James E. Stamps
Attended Yale Graduate School 1911-1912
Biography
James E. Stamps was born in 1890 in Marlin, Texas. He graduated from Fisk University in 1911, and then attended the Yale Graduate School for a year.
He worked as an accountant in Chicago for a few years after leaving Yale. Along with Carter G. Woodson, he was a founding member of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915, and began publishing The Journal of Negro History in 1916.
In 1916, he married Georgia Morrow, and they had two children together. They divorced in 1920, and he later married Maurice Williams.
In the 1920s, he managed the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company and was secretary for the Black YMCA. He went on to be Director of Agencies for Victory Life Insurance Company and the vice president of the Illinois Service Federal Savings and Loan Bank, retiring in 1940. He died in 1972 in Chicago.
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"What We Should Know About Social Security," The Call, October 23, 1953.
"Know Your Social Security Rights," The Call, November 13, 1953.
"The People Speak: 'We Came Through'," Daily Defender, February 16, 1956.
"Social Security Is Base For Retirement," The Chicago Defender, June 8, 1957.
"Negro Charity," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 21, 1959.
"Voice of the People: Community Fund's Weakness," Chicago Daily Tribune, November 11, 1959.
"When Factories Move," Chicago Daily Tribune, December 19, 1959.