To round out our list of Spring 2010 newly processed collections, we'll end with the fascinating archival collection of an important local organization, and the related manuscript collection of a notable San Diegan. Both collections add significantly to our strong emphasis on African-American history and general twentieth-century social history in San Diego, which also includes the Carlin Integration Case Records, Citizens United for Racial Equality Records, School Integration Task Force Records, and the Leon Williams Papers. Documents from both new collections now supplement our wonderful online exhibit, "Creating Community: African-Americans in San Diego."Image: Protest against discriminatory employment practices at the San Diego Bank of America, 1964. From the Harold K. Brown Papers.
Center for Community Economic Development Records, 1963-2006 (MS-0432)
Initially formed in 1995 as a certificate program in Community Economic Development at San Diego State University's College of Business Administration, the program expanded in 2000, becoming the Center for Community Economic Development (CCED) under the direction of Harold Brown. The Center's goal was to endorse economic self-reliance, and generate community-minded individuals in the hopes of improving disadvantaged and low-income neighborhoods. The collection documents the establishment, operation, and curriculum of the Center's thirteen-year existence. The collection includes correspondence, reports, power point presentations, student projects, photographs, certificates, awards, seminar handouts, class curricula, real estate research files, and student rosters. The majority of materials date from 1996 to 2005, and highlight the CCED's efforts to promote and foster community economic development through classes, seminars, and student projects.
Harold K. Brown Papers, 1956-2000 (MS-0436)
Hal Brown became extremely active in the San Diego civil rights movement during the 1960s. Later, Brown became the Deputy Director for the US Peace Corps in Lesotho. In 1971, he returned from Africa and became California State University's Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Assistant to the Vice President for Administration, making him the first African-American administrator at San Diego State. Later, he was the Associate Dean of Planning and Director of the Afro-American Studies Program. The collection documents Brown's participation in the local Civil Rights Movement, his dedication to community economic development, and his professional life, with a heavy emphasis on the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Brown's role in the School Integration Task Force, and his involvement with the Black Economic Development Task Force.
