Research Catalog

Title

Sydenham Hospital protest audio collection.

Publication

[1990]

Supplementary Content

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Details

Additional Authors

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

11 audiocassettes

Summary

The collection consists of 11 audio recordings documenting the efforts to keep Sydenham Hospital open.

Subjects

• Sound recordings
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• Community activists > New York (State) > New York
• Municipal officials and employees > Labor unions > New York (State) > New York
• Demonstrations > New York (State) > New York
• Hospital closures > New York (State) > New York
• Sydenham Hospital (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

Sound recordings.

Note

• Sydenham Hospital was a healthcare facility in Harlem which operated between 1892 and 1980. It was the first hospital to have a full desegregated interracial policy with six African American Trustees and twenty African Americans on staff. It was New York City's first full-service hospital to hire African-American doctors, and later became known for hiring African American doctors and nurses when other nearby hospitals would not. In mid-1979, New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch announced the planned closures of four city hospitals, including Sydenham. While the Koch Administration argued that Sydenham was outdated and wasted money during a period of fiscal crisis, African American leaders in Harlem viewed the hospital's closing as a loss of both an historic Black institution and accessible health services to the community. After more than a year of lawsuits, lobbying efforts and protests by municipal hospital unions and Harlem community activists, Sydenham was closed in late 1980 and eventually turned into a senior residence in the mid-1980s.

Linking Entry (note)

• See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Sydenham Hospital protest photograph collection. Sc Photo Sydenham Hospital Protest Collection.

OCLC

1164699590

Title

Sydenham Hospital protest audio collection.

Publisher

[1990]

Linking Entry

See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Sydenham Hospital protest photograph collection. Sc Photo Sydenham Hospital Protest Collection.

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Added Author

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.