December

CLYDE MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER COLLECTION

A brief history in photographs and an introduction to the

African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska The McWilliams family is important to the history of African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska. Trago McWilliams was a founding member of the Urban League of Lincoln. HISTORY The Clyde Malone Community Center originated under the auspices of the National Urban League, and was originally named the Urban League-Lincoln. The branch formed in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1932, but first received its articles of incorporation from the State of Nebraska as a private non-profit social service and social work agency and community center in 1937. A number of the city’s middle class African American families were instrumental in founding the center. The organizers included the Reverend Trago McWilliams, O.J. Burckhardt, William Woods and son Millard T. Woods, Clyde Malone, and Arthur Weatherly. First Site The League’s first home was in a house at 1946 S Street, and it became a center of recreation, self-improvement clubs, and politics, as well as a venue for weddings, recitals and many of events that were significant in the lives of neighborhood families. Culture and Tradition Luther and Ida Allen belonged to Lebanon Lodge #3 in 1929. A Mutual Aid Community Center The M.C. C. archives contain information about the day to day achievements and challenges faced by the center’s staff, successful community events, mutual aid initiatives, and a wealth of information on local families, as well news of race relations between community members and the white majority population. MALONE YOUTH PLAY AT THE CENTER’S INDOOR AND OUTDOOR BASKETBALL COURTS SUMMER DAYCAMP

A New Home
Philanthropy of the city’s upper income business owners and community labor provided funds for the construction of a new Urban League building at 2030 T Street in 1941.
Community Life
The Center has always provided activities for all ages and genders.
YOUTH
Community Youth have benefited from the Center’s clubs, classes, and mentoring. Sometimes, however, neighborhood youth have felt the need to express themselves about the conditions of life in Lincoln for African American teenagers.
Photo by LJc. 1960’s.
Civil Rights
Reverend Everett Reynolds and Leola Bullock lead a protest down the streets of Lincoln, Nebraska in solidarity with activists around the nation in protest of the killing of NAACP leader Medgar Evers. (LJ, 1963).
Board of Trustees
Gerald Henderson (top, standing) served at one time as an employee of the Malone Center. He later became a Member of the Board of Trustees, and later still as President of the Board. Henderson is pictured here in the Nebraska State Capitol Rotunda.
(Below) Board Members at work.
Politics
Top
Matthew Stelley (L)
Essie Burden (M)
Sen. Kerry .
Bottom
John Reed (M)
(Above ) Rev. Jesse Jackson
(Below) Rally On The Steps Of The State Capitol
Children’s Choir and heritage cake.
Lincoln Children Outside Of Sunday School, By Renowned Photographer John Johnson
Leadership
Former Executive Director Clyde Malone.
Malone Center
(top) Then.
(Bottom) Now.
Advocacy
Some Malone Center executive directors have emphasized advocacy, encouraging staff to help community members further their interests with respect to the larger city. Others have highlighted the recreational or social service functions of the center.
The Malone Center continues many of its traditions in the new millennium.
Tyre J. McDowell, Jr., is the center’s Executive Director today.
Malone Center 2009
Here is the Clyde Malone Community Center as it looks today in 2009.
Many former residents have relocated to other parts of the city due to "urban renewal." For them the Center’s Archives are of vital importance and support the Malone Neighborhood alumni.

Finding Aid

CLYDE MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER COLLECTION RECORD

Clyde Malone Community Center (Lincoln, Neb. 1932-)

Papers: 1937-2004
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Neb.: Community Center and Social Work Agency
Size: 25 cu. ft.

BACKGROUND NOTE

The Clyde Malone Community Center originated under the auspices of the National Urban League, and was originally named the Urban League-Lincoln. The branch formed in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1932, but first received its articles of incorporation from the State of Nebraska as a private non-profit social service and social work agency and community center in 1937. A number of the city’s middle class African American families were instrumental in founding the center. The organizers included the Reverend Trago McWilliams, O.J. Burckhardt, William Woods and son Millard T. Woods, Clyde Malone, and Arthur Weatherly.

The League’s first home was in a house at 1946 S Street, and it became a center of recreation, self-improvement clubs, and politics, as well as a venue for weddings, recitals and many of events that were signifigant in the lives of neighborhood families. While organized within the only predominately African American section of Lincoln (after WWII), membership in the center was open to everyone. Native American families, and the children of immigrants of diverse backgrounds attended functions at the agency, as did low income white children. Philanthropy of the city’s business owners and Community labor provided funds for the construction of a new Urban League building at 2030 T Street in 1941. Millard T. Woods, the Leagues Executive Director during World War II was effective both at fundraising and guiding his staff as they worked to provide social service support, cultural events, and recreation for area residents. Clyde Malone, another beloved Executive Director, served the center for seven years, during which time he quietly battled discriminatory practices in employment and worked to place community residents in jobs across the city. Malone passed un-expectantly, and the agency was renamed in his honor on February 8, 1955.

With the help of area residents, and dignitaries from the city, the Malone Community Center dedicated their new building at 3032 U Street in Lincoln, Nebraska, on September of 1982, where it remains today.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS NOTE
This Collection is divided into five subgroups: I) Malone Center History and Organizational Records; II) Family Collections; III) Malone Foundation; IV) Malone Manor; and V) Malone Neighborhood Associations. Subgroups one and two are also divided into series. Subgroup One, Malone center History and Organizational Records is comprised of nine series: 1) Board of Directors Records; 2) Malone Center Management and Program Records, 3) Membership Records; 4) Annual Reports; 5) Budgets and Facility; 6) Financial Records; 7)Malone Center Property: Neighborhood Records and Demography; 8) Topical Files and 9) Scrapbook. Subgroup Two is divided into two series, 1) the Doris Collins Papers and 2) the Jean Stevenson Papers.



Series 1 Board of Directors’ Records:
Contains Urban League, Malone Community Center, and Clyde Malone Community Center Board Records and Administrative Materials from 1932-2003. The Board of Directors Records are elusive (on paper) as the files contain all of the important documents emanating from the center for the years indicated. The records include: Board Minutes, correspondence, programs, budgets, programming goals and assessments. The records also relay information on the day to day achievements and challenges faced by the center’s staff, successful community events, mutual aid initiatives, and a wealth of information on local families, as well as race relations between community members and the white majority population.
Box 1 Board of Directors’ Records, 1949-1959
Folder 1 contains Board of Directors Records, from Jan., 5 1949-Dec., 24, 1959.
Box 2 Board of Directors’ Records, 1960-1964
Folder 1 contains Board of Directors Records from Dec.,31 1960-Mar. 16, 1964.
Box 3 Board of Directors’ Records, 1969-1966
Folder 1 holds Board of Directors Records Jan. 14, 1965-Dec., 1965.
Box 4 Board of Directors’ Records, 1967-1969
Folder 1 includes Board of Directors Records from Jan., 3, 1967-Nov., 27, 1969.
Box 5 Board of Directors’ Records, 1970-1972
Folder 1 holds Board of Directors Records from Feb. 9, 1970-Nov.15, 1972.
Box 6 Board of Directors’ Records, 1973-1974
Folder 1 is comprised of Board of Directors Records Jan., 18 1973-Dec. 18, 1974.
Box 7 Board of Directors’ Records, 1975-1977
Folder 1 holds Board of Directors Records Jan., 29, 1975-Dec., 13, 1977.
Box 8 Board of Directors’ Records, 1978-1980
Folder 1 contains Board of Directors Records from Jan., 25-1978-Dec. 18, 1974.
Box 9 Board of Directors’ Records, 1981
Folder 1 includes Board of Directors Records Jan., 21, 1981-Dec. 3, 1980.
Box 10 Board of Directors’ Records, 1982
Folder 1 holds Board of Directors Records
Box 11 Board of Directors’ Records, 1983
Folder 1 holds Board of Directors Records from Jan., 26, 1983-Dec., 21, 1983.
Box 12 Board of Directors’ Records, 1984
Folder 1 Board of Directors Records contains Feb., 17, 1983- Jan., 25-1984.
Box 13 Board of Directors’ Records, 1985
Folder 1 holds Board of Directors Records from Jan., 30, 1985-Nov., 26, 1988.
Box 14 Board of Directors’ Records, 1986
Folder 1 contains Board of Directors Records Nov., 26-195-Dec., 30, 1986.
Box 15 Board of Directors’ Records, 1987
Folder 1 contains Board of Directors Records Jan., 28, 197-Nov., 18, 1987.
Box 16 Board of Directors’ Records, 1988
Folder 1 Board of Directors Records includes Jan., 22, 1988-Dec., 31, 1988.
Box 17 Board of Directors’ Records, 1989
Folder 1 Board of Directors Records is comprised of Jan. 4, 1989-Nov.21, 1989.
Box 18 Board of Directors’ Records, 1990 contains
Folder 1 Board of Directors Records Jan., 24, 1990-Nov., 26, 1990.
Box 19 Board of Directors’ Records, 1991
Folder 1 Board of Directors Records contains Jan., 4 1991-Oct. 22, 1991.
Box 20 Board of Directors’ Records, 1992
Folder 1 Board of Directors Records holds Dec. 31, 1999-Oct., 6, 1992.
Box 21 Board of Directors’ Records, 1993
Folder 1 Board of Directors Records is comprised of Dec., 31, 1992-Dec., 2, 1993.
Box 22 Board of Directors’ Records, 1994-1995
Folder 1 Board of Directors Records holds Jan., 20 1994-Oct., 23, 1995.
Box 23 Board of Directors’ Records, 1996
Folder 1 includes Board of Directors Records Jan., 29, 1996-June, 27, 1996.
Box 24 Board of Directors’ Records, 2003
Folder 1 contains Board of Directors Records Mar. 27, 2002-Oct., 21 2002.
Box 25 Board of Directors Records, 2003-2004
Folder 1 holds items pertaining to Board of Directors’ activities from 2003-2004. Includes personnel records, event planning, meeting minutes, and correspondence.
Box 26 Board of Directors Cumulative Records, 1929-2002.
Folder 1 contains items from July 5, 1929-Aug. 6, 2002. Holds correspondence of board members, election materials, articles of incorporation, and news clippings.


Series 2 Malone Center Management and Program Records
Box 1 Malone Center Standards, Practices, Policies and Educational Procedures, Aug., 1975-Aug. 2001 The contents of Malone Center Standards, Practices, Policies and Educational Procedures are chronologically arranged. This box holds personnel records, program goals, staff meeting minutes, and assessments.

Box 2 Malone Center Staff Meeting Minutes, Feb., 4, 1989-July 18, 2000. This box contains thematically arranged records of annual or semi-annual events, organized by the Malone Center. It includes materials from African American History month programs, Dr. MLK Holiday Programs, and other special programs.

Series 3 Malone Center Membership Records
Box 1 Contains Membership Records from1983-Mar 27, 1996. Included here are membership lists, forms, correspondence, and monthly reports.
Series 4 Malone Center Annual Reports
Box 1 Holds Annual Reports from Dec. 31, 1960-Dec. 31, 1990. This box also contains some annual banquet materials.
Series 5 Malone Center Budgets
Box 1 Budgets and Facility Records, contains the center’s annual operating budget from April 14, 195-Dec. 6, 2001. Also here are records of costs for maintenance of the center’s building and grounds; items are arranged chronologically.


Series 6 Malone Center Financial Records
Box 1 Malone Center Financial Records holds chronologically arranged annual audits, and tax records.
Series 7 Malone Center Property Holdings and Neighborhood Records
Box 1 Contains records relating to Malone’s geographic and demographic area from July 30, 1980-June 2007. This series includes a Malone Center Area Study from 1982; Lincoln Community Council Reports of the Malone Center and other social work and social action agencies, and Antelope Valley Project records.
Box 2 Includes National Association of Social Settlement Records relative to the Malone Center, July 1957-Jan. 1982.
Series 8 Topical Files
Series 9 Scrap Book
Box 1 Oversized Scrap book materials 1937-2001
Box 2 Scrap book Album
Box 1 This series is alphabetically arranged and contains topical files from Dec., 10, 1968-Dec. 9, 2000. Topics range from human rights, to the Salvation Army, to Madd Dadds, to Operation Santa Clause, relations with the local police, social service reports, and publications by various Lincoln agencies.
Description
Subgroup 1 The Malone Center (16 cu. ft).
Series 1 Board of Directors Records, 1949 Jan.,5- 2002, Oct., 21

Box 1 Board of Directors’ Records, 1949-1959
Box 2 Board of Directors’ Records, 1960-1964
Box 3 Board of Directors’ Records, 1969-1966
Box 4 Board of Directors’ Records, 1967-1969
Box 5 Board of Directors’ Records, 1970-1972
Box 6 Board of Directors’ Records, 1973-1974
Box 7 Board of Directors’ Records, 1975-1977
Box 8 Board of Directors’ Records, 1978-1980
Box 9 Board of Directors’ Records, 1981
Box 10 Board of Directors’ Records, 1982
Box 11 Board of Directors’ Records, 1983
Box 12 Board of Directors’ Records, 1984
Box 13 Board of Directors’ Records, 1985
Box 14 Board of Directors’ Records, 1986
Box 15 Board of Directors’ Records, 1987
Box 16 Board of Directors’ Records, 1988
Box 17 Board of Directors’ Records, 1989
Box 18 Board of Directors’ Records, 1990
Box 19 Board of Directors’ Records, 1991
Box 20 Board of Directors’ Records, 1992
Box 21 Board of Directors’ Records, 1993
Box 22 Board of Directors’ Records, 1994-1995
Box 23 Board of Directors’ Records, 1996
Box 24 Board of Directors’ Records, 2003
Box 25 Board of Directors Records, 2003-2004
Box 26 Board of Directors Cumulative Records, 1929-2002.

Series 2 Management and Program Records, 1975, Aug.-2004, Aug. 24
Series 3 Membership Records, 1983-1996 Mar., 27
Series 4 Annual Reports, 1960 Dec., 31-1990 Dec., 31
Series 5 Budgets & Facility Records, 1958 Apr. 14-2001 Dec.,6
Series 6 Financial Reports, 1982 Dec., 31-2001 Dec., 3
Series 7 Property : Neighborhood Lands & Demographic Records, 1957 July-2007 June
Series 8 Topical Files, 1968 Dec., 10-2000 Dec. 9

Subgroup II Malone Family Collections (1 cu. ft)
Series 1 Doris Collins Papers
Series 2 Jean Stevenson Papers

Subgroup III Malone Foundation Papers (1 cu. ft.)
Subgroup IV Malone Manor Papers (.05 cu. ft.)
Subgroup V Malone Neighborhood Association (.05 cu. ft.)

Auxilary/Associated Collections:

I. Malone Photograph Collection (4 cu. ft.) (Note: Florine Joseph and Moses Gaskins helped to process the Malone Center Photograph Collection).

Series I Photograph Albums

Box 1 Photo albums, 1941-1986, and 1965-1984.
Box 2 Photo albums, 1971-1990; and 1979-1984.
Box 3 Photo albums, 1980-90’s.
Box 4 Photo albums
Box 5 Photo albums

Series II Photographs
Box 1-8

Series III Framed Photographs

Box 1 Includes photos of former Presidents of the Malone Center Board of Directors: John Reed, Wright Robinson, Lenora Letcher, Gladys McField, Gerald Henderson, Dorothea Stahn Lemon and Lenora Letcher. Also includes a photo of Lebanon Lodge No. 3 and prints of famous African Americans.


II. Malone Artifact Collection (1 cu. ft.)

Box 1 Plaques

1. Youth that Excelled, 1990.
2. Black Activities, 1984-1985.
3. Employee of the Month, 1985.
4. Drill Team, 1985-1986.
5. Fred Nevels Book Award Plaque, 1986.


ADDED ENTRIES

Urban League of Lincoln
African Americans—Nebraska—Lincoln
Race Relations—Nebraska—Lincoln

(Note: Subgroups II-IV need further description and arrangement as do the Auxilary Collections).