Research Catalog

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Description

1. 2 volumes (56; 70 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1952-1961) are about the process of desegregating public schools in the state of Virginia and contain clippings from a variety of newspapers. Coverage includes ongoing student boycotts of school integration, legislation proposed to combat desegregation, and opinions regarding desegregation. Volume two is arranged into four geographic areas: "Arlington County," "Charlottesville," "Norfolk," and "Alexandria." Publications include Greensboro Daily News, the Daily Worker (New York), 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. Public Schools Desegregation - Education - Virginia

Subject

1. Almond, J. Lindsay 1898-1986
2. African Americans -- Civil rights -- Virginia -- 20th century
3. School integration -- Massive resistance movement -- Virginia
4. Segregation in education -- United States

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Public Schools Desegregation - Education - Virginia)

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. 15

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 : Public Schools Desegregation - Education - Virginia.

Production

1. 1952-1961.

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. 15

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. Public Schools Desegregation - Education - Virginia

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Public Schools Desegregation - Education - Virginia)