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10-1-2015

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Title: Papers, 1852-1974 Description: 20 linear ft.

Notes: Correspondence and other papers of two black families. Principal persons represented include T. McCants Stewart (1854-1923), lawyer, of New York and Brooklyn, NY; Honolulu, Hawaii; Liberia; England; and the Virgin Islands; and for several years associate justice of Liberian Supreme Court; his son, McCants Stewart (1877-1919), lawyer, of Portland, OR; and Robert Browning Flippin (1903-1963), McCants Stewart's son-in-law, a correctional counselor at San Quentin Prison (CA), reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and founder, editor, and publisher of The Spokesman, a black weekly newspaper in San Francisco. Flippin's papers include material relating to his work with NAACP, Council for Civic Unity, and Booker T. Washington Community Center. Also includes papers of their descendants in Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, California, and Hawaii. Genealogical charts and biographical notes about family members. Gift of Katherine (Stewart) Flippin, wife of Robert B. Flippin, 1967.

Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of black African ancestry); California Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of black African ancestry); Hawaii Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of black African ancestry); Minnesota Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of black African ancestry); Nebraska Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of black African ancestry); Oregon Bay Area Council Against Segregation and Discrimination, California Blacks; California Blacks; Mass communication; Newspapers and journalism Booker T. Washington Center; San Francisco, CA Booker T. Washington Community Center, San Francisco, CA Brooklyn, NY; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers California; Legal affairs; Prisoners and prisons California; Mass communications; Newspapers, periodicals and journalism California; Population elements; Blacks The Chronicle (Newspaper); San Francisco, CA Community centers; California Council for Civic Unity Counseling; Prisoners Courts; 19th and 20th centuries; Liberia Educators; Lai, Carlotta (Stewart) Flippin, George A. Flippin, Robert Browning, 1903-1963 Flippin family Genealogy; Flippin family Genealogy; Stewart family Great Britain; Legal affairs Hawaii; Legal affairs; Law practice Honolulu, Hawaii; Lawyers' and judges' papers Journalism; Blacks Lai, Carlotta (Stewart) Lawyers; Stewart, McCants Lawyers; Stewart, Thomas McCants Liberia; Legal affairs Liberia; Legal affairs; Supreme Court Liberia; Supreme Court; Stewart, Thomas McCants, associate justice National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; California New York, NY: Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers Newspapers; California Oregon; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers Physicians; Flippin, George A. Portland, OR; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers Prisoners and prisons; California; San Quentin Prisoners and prisons; Counseling San Francisco Chronicle (Newspaper) San Francisco, CA; Booker T. Washington Community Center San Francisco, CA.; Mass communication; Newspapers and journalism San Francisco, CA; Population elements; Blacks San Quentin State Prison (CA) San Quentin Prison, California; Flippin, Robert B., correctional counselor Segregation Spokesman, San Francisco, CA (Newspaper) Stewart, McCants, 1877-1919 Stewart, Mary (Weir) Stewart, Thomas McCants, 1854-1923 Stewart family Stromsburg, NE Virgin Islands, US; Legal affairs; Lawyer' and judges' papers War work Washington (Booker T.) Community Center, San Francisco, CA

Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.107 NUCMC #: MS 83-1257

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