Research Catalog

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Description

1. 1 volume (49 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1914-1947) is about race prejudice and contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes instances of discrimination across a number of industries, in higher education, African Americans being denied a wide range of services due to prejudice, and ideas about what could be the cause of race prejudice.
2. Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement and Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Uniform title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Race Prejudice
2. Boston chronicle
3. Chicago bee
4. Chicago whip
5. Louisiana weekly
6. Negro world
7. New York Amsterdam news
8. Norfolk journal and guide
9. Philadelphia tribune
10. St. Louis argus
11. Washington tribune

Subject

1. African Americans -- Segregation -- 20th century
2. African Americans -- Civil rights -- 20th century
3. Discrimination in higher education -- United States
4. Discrimination -- United States -- 20th century
5. Racism.
6. Racism -- United States

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Race Prejudice)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
2. The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for this volume are AJ, A McD, AMC, AVR, CMN, JC, MN, MS, and VK.
3. Initials MS likely belong to M. Starke, who clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, assigned to the 135th St. branch of NYPL through the Works Progress Administration.

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 : Race Prejudice.

Production

1. 1914-1937.

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. Race Prejudice

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.
5. Boston chronicle
6. Chicago bee
7. Chicago whip
8. Louisiana weekly
9. Negro world
10. New York Amsterdam news
11. Norfolk journal and guide
12. Philadelphia tribune
13. St. Louis argus
14. Washington tribune

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Race Prejudice)