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Title: Madison Harvey Jr. papers
Dates: 1945-2013
Collection number: MS 84
Creator:
Harvey, Madison.
Collection Size:
.5 linear feet
(1 box + 1 oversized box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Madison Harvey Jr. papers include photographs, black history newsletters, and funeral programs documenting the life and
professional activities of Madison Harvey Jr. The papers are organized in to three series: photographs, publications, and
funeral programs. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs documenting Harvey’s family, friends and classmates at
Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa Oklahoma, career as a sailor in the United States Navy in the late 1940s, a surprise
party prepared by his co-workers at the Continuing Education of the Bar, and photographs of businesses making preparations
prior to the Rodney King verdict.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Madison Harvey Jr. Papers must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
Madison Harvey Jr. papers, MS 84, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 11/19/2013.
Biography / Administrative History
Madison Harvey Jr. (1928-2013) was born on August 27th, 1928 in Colbert, Oklahoma the youngest son of Madison Dyne and Blanche
Harvey. After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1947, he enlisted in the United States
Navy and served aboard the U.S.S. Eldorado as an electrical technician. After fighting in the Korean War, he was honorably
discharged from the navy and relocated to Oakland, California. He attended Contra Costa College and the University of California
Berkeley and worked as a research assistant at the Chevron Research Corporation for fourteen years. After leaving Chevron,
he was hired as an insurance agent for the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company where he also worked for fourteen years.
Harvey was also an amateur historian and ardent advocate of black history. He was a founding member of the East Bay Negro
Historical Society and was an active member collecting and exhibiting historical material related to African Americans in
the East Bay. Beginning in the 1980s, Harvey also published a monthly newsletter on black history –
The Bokchito Herald, and later renamed
Madison’s Monthly and
The Whip-O-Will – that featured interesting newspaper clippings, quotations, photographs, and obituaries related to black history.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Madison Harvey Jr. papers include photographs, black history newsletters, and funeral programs documenting the life and
professional activities of Madison Harvey Jr. The papers are organized in to three series: photographs, publications, and
funeral programs. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs documenting Harvey’s family, friends and classmates at
Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, career as a sailor in the United States Navy in the late 1940s, a surprise
party prepared by his co-workers at the Continuing Education of the Bar, and photographs of what appear to be businesses making
preparations prior to the Rodney King verdict. The publications series includes Harvey’s newsletter on black history successively
titled
The Bokchito Herald,
Madison’s Monthly, and
The Whip-O-Will published from the 1980s-2000s. Also included is a flyer for the Continuing Education of the Bar’s surprise party for Harvey
in 1992. The funeral programs series includes programs for the memorial services of Madison Harvey and his brother Sylvester
Harvey.
Series I. Photographs
Series II. Publications
Series III. Funeral programs
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Harvey, Madison.
Continuing Education of the Bar -- California.
African American sailors--History--20th century.
African Americans -- military service -- 1940-1960.
Photographs.