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George R. Metcalf research files
- Title
- George R. Metcalf research files, 1956-1971.
- Author
- Metcalf, George R., 1914-2002.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 150 Box 1 | Offsite | |
| Box 2 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 150 Box 2 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 2 lin. ft.
- Summary
- Collection comprises research material for Metcalf's two books, "Black profiles" (13 biographies of prominent African Americans living and deceased), and "Up from within: today's black leaders" (a biographical sequence of emerging black personalities and their contributions to the "black revolution" in America). Material consists of clippings, correspondence, typescripts, transcribed interviews, notes and miscellaneous printed material. Material in collection is about Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Roy Wilkins, Shirley Chisholm, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evers, Jackie Robinson, Eldridge Cleaver, Whitney Young, Jr., Harriet Tubman, Edward Brooke, Julian Bond, James H. Meredith, Andrew Brimmer, and others.
- Subjects
- African American judges
- Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- African American politicians
- African American businesspeople
- Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998
- Bond, Julian, 1940-
- African American leadership
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
- African American professional employees
- African American athletes
- Meredith, James, 1933-
- Interviews
- Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
- African American authors
- Young, Whitney M
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Brooke, Edward W (Edward William), 1919-2015
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
- Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
- Metcalf, George R., 1914-2002
- African Americans > Politics and government
- Civil rights workers > United States
- Brimmer, Andrew F
- Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Audiotape transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Source (note)
- Metcalf, George R.
- Biography (note)
- George Rich Metcalf (born Feb. 5, 1914 in Auburn) was a white American N.Y. State Senator, president of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, activist, businessman, journalist, author and philanthropist. In 1948 he became chairman of the Auburn Housing Authority before being elected to the New York State Senate in 1950. He authored many bills in the area of fair housing, civil rights and public health. In 1965 he left the Senate to write about racial injustice, he authored four books: two books on black history. During the 1970s he taught black history at Auburn Community College. He died May 30, 2002.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 150
- OCLC
- 122485266
- Author
- Metcalf, George R., 1914-2002.
- Title
- George R. Metcalf research files, 1956-1971.
- Biography
- George Rich Metcalf (born Feb. 5, 1914 in Auburn) was a white American N.Y. State Senator, president of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, activist, businessman, journalist, author and philanthropist. In 1948 he became chairman of the Auburn Housing Authority before being elected to the New York State Senate in 1950. He authored many bills in the area of fair housing, civil rights and public health. In 1965 he left the Senate to write about racial injustice, he authored four books: two books on black history. During the 1970s he taught black history at Auburn Community College. He died May 30, 2002.
- Source
- Metcalf, George R. Gift 1975 SCM 78-4.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 150