The Descriptive Finding Guide for the Nelson Robinson Personal Papers SDASM.SC.10251

Folder 1 – Nelson B. Robinson – Biographical

1.     Biography written by Nelson B. Robinson, two copies

2.     Resume, three copies

3.     Resume

4.     Adoption papers for Stephen, 17 May 1963 – pre-interracial laws, civil rights archival document

5.     Adoption papers for Stephen, 4 June 1963 – pre-interracial laws, civil rights archival document

6.     Multiple varying biographical and autobiographical sketches of Nelson Robinson

Folder 2 – Nelson B. Robinson – Personal

1.     Memorial Service Program, 10 Dec 1988

2.     Last Will and Testament of Nelson Beryl Robinson, containing draft of Will on tissue paper, instruction and an original signed Will, 15 April 1968.

3.     Certified Copy of the Standard Certificate of Birth of Loueida Marie Winesberry, 2 September 1964

4.     Marriage License issued to Loueida Marie Winesberry and Nelson B. Robinson, State of New Mexico, County of Bernalillo, 3 April 1954

5.     Marriage Health Certificates with attached Reports of Standard Serological Test for Syphilis issued to Nelson B. Robinson and Loueida Winesberry, 20 January 1954

6.     Photocopy of Certificate of Birth of Nelson Beryl Robinson Jr, 27 May 1962

7.     Notification of Birth Registration of Loueida Marie Winesberry, two copies

8.     Certificate of Birth of Nelson Beryl Robinson Jr., 16 July 1963, two copies

9.     Retirement Order of Master Sergeant Nelson B. Robinson, 2 April 1968, two copies

10.  Envelope from the Allotment Division of the Department of the Air Force, Air Force Finance Center, Denver, Colorado addressed to Mrs. Loueida M. Robinson and containing Notice of Allotment Authorization Form 510-4, 30 April 1954

11.  Letter from cousin Bernice,

12.  AA degree from San Bernardino Valley College, 12 June 1970

13.  BA degree from California State College, San Bernardino, 17 Aug 1979

Folder 3 – Nelson B. Robinson – Aviation documents

1.     Original and photocopied personal papers belonging to Nelson Robinson, including military and civilian pilot papers.

Folder 4 – Nelson B. Robinson – News articles and clippings

Folder 5 – Nelson B. Robinson – Military Documents

1.     Two Air Force Aid Society membership cards.

2.     Operators Permit Air Force Equipment, 1962

3.     Operators Permit Air Force Equipment, 1966

4.     Member card, Non Commissioned Officer's Open Mess, 20-year member, Bitburg AB, Germany, undated

5.     Army Air Forces Training Command, laminated card, course completion, 15 Oct 1946

6.     Armed Forces of the United States, Geneva Convention Identification Card, 2 Mar 1928

7.     Operator's Permit for Civilian Vehicle, U.S. Forces, Japan, 28 June 1955

8.     Special Orders issued by the Headquarters Tuskegee Army Air Field, 7 February 1944

9.     Citation of Unit for Outstanding Performance, 9 Aug 1945

10.  Photocopy of Commendation to Sgt. Nelson B. Robinson, 8 December 1948

11.  Original and photocopy of US Army discharge of Staff Sergeant Nelson B. Robinson and his permanent appointment with 99th Fighter Squadron (SE), 332D Fighter Group, USAF, 9 March 1949.

12.  Special Orders issued by the Headquarters Hamilton Air Force Base, 30 Sep 1949

13.  Mobilization Special Orders 6302D Air Base Group, All Weather, 28 March 1951. Two pages.

14.  Import documents, Japan,

15.  3RD Field Maintenance Squadron, Tender of Unconditional Resignation 7 January 1957, two copies

16.  USAF Housing Fact Sheet with handwritten notes, 16 April 1962

17.  Neel's Transfer & Storage receipt, June 21 1963

18.  Headquarters Special order, honorably discharged, 8 February 1963

19.  Individual Mandatory Clothing Check (Male) AF Form 195, 6 January 1965

20.  Personnel Action Request, Bitburg, Germany 36th Tac Ftr Wg, 25 August 1966. Requested action is to Assign DAFSC duty title NCOIC, Material Deficiency Reporting Sec. effective 1 September 1966. Reporting officer is MSGT Clarence R. Ridd Jr. Requesting official Harold E. Shreiner SMSgt, NCOIC, Quality Control Branch.

21.  Personnel Action Request, Bitburg Germany 36th Tac Ftr Wg, 12 October 1966. Requested action - Change of PAFSC from 43171C to J43171C.

22.  Temporary Duty Order, 21 September 1966

23.  Special Order, Department of the Air Force 36TH Tac FTR Wg (USAFE), 30 December 1966. List of military personnel including Nelson B. Robinson who do not met mandatory requirement for the award of AFSC 435XO.

24.  Permanent Change of Station Order, Department of the Air Force, 36th Tac Ftr Wg, 7 June 1967. Concurrent travel of dependents is authorized for wife Loueida M and son Nelson B., Jr born 27 May 1962. Nine identical copies with one copy having handwritten dates 10 Sept 66 – 10 Sept 67

25.  US Government Bill of Lading copy, 7 June 1967

26.  Application for shipment of household goods, Traffic Management Office, Bitburg, Germany, 12 June 1967

27.  Household Goods Descriptive Inventory, 7 September 1967

28.  Special Order Department of the Air Force, 21 June 1967 (USAFE). 36 Tac Ftr Wg to proceed on or about 26 June 1967 to Bremerhaven, Germany on TDY for approximately 3 days to pick up or deliver POV shipped at government expense.

29.  Special order detailing Robinson's new assignment, Department of the Air Force 36TH Tac Ftr Wg (USAFE), 29 June 1967. Seven identical copies.

30.  Letter of Instructions for Outgoing Personnel Department of the Air Force. Headquarters 36th Tactical Fighter Wing (USAFE), 11 August 1967. Check List for Outgoing Personnel - Bitburg AB, Germany. Two copies.

31.  Permanent Change of Station Order – Military for Nelson Robinson, 20 August 1967

32.  Demand on Debtor by Nelson Robinson for damage to belongings during change of station, 31 October 1967

33.  Reassignment Special Order for Nelson Robinson, 15 April 1968

34.  Letter in regards to request for a Certificate of Veteran Status with information on entitlement for home financing, Veterans Administration Regional Office Los Angeles, California, 17 May 1968.

35.  Certificate of Veteran Status VA Form 26-8261 enclosed.

36.  Passenger Travel Information from McGuire AFB, New Jersey, Traffic Management Office, Bitburg Air Base, Germany.

37.  Retirement Order Department of the Air Force. 2 April 1968. Date relieved from active service 31 Aug 1968. Date retired 1 Sep 1968. Total active duty service period 22 years and 6 months. Four copies.

38.  Report on Separation from the Armed Forces of the United States, 1(?) March 1952. Place of separation Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

39.  Request and Authorization for Permanent Change of Station – Military for Ralph Neal: 20 January 1968

40.  AB Performance Report for Robert C. Green: 26 February 1968

41.  Miscellaneous military form, two photocopies

42.  Application and status for Uniformed Services Identification Card, 13 Aug 1980

43.  Certificate of Training for Loueida M. Robinson, Family Services Orientation Course, Department of the Air Force, Bitburg Air Base Germany

Folder 6 – Nelson B. Robinson – Military Exchange Receipts

1.     Receipts from various international military exchanges, two spectacle order forms, along with an envelope of receipts labelled "telephone" in German.

Folder 7 – Nelson B. Robinson – Honorable Discharge Certificates

1.     Nelson B. Robinson Staff Sergeant United States Air Force, 14 March 1952

2.     Nelson B. Robinson, Technical Sergeant, Regular Air Force, 4 May 1957

3.     Nelson Beryl Robinson, Technical Sergeant, Regular Air Force, 4 March 1963

4.     Nelson Beryl Robinson, Technical Sergeant, Regular Air Force, 4 March 1966

Folder 8 – Nelson B. Robinson – Awards and Certificates.

1.     Certificates or other documents pertaining to awards received by Nelson Robinson

Folder 9 – Nelson B. Robinson – Tuskegee Airmen Highway

1.     Documents relating to the planning and opening of the 1-15 stretch of Tuskegee Airmen Highway.

Folder 10 – Nelson B. Robinson – International Air & Space Hall of Fame, Nasa

1.     Photos and correspondence from Nelson Robinson on behalf of the IAHF to NASA, inquiring about IAHF nominations for astronauts.

Folder 11 – Nelson B. Robinson – San Diego Minority Small Business Owners

1.     Documents pertaining to Nelson Robinson's involvement in the small business community and minority-owned businesses, including a resolution from the California State Assembly to honor Nelson Robinson's contributions to multiple businesses.

2.     Envelope with General Dynamics Convair Division letterhead addressed to Nelson Robinson Manager of the San Diego Minority Business Development Center. Envelope contains Nomination paperwork for Nelson Robinson

Folder 12 – Nelson B. Robinson, Personal Notebooks

1.     Brown Cardboard Ring-Bound Notepad containing multiple time entries and annotations regarding flight training and safety.

2.     Brown Cardboard Tape-Bound Notepad containing loose papers pertaining to multiple-choice tests for flight training, and notes in the pages are study outlines or calculations.

3.     Notebook labeled "Memoranda" .Dark green carton oilcloth cover. Notes in pencil on 22 pages with most pages blank.

4.     Notebook with 2 pages detached and 15 pages attached with pencil and blue ink notes on Cessna 150, Piper Colt N-4886Z and Webb Aero Club meeting. Cessna 172B information and specification card inside of the cover sleeve along with two detached pages. Black carton oilcloth cover exterior with blue color cover interior. (Blue Pocket-Sized Ringed Notepad, Notepad contains precise numbers for different types of civilian aircraft and other study notes.)

Folder 13 – Notes and Annotations. Legal size folder with typed title "Interview Folder", and multiple handwritten notes containing the following:

1.     "Footnotes and Bibliographies" by the Grossmont College Division of Learning Resources with five photocopies of newspaper clipping with an article "L.A. Times Plans Videotext Service."

2.     Blank notepad with six pages.

3.     Fifteen pages of handwritten books annotations.

4.     Eight pages of photocopies with lists of books.

5.     Eleven pages of photocopies with lists of children's books by genre.

6.     Twelve pages of photocopies with Denny's Restaurants' Third Annual Bookmark Promotion print outs along with children's books categories.

7.     Four pages of photocopies with books annotations.

8.     "Report on six Decades and their influence on popular reading in the United States: The Climate in which books were produced" by Loueida M. Robinson 6 April 1983 containing twenty three handwritten notes along with eight photocopies from unknown publications and twenty four typed on typewriter pages with books annotations by decade.

9.     Description of F-82G Twin Mustang

Folder 14 – Hermyone Lolita Robinson Documents - Sister of Nelson Robinson

1.     Diploma, Wichita High School East, 28 May 1941

2.     Honorable Discharge from Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, 25 August 1943

3.     Training Performance Notice, US Army Tank Automotive Command, Warren, Michigan for Defense Small Purchase Course, 17 Jun 1968.

4.     Certificate of Training, US Army Logistics Center, Installation Supply Accounting Course, Warren, Michigan, 29 May - 4 June, 1973

5.     Certificate of Training, US Army Logistics Center, Installation Supply Accounting Course, Fort Lee, Virginia, 13 September 1979

6.     Enrollment and Registration Request for DoD Management Education and Training Program Courses, Ft. Lee, Virginia, 24 October 1979

7.     Certificate of Training, Department of the Navy, Defense Procurement Management for Technical Personnel Course, Warren, Michigan, 25 October 1974

8.     Certificate, US Army Management Engineering Training Activity, Automatic Data Processing Orientation Seminar, Rock Island, Illinois, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 1977

9.     Record of Training, Basic Principles of Government Cataloging, 17 Dec 1954

10.  Certificate, Defense Supply Agency, IPE Management Concepts & Reporting Procedures, Memphis, Tennessee, 5-9 December 1977. Group black and white photograph enclosed.

11.  Certificate, United States Army Logistics management Center, Installation Equipment Management Course, Fort Lee, Virginia, 10 March 1978

12.  Certificate, United States Army Logistics management Center Receiving Course (GS), Fort Lee, Virginia Certificate, 1 November 1978. Group black and white photograph enclosed with the following information label on the back: Publication or commercial use of this material requires release by a U.S. Army Information Officer. Credit U.S. Army. Photographic Lab. U.S. Army Tank Automotive Material Readiness Command. Neg. # 3299 2 78

13.  Certificate, United States Army Logistics management Center Location Course (GS), Fort Lee, Virginia, 3 November 1978. Group black and white photograph enclosed with the following information label on the back: Publication or commercial use of this material requires release by U.S. Army Information Officer. Credit U.S. Army. Photographic Lab. U.S. Army Tank Automotive Material Readiness Command. Neg. # 2504 1-79

14.  Certificate, Recognition of ten years of service from the Department of the Army, 1 Feb 59.

15.  Certificate, Recognition of thirty-five years of service, 28 August 1945 - 28 August 1980, from the Department of the Army, 28 Aug 1980

16.  Certificate of Retirement, Department of the Army, undated

17.  Certificate of Appreciation, Department of the Army, undated

18.  Notification of Personnel Action, 28 June 1982

19.  Employee Service Statement, 16 July 1982

20.  Health Benefits Registration Form, 16 Nov 1978

21.  Notice of Change in Health Benefits Enrollment, 28 June 1982

22.  Agency Certification of Insurance Status, 02 July 1982

23.  Our Wedding Treasure, signed wedding certificate

Folder 15 – Lucius C. McGhee Documents - Husband of Hermyone Lolita Robinson and brother in-law of Nelson Robinson

1.     Diary of Cpl. Lucius C. McGhee with handwritten locations and dates of his service and his sepia photograph

2.     Diploma, Certificate of Award in barbering, Moler Barber College, Seattle ,Washington, 22 November 1948

3.     Certificate of Registration, Board of Examiners of Barbers State of Michigan to certify that Lucius C. McGhee as a Registered Barber for the term ending October 1st, 1951, 1 November 1950

4.     Honorable Discharge from the Army of the United States, 5 February 1946

5.     Honorable Discharge from the Army of the United States, 4 February 1949

6.     Separation Qualification Record, 5 Feb 1946

7.     Two coies of the Enlisted Record and Report of Separation Honorable Discharge

8.     Trustee Certificate, African Methodist Episcopal Church, 8 February 1980.

Folder 16 – Articles of Incorporation

Folder 17 – Meetings and minutes

Folder 18 – Members

Folder 19 – Newsletters

Folder 20 – Events

Folder 21 – Correspondence

1.     Various correspondence of San Diego chapter of TAI, including letter from Colin Powell

Folder 22 – Proclamation, Tuskegee Airmen Day

Folder 23 – News articles and clippings

1.     Voices and Viewpoints articles are in Oversize Box

Folder 24 – Lee Elementary School Thank you books, drawings

Folder 25 – Handbook, 1985

Folder 26 – Handbook, 3-ring binder, undated

Folder 27 – Newsletters

Folder 28 – Miscellaneous documents

Folder 29 – Correspondence

Folder 30 – United States Air Force correspondence

Folder 31 – General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. articles

Folder 32 – Publications

Folder 33 – Oakland Airshow 1991

Folder 34 – Black Flyers in WWII

Folder 35 – Newspaper articles

Folder 1 – Additional Black Aviators

Folder 2 – Undated photocopies

Folder 3 – Tuskegee Membership Directories

Folder 4 – International Air & Space Museum Hall of Fame – Black Wings

1.     Multiple documents, booklets, correspondence, pamphlets, notes, memos, and other items relating to the Black Wings exhibit at SDASM.

Folder 5 – Generations of Pride: Native Sons and Daughters

1.     A poster and pamphlet highlighting the contributions and history of Black Americans

Folder 6 – Pamphlets

1.     Pamphlet -"Stop Wishing, Start Flying: Form a Piper Colt Flying Club"

2.     Pamphlet -Federal Aviation Agency (1961) Flight Test Guide: Instrument Pilot Airplane. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

3.     Pamphlet -Federal Aviation Agency (1965) Wake Turbulence. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

4.     Pamphlet -Federal Aviation Agency (1961) Flight Test Guide: Private Pilot Airplane Single Engine. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Folder 7 – Manuals

1.     Booklet - "Realm of Flight" practical information about weather in relation to the piloting of private aircraft by Federal Aviation Agency, revised in May 1959. Bottom right corner of the first page has "T/Sgt. Nelson B. Robinson HQ-SQ-3560th M+S GP." handwritten in ball pen blue ink. Paperback

2.     Booklet - "Path of Flight" practical information about navigation of private aircraft by Federal Aviation Agency, revised in November 1957. Bottom right corner of the first page has "T/Sgt. Nelson B. Robinson HQ-SQ-3560th M+S GP." handwritten in ball pen blue ink. Paperback.

3.     Manual -United States Army, Europe (1959) Transportation and Travel: Driver's Manual for Germany

Folder 8 – Photographs: Robinson 0001 – 0068

Folder 9 – Photographs: Miscellaneous

1.     Miscellaneous photographs from the Nelson Robinson Personal Papers

2.     Robinson with George Forman

Folder 10 – Photographs: Miscellaneous

1.     Colored photographs with a young man wearing roller skates is signed on a back "Nelson Robinson Jr. age 15. 1-1978" in black ball pen ink depicts adopted son of Nelson Beryl Robinson Sr. and his wife Loueida Maria Winesberry.

2.     Black and white studio portrait of Nelson Beryl Robinson Sr. wearing USAF uniform signed in a back "L.M. Winesberry 1444 N. (unclear) in pencil.

3.     Black and white photograph depicting Loueida Maria Winesberry and her husband Nelson Beryl Robinson Sr. holding their adopted son Nelson Beryl Robinson Jr. in front of the store.

4.     Two black and white Polaroid photos with Robert Kennedy giving speech to the crowd in the street. One of the photos depicts a partially visible banner which reads "Kennedy 68."

Folder 11 – Photographs – WWII album

Folder 12 – Photographs - album

Folder 13 – Pages from scrapbook

1.     Contains reprints of photos of Nelson Robinson and other Tuskegee Airmen. Copies of prints in red scrapbook located in Box 5

2.     Original and duplicate photos from scrapbook

Folder 14 – Photographs – Muhammad Ali Album

Folder 15 – Photograph

Folder 16 – Photographs – TAI Event

Folder 17 – Photographs – TAI Event

Folder 18 – Photographs – TAI Event, 31 July 1992

Folder 19 – Photographs – TAI Annual Convention 1999

Folder 20 – Photographs – SDASM Event with General Ben. O. Davis, 1991

Folder 21 – Photographs – General Ben. O. Davis

Folder 22 – Photograph - Charles M. Bussey

Folder 23 – Photographs – USS Constellation CV-64

Folder 24 – Photographs – Minority Business Opportunity Day

Folder 25 – Photographs – Aircraft

Folder 26 – Photographs on Compact Discs

Folder 27 – Videos on Compact Discs

1.     Ceremonies for the Tuskegee Airmen Highway

2.     Military Mondays – Radio Show, 22 Sep 2014

Folder 28 – Negatives and slides

Folder 1 – Proclamations

1. County of San Diego proclamation, proclaiming Minority Enterprise Development Week, 7-13 Oct 1984

2. County of San Diego proclamation, proclaiming San Diego Minority Supplier Development Day, 4-10 Oct 1987

3.     County of San Diego proclamation presented to Nelson Robinson "Honoring Black History Month", Feb 2015

Folder 2 – Certificates

1.     USAF certificate of retirement, 1 Sep 1968

2.     United States Army Certificate for Robert Lee Robinson (brother of Nelson B. Robinson), 9th Quartermaster Training Regiment stationed at Camp Lee, VA. Sepia photograph with the signature of Sgt. Wigglesworth is on the bottom left. The 9th Quartermaster Training Regiment at Camp Lee, VA was the first African-American training unit to form at Camp Lee in late 1941, just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Camp Lee was renamed Fort Lee and in April 2023 it has been renamed from Fort Lee, for the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, to Fort Gregg-Adams after two officers - the late Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams, the first Black officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, and Lieutenant General Arthur Gregg, the Army's first Black three-star general.

Folder 3 – Voice and Viewpoints

1.     Volume 34, Number 29, 21 April 1994

2.     Volume 34, Number 43, 28 July 1994, two copies

Folder 4 – Oversize photographs

Folder 5 – Panoramic Photographs

1.     99th Fighter Squadron, 35" x 12", two copies. Robinson is center row, eight from the right side.

2.     332nd Fighter Wing 39.5"x12", Columbus, OH, 15 May 1948, four copies

3.     Photocopied, cropped, yellowed portrait of Nelson Robinson in uniform, two copies

Folder 6 – Scrapbook

Folder 7 – Photo Album

1.     One loose studio portrait photo of a young female

2.     One loose studio portrait photo of a U.S. military male. Left bottom corner embossed "Naha Photo Okinawa"