Research Catalog

Title

Hugh H. Smythe papers, 1942-1963.

Author

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

Supplementary Content

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

• 5 lin. ft.
• 5 microfilm reels.

Summary

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

• Smythe, Hugh H. 1913-1977
• Smythe, Mabel M
• Symthe, Hugh H. 1913-
• Symthe, Mabel M. 1918-
• United Nations
• Operation Crossroads Africa
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• African Americans > Civil rights
• African Americans > Segregation
• African Americans > Education
• African Americans > Economic conditions
• Sociology > Study and teaching
• Sociology > Nigeria
• Sociology > Japan
• Anthropology > Japan
• Anthropology > Study and teaching
• Race relations > United States
• Civil rights > United States
• Discrimination in education > Law and legislation > United States
• Segregation > United States
• African American anthropologists
• African American sociologists
• African American college teachers
• Africa > Study and teaching
• East Asia > Study and teaching
• Nigeria > Study and teaching
• Japan > Study and teaching
• United States > Race relations

Genre/Form

• Scrapbooks.
• Manuscripts.
• Speeches.

Additional Formats (note)

• Collection available on microfilm;

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Source (note)

• Smythe, Hugh

Biography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc Micro R-966

OCLC

NYPW89-A198

Author

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

Title

Hugh H. Smythe papers, 1942-1963.

Additional Formats

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

Reproduction

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

Biography

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

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Added Author

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

Smythe, Mabel M. (Mabel Murphy)

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-966

Sc MG 4