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By Andrew Salinas
Collection Overview
Title: Stanley Moreland Douglas papers, 1909-1977
Creator: Douglas, Stanley M. (1898-1977)
Extent: 1.4 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 04/01/1985
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The papers of former Assistant New York State Attorney General Stanley Moreland Douglas contain correspondence, clippings, photographs, elections materials, and other collected materials largely pertaining to Douglas' career and active civic and political life.
Correspondence includes several letters of congratulations regarding Douglas' appointment to Assistant Attorney General; a 1944 letter to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey reporting as Dewey's representative at a conference on better incorporating African Americans in education, government, labor, and in post-war America more generally; a 1945 letter to Dewey as state representative at the Interstate Post-War Planning Commission Conference at Lincoln University, praising New York's newly-formed Fair Employment Practices Commission as the center of discussion and the impetus for legislation elsewhere; and a 1945 letter from Major League Baseball executive Branch Rickey inviting Douglas to contribute to a YMCA-sponsored Dodgers-Giants baseball game welcoming all returning prisoners of war from Brooklyn, Long Island, and Queens. A smaller amount of personal correspondence is included, and this regards class reunions, family matters, pets, and other topics. Notable correspondents include A. Philip Randolph, Mordecai Johnson, Perry W. Howard, Thomas E. Dewey, Jacob Javits, Louis Lefkowitz, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walter Francis White, Carter G. Woodson, Fiorello LaGuardia, and William E. Jenner.
A photograph album consists primarily of photographs of Howard University student life in the late 1910s and early 1920s and classmates at Somerville High School (New Jersey). Photographs depict football, baseball, and college social life at Howard; members of Delta Sigma Theta at the home of Frederick Douglass; "favorite haunts" around Washington, D.C.; and pictures of Howard graduates from 1920 and 1921. Noteworthy photographs include the mid-1910s football and baseball teams at Somerville High School, in which Paul Robeson and Stanley Douglas were teammates. Some of the earliest issues of The Oracle, where Douglas served as its first editor, have been removed to the Center's library holdings.
Biographical Note
Stanley Moreland Douglas was born in Danville, Virginia, in 1898, and graduated from Somerville (NJ) High School, where he was a classmate and football and baseball teammate of Paul Robeson. Douglas attended Howard University, where he graduated in 1920, and Fordham University Law School, where he graduated in 1923. As a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity, Douglas was the first editor of its official organ, The Oracle. Douglas also served on the board of directors of the Carlton Avenue Branch YMCA, the Brooklyn and Queens YMCA, and the YMCA of Greater New York, and he was president of the Brooklyn Branch of the NAACP from 1929 to 1931. In 1944, he served as vice chairman of the New York War Fund. Douglas was also an active member of the Republican Party and served on a special committee to integrate Major League Baseball. In 1944, Douglas was appointed as an Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York, where he served until his retirement in 1971. Douglas died in Brooklyn in 1977.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Source:
Vivian Edwards Douglas
Box and Folder Listing
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Box 2],
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Box 4: Plaques and awards, 1955-1973],
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Box 5: Oversize: Photographs, certificates, and awards, 1912-1957],
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Correspondence, 1927-1929
- Folder 2: Correspondence, 1930-1939
- Folder 3: Correspondence, 1940-1942
- Folder 4: Correspondence, 1944
- Folder 5: Correspondence, 1945-1946
- Folder 6: Correspondence, 1947-1949
- Folder 7: Correspondence, 1950-1952
- Folder 8: Correspondence, 1953-1955
- Folder 9: Correspondence, 1956-1957
- Folder 10: Correspondence, 1958-1959
- Folder 11: Correspondence, 1960-1962
- Folder 12: Correspondence, 1963
- Folder 13: Correspondence, 1964-1965
- Folder 14: Correspondence, 1966-1977
- Folder 15: Correspondence, undated
- Folder 16: Address books and daily planners, 1925-1928
- Folder 17: Certificates, 1940-1970
- Folder 18: Family history documents, 1909-1950
- Folder 19: Invitations, 1939-1966
- Folder 20: Legal notes and ephemera, 1963-1968
- Folder 21: Membership and identification cards, 1943-1973
- Folder 22: Obituary and funeral service materials, 1977
- Folder 23: Organizational memoranda and receipts, 1945-1966
- Folder 24: Report cards, 1913-1916
- Folder 25: Republican Party and elections ephemera, 1956-1963
- Folder 26: Resumes and biographical narrative, undated
- Folder 27: Writings: Poetry, undated
- Folder 28: Writings: Prose and drafts, undated
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Newspaper clippings: Preservation photocopies, 1944
- Folder 2: Newspaper clippings: Preservation photocopies, 1945-1949
- Folder 3: Newspaper clippings: Preservation photocopies, 1950-1959
- Folder 4: Newspaper clippings: Preservation photocopies, 1960-1977
- Folder 5: Newspaper clippings: Preservation photocopies, undated
- Folder 6: Newspaper clippings, 1944-1977
- Folder 7: Photographs: Stanley Douglas, c. 1920-1960
- Folder 8: Photographs: Political and social events, undated
- Folder 9: Photographs: Family photos, 1938-1961
- Folder 10: Photographs: Family photos, 1938-1943
- Folder 11: Photographs: Miscellaneous, undated
- Folder 12: Photographs: Stanley Douglas with high school athletics teams, c. 1913-1914
- Photographs of baseball and football teams depict Paul Robeson as a teammate.
- Folder 13: Photo album pages: Howard University, c. 1919-1921
- Folder 14: Photo album pages: Howard University and Somerville High School, 1916-1921
- Folder 15: Photo album pages, loose photographs: Howard University, c. 1919-1921
- Folder 16: Photographs: Howard University class of 1920 and Glee Club, 1920
- Folder 17: Howard University year book: The Echo, 1920
- Folder 18: American Tennis Association National Championship, Tuskegee Institute: Collected publication, 1931
- Folder 19: Brooklyn Urban League, Lincoln Settlement: Collected Publication, 1931
- Folder 20: Chelsea Vocational High School: Yearbook and commencement program, 1950
- Folder 21: Fordham Law School: Collected materials, 1948-1976
- Box 3
- Folder 1: King County Republicans: Collected materials, 1952-1963
- Folder 2: Lincoln High School commencement program, 1917
- Folder 3: List of churches in Brooklyn by denomination: Collected materials, undated
- Folder 4: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Twenty-First Annual Conference program: Collected publication, 1930
- Folder 5: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: Members of Brooklyn Branch and event report, c. 1930
- Folder 6: National Bar Association: Official convention program, 1947
- Folder 7: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity: Collected items, 1949-1961
- Folder 8: Jackie Robinson cigarette advertisement: Collected item, 1947
- Folder 9: Siloam Presbyterian Church: Collected ephemera, 1947-1963
- Folder 10: St. Paul Normal and Industrial School (Lawrenceville, Virginia) athletic bulletin: Collected publication, 1923
- Folder 11: Young Men's Christian Association: Collected items, 1946-1958
- Folder 12: Miscellaneous collected articles and ephemera on Stanley M. Douglas, 1923-1959
- Folder 13: Miscellaneous collected items, 1944-1976
- Folder 14: Awards and block prints, 1920-1961
- Includes photographic block prints of Howard University class of 1920 and Douglas as a college student. Also includes print of Douglas' business card and a 1961 award from Omega Psi Phi.
- Box 4: Plaques and awards, 1955-1973
- Box 5: Oversize: Photographs, certificates, and awards, 1912-1957
- Photographs include: Omega Psi Phi – Alpha Chapter: Individual portraits arranged to form Greek letters, 1920 Alpha Kappa Alpha – Alpha Chapter: Individual portraits arranged to form Greek letters, 1922 Delta Sigma Theta – Alpha Chapter: Individual portraits arranged to form Greek letters, 1922 Twenty fourth year anniversary dinner, Fordham University School of Law: Panoramic photograph of group seated at dinner tables, 1947 Testimonial dinner to Honorable Nathaniel L. Goldstein: Group seated at banquet table, 1947 Kings County Republicans Lincoln Day Dinner: Panoramic photograph of group seated at dinner tables, 1953 Brooklyn Branch of the Urban League of Greater New York: Panoramic photograph of group seated at dinner tables, 1955 “The Browns” of Richmond, Virginia football team: Group photograph outside building, undated Individual portraits of Stanley M. Douglas, undated Unidentified group photograph in courtroom, undated
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Box 5: Oversize: Photographs, certificates, and awards, 1912-1957],
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