Bertrand Phillips collection, 1959-1970
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Summary
- Creator:
- Phillips, P. Bertrand, Smith, Scott B., Jr., and John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
- Abstract:
- Thirty-three audiotape reels from Dr. Percival Bertrand "Bert" Phillips, a retired professor from Tuskegee University. Audiotapes consist of materials from Scott B. Smith, Jr. (a Tuskegee student and activist/organizer with CORE and SNCC), Phillips' own lectures, and miscellaneous events. The Smith recordings are from the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 organized by SNCC, although the source and contents of the recordings are unknown.
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Foot
33 items - Language:
- Materials in English.
- Collection ID:
- RL.13133
Background
- Scope and content:
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Thirty-three audiotape reels from Dr. Percival Bertrand "Bert" Phillips, consisting of materials from Scott B. Smith, Jr. (a Tuskegee student and activist/organizer with CORE and SNCC), Phillips' own lectures, and miscellaneous events. The Smith recordings are from the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 organized by SNCC.
- Biographical / historical:
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Dr. Percival Bertrand "Bert" Phillips was Dean of Students at Tuskegee Institute from 1963 to 1968. There he initiated the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education Program and the Tuskegee Institute Community Education Program, funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity and employing college students in community tutoring endeavors in Alabama. Phillips hired students from such civil rights activist groups as the Tuskegee Institute Advancement League and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, thereby providing critical funding to civil rights workers while fulfilling the educational objectives of the programs. After leaving Tuskegee in 1968, Phillips, with his wife and partner Judith V. Phillips, founded Curber Associates, Inc., a Washington, D.C.–based community entrepreneurial, business development, and educational training organization. In 1976 the Phillips' started a global management consulting firm, Bermultinational Limited [Adapted from Sue Mendelsohn and Clarissa Walker, "Agents of Change: African American Contributions to Writing Centers," Writing Center Journal, v. 39:1-2, pp. 34-37; and https://wp.stolaf.edu/news/st-olaf-to-award-honorary-degree-to-educator-civil-rights-advocate, accessed April 2025.]
Born in 1934 in Chicago, Scott B. Smith, Jr. started his work with the civil rights movement with Chicago CORE 1963-64. He worked in the 1964 Freedom Summer in Canton, MS, and was SNCC staff in Lowndes County and Barbour County, Alabama. He was later involved in student movement work at San Francisco State University in the late 60's. [https://sncclegacyproject.org/in-memoriam-scott-b-smith-jr/, accessed April 2025.]
- Acquisition information:
- The Bertrand Phillips collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2024.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Craig Breaden, April 2025
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2024-0152
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Arranged chronologically within series.
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