Philip Sterling papers

Philip Sterling is an author, newspaper and broadcast journalist. His papers include material collected for The Real Teachers, a book of interviews with teachers of African American and Hispanic American students in Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Documents include correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, news clippings and audio cassettes. Additional documents are related to Sterling’s employment with CBS, his research and writings about Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X, a manuscript entitled “Laughing on the Outside,” and material regarding African Americans in the media and entertainment.

Of interest are research materials, both typescript notes and sound recordings, for a proposed biography of Julius Waties Waring. The typescript notes include a general description, as well as sketches for early chapters. The sound recordings are presumably interviews conducted with Waring and his second wife, Elizabeth, from 1962 to 1965. Also present is correspondence, publications, and news clippings (1965-1977) concerning fair housing issues in Porter Chester/Rye, New York and African American student activism at Manhattanville College. Also included is a transcript of a July 1964 CBS News special report by Charles Kuralt and Harry Reasoner entitled “117 Street, New York, New York” on Harlem, as well as a report by Sterling entitled “CBS and the Negro Market”. Additional sound recordings in the form of audio reels and one dictation tape are of undetermined content.