Jimmy Stewart Collection 2023.01

Description:

Donated by Jimmy Stewart in 1976, the folders contain newspaper clippings, publications, brochures and correspondence. Contents are arranged by topic and the folders are organized alphabetically.

Collection 2023.01
Repository OKE
Title Jimmy Stewart Collection
Date 1947-1974
Extent 17 boxes
Creator(s) Stewart, Jimmy, 1912-1997
Historical note The documents and publications in this collection were donated by James E. Stewart Sr. to the Ralph Ellison Branch of the Metropolitan Library System in 1975 as the Black Heritage Chronicles. The notations F##-## are the numbers assigned and original order imposed by library staff in 1976.
Scope note This collection includes letters, speeches, notes and publications from the civil rights work of James E. "Jimmy" Stewart.  Terms as President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oklahoma City branch and multiple local and national organizations. 
Access restrictions None
Language English
Related Materials Jimmy Stewart Collection, 2006.075 Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City

 Inventory List:

Box Folder Description  Date
1   Subject Files  1948-1974
1 1 Armed Forces 1950 - 1955
1 2 Biography - Jimmy Stewart 1960 - 1977
1 3 Biography - Roscoe Dunjee 1948 - 1974
1 4 Biography - Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., Gilbert H. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Charles "Charlie" Christian, Roy Wilkins, Amos T. Hall, Thurgood Marshall 1950 - 1975
1 5 Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma City 1965
1 6 Churches, lodges and fraternities 1947 - 1963
1 7 Churches, lodges and fraternities 1950 - 1960
2   Subject Files  1947-1965
2 1 Legal redress and legislation 1947 - 1957
2 2 Legal redress and legislation 1949 - 1960
2 3 Legal redress and legislation 1950 - 1961
2 4 Civil Rights and Federal Fair Employment Practice Act 1949 - 1952
2 5 Civil Rights and Federal Fair Employment Practice Act 1963 - 1965
2 6 Civil Rights publications 1942 - 1954
3   Subject Files  1950-1970
3 1 Civil Rights publications 1954 - 1960
3 2 Civil Rights publications 1955 - 1965
3 3 Civil Rights publications 1955 - 1965
3 4 Civil Rights publications 1965 - 1970
3 5 Civil Rights demonstrations publications 1950 - 1970
4   Subject Files  1947-1973
4 1 Civil Rights demonstrations news clippings and correspondence 1958 - 1963
4 2 Civil Rights and Voting - publications and news 1963 - 1968
4 3 Organizations and associations - rosters and information 1953 - 1956
4 4 The Community Chest of Oklahoma City - correspondence  1947 - 1954
4 5 Community Organizing - correspondence and information 1950 - 1955
4 6 Earnest E. Jones event, January 13, 1953 - planning and event promotion 1953
4 7 Memorial and testimonial event programs 1955 - 1973
4 8 Human Relations Committee 1954 - 1963
4 9 Committee on Community Relations - Mayor Jack S. Wilkes 1963
4 10 Citizen's Information Commitee - Stewart as Chair 1966
5   Subject Files  1946-1970
5 1 Governor's Committee on Human Relations, Governor J. Howard Edmondson 1960
5 2 Economic and social conditions - publications  1948 - 1970
5 3 Education and schools - correspondence 1949 - 1955
5 4 Education and schools - clippings, information and publications 1949 - 1955
5 5 Segregation of schools - clippings, events, legal records 1950 - 1957
5 6 Segregation of schools - reports, surveys, publications 1946 - 1955
5 7 Desegregation of schools - publications 1951 - 1954
6   Subject Files 1953-1970
6 1 Oklahoma City Public Schools statistics 1953
6 2 Integration of schools - publications 1955 - 1960
6 3 Integration of schools - Oklahoma, correspondence and publications 1960 - 1965
6 4 Education policy, case law, publications 1965 - 1970
6 5 O.M. Daniels Education Foundation, Inc.  1967
6 6 Schools and economic improvement programs in Oklahoma City 1965 - 1970
7   Subject Files 1947-1971
7 1 Elections - campaigns, civic issues, publications 1956 - 1971
7 2 Elections - campaigns, civic issues, correspondence and publications 1947 - 1961
7 3 Elections - campaigns, civic issues, publications, clipppings 1954 - 1964
7 4 Employment - equal opportunity, meeting information, publications 1957 - 1967
7 5 Employment - equal oppoortunity, Oklahoma resources 1961 - 1967
8   Subject Files  1954-1974
8 1 Employment - job development programs 1967 - 1974
8 2 History - African American events, topics, publications 1953 - 1970
8 3 History - correspondence, school materials, publications 1954 - 1969
8 4 History - correspondence, school materials, publications 1954 - 1969
8 5 History - "Black History in Okahoma: Teachers Guide" Oklahoma City Public Schools [1971]
9   Black History in Oklahoma book 1970-1971
9 1 "Black History in Oklahoma" manuscript proof, section two, authors Kaye Teall and Sonja King, with notes from Editorial Advisory Committee 1970
9 2 "Black History in Oklahoma" manuscript proof, section three, authors Kaye Teall and Sonja King 1970
9 3 "Black History in Oklahoma" manuscript proof, section four, authors Kaye Teall and Sonja King 1971
9 4 "Black History in Oklahoma" manuscript proof, section six part one, authors Kaye Teall and Sonja King 1971
10   Subject Files   1945-1971
10 1 Housing - NAACP Civil Rights Committee correspondence 1945 - 1955
10 2 Housing - correspondence and publications 1961 - 1966
10 3 Labor and Industry - correspondence, reports, publications 1947 - 1967
10 4 Labor and Industry - correspondence and publications 1949 - 1969
10 5 Labor and Industry - other states 1951 - 1962
10 6 Labor unions - publications 1954 - 1971
10 7 Law enforcement - publications 1960
10 8 Lewis M. Steel Case File 1968
11   Subject Files   1947-1971
11 1 Medical care, segregation in hospitals 1947 - 1968
11 2 NAACP national board of directors elections 1948 - 1972
11 3 NAACP correspondence, Stewart and Walter White, Roy Wilkins 1948 - 1958
11 4 NAACP national organization - newsletters, memorandums, confernce materials 1949 - 1967
11 5 NAACP national board of directors correspondence 1954 - 1971
11 6 NAACP national board of directors meeting minutes and reports 1951 - 1968
11 7 NAACP - Fighting Fund for Freedom 1953 - 1955
11 8 NAACP national organization - annual reports 1949, 1950, 1953, 1959 1949 - 1959
11 9 NAACP national organization annual convention materials 1949 - 1953
11 10 NAACP national organization annual convention souvenir programs 1946 - 1971
12   Subject Files   1947-1968
12 1 NAACP national organization annual convention speeches 1961 - 1967
12 2 NAACP Oklahoma City branch - Executive Committee 1947 - 1960
12 3 NAACP national organization annual convention in Oklahoma City, June 24 - 29, 1952 - press and program materials, souvenir program 1952
12 4 NAACP Oklahoma City branch - Annual convention Program Committee 1949 - 1962
12 5 NAACP national organization annual convention in Oklahoma City, June 24 - 29, 1952 - Stewart correspondence 1951 - 1952
12 6 NAACP national organization annual convention in Oklahoma City, June 24 - 29, 1952 - Stewart correspondence, cont.  1952
12 7 NAACP Oklahoma City branch - meeting materials and correspondence 1951 - 1958
12 8 NAACP Oklahoma City branch - press and publicity materials 1949 - 1962
12 9 NAACP Oklahoma City branch Youth Council 1947 - 1968
13   Subject Files   1952-1973
13 1 NAACP Southwest region - newsletters and correspondence 1952 - 1973
13 2 NAACP San Antonio branch election dispute 1968
13 3 Special Committe on Constitutional Revision, State Legislative Council 1970
13 4 Oklahomans for Progress - Stewart's presidential remarks and correspondence 1965 - 1969
13 5 Southern Regional Council - correspondence 1946 - 1964
13 6 Southern Regional Council - reports 1959 - 1963
13 7 Southern Regional Council - organizational records and news 1949 - 1963
13 8 Southern Regional Council - minutes of annual meeting. 1957 ommitted 1955 - 1959
14   Subject Files   1947-1968
14 1 Southern Regional Council - quarterly reports to board members 1956
14 2 Southern Regional Council - annual report of program activities 1957 - 1958
14 3 Southern Regional Council - report of Executive Director to board members 1959 - 1963
14 4 Southern Regional Council - financial statements 1956 - 1959
14 5 United Nations and international affairs - publications 1946 - 1956
14 6 Urban League Oklahoma City branch - Economic and job development program correspondence and publications 1947 - 1967
14 7 Urban Renewal in Oklahoma City - correspondence,  1964 - 1967
14 8 Community Action Development Committee - War on Poverty in Oklahoma City program 1967 - 1968
14 9 Community Action Development Committee - War on Poverty in Oklahoma City program - planning and reports 1967 - 1968
15   Subject Files 1952-1970
15 1 Community Action Development Committee - War on Poverty in Oklahoma City program - reports 1965 - 1970
15 2 Community Action Development Committee - War on Poverty in Oklahoma City program - correspondence and reports 1967
15 3 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) 4th Street facility - correspondence, circus committee and program materials 1952 - 1969
15 4 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) 4th Street facility - correspondence and program materials 1954
16   Southern Regional Council Reports 1959-1967
16 1 Southern Regional Council - reports 1959
16 2 Southern Regional Council - reports 1960 - 1961
16 3 Southern Regional Council - reports 1962
16 4 Southern Regional Council - reports 1963
16 5 Southern Regional Council - reports 1964
16 6 Southern Regional Council - reports 1965
16 7 Southern Regional Council - reports 1966
16 8 Southern Regional Council - reports 1967
17   Southern Regional Council Reports 1968-1971
17 1 Southern Regional Council - reports 1968
17 2 Southern Regional Council - reports 1968
17 3 Southern Regional Council - reports 1969
17 4 Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders 1970
17 5 "Black History in Oklahoma" manuscript proof, section six part one, authors Kaye Teall and Sonja King 1971

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