Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- This collection contains materials from John Brown Child's life and work, primarily his time teaching at UCSC and his work on the Soledad Prison Project and combination UCSC/Soledad Transcommunality class.
- Extent:
- 2.5 Linear Feet One carton, one oversized flat box. and .051 GB One video file
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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John Brown Childs Papers. MS 397. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains materials from John Brown Child's life and work, primarily his time teaching at UCSC and his work on the combination UCSC/Soledad Correctional Training Facility Transcommunality class. Includes political writings, correspondence, political activism buttons, and materials related to the UCSC/Soledad CTF Transcommunality course.
- Biographical / historical:
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John Brown Childs is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. He has taught at UCSC since 1987 in the Sociology and Anthropology departments. He pioneered and still teaches a course on transcommunality, a type of peaceful conflict resolution, with a combined class of UCSC undergraduates and men serving prison sentences at the Soledad Correctional Training Facility.
On his mother's side, his ancestors are Native Americans from Massachusetts. He is a member of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. His father's side, the Childs, come from Marion, Alabama and were among six Black families who started the Lincoln Normal School, the first teaching college for Black teachers in the South after the Civil War.
Childs studied at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he got a Bachelors Degree before going on to complete his master's degree and Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As a student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst he participated in the March on Washington. Childs was also a member of the Friends of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, with whom he participated in the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated by John Brown Childs in 2024
- Processing information:
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This collection was processed in May 2025 by Kelsey Knox.
- Arrangement:
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This collection is arranged in alphabetical order by folder title. In most cases, folder titles were taken directly from John Brown Childs' handwritten labels on original envelopes of materials. Many folders have a page of handwritten description of their contents by John Brown Childs at the beginning of the folder.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Faculty papers
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the creators and their heirs. Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether a use is fair use, and to obtain any necessary permissions. For more information see UCSC Special Collections and Archives policy on Reproduction and Use.
- Preferred citation:
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John Brown Childs Papers. MS 397. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Location of this collection:
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Special Collections and Archives, University Library1156 High StreetSanta Cruz, CA 95064, US
- Contact:
- (831) 459-2547