John Adams Jr., Photographs
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photographs of John Adams Jr. as part of the Nebraska Legislature and Kappa Alpha Psi, certificates of election to the legislature and qualifications as an attorney, photographs and an obituary of his wife Constance Bell Singleton Adams, and a newspaper clipping with cartoons of John Adams Jr. with the senators from Nebraska.
Dates
- circa 1918-1941, 2004
- Majority of material found within circa 1929-1941
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with the University of Nebraska. Copyrights are retained by the creators of the papers or their designees. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
Biographical / Historical
John Adams Jr. (1906-1999) worked as a lawyer and served as a Republican politician, and a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature. Adams was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and lived in Omaha, Nebraska, after 1923. Adams attended the University of Nebraska, receiving his BA in 1927, when 21 African American students graduated from the university. He graduated from the Law School in 1929, being the only African American student in that class. Adams also served as president for two campus student organizations, Semper Fidelis in 1926 and Kappa Alpha Psi in 1929. Adams served in the last session of the Nebraska House of Representatives and as the only African American member of the Nebraska unicameral's first session in 1937. He left the unicameral in 1941.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 OS folder)
Language of Materials
English
- African Americans -- Nebraska Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lawyers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Legislators -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Politics Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Source
- Max Rambod Rare Books (Organization)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Sarah Glover, 2022.
- Date
- (cc) 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries Repository
Archives & Special Collections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
P.O. Box 884100
Lincoln NE 68588-4100 United States
402-472-2531
archives@unl.edu
