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An Interview with Herbert Bruce
- Title
- An Interview with Herbert Bruce / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Author
- Bruce, Herbert L., 1900-1990,
- Publication
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1983.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 4 videodiscs (85 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Subjects
- Oral histories
- Sheilds, Henri W
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Politics and government
- Tammany Hall (Political organization) History
- New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government
- Bruce, Herbert L., 1900-1990 > Interviews
- Filmed interviews
- Nonfiction films
- Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972
- African American politicians > Biography
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government
- Genre/Form
- Filmed interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Biography (note)
- Herbert L. Bruce was the first black Democratic district leader to be elected in New York City.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1503
- Author
- Bruce, Herbert L., 1900-1990, interviewee.
- Title
- An Interview with Herbert Bruce / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Publisher
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1983.
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videodisc
- Event
- Recorded June 7, 1983 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
- Summary
- Mr. Bruce talks about his life and work, focusing on his political career in Harlem, New York. Dislike of the label politician; family background; residences in Harlem; early employment from hotel bellman to redcap at Pennsylvania Station; decision to go into restaurant business with Miles Duncan; reasons for locating at 137th and 7th ave; entry into politics, 1933; Henri Sheilds and political work in Harlem at that time; Beavers Club and work for Sheilds in 1933 campaign for 21st District leader; Bruce's 1935 primary fight for 21st District leader; dealings with Tammany Hall; positions Bruce had filled as district leader; why he retired in 1945 from politics; return to politics in 1951, election as leader of 12th Assembly District; decision to run against Adam Clayton Powell for congressional seat; reason Powell won the nomination; disillusionment and retirement from politics in 1954.
- Biography
- Herbert L. Bruce was the first black Democratic district leader to be elected in New York City.
- Added Author
- Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewer.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1503