Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : New York City Police Department - Brutality.

Publication

1945-1966.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

2 volumes (80; 69 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

These scrapbooks (1945-1966) are about police brutality against African Americans in New York City and contain clippings from a variety of newspapers. Coverage includes many separate instances of police brutality, primarily in Harlem and Brooklyn, the reactions of the community, and the trials of the accused police officers. The clippings also cover a federal investigation into an agreement made between the New York City Police Department and the Department of Justice to cover up instances of police brutality in New York. Publications include Daily Worker (New York), 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

New York City Police Department - Brutality

Subjects

• Scrapbooks
• Sealy, Lloyd G., 1917-1985
• Police brutality > New York (State) > New York > African Americans
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Monaghan, George P., 1901-1986
• Impellitteri, Vincent R (Vincent Richard), 1900-1987

Genre/Form

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks.

Note

• Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 13

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 (New York City Police Department - Brutality)

OCLC

1101439573

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : New York City Police Department - Brutality.

Production

1945-1966.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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

New York City Police Department - Brutality

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (New York City Police Department - Brutality)