Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Riots - Harlem.

Publication

1964.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

2 volumes (54; 54 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

These scrapbooks are about the 1964 Harlem riots and contain clippings from a variety of newspapers. Coverage includes details of the shooting of James Powell which served as the catalyst for the riots, the spread of rioting to the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, arrests made, the CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) rally, the economic impact of the riots, and the economic recovery immediately after the riots ended. Publications include New York Post and New York Times. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Alternative Title

Riots - Harlem

Subjects

• African Americans > Civil rights > 20th century
• Riots > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• Police brutality > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) > 20th century
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > 20th century
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Economic conditions > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks.

Note

• Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 15

Cite As (note)

• Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of Use (note)

• Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography (note)

• The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance (note)

• The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960.

Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Riots - Harlem)

OCLC

1098062122

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Riots - Harlem.

Production

1964.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Restricted Access

Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 15

Cite As:

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms Of Use

Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography

The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance

The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960.

Spine Title

Riots - Harlem

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Riots - Harlem)