Sylvia Wong Lewis
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Lewis, Byron E., Sr., 1931-
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content: Byron Lewis Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981-2017, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1583, Series 9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Contain materials relating to the personal and professional life of Sylvia Lewis (formerly Sylvia Smith Isabel) wife of Bryon Lewis. Born in Harlem, New York in 1951 to Alfred Burton Smith and Carmen Wong, Sylvia Elaine Smith grew up in what she has described as a Southern and Caribbean Afro-Asian Creole family. In 1954, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York where Lewis attended St. Matthews Catholic School and George W. Wingate High School before graduating from Smith College. She is the founder, publisher, and editor of Caribbean American News and has worked as an artist, educator, journalist, corporate communications executive, marketing consultant, food writer, and filmmaker.  She owns and manages several media platforms, including Narrative Network, Auntyland.com, and 1619Brooklyn.com. The couple wed on June 8, 2011, in New York.


Materials primarily document Lewis's professional career and activities and include newspaper clippings, communications campaigns, award certificates, newsletters, and magazine articles some relating to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Women's Transportation Seminar Gala, and the Conference of Minority Transportation Officers (COMOTO).  These materials are arranged in chronological order.