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ACCN 0153
Clark S. Knowlton papers
1876-1990
Knowlton, Clark S.
22.5 linear feet
The Clark S. Knowlton papers (1876-1990) contains research materials centered on community-based research in ethnic minority issues, including the social concerns of migrant workers, land-grant and border issues, segregation, discrimination, and inequality. Included are materials from the Utah Migrant Council, the Adela Development Corporation, the Utah Rural Development Corporation, and various Salt Lake City social service organizations. Also included are materials relating to the archaeological study of the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Included are bylaws, proposals, reports, programs, newsletters, correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, handbooks, and maps. Knowlton was a professor of sociology at the University of Utah and social activist. His research focused on ethnic minority issues, particularly as related to Hispanic Americans in Utah and the Southwest.
Collection materials are in
English.
Clark S. Knowlton was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 31, 1919. A member of the L.D.S. Church, he served as a missionary in Argentina prior to the outbreak of World War II. During the war, Knowlton was a machine gunner in the U. S. Armed Forces and was wounded in action while fighting in the Allied invasion of France. Subsequent to the end of the war, Clark pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies at Brigham Young University receiving a B.A. degree in 1947 and a M.A. degree in 1948. He continued his academic pursuits in the field of sociology and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D. in 1955. While enrolled in Vanderbilt's doctoral program, Knowlton was granted a Cordell Hull fellowship to study the Syrian and Lebanese minorities residing in Brazil. His teaching career commenced in 1952 when Georgia Southern College hired him. New Mexico Highlands University recruited Clark in 1959 and it was at this juncture that he began his long-term study of the origins and development of Spanish American social, economic, and cultural problems and issues. Knowlton was appointed president of the Las Vegas, New Mexico branch of the L.D.S. Church in 1959 and held that position for three years, vacating it when he moved to El Paso, Texas to become chairman of and professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas Western University. Near the end of his tenure at TWU, Clark was involved in a controversy related to his contacts with a militant Spanish American organization headquartered in New Mexico. Soon after he was exonerated of any inappropriate action, Knowlton accepted an offer from the University of Utah to join the Department of Sociology and to become Director of the Center for the Study of Social Problems. In 1972 Clark was selected as the American West Center's Director of Social Research and Development. Knowlton retired from the University of Utah as a full professor in 1990.
Professor Knowlton published numerous articles in scholarly journals, viz.,
Sociology and Social Research, Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal, California Law Review, and the Social Science Journal. The primary focus of his research was Spanish American life in New Mexico. One of his particular concerns was an investigation of Spanish and Mexican land grants in New Mexico. The Russell Sage Foundation of New York awarded Clark a research grant to study this problem in 1971. The title of Knowlton's project was the "Socio-Economic History of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in Northern New Mexico." A member of several professional organizations, Clark was quite active in the Rural Sociological Society, the Rocky Mountain/Western Social Science Association and the Committee on Desert and Arid Zone research. In 1967-1968 he was the president of the Rocky Mountain Social Science Association.
Service to the local community was a very important part of Professor Knowlton's life. He was a member of the El Paso Community Action Board, the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Community Services in Salt Lake City, and the Salt Lake Central City Multi-Purpose Center Advisory Board. One example of Clark's interest in community problems was his composition of a plan for the establishment of a training facility for migrant farm workers in Weber County, Utah.
Clark S. Knowlton died on January 20,1991 at the age of 71.
(Roger V. Paxton composed the biographical sketch.)
The Clark S. Knowlton papers (1876-1990) contain bylaws, proposals, reports, programs,newsletters, correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, memos, lists of applicants and resumes,handbooks, manuals, maps, and other items. As a professor of sociology at the University of Utah, Knowlton researched the social concerns of migrant workers in Utah ranging from land studies to aging issues. The collection consists of research material centered on Hispanic Americans of the Southwest United States, with emphasis on community-based research in ethnic minority issues, including religious and archaeological insight. Contained within boxes 1-3 are materials concerning migrant issues that date from 1960 to 1982. Information regarding ethnic studies from 1960 to 1985 are found in box 4. Box 5 holds a copy of the 1963 Chamizal Treaty with Mexico and related maps. Documents pertaining to community organizations active between 1960 and 1984 are located in box 6. Box 7 contains material concerning the Rocky Mountain Social Science Association from 1960 to 1968. Found in box 8 are documents from 1961 to 1984 relating to the Society for Early Historic Archaeology, while information relating to religion and archaeology is contained in box 9 and dates from 1949 to 1983. Housed in box 10 are materials about social issues dating from 1959 to 1980. Items pertaining to the Adela Development Corporation are located in box 11 and date from 1971 to 1980. Documents concerning the Utah Rural Development Corporation are found in box 12 and date from 1973 to 1985. Held within boxes 13 to 14 are various documents dating from 1956 to 1984, and a map of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is found in box 15. Clark Shumway Knowlton (1919-1991) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 31 December 1919. He was a University of Utah sociology professor and social activist honored for his scholarly and community-based research in ethnic minority issues. Considered an expert on land-grant and border issues, segregation, discrimination and inequality, Knowlton worked to bring the concerns of the poor and the uneducated to the attention of the public and the scholarly community. His research not only focused on Hispanic Americans, but the Syrians and Lebanese of Brazil as well. Before joining the University of Utah faculty, he was professor of sociology at universities in Tennessee, Georgia, New Mexico, and Texas. His community work included participation with the Central City Multipurpose Center in Salt Lake City. He was also active in the Rural Sociological Society, the Western Social Science Association, the Association of Borderland Scholars, and the Association for Arid Land Studies. Knowlton was a World War II veteran, who also served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina.
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Initial Citation:
Clark S. Knowlton papers, ACCN 0153,
Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Following Citations: ACCN 0153.
Boxes 1-15 were donated in May 1975 (6.5 linear feet).
Cartons 16-23 were donated in 1999 (16 linear feet).
Processed by Rebecca Airmet and Garner W. Wood in 1998.
Addendum processed by Karen Carver in 2000 and by Roger V. Paxton in 2012.
Knowlton, Clark S.--Archives
Utah Migrant Council
Utah Rural Development Corporation
Adela Development Corporation
Mexico--Foreign relations--United States
United States--Foreign relations--Mexico
Mexican-American Border Region
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans--Utah
Alien labor--United States
Migrant agricultural laborers--United States
Social Classes
Mexican Americans
Minutes
Correspondence
Reports
Programs
Newsletters
Handbooks
Maps
Bible--Antiquities
Book of Mormon--Antiquities
1
Utah Migrant Council
1968-1977
1
State-Wide Migrant Program
1968
Project planning documents, bylaws, applications for status as a Community Action Program, and the program proposal for the Utah Migrant Council are included in this folder.
2
Personnel Administration, Policies and Procedures
1970
3
Preschool Proposal Documents
1975-1977
4
Community Health Clinic Proposal Documents
1977
5
Bylaws
1975
6
Personnel Policies and Operating Procedures
1975
7
Amended Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
1975
8
Comprehensive Manual
1975
9
Draft of Community Action Program Proposal
1968
10
Proposal
1970
11
Supplement
1970-1971
12
Migrant Council Pre-school Health Screening Project
1976
2
Utah Migrant Council
1967-1980
1-2
Health Project Proposal
1977-1980
3
Health Program Reports
1967-1977
4
Comprehensive Education Training Act (CETA) Proposal
1970-1976
5
Education Programs
1969-1977
6
Reports
1969-1978
7-8
Board of Directors Meeting
1976
9
Minutes and Agendas
1968-1978
10
List of Applicants and Resumes
1977
11
Newsletters
1968-1971
12-13
Memos and Correspondence
1968-1978
3
Migrant Issues
1960-1982
1
Hispanic Council Hiring and Election Issues
1980
Memos, correspondence, and news clippings regarding the government selection and hiring policies concerning Hispanics are included in this folder.
2
Migrant Labor and Seasonal Worker Symposia
1960-1970
3
Utah State Office of Education Sponsored Bilingual Workshop
1980
4
Utah Citizens Committee on Migrant Labor
circa 1965
5
Directory of Persons to Contact With Respect to Migrant Labor
circa 1970
6
Utah Council of Churches and the Migrant Ministry
1966-1968
7
Box Elder County, Utah, Migrant Programs
circa 1968
8
"Contributions of Recent Metro/Nonmetro Migrants to the Nonmetro Population and Labor Force"
1978
9
State Advisory Committee on Bilingual Education, Minutes
1982
4
Ethnic Issues
1960-1985
1
United Council Urban Indian Affairs, Salt Lake Valley
1970-1971
2
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
1969-1979
3
Cabinet Committee Hearings on Mexican American Affairs
circa 1967
4
Mexican American Ephemera
circa 1969
5
Mexican American Conferences and Symposia
circa 1970-1979
6-7
"Association for Arid Lands Studies," Abstracts of Papers
1978-1980
8
Committee on Desert and Arid Zone Research
1963-1969
9
"Indian and Spanish American Adjustments to Arid and Semi-arid Environments"
1964
10
International Center for Arid and Semi-arid Land Studies Newsletters
1967-1977
11
"Land Grant Problems Among the State's Spanish Americans"
1967
12
"The Patron-Peon Pattern in the Spanish American Culture"
1960
13
"The Situation of the Spanish Americans of Northern New Mexico"
14
"The Spanish Americans in New Mexico"
1964
15
"Spanish American Schools in the 1960s"
1966
16
"Spanish-Speaking People of the Southwest"
1967
17
Ethnic Group Materials
1981-1985
18
"Socio-Economic Study of Ethnic Groups in Utah"
5
The 1963 Chamizal Treaty with Mexico
1
Correspondence
1963-1967
Documents with attached maps are included in this folder.
2
Spanish-Language Documents
1963-1965
3
News Clippings
1964-1968
4
Legal Documents
1963-1966
Documents with attached maps are included in this folder.
5
Press Releases and Maps of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
1963-1966
6
Community Organizations
1960-1984
1-5
Central City Community Center
1960-1984
Advisory board and program committee materials, a manual, minutes, correspondence, and memos are included in these folders.
6-7
Community Organization Operations Program
circa 1971
Articles of Incorporation, bylaws, personnel policy manual, memos,
ephemera, and housing notes are included in these folders.
8
Volunteer In Service To America (VISTA) Organization
1969-1970
9
"Social Accommodation in Utah," American West Center Occasional Papers
1975
10
Catholic Community Services of Utah
1984
11
Millcreek Community Council Constitution
1980
7
Rocky Mountain Social Science Association
1960-1969
1-3
Journal
1965-1967
4-6
Annual Meetings
1960-1968
Correspondence, memos, proposals, agendas, and reports are included in this folder.
7
Annual Sessions Program
1967
8
Proposed Constitutional Amendments
1967
9
Newsletter, Vol. 1
circa 1960
10
Conference Program
1969
11
Ephemera
1960-1968
Correspondence, memos, journal progress report, financial reports are included in this folder.
8
Society for Early Historic Archaeology
1961-1984
1
Articles of Incorporation
2-3
Symposia Materials
1961-1979
4
Symposia for the Archaeology of Scripture
1967-1972
5-6
Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memos, and Agendas
1965-1972
7
Newsletters
1978-1983
8-9
Correspondence
1983-1984
The correspondence concerns the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Itineraries, meeting minutes, agendas, and board of trustees documents are included in these folders.
9
Religion and Archaeology
1949-1983
1
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Newsletter
1980
2
Brigham Young University Language Research Center Symposium on LDS Intercultural Communications and Language Concerns
1974
3
Symposia on the Archaeology of the Scriptures
1959-1973
4
The Biblical Archaeology
1963-1969
5
Brigham Young University Department of Archaeology
1956-1965
6
Brigham Young University Archaeology Society Minutes
1954-1965
7-8
Brigham Young University Archaeology Society, Ross T. Christensen Correspondence
1949-1963
A photograph of Ross T. Christensen and family, originally found with documents in folder 8, has been photocopied, and the original transferred to the Manuscripts Division's Multimedia Section (P0788).
9
The Fifth Brigham Young University Archaeological Expedition to Middle America
1958
10
Miscellaneous Archaeological Materials
1961-1983
10
Social Issues
1959-1980
1
"The Impact of Social Change Upon Certain Selected Social Systems of the Spanish-American Villages of Northern New Mexico"
1965
2
"An Analysis of Certain Selected Social and Cultural Characteristics Involving Juvenile Delinquency and Gang Formation in the Mexican- American Slums of South El Paso," Abstract
1967
3
Annual Reports of the Utah Training Center for the Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency
1963-1964
4
"The Flow of Juvenile Justice"- Definition of Delinquency; Utah State Parent Advisory Council; League of United Latin American Citizens Bylaws
1967-1980
5
"Utah Training Center for the Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency"
1963-1965
6
White House Conference
1961
Aging policy statement, preliminary program, organization, procedures, and rules are included in this folder.
7
"Report of the Homebound Aged Survey Committee"
1967
8
El Paso Council on Aging, Fact Sheet
1966
9
Rita R. Campbell, "The Economic Characteristics of the Aged"
1959
10
Eveline M. Burns, "The Problems of Aging"
11
"Aging," Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Newsletter
1960
12
"Comparison of Health Insurance Proposals For Older Persons"
1961
11
Adela Development Corporation
1971-1980
1-2
Correspondence, Agendas, Memos, and Board Minutes
1979-1980
3-4
Bylaws
1975-1976
5
Personnel Policy Manual
1976
6
Articles of Incorporation
1971
7
Job Descriptions
12
Utah Rural Development Corporation
1973-1985
1-4
Utah Rural Development Corporation and Utah Migrant Council
1973-1985
Health project, request for funding, legal documents, Comprehensive Education Training Act (CETA) program status summary, Utah Migrant Council program application/intake, employment/status action notice, handbook, correspondence, memos, minutes, agendas, and bylaws are included in these folders.
5
Financial Papers
1982-1985
6
Multi-Purpose Center Information, "Head Start" Parent Handbook, Policy and Procedure Manual
circa 1984
7
Miscellaneous Photocopied Documents
1983
13
Papers
1964-1981
1
Correspondence with Senator Frank E. Moss
1970-1976
2-3
Southwestern Sociological Association
1968-1973
4
Salt Lake County Tenant Organization
1973-1975
Bylaws and procedures, annual conference, pamphlet, constitution, tenants' rights handbook, and a residential landlord and tenant act are included in this folder.
5
Utah State Advisory Committee Minutes; All Purpose Maintenance Corporation General Report; Chicano Student Association Newspaper
1975-1980
6
Graduate School Admissions Memos
circa 1977
7
"Don Quijote de la Mancha," Spanish Student Text
1965
8
Socio-Political News Clippings
1964-1981
9
Renewed Energy Corporation and Raptor, Incorporated
1980
Financial records are included in this folder.
14
Papers
1956-1984
1
Minority Human Service and Training Program, Outcome Summary Report
1982
2
Project MACHOS Report, Urban Crime Prevention Program Proposal
1980
3
Ethnic Heritage Studies Program
1975
4
Utah Law Enforcement Report on the Mexican American Community Corrections Support Program
1975
5
Proposal for a University of Utah "Year for Action" Program
1971
6
Salt Lake City Community Education Center Project
1969
7
"The Indigenous Nonprofessional"
1964
8
Native American Materials
1956-1981
9
"The New Mexican Land War: Guerrillas of Rio Arriba"
1968
10
Liberal Education Council
1983-1984
11
Remarks by Governor Calvin L. Rampton at Utah Conference on Higher Education
1970
12
Governor's Committee on Children and Youth
1970-1971
13
Certificate of Incorporation; Immigration Reform and Control Act; Progress Report on Health Care
1969-1983
14
Utah Democratic Socialist Association Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 2
1984
15
Ephemera Regarding Loss of Tenure by Salvador Ramirez
1973
16
Committee in Defense of the Undocumented
1981-1982
15
Map of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Municipal Department of Culture, Social Documentation)
16
Correspondence
1966-1988
1
Correspondence
1966-1972
2
Correspondence
1973
3
Correspondence
1974-1976
4
Correspondence
1977-1987
5
Correspondence
1988
Part I
6
Correspondence
1988
Part II
17
Correspondence
1970-1990
1
Correspondence
1989
Part I
2
Correspondence
1989
Part II
3
Correspondence
1990
4
Correspondence: Senator Wallace F. Bennett
1970-1974
5
Correspondence and Articles: Richard L. Nostrand and the Hispano Homeland Debate
1970-1985
6
Correspondence: Russell Sage Foundation
1971-1976
18
Correspondence, Reports, Memos, Articles, and Papers
1961-1990
1
Correspondence and Assorted Materials: The Society for Early Historic Archaeology
1979-1987
2
Correspondence and Memos: Department of Sociology
1972-1990
3
Department of Sociology Reports and Memos
1973-1988
4
Tenured Faculty Review: Dennis Willigan
1990
5
Correspondence: Dennis Willigan and Lee Bean
1986-1988
6
Articles and Chapters
1961-1985
7
Conference Papers
1966-1984
8
Course Syllabi and Reading Lists
1981-1990
9
Newspaper Articles and Assorted Materials
1965-1989
19
New Mexico: Biographies, Articles, and Papers
1891-1987
1-2
New Mexico: Biographical Materials
1891-1967
Part I and Part II.
3
New Mexico: Articles
1931-1987
4
New Mexico: Articles and Papers
1957-1977
20
New Mexico and Texas Materials
1952-1989
1
"Paso por Aqui: Critical Essays on the New Mexican Literary Tradition, 1542-1988"
1989
2
Arnoldo de Leon and Kenneth L. Stewart: "Tejanos and the Numbers Game"
1989
3
Texas: Articles
4
Russell A. White: "El Paso Del Norte: The Geography of a Pass and Border Area Through 1906"
1971
5
Robert A. Cuellar: "A Social and Political History of the Mexican-American Population of Texas, 1929-1963"
1969
6
Ozzie C. Simmons: "Anglo Americans and Mexican Americans in South Texas"
1952
Part I
7
Ozzie C. Simmons: "Anglo Americans and Mexican Americans in South Texas"
1952
Part II
21
Texas and California Materials
1932-1985
1
Ozzie C. Simmons: "Anglo Americans and Mexican Americans in South Texas"
1952
Part III
2
Texas: Assorted Materials
1932-1985
3
Theses and Dissertations: California Subjects
1939-1964
4
Theses and Dissertations: California Subjects
1951-1954
22
California Materials
1876-1973
1
California: Assorted Materials
1955-1973
2
Setttlement of California: Assorted Materials
1913-1972
3
Assorted Materials: California Subjects
1876-1968
4
Assorted Materials: California Subjects
1927-1969
23
California and Mexico Materials
1920-1989
1
Assorted Materials: California Subjects
2
"History of Pomona Valley California with Biographical Sketches"
1920
3
Laurence I. Hewes, Jr.: "Some Migratory Labor Problems in California's Specialized Agriculture"
1945
4
Woodrow J. Hansen: "The Search for Authority in California"
1960
5
Mexico: Articles
1944-1989
24
Mexican and Spanish American Materials
1924-1989
1
Mexico: Assorted Materials
1958-1989
2
Mexican American Materials
1930-1989
3
Spanish American Materials
1959-1988
4
Mexican American Materials: Midwest
1924-1974
25
Mexican American and Chicano Materials
1945-1991
1
Mexican American Materials: Texas and the Southwest
1945-1982
2
Paul Ming-chang Lin: "Voluntary Kinship and Voluntary Association in a Mexican-American Community"
1963
3
Chicano Materials
1968-1988
4
Gilberto Lopez y Rivas: "Conquest and Resistance: The Origins of the Chicano National Minority in the Nineteenth Century"
1975
5
"The Dictionary of Chicano Spanish"
1991
26
Chicano and Native American Materials
1967-1989
1
Spencer: "Let There Be Tigers"
1967
Part I
2
Spencer: "Let There Be Tigers"
1967
Part II
3
Papers: "The Hispano Homeland Debate"
1985-1987
4
American Indian Materials
1968-1989
5
Arthur B. Ault: "Native American Revitalization Movements: Investigating Religiocultural Components of Form"
1985
27
Ethnic Minority and Rural Sociology Materials
1942-1988
1
Papers: Puerto Rican and Ethnic Minority Materials
1952-1987
2
Rural Poverty Materials
1961-1978
3
Rural Culture and Society
1942-1978
4
Rural Sociology Materials
1947-1988
5
Rural Sociology Materials
28
Assorted Materials
1963-1989
1
Rural Unrest and the Farm Crisis
1967-1986
2
John P. Smith: "Land Transition on the Cumberland Plateau: The Role of Indigenous Entrepreneurs, 1885-1915"
1971
3
Ezra Taft Benson, the John Birch Society, and the Radical Right
1963-1968
4
Workshop on Social Inequality
1970
5
Assorted Materials
1967-1989
6
John R. Walker: "Segmentation Processes in Immigrant Incorporation: A Micro Analysis"
1989
Part I
7
Ronald H. Snipe: "A Geographical Analysis of the Fruit Tree Industry in Utah County"
1970