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Guide to the Jesse W. and Marcella Ford Papers
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Marcella Ford

Physical Description: 21 folders+ 1 oversized box

Series Scope and Content Summary

Correspondence, resumes, newspaper clippings, oral history transcript, plaques, and diplomas related to the teaching career of Marcella Ford.

Arrangement

Arranged by format.
 

Correspondence

Box 1:1

Personal 1951-1988

Box 1:2

Teaching 1947-1985

Box 1:3

University 1948-1985

Box 1:4

Religion 1939-1984

Box 1:5

Negro history 1966-1986

Box 1:6

Oakland Museum of California 1966-1967

Box 1:7

Politics 1961-1990

Box 1:8

Committee for Kenya Students 1959-1962

Box 1:8

Resumes 1956-1982

Box 1:9

Newspaper clippings 1959-2001

Box 1:10

Oakland—Now and Then—Way Back When undated

Box 2:2

Intertribal Friendship House Community History Project oral history interview 1979-1980

Box 2:3

Kwanza 1979-1981

Box 2:4

Allensworth State Historical Park 1973-1988

Box 2:5

City of Oakland Landmarks Preservation Board 1974-1988

Box 1:11

Memorials and tributes 1977-2002

 

Badges

Box 1:12

NAACP National Convention 1926

Box 1:12

National Baptist Convention 1933

Box 1:12

Enlightenment Enlistment Evangelization 1933

 

Proclamations and awards

Box 2:6

Awards 1946-2001

Box 5

Plaques 1959-1997

Box OM1

Oversized plaques 1970-2001

Box 2:7-9

Diplomas 1915-1982

Box 2:9

National Council of Negro Women scrapbook 1962-1966

 

Jesse W. Ford

Physical Description: 12 folders

Series Scope and Content Summary

Correspondence, autobiographical notes, memorabilia and records related to civic organizations, and records related to Jesse W. Ford's employment as a Pullman porter.

Arrangement

Arranged by subject and format.
Box 2:10

Correspondence 1924-1967

Box 2:11

Autobiographical notes 1937-1970

 

Clubs and organizations

Box 3:1

American Woodmen 1939-1970

Box 3:2

Constitution and by-laws of the District Grand Household of Ruth No. 28 undated

Box 3:3

Knights of Pythias badge and financial card book 1920 and undated

Box 3:4

Membership cards 1942-1956 and undated

Box 3:5

Negro Non-Partisan League of California newsletter and articles of incorporation 1943-1944

 

Pullman Company

Box 3:6

Pension and insurance plans 1929-1947

Box 3:7

Timesheet and certificate of service 1956-1960

Box 3:8

Agreement between The Pullman Company and porters, attendants, maids, and bus boys in the service of the Pullman Company in the USA and Canada represented by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1953

Box 3:9

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters brochure 1950

Box 3:9

Instructions for porters employed on cars of the Pullman Company 1935

Box 3:10

Jesse W. Ford funeral service 1972

Box 1:2

Memorials and funerals I have attended scrapbook [funeral programs] 1938-1962

 

Photographs

Physical Description: 6 folders

Series Scope and Content Summary

Assorted family photographs, scrapbooks, and photo album.
Box 3:11-13

Assorted photographs 1907-2000

Box 4:1

Assorted photographs 1907-2000

Box 4:2

Family photo album circa 1914-1968

Box 4:3

Mini-album of San Francisco revisited after 50 years 1982