Zone d'identification
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Collection
Titre
Seymour Samet papers
Date(s)
- 1944-1995 (Production)
- 1960-1989 (Production)
Importance matérielle
15 Boxes
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Seymour Samet was born on December 3, 1919 in Newark, New Jersey. In 1943, he married Elaine Rosenberg. They had two daughters: Anita Samet Rechler and Roberta Samet.
Education
B.A. Social Sciences, New Jersey State University, Montclair, NJ
M.Ed. Human Relations, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Graduate work at Columbia University’s Teachers’ College, the New School for Social Research and Harvard University.
Employment History
1948-1952: Assistant Director, Community Relations Committee, Jewish Community Council of Essex County
1952-1965: Southeast Area Director, American Jewish Committee
1963-1964: Executive Director, Miami Dade County Community Relations Board
1964: White House Task Force for the Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice
1964-1965: Special Assistant to Governor Leroy Collins, Director of the Community Relations Service, US Department of Justice
1965: Chief Intergroup Relations Officer, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice
1965-1968: Director of Program Evaluation and Development, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice
1968-1984: Director, National Affairs Department, American Jewish Committee
1984-1986: Chairman of HR Factor Associates, a Human Relations Consulting Company
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The Seymour Samet Papers document primarily Mr. Samet’s civil rights work for the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Dade County Community Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service from the 1960s to the 1980s. The correspondence, speeches, writings, articles and newspaper clippings articulate issues of discrimination, desegregation and general human relations from various group and geographical perspectives.
Mode de classement
Series I: Personal Papers (arranged alphabetically) contain biographical information as well as correspondence, speaches, writings, brochures on speaking engagements and some photos.
Series II: Professional Papers (arranged in chronological order within each sub-series) document through correspondence, reports, papers and press releases his extensive work for the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Community Relations Board of Dade County and the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service.
Series II is arranged as follows:
Sub-series A. American Jewish Committee
Sub-series B. American Jewish Committee Miami Chapter
Sub-series C. Dade County Community Relations Board
Sub-series D. U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service
Series III: Subject Files (arranged alphabetically) represent major areas of research such as community relations, crime, discrimination, economics, housing, the new right, race relations, riots, urban studies, unversity admissions. Mr. Samet's original file titles were retained.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
This collection is open for research.
Accès physique
Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Seymour Samet Papers Finding Aid © 2007 University of Miami. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Instruments de recherche
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Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Gift of Seymour Samet, 2005
Sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Selected materials from this collection have been digitized.
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0656