Summary Information
Milton A. Galamison Papers
1954-1964
- Galamison, Milton A., 1923-1988
Micro 85
2 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Microfilmed papers of Milton Galamison, a civil rights activist and minister of Siloam Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, consisting of correspondence, sermons, speeches, reports, and printed matter. The collection documents civic, cultural, and educational activities of Rev. Galamison's congregation, as well as his own activities in various community organizations such as the Brooklyn NAACP chapter and the Parents Workshop for Equality in New York City Schools that worked toward the elimination of segregation in the city school system.
English
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Biography/History
The resumé below was supplied by Reverend Galamison's office.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE REVEREND DR. MILTON A. GALAMISON
GALAMISON , Milton Arthur; attended Philadelphia Public Schools; received Bachelor of Arts, Lincoln University, 1945; Bachelor of Divinity, Lincoln University School of Theology, 1947; Master of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1949; Doctor of Divinity, Lincoln University, 1961.
PASTOR of Siloam Presbyterian Church since 1949 - one of the largest Churches in the New York Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. More than 1500 of the 2,000 members of the Church have become affiliated during Dr. Galamison's pastorate. Apart from its regular religious education program, Siloam has Church organizations and clubs that offer many services to the congregation and community.
ACTIVITIES
- Member, Presbytery of New York City, Commission on Religion & Race
- Member, Presbytery of New York City Committee on Administration
- Member, National Committee of Negro Churchmen
- Member, Board of Directors, Interfaith Community Services of Brooklyn, Inc.
- Consultant, Yeshiva University
- Chairman, Board of Directors, Opportunities Industrialization Center of New York, Inc., a job-training and placement program
- Member, New York City Council Against Poverty
- Chairman, Bedford-Throop Neighborhood Association, an urban housing redevelopment agency
- Executive Director, School & Community Organized for Partnership in Education
- Chairman, N.Y.C. Peoples Board of Education and the United Federation of Parents
- Honorary Chairman, Committee for a Negro Congressman from Brooklyn
- Consultant, Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council
- Member, Board of Directors, Walla Hardgrow Mental Hygiene Clinic
- Former Vice Moderator of the Presbytery of Brooklyn-Nassau
- Past Advisor, Geneva Fellowship of the Presbytery of Brooklyn-Nassau
- Former Member, General Assembly Special Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church
- Past President (3 years) Brooklyn Branch, NAACP
- Past President, Parents Workshop for Equality in New York City Schools
- Past President, Board of Trustees, The Woodward School
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Big Brothers Inc.
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth in Action, Inc.
- Retired Chairman, Stuyvesant Community Center Board of Directors
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Brooklyn Tuberculosis & Health Assn.
Dr. Galamison has had wide experience in religious broadcasting on major NYC television networks; has traveled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where he addressed the annual meeting of the United Churches of Canada, 1954; to Europe and the French Cameroun, West Africa, 1955, where he served four months as good-will emissary to the young people of the Presbyterian Church and represented the Westminster Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church, USA; to Cuba in December 1959, on a special mission for the Department of Evangelism; and conducted Seminars at various Synod Schools for Ministers in this country.
Dr. Galamison is married to the former Gladys Hunt of Chester, Pennsylvania, and has one son, Milton Arthur, Jr.
Scope and Content Note
This collection of Rev. Galamison's papers documents some of the civic, cultural, and educational programs of the church and his activities in various organizations, principally ones for eliminating de-facto segregation and improving conditions in New York City public schools. The material is arranged by subject alphabetically, and chronologically under each subject.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Originals loaned for microfilming by Rev. Milton A. Galamison, Brooklyn, N.Y., January 17, 1968.
Processed by Ronald Perkins, February 15, 1968.
Contents List
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African Correspondence and Trip, Cameroun, West Africa, 1955-1957
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Board Of Education, New York City, Correspondence, 1959-1963
: Includes United Federation of Teachers - “Special Report, An Effective Program and Structure for Special Service Schools.”
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Civil Rights, 1961-1964
: Re: Malcolm X, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, March for Jobs and Freedom - August 28, 1963, CORE-Brooklyn, City-Wide Committee for School Integration, Attorney Ray H. Williams, “Data on Economic Status of the Negro.”
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Commission on Intergroup Relations, City of New York, 1960-1961
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Committee for Better Education - Mass Meeting, Dec. 1957 - Feb. 1958
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Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 1958-1961
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Committee for Equality in Schools, City-Wide, 1960 (John Hope Franklin)
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Committee on Operation Democracy - Interdenominational Ministers Alliance, 1948, 1958-1960
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Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries (Presbyterian Church), 1954-1958, 1960-1962
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Community College - Brooklyn, 1964
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Curtis, Dr. James L. - “Psychiatric Aspects of Integration,” undated
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Douglas, Stanley M., 1953
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Education, May 1958 - Feb. 1959
: Re: N.Y.C. Board of Education, Bedford - Stuyvesant, NAACP - Brooklyn, A. Philip Randolph, Youth March for Integrated Schools, Teachers Union.
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Election Campaign - , 1960 (U.S. Presidential)
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Equal - Parents and Neighbors for Integrated, Quality Education, 1964, 1965
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Intergroup Committee on New York's Public Schools, Jan. 1958 - Feb. 1960
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Ministers' Action Group, Parents' Workshop for Equality in New York City Schools, 1963-1964
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Brooklyn Branch
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Correspondence and Reports - , 1958
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Correspondence and Reports - , 1959
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Mass Meeting - , May 1959
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Press Release - Feb. 10, 1959
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Willie Reid Case, 1956, 1959-1960
: See also June 4, 1959 letter in NAACP - Correspondence, 1959.
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Negro History Educational Group, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History - Brooklyn Branch, 1957-1960
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Mrs. Rosetta Gaston
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Marion Anderson
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Adam Clayton Powell
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Jackie Robinson
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Langston Hughes
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A. Philip Randolph
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John Hope Franklin
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Newspaper Clippings, 1952-1960
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Perspective (Vol. 1, No. 1), April 1958 (Published by Siloam Presbyterian Church)
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Parents' Workshop for Equality in New York City Schools
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Bulletins and Data, 1960-1963
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Correspondence, 1960-1963
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Public School 289, 1958-1959
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School Boycott, Jan. - Feb. 1964
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Politics, Correspondence, 1961, 1962, 1964
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School Desegregation before 1959, Reports - 1954, 1956-1957
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Sermons, Speeches, and Responses (Galamison), 1950, 1954, 1956, 1959-1964
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Teachers Union, Reports and Correspondence, 1958-1961
: Includes New York Teacher News, 1959-1961
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