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Description

1. 3 volumes (51; 57; 50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1945-1960) are about the time before and after the passage of the Brown v. Board of Education legislation, which desegregated public schools in the United States, and contain clippings from a variety of newspapers. Coverage includes work done by several politicians to convince the Supreme Court to pass the case, opinion pieces from both sides of the issue, the passage of the legislation, fears about delays in implementation, pushback from Alabama and Georgia, and the writing of the Southern Manifesto, signed by 101 Congressman in opposition to the desegregation of public places.
2. Publications include the Daily Worker (New York), Greensboro Daily News, New York Herald Tribune, 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. U.S. Supreme Court Decision Public Schools Desegregation

Subject

1. Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
2. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
3. Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
4. African Americans -- Civil rights -- 20th century
5. African Americans -- Education
6. Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- History -- United States -- 20th century
7. School integration -- United States -- 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (U.S. Supreme Court Decision Public Schools Desegregation)

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. 18

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 : U.S. Supreme Court Decision Public Schools Desegregation.

Production

1. 1945-1960.

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. 18

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. U.S. Supreme Court Decision Public Schools Desegregation

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (U.S. Supreme Court Decision Public Schools Desegregation)