Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Smythe, Mabel M. (Mabel Murphy)
2. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

Description

1. 5 lin. ft.

Summary

1. Papers covering Smythe's professional career centering upon research, writing, and university teaching in the fields of sociology and anthropology, with special emphasis on East Asian and African studies. Correspondence including that written about his fieldwork in Nigeria. Smythe's manuscripts for articles, books, book reviews, and speeches pertaining to Africa, Nigeria, Japan, and race relations in the United States. Preliminary data relates to Hugh and Mabel Smythe's book, THE NEW NIGERIAN ELITE (1960). Material relating to Smythe's professional interests and activities includes syllabi, bibliographies, and lecture notes pertaining to his teaching at Yamaguchi National University (Yamaguchi Daigaku) in Japan and Brooklyn College. Also included is material illustrating Smythe's extra-academic interests including United Nations affairs, Crossroads Africa, and civil rights activities. The papers of Mabel Smythe (Hugh Symthe's wife) include a scrapbook, manuscripts, and some correspondence. Of particular interest is her research material on segregation in education, which was used by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People legal staff in the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education barring segregation in public schools. Also, manuscripts of articles and speeches, and some correspondence by W.E.B. Du Bois including "Economic Illiteracy," 1947, and "Race Relations in the U.S.," 1948.

Subject

1. African American college teachers
2. African Americans > Economic conditions
3. African American sociologists
4. Symthe, Hugh H (Hugh Heyne), 1913- > New Nigerian Elite
5. Symthe, Mabel M (Mabel Murphy), 1918- > New Nigerian Elite
6. Smythe, Mabel M (Mabel Murphy)
7. Segregation > United States
8. Nigeria > Study and teaching
9. Smythe, Hugh H (Hugh Heyne), 1913-1977
10. Manuscripts
11. United Nations
12. African Americans > Civil rights
13. Japan > Study and teaching
14. Race relations > United States
15. Anthropology > Study and teaching
16. Civil rights > United States
17. African Americans > Segregation
18. Africa > Study and teaching
19. Anthropology > Japan
20. Sociology > Study and teaching
21. Speeches
22. East Asia > Study and teaching
23. African American anthropologists
24. Operation Crossroads Africa
25. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
26. Discrimination in education > Law and legislation > United States
27. United States > Race relations
28. Scrapbooks
29. African Americans > Education
30. Sociology > Japan
31. Sociology > Nigeria

Genre/Form

1. Scrapbooks.
2. Manuscripts.
3. Speeches.

Call number

1. Sc Micro R-966

Additional formats (note)

1. Collection available on microfilm;

Reproduction (note)

1. Microfilm.

Source (note)

1. Smythe, Hugh

Biography (note)

1. Anthropologist, sociologist, writer on race relations. He died in 1977.

Processing action (note)

1. Surveyed
2. Processed
3. Cataloging updated

Author

1. Smythe, Hugh H. (Hugh Heyne), 1913-1977.

Title

1. Hugh H. Smythe papers, 1942-1963.

Additional formats

1. Collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library; Master negative *ZZ-7407

Reproduction

1. Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, marketed by Scholarly Resources Inc., 1969. 6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-7407)

Biography

1. Anthropologist, sociologist, writer on race relations. He died in 1977.

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1. Finding Aid

Added author

1. Smythe, Hugh H. (Hugh Heyne), 1913-1977.
2. Smythe, Mabel M. (Mabel Murphy)
3. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Research call number

1. Sc Micro R-966
2. Sc MG 4