, Derek Curtis.

Cuney, William Waring, 1906-1976.

Harvard University. Afro-American Studies Department.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 420