KWAME AND MARY MCDONALD:

Kwame McDonald's files document his work as executive director of the Minnesota State Commission Against Discrimination (1961-1965) and the Governor's Council on Youth (1983-1987), and contain materials on minority issues confronting St. Paul's Summit-University Neighborhood, particularly those relating to crime and community-police relations. They document his promotion of youth programs, particularly sports, and with the David M. Winfield Foundation for Underprivileged Children and the Harry W. Davis Foundation, both aimed at improving economic conditions in the area and aiding Black youth in educational and health matters. Another Black organization, the Inner City Youth League, is also represented.

A small collection of elementary teacher Mary McDonald's papers contain yearbooks, newsletters, and photographs relating to the Franklin Magnet School, which was located in a low income minority neighborhood. The files contain information on school activities and McDonald's interests in the school's neighborhood.

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These documents are organized into the following sections:

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Access Restrictions:

The audio recordings in copyright in this collection are not available online, but can be accessed upon request for use in the Gale Family Library reading room. Please consult reference staff for more information.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Kwame and Mary McDonald Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples

Accession Information:

Digital masters of audio reels are maintained on the Society’s secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.

The original audio reels were disposed after they were digitally reformatted into WAV files.

Accession number: 14,617

Processing Information:

Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, June 1992

Digitization and endcoding by Joseph Larsen, August 2022.

Digital audio transferred from the master audio reels by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (August 2022).

Catalog ID number: 990017200240104294

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Subject Files:

Adolescent Health Database Task Force, 1986.

Black Education Advisory Committee, Duluth, 1980.

ChildNet, 1986-1987.

David M. Winfield Foundation for Underprivileged Children, 1981-1989. 2 folders.

Governor's Council on Youth, 1984-1987. 3 folders.

Includes teleconference.

Help Encourage Local Programs in the Summit-University Area, Inc., 1977-1980. 2 folders.

HELP Development Corp.

Inner City Youth League, 1968-1989. 2 folders.

Insight News, Inc. Investment Proposal, 1984.

Gary J. Miller, "A Research and Development Program at The City, Inc.," 1988.

Minnesota Institute on Black Chemical Abuse, 1983-1987.

St. Paul Commonwealth Project, 1988.

Sports:

Friends of Boxing, Inc., 1984-1986.

Women's Basketball Teams, 1979-1988.

Miscellaneous Materials, 1979-1989.

Location

Box

143.A.4.7B

2

Summit-University Community:

Summit-University Police-Community Relations: Minutes, Committee Materials, and Other Papers, 1975-1979. 4 folders.

Summit-University Crime Prevention Council:

Miscellaneous Papers, 1978-1982. 4 folders.

Grant Proposals, 1979-1981. 4 folders.

Includes Project for Enrichment and Redirection.

Location

Internet

Hearings to Organize the Council, December 7, 1978. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 6 minutes): WAV (638 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (80.3 MB).

Digital audio

Location

Box

143.A.4.7B

2

Other Summit-University Activities, 1980, 1987.

Survival Skills Institute, Inc., 1988.

W. Harry Davis Foundation, Minneapolis, 1985-1988.

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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:

Basketball for women.

Boxing -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Community centers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Community development, Urban -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Community organization -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Crime prevention -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Education, Elementary -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Magnet schools -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Police -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

School integration -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Teachers and community -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Youth centers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

African American boxers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

African American children -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

African American women athletes -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

African American teachers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

African Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Economic conditions.

African Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Social conditions.

Police-community relations -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Document Types:

Audio recordings.

Persons:

Hickman, Robert, author.

McDonald, Mary Palmer, 1935-, author.

Organizations:

David M. Winfield Foundation for Underprivileged Children (New York, N.Y.).

Franklin Magnet School (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Friends of Boxing (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Inner City Youth League (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Minnesota. Governor's Advisory Council on Children and Youth.

Summit-University Crime Prevention Council (Saint Paul, Minn.).

W. Harry Davis Foundation (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Places:

Saint Paul (Minn.).

Occupations:

Teachers.

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