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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION |
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| Creator: | Creator:Hallie Q. Brown Community House (Saint Paul, Minn.). | |
| Title: | Community house records. | |
| Date: | 1921-1996 (bulk 1940-1967). | |
| Abstract: | Records of an African American community center located in the Summit-University neighborhood in St. Paul. | |
| Quantity: | 1.5 cu. ft. (2 boxes, including 7 v.). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. | |
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HISTORY OF THE HALLIE Q. BROWN COMMUNITY HOUSE
The Hallie Q. Brown Community House had its beginnings in 1908 when African American members of the Odd Fellows and Masons fraternal lodges purchased six lots on Aurora Street between Kent and Mackubin located within St. Paul's largely African American Rondo neighborhood. In 1914 the Union Hall Association was organized and it constructed a neighborhood center on one of the lots. The St. Paul Urban League and the YWCA contributed funds and other support during 1923-1929. The YWCA was forced to withdraw its funding in 1929 and a new interracial committee was formed to carry on the work. I. Myrtle Carden of Pittsburgh was hired as the director, a position she held until 1949, and the center was named for Civil Rights and women's suffrage activist Hallie Q. Brown (ca. 1845-1949). During Carden's tenure, Hallie Q. Brown became the second largest neighborhood center in St. Paul. Subsequent directors were Alice Sims Onque (1949-1965), Henry R. Thomas (1965-1978), Fred B. Williams (1978- ), and Richard M. Mangram. During the 1970s the organization's name was changed to the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center.
The organization began as a largely cultural center to serve the unmet needs of the Black community in the city, as well as to create better relationships with the white community. Over the years the center grew to provide educational, social, cultural, and human services activities for community residents of all ages. In the latter 1970s it constructed a new, larger facility-the Martin Luther King Center-on Kent Street to accommodate its wide-ranging programs.
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SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
The records include miscellaneous administrative correspondence; minutes of the board, the steering committee, and many of the program units that operated under the aegis of the house; photographs, clippings, flyers, and other publicity materials; and some financial miscellany. The records give some insights into the history of the most significant and long-standing local organization serving St. Paul's African American community.
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ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLECTION |
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| These records are organized into the following three sections: | ||
| Organizational Records | ||
| Records of Program Units | ||
| Printed and Publicity Materials | ||
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RELATED MATERIALS |
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| A number of monographs are in the Minnesota Historical Society book collection. Buttons issued by the center are in the Minnesota Historical Society museum collections. | ||
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INDEX TERMS |
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| This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. | ||
| Topics: | ||
| Afro-American children -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. | ||
| Afro-American men -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Societies and clubs. | ||
| Afro-American social workers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. | ||
| Afro-American teenagers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Societies and clubs. | ||
| Afro-American women -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Societies and clubs. | ||
| Afro-Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Economic conditions. | ||
| Afro-Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Social conditions. | ||
| Afro-Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Social life and customs. | ||
| Aged -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Societies and clubs. | ||
| Charities -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. | ||
| Children -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Services for. | ||
| Day care centers -- Minnesota --Saint Paul. | ||
| Social settlements -- Minnesota --Saint Paul. | ||
| Social work with Afro-Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. | ||
| Women social workers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. | ||
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Afro-Americans | ||
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- War work. | ||
| Persons: | ||
| Brown, Hallie Q., (Hallie Quinn), 1859-1949. | ||
| Carden I. Myrtle, d. 1950. | ||
| Onque, Alice Sims, d. 1966. | ||
| Places: | ||
| Saint Paul (Minn.) -- Race relations. | ||
| Types of Documentation: | ||
| Photographs. | ||
| Radio scripts. | ||
| Social workers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. | ||
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION |
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| Preferred Citation: | ||
| [Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Hallie Q. Brown Community House Records. Minnesota Historical Society. | ||
| See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples. | ||
| Accession Information: | ||
| Accession number: 8479; 9678; 9923; 11,710; 11,924; 12,253; 12,380 | ||
| Processing Information: | ||
| Processed by: Kathryn M. Johnson, December 1996 | ||
| PALS number: 09-00320357 | ||
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below.
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