Guichard Parris papers, 1910-1987
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0976
- Bib ID:
- 4079570 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Parris, Guichard
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 40 linear feet (91 boxes)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Other Finding Aids
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Box CC1 is located on-site.
Description
Summary
Guichard Parris papers consist of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes and printed material from his personal files, his files on the history of the National Urban League, manuscript material for Blacks in the City; A History of the National Urban League, Boston, Little, Brown, 1971 (co-authored with Lester Brooks) and administrative files of the National Urban League. Parris' personal files include folders on his organizational affiliations outside the National Urban League; of particular interest are copies of his correspondence with Mary McLeod Bethune while he was affiliated with the National Youth Administration. Bethune is among the cataloged correspondence, as are Theodore Roosevelt and Ruth Standish Baldwin.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Collection is arranged in 7 series.
- Series I: Catalogued Correspondence
- Series II: Personal Files
- Alphabetical Files
- General Correspondence, 1968-1970
- Diaries, 1955-1969
- Manuscripts: Blacks in the City
- Series III: National Urban League History Project
- Series IV: National Urban League Administrative File
- Series V: Printed Material
- Series VI: Personal Files (1989 Addition)
- Series VII: Professional Files (1989 Addition)
Using the Collection
Other Finding Aids
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Box CC1 is located on-site.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Guichard Auguste Bolivar Parris papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial Foundation Records. Columbia University Libraries.
Whitney M. Young, Jr. Papers. Columbia University Libraries.
National Urban League records, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
L. Hollingsworth Wood papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Guichard Parris collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Parris, Guichard. Method of acquisition--Gift.
Gift of Guichard Parris, 1975, 1976, 1985 & 1989.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Papers Entered in AMC 11/26/90.
Revision Description
June 2020 PDF replaced with full finding aid, YH
Biographical / Historical
Guichard Auguste Bolivar Parris was born in Guadeloupe, 1903. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School (Bronx, New York), Amherst College with magna cum laude, and later received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1932. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a college instructor at Livingstone College, Lincoln University (Missouri), and Atlanta University, from 1929 to 1936. He served as the Director of the Negro Affairs at the National Youth Administration Region I from 1939 to 1942, the Director of Promotion and Publicity at the National Urban League in New York from 1944 to 1968, the consultant for urban affairs for Underwood Jordan Associates from 1968 to 1978, and the President of the Schomburg Corporation from 1984 to 1986. During his work at the National Urban League, he and Lester Brooks authored Blacks in the City; a History of the National Urban League (1971). In 1990, he died at the age of 87, New York.
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