topic:"Black community" found 4 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Scope and Content: Includes typescripts written by Sam Maltin, a letter (author unnamed) describing Sam's relationship with the Montreal Black Community and recommending him to write an article on the "Negro problem in Canada", as well as Sam's resulting typescript [pages missing]. Also included are four black and wh…

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Collection: Sam Maltin Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Scope and Content: Includes typescripts written by Sam Maltin, a letter (author unnamed) describing Sam's relationship with the Montreal Black Community and recommending him to write an article on the "Negro problem in Canada", as well as Sam's resulting typescript [pages missing]. Also included are four black and white photographs of various social events within the Black community.

Date: 1949-1952

Fonds No.: 1139

File No.: 00010

Storage Location: 6-5E; Ctn.001

Creator: Maltin, Sam

Conservation: Photographs found in the folder were placed into acid-free folders.

Language: English

Notes: Users should be aware that some documents include content that reflects the author's attitude or that of the period in which the item was written, and may be considered offensive.

Name Access: Maltin, Sam

Subjects: Journalists, Jewish; Black community

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Documents

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Professional Correspondence

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31201

Collection: Sam Maltin Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: 1139; 00016

Collection: Sam Maltin Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: 1139

File No.: 00016

Storage Location: 6-5E; Ctn.001

Creator: Maltin, Sam

Language: English

Notes: Incoming letters and telegraphs, overwhelmingly from the Pittsburgh Courier.

Name Access: Maltin, Sam

Subjects: Sports; Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972; Black community

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Sam Maltin Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31183

Collection: Sam Maltin Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 0.2m of multiple media

Fonds No.: 1139

Date: 1937-1998 (predominant 1940-1949)

Scope and Content: The fonds consists of newspaper clippings and typescripts written or collected by Sam Maltin over the course of his journalism career, with a special focus on the situation of black athletes in professional sports, including Jackie Robinson. It also includes professional correspondence (incoming), …

Collection: Sam Maltin Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 0.2m of multiple media

Scope and Content: The fonds consists of newspaper clippings and typescripts written or collected by Sam Maltin over the course of his journalism career, with a special focus on the situation of black athletes in professional sports, including Jackie Robinson. It also includes professional correspondence (incoming), letters received from Jackie Robinson and his wife Rachel (1948-1949), as well as black and white photographs and negatives from both his professional and personal life.

Date: 1937-1998 (predominant 1940-1949)

Fonds No.: 1139

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Maltin, Sam

Conservation: Photographs and negatives, found among the textual material were placed into acid-free envelopes.

History / Biographical: Sam Maltin was a Montreal-based sports journalist and bridge columnist. Over the course of his career, which spanned approximately two decades, he worked for several newspapers including the Montreal Herald, the Montreal Gazette, the Montreal Star, the Toronto Tribune, and the Pittsburgh Courier. In addition to writing, Sam worked as a theatre actor as a member of the New Theatre Group of Montreal between 1936 and 1942. Sam became an insurance salesman in the late-1950's, but continued to write articles into the 1960's. Other positions he held include President of the Northmount Home and School Association (ca. 1959), Chairman of the Traffic Safety Committee of the Quebec Federation of Protestant Home and School Associations (ca. 1961), Zone Two Director of the Canadian Bridge Federation (1970-1974), and editor of the Bridge Digest (1971-1973). Throughout his life, Sam Maltin was actively involved in issues concerning the Black community of Montreal, as well as the segregation of black athletes in professional sports. Most notably, he and his wife Belle became close friends with Jackie Robinson and his wife Rachel ("Rae") during Jackie's stay in Montreal as a player in the Montreal Royals during the 1946 season.

Language: English

Custodial History: The material was donated to the JPL by Sam Maltin's wife, Belle, around 1989.

Arrangement: The fonds was received "unsorted" and had been organized by JPL-A staff sometime following its arrival. As there was no discernable original order, and a large portion of related material had been artifically split among several folders, the fonds was rearranged by McGill practicum student Gina Gönczi on March 22, 2010.