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Title: Harold Stanley Jacoby collection
Dates: 1940-1967
Collection number: MSS 178
Creator:
Jacoby, Harold S.
Collection Size: 9.5 linear feet
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Dept. of
Special Collections
Stockton, California 95211
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.
Physical location: For current information on the location
of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
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.
Harold Stanley Jacoby collection. MSS 178. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.
Biography / Administrative History
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
University of the Pacific (Stockton,
Calif.) -- Curricula.
Sociology -- Study and teaching -- California --
Stockton.
The Harold Jacoby Migrant Labor Collection (MS 181) and the Harold
Jacoby Nisei Collection (MS 27)