Hugh H. Smythe and Mabel M. Smythe papers
Contributors: Smythe, Mabel M. (Mabel Murphy)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36500
Subjects: African-American Institute; Sociology; United States. Dept. of State. Bureau of African Affairs; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; African-American Scholars Council; Phelps-Stokes Fund; Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.); School integration; Economic conditions; United States. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; African American Officials and employees; United States Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs; Multiculturalism; Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949-; Refugees; African American diplomats; American Diplomatic and consular service; United States; Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation; Description and travel; Brooklyn College; Public health; Africanists; Operation Crossroads Africa; United States. Dept. of State; Study and teaching; Faculty; Social conditions; United Nations; African Americans; Civil rights; Foreign relations; Women
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, lectures, speeches, writings including the Smythes' joint work, The New Nigerian Elite (1960), newspaper and magazine clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to their diplomatic and academic careers. Includes material on their involvement with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and various United Nations commissions; Hugh Smythe's ambassadorships to Syria and Malta; Mabel Smythe's ambassadorship to Cameroon and her duties at the State Dept.'s Bureau of African Affairs; and their experiences in West Africa and Japan.

Also documents Hugh Smythe's position as professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and Mabel Smythe's position as professor and director of African studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; their work for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Phelps-Stokes Fund, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation; and their advocacy for the civil rights movement, multiculturalism, school desegregation, and the career advancement of African Americans at the State Dept.  Other topics include Israeli-Arab border conflicts, the plight of refugees, women's issues, and the improvement of health and economic conditions in the United States.  Other organizations represented include the African-American Institute, African-American Scholars Council, and Operation Crossroads Africa.  Correspondents include Ralph J. Bunche, Kenneth Bancroft Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, Lorenzo Johnston Greene, Patricia Harris, Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, James H. Robinson, and Elliott Percival Skinner.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Mabel M. Smythe Haith, 1977-1997.

Diplomats, educators, and scholars.  Mabel Hancock Murphy married Hugh H. Smythe in 1939 and married Robert Haith in 1985.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001042