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Description

1. 1 volume (72 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1935-1958) is about the struggle to desegregate New York City public schools and contains clippings from a variety of newspapers. The clippings cover several reports on the state of New York public schools, with a focus on Harlem and Brooklyn, the subpar state of schools that primarily served African American students, the appointment of the first African American man to the Board of Education, the lack of progress in coming up with a plan for desegregation, and the plan to use rezoning to combat segregated schools. Publications include the Daily Worker (New York), New York Post, and New York Times. Not all clippings contain date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative title

1. New York (City) Public Schools Desegregation

Subject

1. African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York.
2. School integration -- New York (State) -- New York.
3. Segregation in education -- New York (State) -- New York.
4. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
5. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (New York [City] Public Schools Desegregation)

Language

1. English

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. 13

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.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume