Harold Stanley Jacoby collection, 1940-1967

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Summary

Creators:
Jacoby, Harold S.
Abstract:
The papers in this collection derive from Jacoby's activities both as a teacher and as a citizen acting in the cause of reform.
Extent:
9.5 linear feet
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

Harold Stanley Jacoby collection. MSS 178. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The papers in this collection derive from Jacoby's activities both as a teacher and as a citizen acting in the cause of reform.

Series I contains various types of literature and papers dealing with pacifism, race relations, social work, education, religion, and immigration.

Series II contains information about workshops and public projects in Stockton. Also contained therein are surveys conducted on inter-group relations.

Series III contains printer matter about race relations, correspondence of Jacoby, and information of the Y.M.C.A and Asilomar conference.

Series IV contains some of Jacoby's College of the Pacific Sociology Department teaching files. It includes course outlines, examinations, student papers and Department correspondence relating to coursework.

Series V contains Jacoby’s personal and family papers; it includes photographs, clippings, correspondence, travel, his time as a student, from high school to post-graduate school, and various other materials.

Biographical / historical:

Harold S. Jacoby (1907-2000) was a Professor of Sociology at the University of the Pacific (1933-62, 1968-76) and Dean of the College of the Pacific (1962-68). Jacoby was also a memeber of the staff of the Tule Lake Relocation Center in California (1942), The Japanese-American Resettlement Program in Chicago (1943), and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Program in the Middle East (1944). During the 1950s and 60s Jacoby was often involved in community affairs of Stockton, California. He regularly sent his students into the community to analyze and write about its institutions and structure. Jacoby himself completed a census analysis project (1950) that later formed the basis for Stockton school desegregation. He also served on a Mayor's Cross-town Freeway Relocation Committee (1967).

Jacoby has been a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut, Wittenburg College, Whittier College, Yamaguchi University (1956/57) and at Millsaps College (1968-71) where he served for a time as Acting President.

Jacoby has published: A Half-century appraisal of East Indians in the United States (6th Annual COP Faculty Research Lecture, 1956); Pacific: Yesterday and the Day before That (1989); From Dar el Shifa to Dar es Salaam; or, What did you do in the War, Grandpa? (1992); and, Tule Lake: From Relocation to Segregation (1995). He is best remembered, however, as a teacher.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Harold Stanley Jacoby collection. MSS 178. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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