WAUHubbardWalter5330.xml Guide to the Walter T. Hubbard Papers 1964-2002 Hubbard (Walter T.) Papers Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2007 (Last modified: 4/16/2018)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 5330 (Accession No. 5330-001) Hubbard, Walter, 1924-2007 Walter T. Hubbard papers 1964-2002 2.38 cubic ft. (4 boxes, one oversized folder) Collection materials are in English. Papers of a Seattle African-American and Catholic activist.

Walter T. Hubbard is a leader in Seattle's African-American community. Hubbard was born and raised in New Orleans, served in World War II, and moved to Seattle in 1951. In the 1960s and 1970s Hubbard became active in the struggle for racial equality. Though largely a black civil rights activist, Walter Hubbard's influence is not limited by ethnicity. As president of the Central Area Civil Rights Committee, a coalition of black civil rights organizations and advocates, from 1969 to circa 2002, Hubbard sought to promote justice and equality in interracial relations and participated in activities to secure worldwide interracial justice.

A devout Catholic, Hubbard is a unique blend of religious traditionalism and racial revolutionism, utilizing what to many were distinct passions to form a theology of racial parity. On the local level, Hubbard co-found and served as president of the Catholic Interracial Council of Seattle, which was formed by the Archibishop of Seattle to spearhead Catholic participation in civil rights and interracial justice. During the 1970s, Hubbard was co-chairman of the Seatte Interreligious Committee for the Rights of Soviet Jewry, an interfaith group concerned with the problems of Soviet Jews. In 1976 Hubbard traveled as the Committee's emissary to Brussels for the Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry. Hubbard also was active in the Catholic community on a national level. From 1969 to 1973 he served as a board member and officer of the National Catholic Conference For Interracial Justice. From 1973 to1980 Hubbard served as president of the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), which was founded in 1970 with the primary purpose of advocating within the Catholic Church for Black Catholics and Black people. He also held the presidency of the Seattle Black Lay Catholic Caucus. Hubbard served on Seattle University's Board of Regents from 1976 to 1996 and on the Board of Trustees for Matteo Ricci College from 1976 to 1978.

Walter Hubbard has also been active in numerous aspects of local governance. From 1972 through 1974 he chaired the Combined Advisory Council of the Seattle Model Citiy Program (SMCP), a federally-funded urban redevelopment program. This group of citizen representatives coordinated the efforts of four Seattle Model Neighborhood areas and reviewed SMCP procedures and projects. Hubbard also served on the SMCP East Branch Advisory Council in 1971 and 1972. Hubbard ran for King County Council and Washington State Senate and was elected to the Seattle Freeholders Board. He also served on the Washington State Prison Terms and Parole Board, and was the Seattle Representative of the National Center For Dispute Settlement of the American Arbitration Association.

Arranged into 14 subgroups:

Personal Papers American Arbitration Association Catholic Interrracial Council Central Area Civil Rights Committee Court Order Advisory Committee National Catholic Conference For Interracial Justice National Office For Black Catholics Seattle Black Lay Catholic Caucus Seattle Board Of Freeholders Seattle Interreligious Committee On The Rights of Soviet Jewry Seattle Model City ProgramCombined Advisory Council Seattle Model Cities East Branch Senior Services And Centers Washington (State) Martin Luther King Jr. Commission

The Walter T. Hubbard Papers span the period from the mid sixties through 2002. The papers document Hubbard's activities with activist and religious groups at both the local and national level. Records of the Seattle Central Area Civil Rights Committee document the Committee's work of coordinating civil rights organizations in Seattle, and include letters of city and state officials on matters of policy and employment. The Seattle Interreligious Committee for the Rights of Soviet Jewry records document the efforts of the local Committee, especially concerning the visit to Seattle of Sister Ann Gillen, Director of the Interreligious Task Force on Soviety Jewry, in 1974, and the "Brussels II" conference in 1976. The Seattle Model City Program (SMCP) Combined Advisory Council files contain correspondence, minutes, proposals, reports, newsletters and other records, dated 1968 through 1974, concerning citizens' participation and oversight of this program which sought to reduce social and economic disadvantages in designated neighborhoods, provide training and employment opportunities, and establish health services for residents, especially in Seattle's Central District. The subgroup also includes organizational records of the SMCP Housing Development League. The Seattle Model Cities East Branch subgroup includes correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters and other records, 1970-1974, including documentation of the branch's Education, Arts and Culture Task Force.

Records of the National Office For Black Catholics span the years 1974 to 1992 and include correspondence, conference files, newsletters, ephemera and other records. They include material from the National Black Lay Catholic Caucus as well.

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Walter T. Hubbard papers, Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries.

Donated by Walter T. Hubbard in April 2003.

Processed by Brittany Olson in 2005-2006.

One 1973 aerial photograph of Seattle was relocated to the photography collection in 2006.

Ten issues of The Facts and The Medium were transferred to Microforms/Newspapers March 9, 2006. Two issues of The Skanner, 1986 were transferred to Microforms/Newspapers November 29, 2006.

Additional Hubbard papers pertaining to the National Office for Black Catholics are in University Archives & Special Collections at St. Thomas University in Florida.

 Hubbard, Walter T.--Archives Catholic Interracial Council of Seattle Central Area Civil Rights Committee (Seattle, Wash.) Seattle Model City Program National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice National Office For Black Catholics Seattle Black Lay Catholic Caucus Seattle Interreligious Committee for the Rights of Soviet Jewry Central District (Seattle, Wash.)--Ethnic relations Central District (Seattle, Wash.)--Race relations Seattle (Wash.)--Civil rights Community activists--Washington (State)-- Seattle--Archives Correspondence Minutes Reports Newsletters Community activists Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) African Americans Civic Activism Civil Rights

 

Personal Papers 1964-1999

1/1 General Correspondence 1964-1993 1/2 Campaign Materials 1973-1990

Regarding Hubbard's political campaigns.

 1/3 Report: "The Status of Minorities in the Archdiocese of Seattle: 1980 1/4 Conference: "Northwest Conference of Black Elected Officials" Seattle, WA 1972-1986 1/5 List: Seattle University Board of Regents 1991 1/6 Legislation: Seatle Open Housing Ordinance undated News Releases 1/7 Northwest Catholic High School Press Workshop 1969 1/7 President Carter's speech and press conference 1977 1/8 Chart: Prison Terms 1978 1/9 Subject File: African American Initiative 1997 1/10 Photographs Undated

Two black and white portraits of Walter Hubbard and one of an unidentified woman.

 1/11 Miscellaneous Newsletters 1971-1983 1/12 Publications: AIM 1986 1/13-14 Ephemera 1954-1999, undated Miscellaneous Oversize Box 9 Ephemera: Seattle Urban League 1971 Newspapers 1/15 Northwest Progress 1965-1967, 1990 1/16 Miscellaneous Catholic Newspapers 1969-1989 1/17-19 Clippings 1965-1993 American Arbitration Association 1973-1975 1/20 General Correspondence 1973-1975 Catholic Interracial Council of Seattle 1964-1969 1/21 Organizational Features 1964 1/22 Incoming Letters 1964-1969 1/23 Outgoing Letters 1965-1968 1/24 Minutes and Agenda 1963-1965 1/25 Speeches and Writings 1969 1/26 Annual Reports 1964-1965 1/27 Proposals 1965-1968 1/28 News Releases 1968-1969 Lists 1/29 Catholic Interracial Council Scholarship Recipients undated 1/30 Head Table of the First Annual Interfaith Civil Rights Banquet 1968 1/30 School For Community Action Mailing List undated 1/31 Notes undated 1/32 Newsletters: Miscellaneous Other 1965-1969 Ephemera 1/33 Catholic Interracial Council 1965-1968 1/34 Other 1968 1/35 Miscellany undated 1/36 Clippings 1965-1967 Central Area Civil Rights Committee 1968-1994 2/1 Organizational Features 1970-1981 Incoming Letters 2/2 Seattle University 1968-1975 2/3 Smith, Sam 1969-1971 2/4 Miscellaneous A-J 1968-1975

Correspondents include Seattle Mayors J.D. Braman, Floyd C. Miller, and Wes Uhlman, and Govenor Daniel J. Evans.

 2/5 Miscellaneous M-R 1969-1975 2/6 Miscellaneous S-T 1969-1972 2/7 Miscellaneous U-Y 1970-1976 2/8-10 Outgoing Letters 1968-1981 2/11 Intraorganizational Correspondence 1968-1981 Minutes and Agenda 2/12 Central Area Civil Rights Committee 1969-1970 2/13 Other Organizations 1971-1976

Includes Citizens Committee For Quality Education, Coalition Against Recall and Seattle University Friends of Minority Affairs.

 2/14 Proposals 1969-1970 Conferences and Conventions 2/15 "Equal Opportunities and Racial Harmony Seminar" Seattle 1968 2/16 "Program Council Pacific Northwest Annual Conference" Seattle, 1971 Reports 2/17 Police Chief Selection Committee 1970-1972 2/18 Other Organizations 1970-1981 2/19 Speeches and Writings undated 2/20 Lists: Washington State Board and Commission Vacancies 1970-1973 2/21 Court Papers: De Funis Case undated 2/22 News Releases 1969-1972 Subject Files 2/23 Anti-Klan 1980-1981 2/24 Unity Day Meeting 1972 2/25 Newsletters: Asian American Advisory Council 1972-1973 2/26 Ephemera 1970-1972, 1994, undated 2/27 Miscellany 1970 2/28-29 Clippings 1966-1987 2/30 Court Order Advisory Committee 1973-1978 National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice 1969-1987 2/31 Board of Directors List 1969 2/32 General Correspondence 1970-1972 Subject Files 3/1 Pope John XXIII International Institute 1969-1971 3/2 Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Terence Cardinal Cooke 1969 3/3 Traveling Workshops: Action Caravan for Human Relations 1970 Newsletters 3/4 Committment 1971-1987 3/5 Signs of Soul, National Black Sisters Conference 1971 National Office For Black Catholics (NOBC) 1974-1992

Includes some records of the National Black Lay Catholic Caucus (NBLCC), which sometimes collaborated with the National Office For Black Catholics

 3/6 General Correspondence 1975-1992 3/7 Minutes: National Black Lay Catholic Caucus 1982 3/8 Report: National Survey On Black Catholic Life 1986 3/9 Proposal For Organizational and Lay Leadership and Development, National Black Lay Catholic Caucus 1979 3/10 Speeches and Writing 1975-1989 Conferences and Conventions 3/11 "A National Black Catholic Convention" Los Angeles 1975-1976 3/12 "National Conference of the National Office For Black Catholics" Chicago 1980 3/13 "Black Catholic Lay Leadership" Belleville, IL 1988 3/14 "Leadership Conference of Catholic Laity" Belleville, IL 1988-1989 Newsletters Miscellaneous Oversize Box 9 National Office for Black Catholics 1976-1989 3/15 IMPACT 1977-1980 3/16 Reports 1983, 1985 3/17 Ephemera 1974-1986 3/18 Miscellany 1990 3/19 Clippings 1976 Seattle Black Lay Catholic Caucus 1966-2002 3/20 Incoming Letters 1971-1991 3/21 Outgoing Letters 1971-1996 Minutes and Agenda 3/22 General Meetings, Executive Board and Others 1971-1993 3/23 Special Committee of the Minority Ministry 1987 Reports 3/24 Committee 1971 3/25 Institutional Team Report 1972-1986 Writings 3/26 Walter Hubbard undated 3/27 Others 1997 3/28 News Release 1971 3/29 Mailing List undated Newsletters 3/30 Seattle Black Lay Catholic Caucus News 3/31 Others 1984-1991 3/32 Notes undated 3/33 Ephemera 1971-2002 3/34 Miscellany 1978-1987, undated 3/35 Clippings 1966-1993 3/36 Seattle Board of Freeholders Correspondence and Minutes 1974 Seattle Interreligious Committee For the Rights of Soviet Jewry 1973-1983 General Correspondence 3/37 Micellaneous 1974-1983

Correspondents include Sister Ann Gillen on behalf of the National Interreligious Task force on Soviet Jewry and Katherine M. Bullitt.

 3/38 Of Evans, Daniel J. 1973-1974

Correspondence of Govenor Evans with the Soviet Embassy regarding immigration approval for two Soviet Physicists invited to the University of Washington.

 3/39 Intraorganizational Correspondence 1974-1975

Correspondents includ Area Director, Peter Schnurman.

 Writings 3/40 "The Prisoners of Conscience: A Resource Book" 1974 3/41 Statement of Principles Of Northwest Indian Leaders 1974 3/42 Subject File: American Jewish Committee Visitors to Israel Program 1973-1976 Newsletters 3/43 The TASK, A Voice Of Christian-Jewish Concern 1973-1976 3/44 Miscellaneous Other 1972-1976 3/45 Ephemera 1973-1976 3/46 Miscellany 1974 Seattle Model City Program Combined Advisory Council 1968-1974 4/1 Organizational Features 1972, undated General Correspondence 4/2 Miller, John R. 1972 4/3 Miscellaneous 1972-1974

Correspondents include Seattle Model City Program Director, Walter R. Hundley.

 4/4-5 Intraorganizational Correspondence 1971-1974 4/6 Minutes and Agenda 1970-1974 4/7 Reports 1969-1973 4/8-9 Proposals 1972-1973, undated 4/10 Resolutions undated 4/11 Speeches and Writings 1968-1973 4/12 Grant Application 1970 Subject Files 4/13 Black Arts West Complaint 1974 4/14 Seattle Model City Housing Development League 1970-1972 4/15 Southeast Branch Citizens Advisory Council 1972 4/16 Budget Files: City Council Proposed Budget 1974 4/17 Legislation: Community Development Revenue Sharing undated Newsletters 4/18 Model Cities News Report 1970 4/18 Citizen Participation Newsletter 1970-1972 4/19 Notes 1972-1974 4/20 Ephemera 1972-1973 4/21 Miscellany 1973 4/22 Clippings 1973 Seattle Model City Program, East Branch Advisory Council 1970-1974 4/23 Outgoing Letter 1972 4/24 Intraorganizational Correspondence 1972-1974 4/25 Minutes 1970-1974 4/26 Resolution 1972 Reports 4/27 East Branch Fourth Year Action Plan 1972 4/28 Project 1970 4/29 Miscellaneous 1972-1973 4/30 Newsletter: Project Area Council News Reports 1972 Seattle Model City East Branch, Education, Arts and Culture Task Force

A Task Force of the East Branch.

 4/31 Minutes 1971-1972 4/32 Report: Feasibility Study Regarding Voucher Plans 1971 4/33 Proposals undated 4/34 Resolution 1971 4/35 Miscellany 1971 Senior Services and Centers 1971-1978 4/36 By-Laws 1975 4/37 General Correspondence 1974-1978 4/38 Minutes 1975 4/39 Reports 1974 4/40 Financial Records 1974 Lists 4/41 Membership 1974 4/42 United Elder Citizens 1971 4/43 Ephemera 1975 Washington (State) Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission 1985-1986 4/44 Incoming Letters 1985-1986 4/45 Reports 1986