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Description

1. 1 volume (48 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1954-1963) is about the process of desegregating New Orleans, Louisiana public schools and contains clippings from a variety of newspapers. More specifically, this scrapbook covers several attempts made by local government to avoid desegregation after the federal government required the New Orleans school board to come up with an actionable plan for school desegregation. Also covered are protests, school boycotts, and desegregation of New Orleans Catholic schools. Publications include Christian Science Monitor (Boston), 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. New Orleans, La. Public Schools

Subject

1. Rummel, Joseph F
2. Wright, J. Skelly
3. African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
4. Segregation in education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
5. School integration -- Louisiana -- New Orleans

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (New Orleans, La. Public Schools)

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. 12

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 : New Orleans, La. Public Schools.

Production

1. 1954-1963.

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. 12

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. New Orleans, La. Public Schools

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (New Orleans, La. Public Schools)