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Additional authors

1. Guinier, Ewart.
2. Rosovsky, Henry.
3. Patterson, Orlando, 1940-
4. Turner, James.
5. Walters, Ronald W.
6. Stuckey, Sterling.
7. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1906-1977.
8. Dunlop, John T. (John Thomas), 1914-2003.
9. Ford, Franklin L. (Franklin Lewis), 1920-
10. Leonard, Walter J.
11. Bok, Derek Curtis.
12. Cuney, William Waring, 1906-1976.
13. Harvard University. Afro-American Studies Department.

Description

1. 23.7 lin. ft. (63 boxes).

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Black people > Study and teaching
2. Government employee unions > United States
3. Harlem Affairs Committee
4. African Americans scholars
5. African American studies
6. Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard and Radcliffe
7. Harvard University Alumni and alumnae
8. African American labor union members
9. Labor movement > United States
10. Harvard University Administration
11. Community organization > Queens (New York, N.Y.)
12. National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (U.S.)
13. African AmericanxEducation
14. Local government > Queens (New York, N.Y.)
15. W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
16. Harvard University Faculty
17. Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
18. Harvard University Employees
19. Kilson, Martin
20. African American college teachers > Selection and appointment
21. Black studies
22. Detente
23. National Association of Black and Ethnic Studies Directors
24. Local elections > New York (State) > New York
25. Columbia University > Urban Center
26. Student movements > United States
27. Harvard University Strikes
28. Jamaica Coordinating Committee
29. Harvard University > Afro-American Studies Department
30. Gulf Oil Corporation
31. Harvard University > DuBois Institute
32. New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > Queens
33. African American > Study and teaching > United States
34. Panama Canal (Panama) > Social conditions
35. Campaign literature
36. Douglass Urban Corporation
37. Community development > Queens (New York, N.Y.)
38. Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center
39. Guinier, Ewart
40. United Public Workers of America
41. Community organization > New York (State) > New York > Queens
42. Affirmative action programs
43. Community development > New York (State) > New York > Queens
44. Harvard University Curricula
45. African American college students > Political activity
46. African American college administrators
47. Pan-African Liberation Committee
48. Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation > United States
49. Loyalty oaths > United States
50. Labor unions and communism > United States
51. Student Organization of Black Unity
52. Urban League of Greater New York
53. Discrimination in employment > Panama > Panama Canal
54. Civil service > Minority employment

Call number

1. Sc MG 420

Note

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

Access (note)

1. closed until 2041.

Source (note)

1. Mrs. Eugenia Guinier.

Biography (note)

1. 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)

1. Finding aid available in repository.

Processing action (note)

1. Processed.
2. Cataloged.

Author

1. Guinier, Ewart.

Title

1. Ewart Guinier papers, 1910-1989.

Access

1. Student records, personnel and tenure files closed until 2041.

Biography

1. 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

1. Finding aid available in repository.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Community organization -- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
2. Community development -- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
3. Local government -- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
4. Black studies.
5. African American studies.

Added author

1. Guinier, Ewart.
2. Rosovsky, Henry.
3. Patterson, Orlando, 1940-
4. Turner, James.
5. Walters, Ronald W.
6. Stuckey, Sterling.
7. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1906-1977.
8. Dunlop, John T. (John Thomas), 1914-2003.
9. Ford, Franklin L. (Franklin Lewis), 1920-
10. Leonard, Walter J.
11. Bok, Derek Curtis.
12. Cuney, William Waring, 1906-1976.
13. Harvard University. Afro-American Studies Department.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 420