Conditions Governing Access
Accruals
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Alternate Forms Available
Biography
Preferred Citation
System of Arrangement
Processing Information
Related Collections
Scope and Content Note
Publication Rights
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Jewelle Taylor Gibbs papers
Source:
Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor
Creator:
Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2016/130
Physical Description:
12.6 Linear Feet
(10 cartons, 1 volume)
Date (inclusive): 1967-2016
Abstract: This collection documents the career of Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, professor emerita at the School of Social Welfare at the University
of California, Berkeley, and the first African American professor appointed to an endowed chair in the University of California
system.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Conditions Governing Access
Cartons 1-10 are open for research. The volume contains a file with an interview that is closed to researchers until 2064.
Accruals
No future additions are expected.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Jewelle Taylor Gibbs papers were given to The Bancroft Library in 2016 by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternative forms of this collection.
Biography
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, professor emerita at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, a clinical
psychologist, and noted writer, was born November 4, 1933 to Margaret Morris and the Reverend Julian A. Taylor. Gibbs grew
up in Connecticut, graduated from Ansonia High School, and received her B.A. (cum laude) in Social Relations (specializing
in Behavioral Sciences) from Radcliffe College in 1955. She met James Lowell Gibbs, Jr., a graduate student in anthropology,
at Harvard in 1954, and they married in 1956. Gibbs earned a certificate at the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in business administration
in 1959 and worked at the Pillsbury Company for two years. The couple moved to Palo Alto when James Lowell Gibbs became a
professor at Stanford. Jewelle Taylor Gibbs received her M.S.W. in Psychiatric Social Work at University of California, Berkeley
in 1970. She, and worked as a clinical social worker at Stanford University for five years before returning to Berkeley, where
she earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1980. Gibbs started teaching at the School of Social Welfare in 1979, and became
the first African American professor appointed to an endowed chair in the University of California system when she became
the Zellerbach Family Fund Professor of Social Policy, Community Change and Practice. Her research interests include adolescent
psychosocial problems, mental health in working class and communities of color, juvenile justice issues, biracial and bicultural
identity issues, and urban social policy.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jewelle Taylor Gibbs papers, BANC MSS 2016/130,The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Beatrix Scolari and Marjorie Bryer in 2017.
Related Collections
An Oral History with Jewelle Taylor Gibbs (BANC MSS 2014/161)
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs research material on the police beating of Rodney King (UCLA Library Special Collections, Collection
1807)
Scope and Content Note
This collection documents the career of Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, professor emerita at the School of Social Welfare at the University
of California, Berkeley, and the first African American professor appointed to an endowed chair in the University of California
system.
The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Writings and Research, Teaching and Administrative Materials,
Professional Activities, and Personalia. Gibb's original folder titles were retained.
Publication Rights
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of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor -- Archives
University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty.
University of California, Berkeley. School of Social Welfare
African American college teachers--California--Berkeley
African American Youth
African American men
Psychiatric social work -- Study and teaching
Children of minorities -- Mental health.
California -- Race relations.
Racially mixed women -- United States -- Biography.
Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor
Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor