Jack Edward Tanner collection, 1900-2001 bulk 1955-1990.

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Jack Edward Tanner collection, 1900-2001 bulk 1955-1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71014334

Family series arranged by family member (1900-1999), includes articles and correspondence about Tanner?s father, Ernest Charles Tanner and his involvement with the International Longshoremen?s Association and Local 38-97; education series, arranged chronologically (1938-1949) includes diploma from Stadium High School and annuals from high school and College of Puget Sound; correspondence with Lyle K. Wilson, ms., and book Sunday Afternoons at Garfield Park: Seattle?s Black Baseball Teams, 1911-1951, by Wilson as well as articles about various baseball and football teams Tanner played for; honorable discharge and other papers relating to Tanner?s service with the U.S. Army; and articles concerning various court cases with which Tanner was involved: Nisqually fishing rights, Dick Gregory, George Marion Boggs, and others as well as materials about Bob Satiacum, Puyallup chief and Indian rights activist and his fights for fishing rights and tribal recognition. Politics series includes materials and correspondence with John F. Kennedy, Warren Magnuson, Henry "Scoop" M. Jackson, Jimmy Carter, and Willie Brown; Judge series relating to Tanner?s decisions and articles about his judician decisions, including complaint of Malcolm Edwards in which Edwards accused Tanner of perjuring himself, court cases including Walla Walla State Penitentiary, Ray Border, commercial fisherman, Pennwalt Corporation, and others, speaking engagements, and materials on Judge Clarence Thomas; materials on organizations with which Tanner was affiliated such as NAACP, NAAIP (National Association for the Advancement of Indian People), Loren Miller Bar Association, National Bar Association, and Just the Beginning Foundation; awards and tributes; photographs of family, politicians, sports team players, and others; scrapbooks; miscellaneous materials; and overzied items such as photographs and certificates.

3.5 linear ft.

Washington State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8072097

Washington State Historical Society

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