Best, Stephen R., 1926-2014
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1926-2014
- Existence: 1926 - 2014
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Gateway Skeptics Records
Collection
Identifier: A3100
Scope and Contents
The records include newsletters, correspondence, membership lists, and meeting program information for the Gateway Skeptics club arranged alphabetically by type of document. These records are from the files of Stephen R. Best, one of the club’s founders and officers, and date from the initial meeting in 1988 to the club’s disbanding in 2004.
The Gateway Skeptic newsletters includes notes on meeting programs, notes regarding member activities, and reprints of newspaper articles...
Dates:
1988-2004
Billie Ames Teneau CORE Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3165
Scope and Contents
The collection contains primarily oral history interview transcripts, memoirs, and various planning and research materials related to Victory Without Violence: The First Ten Years of the St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality, a history of the St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality (CORE). There are also materials relating to Teneau’s involvement in national CORE, several publications relating to segregation in St. Louis, and to events about civil...
Dates:
1947-2006
Unknown Soldiers / Unsung Heroes: Youth Activism in the St. Louis Civil Rights Movement Oral History Project Transcripts
Collection
Identifier: A3175
Scope and Contents
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004-2005