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Correspondence and other papers of two black families. Principal persons represented include T. McCants Stewart (1854-1923), lawyer, of New York and Brooklyn, N.Y., Honolulu, Hawaii, and Liberia, England, and the Virgin Islands, and for several years associate justice of Liberian Supreme Court; his son, McCants Stewart (1877-1919), lawyer, of Portland, Or.; and Robert Browning Flippin (1903-1963), McCants Stewart's son-in-law, a correctional counselor at San Quentin Prison (Calif.), reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and founder, editor, and publisher of the Spokesman, a black weekly newspaper in San Francisco. Flippin's papers include material relating to his work with NAACP, Council for Civic Unity, and Booker T. Washington Community Center. |
