Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006

Description

1. 16.2 linear feet (40 boxes)

Summary

1. Dr. E. Babette Edwards is a parent leader and advocate for school reform in New York City. The Babette Edwards Education Reform in Harlem collection dates from 1964 to 2006 (bulk 1966-1977), and consists of files documenting her work with the Harlem Parents Union and as a member of the Governing Board of the Arthur A. Schomburg Intermediate School 201 Complex. The collection includes fact sheets, grant applications, meeting minutes, memoranda, organizing files, pamphlets, position papers, professional correspondence, and research regarding education policy and racial politics in New York City.

Subject

1. Newsletters
2. Correspondence
3. Schools > Decentralization
4. Research
5. Community and school
6. Teachers > New York (N.Y.)
7. School integration
8. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
9. Education, Urban
10. Memorandums
11. Community activists > New York (N.Y.)
12. Educational vouchers
13. African American children > Education
14. Black power
15. Education > Parent participation
16. School boards > New York (State) > New York
17. Intermediate School 201 (New York, N.Y.)
18. Pamphlets
19. Students > New York (N.Y.)
20. Executors and administrators > New York (N.Y.)
21. Minutes (Records)
22. Civil rights

Genre/Form

1. Correspondence.
2. Memorandums.
3. Minutes (Records)
4. Newsletters.
5. Pamphlets.
6. Research.

Call number

1. SC MG 809

Access (note)

1. Unrestricted access. All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies on reproduction.

Source (note)

1. Donated by Babette Edwards, 2008.

Location of other archival materials (note)

1. SC MG 235, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.

Author

1. Edwards, Babette.

Title

1. Babette Edwards Education Reform in Harlem collection, 1964-2006 (bulk 1966-1977).

Restricted access

1. Unrestricted access. All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies on reproduction.

Location of other archival materials

1. Preston Wilcox papers, 1940-2005; SC MG 235, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.

Source

1. Donated by Babette Edwards, 2008.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Community activists New York (N.Y.).
2. Executors and administrators New York (N.Y.).
3. Students New York (N.Y.).
4. Teachers New York (N.Y.).

Added author

1. Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006.

Research call number

1. SC MG 809