Series 1. Biographical, 1922-95 and n.d. (5f)

Box 1

Applications, 1926, 1969, n.d.
Biographies and Autobiographies, 1960-1995, n.d.
Pamphlets and Programs, 1922-1990, n.d.
Resumes and Lists of Publications, 1960-71, n.d.
Transcripts (restricted), 1926-30, 1971, 1973, n.d.

Series 2. Clippings, 1901-93 and n.d. (4f)

Box 1 (cont.)

Original Clippings re: Simpson, 1925-50, 1958-64, 1981, 1987, 1993, n.d.
Original Clippings re: Simpson's Family, 1901, 1928, 1937, n.d.
Original Clippings re: Debate Teams, 1920, 1922-23, n.d.
Original Clippings re: Oberlin, 1953, 1983-84, 1987, n.d.

Series 3. Correspondence, 1929-96 and n.d. (21f)

Subseries 1. Correspondence regarding Publications

Box 1 (cont.)

Black Religions in the New World, 1972, 1976-78
Religious Cults of the Caribbean, 1971-83
Herskovits African Studies Volume, 1989-91, 1994
Thank You Notes, 1945-95, n.d.
Requests for Information or Reprints, 1931, 1974-80, 1990
General Publications File, 1930-31, 1958, 1969, 1974-80, 1987, 1992, 1995-96

Subseries 2. Correspondence regarding Institutions/Organizations

Box 1 (cont.)

Correspondence related to the MLK, Jr. Park in Oberlin, 1985-87
Correspondence related to Oberlin College Contributions, 1980-91
Correspondence related to Coe College Contributions, 1975-85

Subseries 3. Individual Correspondence
(arranged chronologically within folders except where noted)

Box 2

Ken Bilby, 1991-97
Ralph Bunche, 1941, 1950-54, 1971, n.d.
Harold Courlander, 1988-89
Emil Danenberg, 1975-80
Erwin Griswold, 1949, 1960, 1962
Melville Herskovits, 1937, 1940-41, 1949-52, 1954-63, 1967
John Homiak, 1992-97
Eduardo Mondlane, 1954, 1957-58, 1969, 1978
Milton Yinger, 1971-87
Unknown Correspondents, 1931, 1957, 1967, 1974-91
Individual Correspondence (Folder 1), 1940-62

Dr. Eric Williams (Howard University), 2 Dec. 1940, 4 Jan. 1941
Robert K. Merton (Office of Radio Research, Columbia University), 6 Dec. 1943
Dr. Ralph Linton (Pennsylvania State College), 13 April 1944, 29 April 1944
R.D. Hetzel (Pennsylvania State College), 22 April 1945
Willard S. Townsend (United Transport Service Employees), 3 Oct. 1949, 11 Oct. 1949
Samuel Charache (Oberlin College Student), 4 June 1951
Hugh Foot (King's House, Jamaica), 18 Jan. 1954, 25 Jan. 1954
Blair Stewart (OC), 22 Nov. 1954
Prof. Vernon P. Helming (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), 25 Jan. 1955, 1 Feb. 1955
Columbia Broadcasting System, Odyssey - Jamaica Programs, 14 Oct. 1957, 25 April 1957, n.d.
Malacha Reynolds (Jamaica), 22 Dec. 1957, 23 June 1958
Will Maslow (American Jewish Congress), 24 June 1958, 1 July 1958
Howard Robinson (Royal Anthropological Institute, London), 9 July 1958
William E. Griswold, 27 Aug. 1958
C. Arnold Anderson (Comparative Education Center, University of Chicago), 15 Sept. [1958?]
Brad Williams (Oberlin News-Tribune), 16 Nov. 1958
Ashley Montagu (Anisfield-Wolf Award Committee in Race Relations), 2 April 1959
Frances Tebet Greenspan (Former student at Temple University), 27 May 1959, 17 June 1959
A. Arthur Miller, 28 May 1959, 17 June 1959
Edward E. Booher (McGraw-Hill Book Company), 28 May 1959, 17 June 1959
Irvin C. Poley (Friend from Philadelphia -- Fireside Club), 8 June 1959, 9 July 1959
Prof. L.E. Garwood, 8 June 1959, 9 July 1959
Morton M. Hunt (Profile writer for The New Yorker), 19 Oct. 1959
Melvin M. Tumin (Princeton University), 2 Nov. 1959, 7 Nov. 1959
William F. Hellmuth (Imperial College of Tropical Architecture, Trinidad), 1 Nov. 1960, 7 Nov. 1960
President John F. Kennedy, 20 Jan. 1962
Prof. William Foster (The Law School -- University of Wisconsin), 1 March 1962
Bernard L. Gladieux, 15 May 1962

Individual Correspondence (Folder 2, arranged alphabetically), 1927-94

Pedro Apparacio, 1965
Henry Bent, 1981
Andrew Bongiorno, 1986
John Brown, 1983
Anna Ruth Brummett, 1971
Eric Carpenter, 1993
CBS Television, 1957
Johnetta Betsch Cole, 1988
Rex Crawford, 1936
Emily Dewees, 1929
Mrs. V. I. Ekpo, 1972
C. A. Ellwood, 1927, 1930
E. U. Essien-Udom, 1965
William Flax, 1956
Antonio Freeman, 1992
Sam Goldberg, 1987
Laura Guttierrez-Witt, 1984
Peter Hammond, 1979
Wayne Hopkins, 1931
Joan Huber, 1994
H. D. Huggins, 1963
Mrs. G. A. Lanyi, 1981
Richard Lothrop, 1986
Lois McBroom, 1972
August Meier, 1968
Bob Merton, 1992, n.d.
Robert Miller, 1930
John Moore, 1993
K. C. Murray, 1965
Toyo Ogunyomi, 1968
Reginald Olson, 1977
G. S. Puri, 1964
Malacha Reynolds, n.d.
George Scott, 1980
Marion Smith, 1958
Eric Valentine, 1967

Series 4. Files related to service to college and community
(arranged alphabetically by title or subject)

Box 2 (cont.)

Advancement Committee, 1968-70, n.d.
African American Studies, 1969, 1971, n.d.
Comprehensive Report on the Committee on Liberal Arts Education in the Post War Period, 1945.
Committee on Open Housing, 1961
Early Retirement Plan, 1972-74
Fisk University Exchange Program, 1950-51
Lorain County Economic Opportunity Committee, Inc., 1969
Report of the Planning Committee, 1962
Special Education Opportunities Program, 1968

Box 3

Report of the 1971 Commitment to Minority Student Education, 1971
College Faculty Council, 1950s-70s, n.d. *

Series 5. Financial Records (4f)

Box 3 (cont.)

Royalty Contract for Workbook, 1930
Records pertaining to Black Religions in the New World, 1975-97
Records pertaining to Racial and Cultural Minorities, 1953-97 (2f)

Series 6. Lectures (4f)

Box 3 (cont.)

Lectures pertaining to Religions of the Caribbean fieldwork, 1987-88 (1f)
Lectures pertaining to Melville Herskovits, 1987 (1f)
Other Lectures, 1923-94 and n.d. (2f)
"The Permanent Court for International Justice," Simpson, 1923
"Third Negative," Simpson, 1924
Dows Debate Speech, Simpson, 1925
"Cultural Relativism and Cultural Ideals," Simpson, 1954
Exchange Club, Simpson, 1957
"Robert K. Merton," Simpson, c. 1958
"The Changing Pattern of Negro Educational Opportunities," Simpson, 1962
"The Scholarly Way of Life: A Social Scientist's View," Simpson, 1962
"Cultural Relativism," Simpson, c. 1960s mid
"Conceptions of Peasant Society," Simpson, c. 1960s late
Memorial Minute, Simpson, 1969
"Selected African and New World Musical Styles," Simpson, 1970-71
"Selected Music from SubSaharan Africa," Simpson, 1970-71
George E. Simpson Retirement Dinner, Simpson, 1971
"A Memorial Tribute to Dr. Ralph J. Bunche," Simpson, 1971
"Black Religions in the New World," Simpson, 1976
"The Vodun Cult in Haiti," Simpson, 1976
"Black Religions in the New World," Simpson, 1979
"Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion," Simpson, 1980
"Religious Cults in Trinidad, West Indies," Simpson, 1981
"Third World Colloquium on the Caribbean," Simpson, 1981
"Black Religions in the New World," Simpson, 1983
"John W. Kurtz," J.R. Reichard, 1984.
"Memorial Minute--John W. Kurtz," Simpson, 1984
Dedication of Martin Luther King Junior Monument in Oberlin, Simpson, 1987 (includes correspondence with Richard Lothrop, 1987)
"Lessons Learned and Not Learned at Oberlin," Johnetta Betsch Cole, 1994
"Doctor of Humane Letters," Simpson, n.d.
"Ben W. Lewis," Simpson, n.d.
"Myth and Myth-Making," Simpson, n.d.

Series 7. Writings, 1926-94 and n.d. (18f)

Subseries 1. Book Reviews

Box 4

Book Reviews of Simpson--General, 1937-73, and n.d. (1f)

Science Series, 1953-54.
On The Shango Cult in Trinidad, by Daniel J. Crowley, Trinidad and Tobago Index, 1965.
On The Shango Cult in Trinidad, by Réne Ribeiro, n.d.

Book Reviews and Adoption Lists Pertaining to Racial and Cultural Minorities, 1935-55 (1f)
Book Reviews and Correspondence Relating to Black Religions in the New World, 1978-81 and n.d. (1f)
Book Review Manuscripts by Simpson, 1945-70 (1f)

The Cultural Background of Personality, Ralph Linton, 1945
Anthologie du Folklore Haïtien, by Remy Bastien, 1946
Trinidad Village, by M.J. Herskovits and F.S. Herskovits, 1947
Postwar Germans: An Anthropologist's Account, by David Rodnick, 1948
Social Psychology, by Alfred R. Lindesmith and Anselm L. Strauss, 1949
Bourgeoisie Noire, by E. Franklin Frazier, 1955
Race Relations in World Perspective, by Andrew W. Lind, 1955 (two different manuscripts)
The Race Question in Modern Science, by UNESCO, 1956
Community and Society, by Ferdinand Tönnies, 1957
Culture and History: Prolegomena to the Comparative Study of Civilization, by Philip Bagly, 1959
Voodoo in Hati, by Alfred Metraux, 1959.
The Newcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis, by Oscar Handlin, 1960
Les Religions Africaines au Brésil, by Roger Bastide, 1960
Cuba: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture, by Wyat MacGaffey and Clifford R. Barnett, 1962 (2 different manuscripts)
They Shall Take Up Serpents, by Weston La Barre, 1962.
American Minority Relations, by James W. Vander Zanden, 1963
We Shall Overcome!, by Guy and Candie Carswan, 1963
Racial Crisis in America: Leadership in Conflict, by Lewis Killian and Charles Grigg, 1964
"The Negro American," in Daedalus, ed. Stephen R. Graubard, 1965-66
Chanzeaux: A Village in Anjou, ed. Laurence Wylie, 1966
The Negro in the French West Indies, by Shelby T. McCloy, 1966
A Place to Feel at Home: A Study of Two Independent Churches in Western Kenya, by F.B. Wellbourn and B.A. Ogot, 1966
Color and Race, by Edward Shils, et al., 1967
Patterns of Sectarienism: Organization and Ideology in Social and Religious Movements, ed. Bryan R. Wilson, 1967
The Indians in Uganda, by H.S. Morris, 1968
The Rastafarians: A Study in Messianic Cultism in Jamica, by Leonard E. Barrett, 1968. (two different manuscripts)
Tower of a Theory of Minority Group Relations, by H.M. Blalock, 1968
Where To, Black Man?, by Edward Smith, 1968
Social Change and the Individual: A Study of the Social and Religious Responses to Innovations in a Zambian Rural Communtiy, by Norman Long, 1970
Africa: Social Problems and Conflict of Change, by Van Den Berghe, n.d.
[Untitled], by Mair, n.d.

Published Book Reviews by Simpson, 1960-64, 1978-79 (1f)

Subseries 2. Writings by Simpson

Books, 1953, 1965, 1970 (1f)

Racial and Cultural Minorities, by Simpson and Younger, 1953
The Shango Cult in Trinidad, 1965
The Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti, 1970

Box 4A

Books, 1970, 1973, 1980 (1f)

The Caribbean Papers, 1970
Melville J. Herskovits, 1973
Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti, 1980

Journal Articles

by Simpson, 1931-56 (1f)

Box 5

by Simpson, 1957-1993 (4f)
by Simpson and Joseph G. Moore, 1957, 1958 (1f)
by Simpson and J. Milton Yinger, 1953, 1956-58 (1f)

Box 6

Manuscripts, 1926-93 (1f)

A Study of the Family Conditions in the Homes of Forty-Eight Accelerated Pupils, 1926 (sociology honors thesis)
"Summary of a Report of the Health Problems of 500 Negro Families living in North Piladelpia and some Conclusions," 1935
"Races of Mankind," 1956
"Report on Religious Cults in Trinidad, West Indies," 1960
"Voice of America: The Changing Pattern of Negro Educational Opportunities," 1961
"Voice of America: Negro Educational Opportunities," 1962
Selected Yoruba Rituals, 1964
The Vodun Cult in Haiti, 1964
Cult Sango in Trinidad, 1964
Assimilation, 1965
"Report on Field Work in the Ibadan Area of Nigeria," 1965
Religious Changes in Southwest Nigeria, 1970
"Spiritualism of Umbandak," excerpt, 1970
Caribbean Studies, supporting documentation, 1971
"Some Recollections on Field Work in Jamaica," 1988
"George Washington Carver," 1991
"Two Religious Cults in Jamaica: Revivalist and Kumiva," summary, 1992
"Some Reflections on the Rastafari Movement in Jamaica: West Kingston in the Early 1950s," 1993

Manuscripts, n.d. (1f)

"The Acculturation Process in Jamaican Revivalism," n.d.
"The Acculturative Process in Trinidadian Sango," n.d.
"African Art (Sculpture)," in African Cultures, n.d.
"A Comparative Study of Compulsory School Desegregation in 52 Selected Communities" by Henry V. Ball and Simpson, n.d.
"Cultural Relativism," n.d. (2 copies)
"Employment Policy Problems in a Multiracial Society," n.d.
"A Field Trip to Southwestern Nigeria," n.d.
"Folk Medicine in Trinidad," n.d.
"The Kele (Chango) Cult in St. Lucia," n.d.
Preface to the Antheneum Edition of Arthur F. Raper: The Tragedy of Lynching, n.d.
"Prince Mais Ainsi Parla l'Oncle," n.d.
"The Ras Tafari Movement in Jamaica in its Millenial Apect," n.d.
"Religious Changes in Southwestern Nigeria," n.d.
"Sociology and Anthropology at Oberlin College," n.d.
"Urbanization, Migration, and Stratification in West Africa," n.d.
"Voice of America Program Series: Recent Changes in the Education of American Negroes," n.d.
Untitled, n.d.

Other Writings, n.d. (1f)

"The Role of Minority Peoples in American Life Today," in Centre Daily Times, 1941
"Races of Mankind" in Compton’s Encyclopedia, 1957
"Simpson notes Cultural Change" Oberlin Review, 1961
"Simpson sees change in Latin American Culture, Society" Oberlin Review, 1962
"The Scholarly Way of Life: A Social Scientist's View," in Coe College Courier, 1962
"Afro-Caribbean Religions" in The Encyclopedia of Religion, 1987
"Christianity in the Caribbean" in The Encyclopedia of Religion, 1987
Miscellaneous notes, n.d.

Subseries 3. Writings by Other Authors, 1955-93 and n.d. (1f)

Box 6 (cont.)

"The Centennial Elm," by Lawrence E. Simpson, 1935
"Supernatural Beings," in The Caribbean, by Daniel J. Crowley, 1955
"American Degrees and British Students" by John D. Lewis, 1960
(Review of ) "Contemporary Art in Africa by Ulli Beier," 1969
A Short History of the Town and District of Vieux Fort (St. Lucia), by Charles Jesse and B.H. Easter, 1971
"Communication Networks and Information Hierarchies in Native American Folk Medicine: Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico" by Richard I. Ford, 1976
Visiting Haile Selassie in 1943, by Harold Courlander, 1987
"The Emperor Wore Clothes," in The American Scholar, by Harold Courlander, 1989
Conversations, excerpt, by Johnetta B. Cole, 1993
"A Broad Introduction," by Kenneth Bilby, n.d.
"Neolithic Celts in West Indian and West African Superstition," no author, n.d.

Series 8. Photographs (1f)

Box 6 (cont.)

Photographs, 1962-71 and n.d.

10" x 8" photographs of a graduation ceremony and 1967 Alumni Banquet (3 photographs)
9.5" x 7" photograph of a conference in Rio de Janeiro (1 photograph)
Other miscellaneous photographs (3 photographs)

Series 9. Videotape

Box 6 (cont.)

George Eaton Simpson Film Study of Plaisance, Haiti 1937 (Acc. 1999/116)