Series XIII.  Financial Records, 1942-45, 1956-59, 1962-96, n.d. (1.1 l.f.)

Box 1

General Files

Ariel Growth Fund Statements, 1983-88
Bank Deposits and Bills Paid, 1978, 1988, 1989 (3f)
Chicago Title and Trust Company, 1982
Correspondence, 1979, 1984-89
Deed of Property (Cornelius F. and Aida Stradford), 1942
Expense Reports (personal), 1978, 1981, 1985, 1988
Financial Statement, 1984
“Financial Statement Workpapers,” 1989
General Ledgers (personal), 1987-88
Insurance Policies (family), 1942-1994 (span) (2f)

Box 2

General Files (cont.)

Investments, 1976-78, 1982-87, 1989 (2f)
Matching Gifts File, 1982-87
Miscellaneous Financial Files (family), 1942-44, 1956, 1958, 1962-72, 1977-79, 1990 (2f)
Mortgage Loan Files and Title, 1980, 1988
Real Estate Contracts, 1978, 1988
Receipts and Disbursements, 1973, 1977-85, 1987, n.d. (2f)
Statements (re: activities of), 1978-80, 1982-85, 1987-88, 1990, 1993, n.d. (sample)
Income and Property Tax Files

1983 Income Tax Audits, 1982-88 (3f)

Box 3

Income and Property Tax Files (cont.)

1984 Income Tax Audit, 1984-87
Income Tax Bills and Payments, 1987
Income Tax Files, 1977-78, 1983, 1986-88
Income Tax Files, 1988-91
Income Tax Files (State of Illinois), 1984
Property Tax Files, 1978-79, 1983, 1987-88

Retirement Investments Files (various) (6f)

Investment Report Files, 1988
Investments and Estate Planning Files, 1976, 1980-81, 1983-85, 1987, 1989, 1994-96, n.d.
Profit Sharing Plan Statements, 1987-90, n.d. (2f)
Retirement Plan and 401k, 1993-95
Social Security Benefits, 1978, 1992-93

Series XIV.  Handwritten Notes, 1979-88, n.d. (0.1 l.f.)

Box 3 (cont.)

Handwritten Notes, 1979, 1982, c. 1986, 1988, n.d.

Series XV. Personal Desk Files, 1984-92, n.d. (0.4 l.f.)

Box 1

Ariel Capital Management

Sale of 500 Shares to John W. Rogers, Jr., 1990-91
Share Purchase Agreement, 1985, 1989-90, 1992
Special Ariel Trust, 1990-92, n.d.
(see also Series VIII. Corporate Board Files)

Chicago Tourism Council, 1984-89, n.d. (3f)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday Commission, 1985-89, n.d. (2f)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, Illinois Holiday Council, 1985-86, n.d.
(see oversize box for certificate of appreciation, January 13, 1987)
Law Club of the City of Chicago, 1983-89
Special Commission on the Administration of Justice in Cook County (Illinois), 1986, 1988

Series XVI. Public Service Files, 1959, 1970-72, 1976, 1981-89, n.d. (0.4 l.f.)

Box 1

Federal Civil Rights Commission, 1959
Presidential Delegation to King Sobhuza’s Golden Jubilee (Swaziland and other African nations), August 31 – September 7, 1981
President’s Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprises, 1971-72
President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control

General file, 1982-86
Justice Department Task Force, 1982-83

President’s Commission on Executive Exchange, 1983-88, n.d.
State of Illinois Capital Development Board, 1988-89
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Board of Directors, 1983-88, n.d. (2f)
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), 1984
Labor Relations Committee, 1988-89
Miscellaneous Committees, 1983, 1986-87
National Chamber Litigation Center, 1984
Nominating Committee, 1984-85

U.S. Committee for International Education and Cultural Affairs, c. 1970

Series XVII.  Publications, 1875-84, 1939-95, n.d. (1.2 l.f.)

Box 1

Harry Toussaint Alexander, petitioner, v.  Board on Professional Responsibility of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, respondent, in the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1983, case no. 83-1283.  Petition for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Jewel Lafontant, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Counsel of Record.

The Argus Book of Cape Town.  Cape Town, South Africa: Struik Publishers, 1988.

Handwritten notes to Jewel (LaFontant-MANkarious) from Brian Figaji and Lydia Herman of Peninsula Technikon, 1995.  Also letter from Figaji, dated October 23, 1995, and business card from Herman.

Birmingham,  Stephen.  Certain People: America’s Black Elite.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1977.

Chapter on the Vaughan family, including Jewel LaFontant, pp. 151-59.  Also photographs.

Brooks, Gwendolyn.  “Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago, the I Will City.”  Chicago: Brooks Press, 1983. Signed by Gwendolyn Brooks.  With note “ordered from Beasley Books, Catalog 21”

Bross, William.  “Illinois and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.  A paper read before the Chicago Historical Society, January 15, 1884.”  Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co, 1884.

Browder, Earl.  "Socialism, War, and America."  New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1939.

Citations du President Mao Tsetoung.  Beijing: Editions en langues étrangères, 1972.

"Earl Browder Takes His Case to the People."  New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940.

“Facts About Blacks.” Los Angeles: Jeffries & Associates, Inc., 1979. Pamphlet includes list of “Blacks on some boards of major corporations.”  Also back cover includes handwritten notes re: telephone calls.

Ernest Fry and Thelma Boehm, Petitioners v. United States of America, in the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1974.  Brief for the United States.
Handwritten notes.

Grant, Dave.  "Attack Now!  Knock Out Hitler in '42."  New York: New Age Publishers, 1942.

 “Hearing on Refugees: Marginal Living Conditions for Millions,” hearing before the Select Committee on Hunger, U. S. House of Representatives, April 18, 1991, serial no. 102-2.
Statement by Jewel LaFontant-MANkarious, pp. 12-25.

Helton, Arthur C.  “Open Letter to Ambassador Jewel S. Lafontant, United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, United States Department of State, Washington DC,” International Journal of Refugee Law  vol. 2 no. 1 (1990): 130-32.

Leonard, Walter J.  Black Lawyers.  Boston: Senna & Shih, 1977.
Handwritten note to Jewel LaFontant from Charles M. Hunt, Jr., February 16, 1978.

Miller, Loren.  The Petitioners: the Story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro.  New York: Meridian Books, World Publishing Co., 1966.
Signed “To Jewel from Hiram(?) 2/8/81”

 “Refugee Admissions,” hearing before the Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, September 23, 1991, serial no. 22.
JLM appeared as a witness, pp. 2-14.

Sun Myumg Moon, et al., petitioners, v. United States of America, respondent, In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1983, case no. 83-1242.  Brief of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Conference of Black Mayors, the National Bar Association and the Honorable Mervyn Dymally as amici curiae in support of petitioners.
Jewel Lafontant, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Counsel of Record.

"The Roosevelt War Deal."  New York: New Age Publishers, 1940.

A Salute to Historic Black Women.  An Empak “Black History” Publication Series,” vol. 1, 1984. 
Foreward by Jewel Lafontant.

James R. Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, et al., appellants v. Lt. Robert C. Ballard, U.S.N., in the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1973.  Brief for the Appellants, case no. 73-776.
Jewel S. LaFontant, Deputy Solicitor General

Schulhofer, Stephen J.  “Reconsidering Miranda,” Occasional Papers from the Law School, University of Chicago, no. 23, December 15, 1987.

Swiger, Elinor Porter.  Women Lawyers at Work.  New York: Julian Messner, 1978.
Includes chapter on Jewel Stradford LaFontant.

United States of America v. John Zuskar, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  Transcript of Record no. 11718, March 31, 1956.
Jewel S. Rogers, Assistant U.S. Attorney, appeared on behalf of the government.

Vedder Price, Kaufman & Kammholz brochure, “The 1989 VPK&K Seminar Series.”

Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, appellant v. Stephen Charles Wiesenfeld, in the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1973.  Jurisdictional Statement, case no. 73-1892.
Jewel LaFontant, Deputy Solicitor General.

Women Directors of the Top 1000 Corporations.  Washington, D.C.: National Women’s Economic Alliance Foundation, 1987.

Box 2

Choice for America: Reports of the Republican Coordinating Committee, 1965-68.  Republican National Committee, July 1968.
“Mrs. Jewel S. LaFontant” embossed on cover.  JSL listed as a former member of the Task Force on the Functions of the Federal, State, and Local Governments (p. 513)

Corpus Christi Caller, Centennial Issue.  Corpus Christi, Texas: Caller-Times Publishing Co., 1983.
Includes article on history of Harte-Hankes Communications (JLM was on Board of Directors), p. 18.

Ebony Pictorial History of Black America, vol. IV: the 1973 Yearbook.  Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1973.
includes photograph and entries on JLM, see index for page numbers.

The Ebony Success Library, vol. 1: 1000 Successful Blacks.  Nashville, Tenn.: the Southwestern Co., 1973.
entry on JLM, p. 196.

The Ebony Success Library, vol. 2: Famous Blacks give Secrets of Success.  Nashville, Tenn.: the Southwestern Co., 1973. 
No entry on JLM.  Includes entry on Carl T. Rowan (’47)

Box 3

Fowler, Elmer L.  The Long Road to Freedom.  Chicago, c. 1984.
JLM listed as past recipient of the Dorie Miller Award; also, picture of JLM at unidentified event.

Liz Harris Gallery Art Collaborative.  Prospectus on Investment Program.  Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1990.
Material on an art gallery specializing in African American artists.  Includes slides.

The Keel.  Recruit Training Command, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, n.d.
“Presented to Ms. Jewel S. LaFontant, guest of honor, 6 February 1976”
Newspaper clipping and photographs from JLM’s visit to Naval Recruit Center as the guest of honor at the recruit graduation drill.

Mardon, Allan.  The Vertical City, Allan Mardon’s Sketchbook of Water Tower Place.  Chicago, n.d.
“Number 116 of 260 signed copies.” 

Stratford, Leslee.  Importance of Minority Artists as Rated by Art Faculties in Institutions of Higher Education Nationwide.  Illinois State University, 1983

U.S. Department of State, Bureau for Refugee Programs.  World Refugee Report: a report submitted to the Congress as Part of the Consultations on FY 1993 Refugee Admissions to the United States (pre-publication copy).  Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of State, June 1992.
With draft of statement on 1993 budget request and background materials.

Box 4

The Chicago Tribune, June 4, 1880.
With descriptive note. Mucho f this issue deals with details of the Republican Convention in Chicago and Women’s Suffrage.

The True Republican, Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois, June 30, 1875.
With descriptive note card, “Small town (semi-weekly) paper with local, national news from central Illinois.”

The Chicago Defender, March 5, 1955. “Two Can Work As Easily As One, Too”

Tuesday at Home, December, 1972. “Woman of the Year… Jewel LaFontant”

Series XVIII. Publicity and Public Relations Files, 1943, 1947-64, 1970-97, n.d. (0.6 l.f.)

Box 1

Articles about Jewel LaFontant-MANkarious, 1943, 1947-64, 1970-97, n.d. (8f)

Box 2

Articles by Jewel LaFontant-MANkarious, 1990-91, 1995
Biographical Information re Jewel LaFontant-MANkarious, 1993-96, n.d.
Correspondence, 1985, 1989, 1992-96 (2f)
Holleb & Coff publicity, 1993
Naguib S. MANkarious, 1978, 1985, 1993-95
Miscellaneous, 1990-94
Press Releases, 1971-75, 1989, 1992-94
John W. Rogers, Jr., 1979, 1983-96
Voice of America (VOA) interview, November 12, 1991

 

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