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Description

1. 1 volume (58 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1930-1963) is about housing issues faced by African Americans in New York state and contains clippings from a variety of newspapers. Coverage primarily includes the attempts to pass the Metcalf-Baker Fair Housing Law, which banned discrimination in private housing in New York state. Other topics include instances of housing discrimination across New York state (Albany, Buffalo, Rye), the eviction of African American tenants in Levittown, and threats made against African Americans in white neighborhoods. Publications include Daily Worker (New York), New York Herald Tribune, New York Post, and New York Times.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative title

1. Housing New York State

Subject

1. Harriman, W. Averell 1891-1986
2. Rockefeller, Nelson A. 1908-1979
3. New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing
4. African Americans -- Housing -- 20th century
5. Civil rights -- United States -- 20th century
6. Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation
7. Metcalf Baker fair housing law 1961
8. Albany (N.Y.)
9. Buffalo (N.Y.)
10. Levittown (N.Y.)
11. Rye (N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Housing New York State)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 7

Cite as (note)

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

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography (note)

1. 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)

1. 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.

Title

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Housing New York State.

Production

1. 1930-1963.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Restricted access

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 7

Cite as:

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

Terms of use

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography

1. 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

1. 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

1. Housing New York State

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Housing New York State)