Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Hugh H. Smythe
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1913, Aug. 19 | Born, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| 1936 | B.A., Virginia State College, Petersburg, Va. |
| 1937 | M.A., sociology, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. |
| 1939 | Married Mabel Hancock Murphy |
| 1943-1944 | Research assistant to W. E. B. Du Bois on Negro Land Grant College Cooperative Social Studies Project, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. |
| 1945 | Ph.D., anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. |
| 1945-1946 | Professor, Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University, Nashville, Tenn. |
| 1947-1949 | Assistant director, Department of Special Research, NAACP, New York, N.Y. |
| 1951-1953 | Visiting professor, Yamaguchi National University, Yamaguchi City, Japan |
| 1953-1977 | Professor, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, New York, N.Y. |
| 1960 | Published with Mabel M. Smythe The New Nigerian Elite. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press |
| 1961-1962 | Senior advisor, Division of Economic and Social Affairs, United States Mission to the United Nations |
| 1962-1965 | Member, United States Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs |
| 1963-1964 | Fulbright professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 1965-1967 | Ambassador, Syrian Arab Republic |
| 1966 | Published with Lester Donald Crow and Walter I. Murray Educating the Culturally Disadvantaged Child. New York, N.Y.: D. McKay Co. |
| 1967-1969 | Ambassador, Malta |
| 1977, June 22 | Died, New York, N.Y. |
Mabel M. Smythe
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1918, Apr. 3 | Born, Montgomery, Ala. |
| 1933-1936 | Attended Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga. |
| 1937 | B.A., Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. |
| 1939 | Married Hugh Heyne Smythe (died 1977) |
| 1940 | M.A., economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. |
| 1942 | Ph.D., economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. |
| 1942-1945 | Assistant professor, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo. |
| 1945-1946 | Professor, Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University, Nashville, Tenn. |
| 1951-1953 | Visiting professor, Shiga University, Hikone, Japan |
| 1953 | Published with Alan B. Howes Intensive English Conversation. Japan: Kai Ryudo Deputy director for nonlegal research for school desegregation cases, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund |
| 1954-1966 | Instructor (1954-1959) and coordinating principal (1959-1966), New Lincoln High School, New York, N.Y. |
| 1960 | Published with Hugh H. Smythe The New Nigerian Elite. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press |
| 1961-1962 | Member, United States Advisory Committee on Educational Exchange |
| 1962-1965 | Member, United States Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs |
| 1962-1969 | Member, Advisory Council for African Affairs, State Department |
| 1964 | Delegate, UNESCO General Conference, Thirteenth Session, Paris, France |
| 1965-1970 | Member, United States National Commission for UNESCO |
| 1969-1973 | Consultant, Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., New York, N.Y. |
| 1970-1977 | Director, research and publications (1970-1972), and vice president (1972-1977), Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York, N.Y. |
| 1973-1974 | Scholar in residence, United States Commission on Civil Rights |
| 1976 | Editor, The Black American Reference Book. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall |
| 1977-1980 | Ambassador, United Republic of Cameroon concurrently with Republic of Equatorial Guinea (1979-1980) |
| 1980-1981 | Deputy assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, State Department, Washington, D.C. |
| 1981-1985 | Melville J. Herskovits Professor (1981-1983) and associate director of African Studies (1983-1985), Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. |
| 1983 | Guest scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
| 1985 | Married Robert Haith Jr. (died 1998) |
| 2006, Feb. 7 | Died, Tuscaloosa, Ala. |