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Description

1. 2 volumes (50; 56 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1949-1958) are about the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott and contain clippings from a variety of newspapers. Specifics include the arrest of Claudette Colvin for refusing to give up her seat, the indictment and trials of 115 protest participants, protest support from across the country, the passing of federal law prohibiting bus segregation and the Montgomery police force's refusal to abide, the eventual end of the boycott, and race-motivated violence that occured in Montgomery after the boycott's conclusion.
2. Publications include Daily Worker (New York), New York Herald Tribune, New York Post, and New York Times. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative title

1. Montgomery Ala. Bus Boycott

Subject

1. Colvin, Claudette, 1939-
2. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
3. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
4. Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- 20th century.
5. Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956
6. Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- 20th century.

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Montgomery, Ala. Bus Boycott)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
2. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 11

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 : Montgomery, Ala. Bus Boycott.

Production

1. 1949-1958.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

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. Montgomery Ala. Bus Boycott

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Montgomery, Ala. Bus Boycott)