Marvin X, Director of the Community Archives Project, Dr. Julia Hare, Dr. Nathan Hare and Attorney Amira Jackmon, Senior Agent of the Community Archives Project.
Stanford University viewed the Hare papers with great interest for acquisition. Marvin X says, "Our desire is for the archives to stay in the Bay Area, so we are giving Stanford the first option to acquire the archives. We are in contact with Emory University in Atlanta, Harvard, Yale, Umas and the University of Chicago, but we love the Bay! As per the price offered, Stanford curator said, "Well, the price offered is between art and science!"
Marvin X replied, "Well, I am an artist and scientist, so let's work it out. But if you have anyone on a higher level than Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare, please let me know."
Curator Ben Stone could only mention Dr. Cornel West, a dear friend of Marvin X. "We had Dr. Cornel West at the my concert The Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness," and he sat in the audience for five hours like a child in kindergarten. When I called him up to the mike, he said, "I don't know if I'm a king or queen, there is so much darkness in my life."
Marvin X told the Stanford Curator that Dr. Nathan Hare writes long emails daily, to him and others in the genres in which he expounds, e.g., sociology, psychology, Black Studies, literature, male/female relations.
Collection title: The Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare Archives: 1962-2013
(their archives)
$2,000,000.00 (net)
As a couple, Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare are the foremost exponents of Black Consciousness and social activism in America. Dr. Nathan Hare is the father of Black Studies and a literary figure in his own right. Dr. Julia Hare is called the female Malcolm X and was highly sought on the speaking circuit. She is an author as well. --Marvin X
Offered for sale by
Amira Jackmon, Esq.
510-813-3025
510-813-3025
Description
The Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare papers consist of nearly 200 cartons that document the life and work of Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare from the mid 20th century through the first decade of the 21th century. The papers include correspondence; the Hare writings and speeches; audio/video collection; materials relating to Dr. Nathan Hare's controversial tenure at Howard University and San Francisco State University; works by Dr. Julia Hare, e.g., speeches drafts, book drafts; works by their colleagues. Correspondence includes letters, emails, cards, blog dialogues; correspondents include Queen Mother Moore, Max Stanford (Muhammad Ahmed), Governor Jerry Brown, editors of publications such as Jet, Ebony, Negro Digest/Black World, Black Scholar (Nathan Hare founding publisher), Haki Madhubuti, Robert Chrisman, editor of the Black Scholar and other prominent North American African intellectuals. Critical documents from Dr. Nathan Hare's brief tenure at San Francisco State University, including documents of the first Black Studies program on a major American University. The Hare writings include essays in Newsweek, Mass. Review, Washington Post, Sepia, Phylon, Negro History Bulletin, Sun Reporter Newspaper, San Francisco Chronicle.
Background
Nathan Hare (born April 9, 1933) was the first person hired to
coordinate a black studies program
in the United States, at San Francisco
State University in 1968. Hare was born on a
sharecropper’s farm near the Creek County town of Slick, Oklahoma on
April 9, 1933. He attended the public schools of L’Ouverture (variously spelled
"Louverture") Elementary School and L'Ouverture High School. The two
schools were named after the Haitian Revolutionary and General Toussaint
Louverture and were part of the so-called “Slick Separate
Schools” in the segregated rural milieu of the late 1930s and 1940s.
Early life and education
When Hare was eleven years old,
his family migrated to San Diego, California, where his single mother took a
civilian janitorial job with the Navy air station. As World War II ended
and his mother was laid off, his family returned to Oklahoma. This put on hold
his ambition to become a professional boxer, something he had picked up after
adult neighbors in San Diego assured him that writers all starve to death.
The direction of his life would
change again when his English teacher at L'Ouverture High (later closed after
the Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court desegregaton decree, through
consolidation into the all-white Slick High School, itself now also closed by
consolidation) administered standardized tests to her ninth grade class in
English Composition in the search for someone to represent the class at the
annual statewide "Interscholastic Meet" of the black students held
annually at Oklahoma’s Langston University.
Hare represented L'Ouverture and won first prize with more prizes to come in
ensuing years; and on that basis the L’Ouverture principal persuaded him to go
to college after getting him a fulltime job working in the Langston University
Dining Hall to pay his way. By his junior year Hare had moved up in his student
employment to Dormitory Proctor of the University Men and Freshman Tutor in his
senior year.
When Hare enrolled at Langston University (now
only "historically black"), Langston was the only college Black
students could attend in the state of Oklahoma. Named for John Mercer
Langston, one of only five African Americans elected to Congress
from the South before the former Confederate states passed constitutions that
essentially eliminated the black vote, the town was a product of the late
nineteenth century black nationalist movement’s attempt to make the Oklahoma
Territory an all-Black state. In fact, Langston, Oklahoma laid
claim to being the first all-black town established in the United States. One
of Hare’s professors, the poet Melvin B. Tolson, was
mayor of the town for four terms, was named poet laureate of Liberia, and
eventually his spectacular style of teaching would be portrayed in "The Great Debaters."
Graduating from Langston with an AB in Sociology, Hare won a Danforth
fellowship to continue his education and obtained an MA (1957) and PhD in
Sociology (1962) from the University of
Chicago. Hare received another PhD in Clinical Psychology from
the California
School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, California
(1975).
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Black Studies
Hare wrote the “Conceptual
Proposal for a Department of Black Studies" and coined the term “ethnic
studies” (which was being called “minority studies”) after he was recruited
to San Francisco
State in February 1968 by the Black Student Union leader Jimmy
Garrett and the college’s liberal president, John Summerskill. Hare had
just been dismissed from a six-year stint as a sociology professor at Howard University, after
he wrote a letter to the campus newspaper, The Hilltop,
in which he mocked Howard president James Nabrit’s plan (announced in the Washington
Post on September 6, 1966) to make Howard “sixty per cent white by
1970.” James Nabrit had
been one of the civil rights attorneys who successfully argued the 1954 “Brown
vs. Board of Education” case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The “Black Power”
cry had been issued just two month’s earlier by one of Hare’s former Howard
students, Stokely
Carmichael (another of Hare’s students at Howard was Claude Brown, author
of Manchild in the Promised Land). Hare had taught sociology at
Howard since 1961, the year before he obtained the Ph.D. in sociology from the
University of Chicago.
On February 22, 1967, Hare stood
at press conference, with a group of students calling themselves “The Black
Power Committee,” and read “The Black University Manifesto,” which Hare had
written with the input of the Black Power Committee. The manifesto expressly
called for “the overthrow of the Negro college with white innards and to raise
in its place a black university, relevant to the black community and its
needs." Hare had previously published a book called The Black
Anglo Saxons and coined the phrase “The Ebony Tower” to characterize
Howard University.
In the spring of 1967, he
invited Muhammad Ali to
speak at Howard and introduced him when the controversial heavyweight champion
gave his popular “Black Is Best” speech to an impromptu crowd of 4,000 gathered
at a moment’s notice outside the university’s Frederick Douglass Hall after the
administration padlocked the Crampton Auditorium in the days leading up to
Ali’s refusal of his military draft. Following Hare’s dismissal that June, he
briefly resumed his own aborted professional boxing efforts, winning his last
fight by a knockout in the first round in the Washington Coliseum on December
5, 1967.
At San Francisco State, where the
Black Student Union demanded an “autonomous Department of Black Studies,” Hare
was soon involved in a five-month strike for black studies led by The Black
Student Union, backed by the Third World Liberation Front and the local chapter
of the American Federation of Teachers. Black, white, and Third World students
and professors participated in the strike, which also included community
leaders and the Black Faculty Union, headed by Hare. The late actor, Mel Stewart was a
member of the Black Faculty Unon, but Hare was the only faculty member invited
to become a "quasi-member" of the Central Committee of the Black
Student Union, which included a student named Danny Glover, who would go
on to become a successful Hollywood actor. One of the speakers almost daily at
the noonday rallies of the strike was Ronald Dellums, who was
later elected to the U.S. Congress and later Mayor of Oakland, California.
After one San Francisco State
College president (the late John Summerskill) was fired and another (Robert
Smith) resigned, Smith was replaced by the general semanticist S.I. Hayakawa
(who would later become a U.S. Senator). Hayakawa used a hard-line strategy to
put down the five-month strike, declaring “martial law” and arresting a crowd
of five hundred and fifty-seven rallying professors and students (the
overwhelming majority of them white). Weeks later, on February 28, 1969, Hayakawa
dismissed Dr. Nathan Hare as chairman of the newly formed black studies
department, the first in the United States,“to become effective June 1, 1969.”
Hare stayed on until June at the request of the Black Student Union and
remained for many more months in an unofficial capacity of “Chairman in Exile.”
Hare then teamed with Robert
Chrisman and the late Allen Ross (a white printer and small businessman
in Sausalito who
had immigrated from Russia)
to become the founding publisher of “The Black Scholar: A
Journal of Black Studies and Research" in November 1969. The New York
Times would soon call The Black Scholar “the
most important journal devoted to black issues since ‘The Crisis.'” Ten years
earlier, in 1959, Hare had briefly been a clerical assistant to the editor of
the Journal of Asian
Studies then being edited by Andrew Hacker, a white history
professor at Northwestern
University, where Hare developed a dream of someday editing a
“Journal of Negro Studies” ("Negro" was the word still in fashion for
blacks in 1959). In 1968, during a break in a television panel including Nathan Glazer, co-author
of The Lonely Crowd, Glazer wrote a note to Hare on a white index
card saying "Needed: a Black Scholar journal." Before starting The
Black Scholar, Hare had written and published articles in magazines and
periodicals that included: Ebony, Negro
Digest,Black World, Phylon Review, Social Forces, Social
Education, Newsweek,
and The Times.
After leaving The Black
Scholar in 1975, in a dispute over the changing direction of the
journal, and obtaining a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California
School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, Nathan Hare began the private
practice of psychotherapy, with offices in San Francisco and Oakland. He also
focused on forming a movement for “A Better Black Family” (the title of a
popular speaking out editorial he wrote for the February 1976 issue of Ebony magazine)
shortly after completing a dissertation on “Black Male/Female Relations” at the
California School of Professional Psychology.
By 1979, in collaboration with
his wife (Dr. Julia Hare, author of How to Find and Keep a BMW (Black
Man Working), Hare formed The Black Think Tank, which published the journal
of “Black Male/Female Relationships” for several years. After the journal
folded, Hare went into the full-time practice of psychology and the development
of the Black Think Tank. In 1985, a small book written by him and his wife
("Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood") was disseminated by The Black
Think Tank, issuing the call and becoming the catalyst for the contemporary
rites of passage movement for African-American boys that emerged as the Hares
lectured and spread the idea of the rites of passage for black boys throughout
the United States.
Publications
In addition to dozens of articles
in a number of scholarly journals and popular magazines, from The Black
Scholar and Ebony to Newsweek, Saturday Review and The Times, Nathan Hare is
the author of several books:
• The Black
Anglo Saxons. New York: Marzani and Munsell,
1965; New York: Collier-Macmillan, 1970; Chicago: Third World Press edition,
Chicago, 1990)0-88378-130-1.
Books in collaboration with his
wife, Julia Hare (the former radio talk show host and television guest, who
also is a graduate of Langston University) have been published and widely
distributed by The Black Think Tank, headquartered in San Francisco. They
include:
• Bringing
the Black Boy to Manhood: the Passage, San
Francisco: The Black Think Tank, 1985, ISBN
0-9613086-1-3.
• Fire on
Mount Zion: An Autobiography of the Tulsa Race Riot, as told by Mabel B. Little. Langston: The Melvin B. Tolson
Black Heritage Center, Langston University, 1990, ISBN
0-9613086-1-4
• The
Miseducation of the Black Child: The Hare Plan to Educate Every Black Man,
Woman and Child, San Francisco: The Black Think
Tank, 1991, ISBN
0-9613086-4-8.
While publisher of The
Black Scholar from 1969–75, Nathan Hare co-edied two books with Robert
Chrisman:
Dr. Julia Hare
Dr. Julia Hare
is widely regarded as one of the most dynamic motivational
speakers on the major podiums today.
At the
Congressional Black Caucus's 27th Annual Legislative Conference chaired by
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Dr. Hare was one of three speakers invited to
address the Caucus's kickoff National Town Hall Meeting on Leadership
Dimensions for the New Millennium. Her collaborators included distinguished
historian, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Chair of President Clinton's Advisory Board
on Race, and Dr. Cornel West, Harvard professor and author of the critically
acclaimed Race Matters.
Dr. Hare has
appeared on "Geraldo", "Sally Jesse Raphael", "Inside
Edition", CNN and Company, "Talk Back Live", "News
Talk", Black Entertainment Television (BET), "The Tavis Smiley
Show", ABC's "Politically Incorrect", CSPAN, and major radio and
television affiliated throughout Australia and America. Her commentaries,
lectures and topics include: politics, education, religion, war, foreign and
domestic affairs, sexual politics and contemporary events.
A prime
innovator on issues affecting the black family and society as a whole, Dr. Hare
is mentioned or quoted in national newspapers, including "The New York
Times", "The Washington Post", "Sun Reporter",
"San Francisco Chronicle", "Miami Herald", "Louisville
Courier Journal" and "The Oklahoma Eagle" among others. She has
appeared in "Ebony", "Jet", "Dollars and Sense",
"Heart and Soul", "USA Today", "Today's Black
Woman", "Essence" and other periodicals. She is co-author with
her husband, Dr. Nathan Hare, of "The Endangered Black Family";
"Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood"; "The Passage";
"The Miseducation of the Black Child" and "Crisis in Black
Sexual Politics". Her most recent best-selling book is "How to Find
and Keep a BMW (Black Man Working)".
Her work has
brought her many accolades and honors, including Educator of the Year for
Washington, D.C. by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the World Book
Encyclopedia in coordination with American University; the Abe Lincoln Award
for Outstanding Broadcasting, the Carter G. Woodson Education Award; the Marcus
and Amy Garvey Award; the Association of Black Social Workers Harambee Award,
Third World Publishers' Twentieth Anniversary Builders Award; Professional of
the Year from "Dollars and Sense" magazine; Scholar of the Year from
the Association of African Historians; Lifetime Achievement Award from the
international Black Writers and Artists Union; as well as a presidential
citation from the national Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education. Dr. Hare has also been inducted into the Booker T. Washington Hall
of Fame.
Extent: Number of containers: 200 cartons
Howard University, 1 carton
San Francisco State University, 2 carton
Awards and Certificates, 2 cartons
Personal, 1 carton
Photos, 1 carton
Letters/correspondence, 3 cartons
Black Scholar Magazine, 2 cartons
Male/Female Relations, 2 cartons
Articles in Newspapers/magazines
Notes/news clippings
Manuscripts,
Drafts
Writings in Johnson publications:
Ebony, Jet, Negro Digest/Black World
Dr. Julia Hare’s writings, notes, speech drafts
Audio/video tapes/
cassette, VHS
Floppy disks
Finance
Practice
Misc. articles
SF State University, Black Studies
Who’s Who books,
Address books,
Message books,
Misc. magazines
Programs
Black Think Tank books
