Series 1: Files of John T. Clark, Executive Director, circa 1926 - 1951
Dates
- Creation: circa 1926 - 1951
Biographical Note
John Thomas Clark was born July 21, 1884 at Louisville, Kentucky, the son of John R. and Sallie Clark. Clark married Patricia Ferguson in 1917, with whom he had two children, Marion and John. He was later divorced and married again, to Blanche Hays, in 1943. Clark received an A.B. degree from Ohio State University in 1906. After teaching school for several years, he entered a long career with the Urban League. He was: from 1913 to 1916, housing secretary of the New York City Urban League; from 1916 to 1917, field secretary of the National Urban League; from 1917 to 1926, Executive Secretary of the Pittsburgh Urban League; from 1926 to 1949, executive secretary of the St. Louis Urban League. He was a member of the National Conference of Social Workers, the American Association of Social Workers, the NAACP, YMCA, Alpha Phi Alpha, the Chamber of Commerce and the Social Hygiene Association. He was a Presbyterian and a Republican. Among his achievements in St. Louis were the establishment of a dental clinic for school children, a day nursery and literary and art contests. Further information can be found in The National Register (1952) and Who's Who in Colored America.
Arrangement
The John T. Clark files of the Urban League of St. Louis are contained in eleven (11) boxes. The boxes are arranged according to major groups. Where possible each folder heading conforms to the numerical breakdown as they were assigned and maintained in the League office. The materials in boxes 8 and 9 do not follow a comparable numerical heading.
The contents of each box are arranged as follows:
Box 1: Board of Directors, Business Manager, Committees of the St. Louis Urban League
Box 2: Committees (continued)
Box 3: St. Louis Urban League Annual Meetings, Surveys of the Urban League Program, General Administrative Matters, Information Files, Occasional Programs and Projects, Radio Programs
Box 4: National Urban League Conferences, 1946 National Urban League Conference in St. Louis, National Urban League Miscellaneous Correspondence, Executive Secretaries Council, Urban League Regional Conference
Box 5: City Boards, City Commissions, St. Louis Relief, City Miscellaneous
Box 6: Federal Programs
Box 7: Correspondence with other Philanthropic, Organizations and Associations--social, civic, health, and welfare
Box 8: Miscellaneous Correspondence, U.S. Congress, State Government, Newspapers, Universities
Box 9: General Correspondence, 1926-1946
Box 10: General Correspondence, 1946-1951
Box 11: Survey of Negro Households in Webster Groves, 1933
Collecting Area Details
Part of the Local History Collecting Area
Miranda Rectenwald
Olin Library, 1 Brookings Drive
MSC 1061-141-B
St. Louis MO 63130 US
(314) 935-5495
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