Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials from Nathan B. Young Jr. (1894-1993), a lawyer and judge in St. Louis, Missouri. These materials consist of correspondence, personal papers, scrapbooks, photographs, writing, publications, newspapers, and art.Nathan B. Young Jr. was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on November 28th, 1894, to parents Nathan B. Young Sr. and Emma Mae Garret. At the time of his birth, his father was a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute and a close friend of Booker T....

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials related to or produced by St. Elizabeth’s Parish, a Black Catholic church in St. Louis, Missouri that operated from 1873 to 1951.In 1858, Rev. Peter Koning, S.J. started a chapel for Black Catholics in the upper gallery of St. Francis Xavier’s Church. When the patronage outgrew the chapel, Rev. Ignatius Panken, S.J., now in charge of the chapel, purchased the Vinegar Hill Hall building at 14th and Gay Streets in 1872. St. Elizabeth’s Parish was...