University of California, Santa Barbara
Davidson Library

Department of Special Collections

California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives

 

 

GUIDE TO

THE SANTA BARBARA AFRICAN AMERICAN

LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION,

1994-1997.

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Collection Number: CEMA 099.

 

Size Collection: 1.5 linear feet (4 boxes and 19 cassette tapes).

 

Acquisition Information: Gift agreement being drafted as of May 27, 2004.

 

Access restrictions: None.

 

Use Restriction: Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB.  All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections.  Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. 

 

Processing Information:  Processed by Michelle Wilder, May 20, 2004.

 

Location:  Del Norte.

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SCOPE NOTE 

The origins of this collection began as the Black Santa Barbara Historical Calendar, a collaborative research project in the Black Studies Department at UCSB.  The aim of the calendar was to call attention to local personages and events important in Santa Barbara’s African American community.  Professor Cedric Robinson headed the project with the help of undergraduate students from across the nation and high school students from the local district.  Research for the first calendar began in the summer of 1994; the Black Studies Department published two calendars, one in 1995 and the other in 1996 and research continued in the summer of 1997 until funding was lost and the project was halted.  While the collection’s origins were to support a discontinued calendar project, the documents, photographs and interviews are of great value for an understanding of African American local history and it is expected to grow over time with the addition of other materials documenting the African American presence in the Santa Barbara area.

RELATED COLLECTIONS 

Horace McMillan Papers (CEMA 007); Anita Mackey Papers (CEMA 057); William Downey Papers (CEMA 032); Santa Barbara African American Oral History Project Collection (CEMA 042).

 

SERIES DESCRIPTION

 Series I: Calendar contains a copy of the 1995 and 1996 version of the calendar as well as many of the component parts that made the 1995 calendar.  Also of particular interest is a paper documenting selective case studies of the “Oral History of the Black Santa Barbara community during the 1940’s and 1950’s,” which arose from the 1996 calendar project.  This series is arranged alphabetically by title; those files that fall under the common title of calendar have been arranged chronologically.

 

Series II: Subject Files contains research on various topics and people relative to the Black Santa Barbara community.  These files have been arranged alphabetically by title.

 

Series III: Taped Interviews contains 19 tapes of interviews with prominent members of the Black Santa Barbara community, including Anita Mackey whose papers are housed in CEMA (The Anita Mackey Papers, CEMA 057).

CONTAINER LIST

 

SERIES I: CALENDAR & COMPONENTS

 Box   Folder                 Contents

 

1        1                           Black Santa Barbara Historical Community Calendar paper, 1996

                                       Calendar

1        2                                     January, Black migration to the West, 1995

1        3                                     February, 1995

1        4                                     March, Anita Mackey, Santa Barbara’s Black pioneers, 1995

1        5                                     April, 1995

1        6                                     May, Jerry Forney, 1995

1        7                                     June, Willie M. Rowan, 1995

1        8                                     July, 1995

1        9                                     August, Civilian Conservation Corps, 1995

1        10                                   October, NAACP, 1995

1        11                                   December photographs, 1995

1        12                                   December, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1995

1        13                                   Black Santa Barbara Historical Calendar, 1995

1        14                                   Santa Barbara Black Historical Calendar, 1996

1        15                         Front cover image, 1995

1        16                         Front cover photograph, 1995

1        17                         General calendar material

1        18                         Interview questions, n.d.

1        19                         Oral history presentation of the Black Santa Barbara community, n.d.

1        20                         Photographs, n.d.

1        21                         Proof sheet, n.d.

1        22                         Miscellaneous articles and images, n.d.

         

SERIES II: SUBJECT FILES

 Box   Folder                 Contents

 

1        23                         African Americans On The Central Coast A Photo Essay, 1993

1        24                         Art and literature, miscellany, n.d.

1        25                         Barnes, Grover C., biographical notes, n.d., correspondence, 1954

3        1                           Bennet, James, “Medals of Honor Awarded at Last to Black World War II                                                 Veterans”, The New York Times, January 14, 1997  (See also Box 4 Folder 2)

1        26                         Black culture, local newspaper articles, 1982-1989; Franklin, John Hope,

                                                Afro-American History: State of the Art, June 1988

1        27                         Black farmers, Schweninger, Laura, “A Vanishing Breed: Black Farm Owners in the

                                                 South, 1651-  1982”, Agricultural History, Vol. 163 No. 3, Summer 1989

1        28                         Black resistance (political), articles about Santa Barbara County, in particular the

                                                Muslim community, 1964-1967

1        29                         Business, Santa Barbara Press photocopies, 1878; Hicks, Connie, biographical

                                               information, n.d.

2        1                           Census information for Madera County (1900), Alameda County (1880), Stanislaus

                                               County (1870); Santa Barbara Daily Press articles, 1878

2        2                           Chan, Betty and P.T. Joseph, African  American Women Leaders in Santa

                                                Barbara: As Assessment  of Leadership Styles and the Movement Towards                                                 Radicalism, n.d.

2        3                           Civic leaders, articles on Santa Barbara personages including Anita Mackey and

                                                Jerry Forney, 1979-1993

2        4                           Civil rights, ‘Santa Barbara Hatred’ Threats Result as Negro Seeks Home, 1958;

                                                Negro Job  Problem Stressed at Meet, 1964

2        5                           Community organizations/leaders in Santa Barbara County, including Elks Lodge,                                                 1987-1990

2        6                           Discrimination, articles about Santa Barbara County, 1965-1991

2        7                           Educators and education, articles and notes about Santa Barbara personages,                                                1968-1994

2        8                           History, Beginnings – 1900, notes and articles about California and Santa Barbara,

                                                including  photocopies from Santa Barbara High School yearbooks                                                  (1915-1941)

2        9                           Hopkins Family including Tate, Earline, biographical information, n.d.

2        10                         Jet Magazine clippings, “This Week In History”, ca. 1994

2        11                         Jim Crow laws, in Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, 1954 (includes census information

                                                for Santa Barbara County for 1990)

2        12                         Jones, Henry, biographical information, n.d.

                                       Los Angeles publications, 1994

2        13                                   Turning Point

4        3                                     L.A. Watts Times

2        13                                   Festivals of Los Angeles

2        14                         McMillan, Jessie, biographical information, n.d.

                                       Media

2        15                                   Correspondence concerning “African-American and the Media:Historical

                                                Racism vs. The  New Revolution” hearning, 1991

2        15                                  Preconcieved notions hinder ability to learn, January 17, 1989

2        16                         Migration, Chiacos, Elias, Now and Then column about Santa Barbara County,                                                 1990

2        17                         Military, Santa Barbara Tuskegee Airmen including Lowell Steward, n.d.

                                                (See also Box 4 Folder 4)

2        18                         Norman, Floyd, biographic information, 1995

2        19                         Pearson, Clarice, biographic information, n.d.

                                       Political activism

2        20                                   Articles about Santa Barbara NAACP including William Simms, 1969-1977

2        20                                   Miller, Karen, The History of Santa Barbara’s National Association for the

                                                  Advancement of   Colored People (NAACP), n.d.

2        21                         Project guidelines and worksheets, n.d.

2        22                         Religion, historical record of Santa Barbara St Paul African Methodist Episcopal

                                                Church and articles on St. Paul’s mural, 1937-1938 (See also Box 4 Folder 1)

2        23                         Research correspondence and  notes, ca. 1994

2        24                         Rosbrough, Less, biographic information, n.d.

2        25                         Simms, William “Bill”, biographic information, n.d.

2        26                         Tarver, Johnny, biographic information, 1994

2        27                         Violence against minorities, articles mostly pertain to Ku Klux Klan in Santa                                                 Barbara, 1878-1991

2        28                         Wright, Dorothy, biographic information, May 16, 1994

2        29                         Wright, Neil, biographic information, n.d.

2        30                         Miscellany, articles and correspondence, n.d.

3        2                           Miscellaneous articles, 1963-1991

3        3                           Miscellaneous articles, Santa Barbara News Press. ca. 1940

         

SERIES III: INTERVIEW TAPES

Database #                   Title

 

A6744/CS                     Barnes, Grover, C., 7/27/95

A6745/CS                     Booth, John, E.R., T.S., 7/19/95

A6746/CS                     Johnson, Cleavonese, Her Home, by E.R. , T.S., R.G., 7/5/95

A6747/CS                     Kennedy, Lt. Col. James V., cont’d., 25 July, 1994

A6748/CS                     Mackey, Anita, by Betty Chen and Dione Joseph, 8/13/94

A6749/CS                     McMillan, Jessie, 2 pm, 7/19/95

A6750/CS                     Norman, Floyd, 1 of 2, n.d.

A6751/CS                     Norman, Floyd and Brown, Adrienne, 2 of 2, n.d.

A6752/CS                     Pearson, Clarice, Home, E.R., T.S., 7/11/95

A6753/CS                     Richey, Melvin, by Betty Chen and Dione Joseph, 8/13/94

A6754/CS                     Rhuge, Ann

A6755/CS                     Simms, Bill, 1 of 2

A6756/CS                     Simms, Bill, 2 of 2

A6757/CS                     Thomas, Theo, 1 of 2, 7/14/95

A6758/CS                     Wilkes, Rev., n.d.

A6759/CS                     Wright, Neil (side A), Tarver, John (side B)

A6760/CS                     Wright, Shirley, S.B. Library, E.R., T.S., part 1 of 2, 7/19/95

A6761/CS                     Wright, Shirley, S.B. Library, E.R., T.S., part 2 of 2, 7/19/95

A6762/CS                     Unknown