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Box 9

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Contains 27 Results:

Publicity — Player Biographies and Draft Board Status, 1942

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1942

Publicity — Press Releases (includes statement against segregation in the Major Leagues), 1942

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1942

Publicity — Press Releases and Player Biography, 1943

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1943

Publicity — Player Biographies, c 1944

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: c 1944

Publicity — Press Releases and Player Biographies, 1945

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1945

Publicity — Press Releases — General, 1946

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1946

Publicity — Press Releases — Baltimore Elites, 1946

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1946

Publicity — Press Releases — Bob Feller’s All-Stars, 1946

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1946

Publicity — Press Releases — Kansas City Monarchs, 1946

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1946

Publicity — Press Releases — Newark Eagles, 1946

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents From the Series: Jerome Kessler was the Eagles’ part-time publicist. He began working for the team while a student at Rutgers Law School and upon graduation conducted some legal work for the team as well. Kessler was white, which at times led to controversy. (See letter in Series 1. from journalist Oliver “Butts” Brown of the New Jersey Herald News to EM, 4 April 1940). When Kessler was in the service during World War II, Brown took on some of the publicity work.The publicity material consists...
Dates: 1946