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Robert C. Weaver audio and moving image collection : 6 items.
- Title
- Robert C. Weaver audio and moving image collection : 6 items.
- Author
- Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997
- Publication
- [2009]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Weaver 2009-03 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Description
- 4 audiocassettes
- 2 videocassettes
- Summary
- The collection consists of 4 audio recordings and 2 moving image recordings. The moving image recordings document the 2000 ceremonies renaming the HUD headquarters building, which Weaver had dedicated at its completion in 1968, as the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building in his honor. The audio recordings relate to his later career as an educator.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Biography (note)
- Robert Clifton Weaver, the first black presidential cabinet officer, served as the first Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon Baines Johnson. However, this represented only one of a series of important posts in federal, state and municipal governments as well as private foundations, organizations and universities held by Weaver during his long and illustrious career. As economist, public administrator, educator and author, Weaver devoted himself to the multifaceted issues of minority labor and urban problems. In 1933, Weaver was one of a number of young men drawn to Washington by the New Deal administration, where he received a succession of assignments as adviser on minority problems to various agency administrators. He soon became the leader of “The Black Cabinet” whose efforts resulted in increased participation by and benefit to minority groups in the numerous projects and programs sponsored by the government during this period. His associates in this group included Ralph Bunche (United Nations Undersecretary General), U.S. Court of Appeals Judge William H. Hastie and N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. While in the federal service, Weaver also supervised the National Survey of Negro White Collar and Skilled Workers sponsored by the Department of the Interior and served as a consultant both to the T.V.A. and to President Franklin Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Education. After World War II, Weaver left the federal government to teach and write on the problems of urban living. His research resulted in numerous articles as well as the following monographs: Negro Labor(1946), The Negro Ghetto(1948), and The Urban Complex(1964). In 1961, Weaver returned to Washington when President Kennedy appointed him Director of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, which later became the Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.). There Weaver tried to stimulate a more aesthetic environment in public housing and to improve relocation policies by increasing funds available to small businessmen displaced by urban renewal. He ensured that the Housing Act of 1961 included grants for recreational and scenic areas and pushed through the controversial Section 221d3, giving non-profit corporations cut-rate mortgage loans to provide housing for displaced families of low and moderate income. Weaver was born and raised in Washington, D.C. His father, Mortimer Grover Weaver was a U.S. postal clerk. Weaver's maternal grandfather, Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman, the first black in the United States to earn a doctoral degree in dentistry, graduated from Harvard's dental school with its first class in 1869. Both Weaver and his brother, Mortimer, attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. where Weaver had his own electrical business during his senior year. Mortimer Weaver, who graduated from Williams College and Harvard University, was an assistant professor of English at Howard University at the time of his death in 1929 at the age of twenty-three. Robert Weaver was a Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Director of Urban Research Center at Hunter College. He was also a member of the New York City's Municipal Assistance Corporation, the Rent Stabilization Board, and the Conciliation and Appeals Board of New York City, and has received numerous citations and honorary degrees.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Robert C. Weaver archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. (Sc MG 810)
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Weaver 2009-03
- OCLC
- 1182637433
- Author
- Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997, creator.
- Title
- Robert C. Weaver audio and moving image collection : 6 items.
- Publisher
- [2009]
- Biography
- Robert Clifton Weaver, the first black presidential cabinet officer, served as the first Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon Baines Johnson. However, this represented only one of a series of important posts in federal, state and municipal governments as well as private foundations, organizations and universities held by Weaver during his long and illustrious career. As economist, public administrator, educator and author, Weaver devoted himself to the multifaceted issues of minority labor and urban problems. In 1933, Weaver was one of a number of young men drawn to Washington by the New Deal administration, where he received a succession of assignments as adviser on minority problems to various agency administrators. He soon became the leader of “The Black Cabinet” whose efforts resulted in increased participation by and benefit to minority groups in the numerous projects and programs sponsored by the government during this period. His associates in this group included Ralph Bunche (United Nations Undersecretary General), U.S. Court of Appeals Judge William H. Hastie and N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. While in the federal service, Weaver also supervised the National Survey of Negro White Collar and Skilled Workers sponsored by the Department of the Interior and served as a consultant both to the T.V.A. and to President Franklin Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Education. After World War II, Weaver left the federal government to teach and write on the problems of urban living. His research resulted in numerous articles as well as the following monographs: Negro Labor(1946), The Negro Ghetto(1948), and The Urban Complex(1964). In 1961, Weaver returned to Washington when President Kennedy appointed him Director of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, which later became the Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.). There Weaver tried to stimulate a more aesthetic environment in public housing and to improve relocation policies by increasing funds available to small businessmen displaced by urban renewal. He ensured that the Housing Act of 1961 included grants for recreational and scenic areas and pushed through the controversial Section 221d3, giving non-profit corporations cut-rate mortgage loans to provide housing for displaced families of low and moderate income. Weaver was born and raised in Washington, D.C. His father, Mortimer Grover Weaver was a U.S. postal clerk. Weaver's maternal grandfather, Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman, the first black in the United States to earn a doctoral degree in dentistry, graduated from Harvard's dental school with its first class in 1869. Both Weaver and his brother, Mortimer, attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. where Weaver had his own electrical business during his senior year. Mortimer Weaver, who graduated from Williams College and Harvard University, was an assistant professor of English at Howard University at the time of his death in 1929 at the age of twenty-three. Robert Weaver was a Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Director of Urban Research Center at Hunter College. He was also a member of the New York City's Municipal Assistance Corporation, the Rent Stabilization Board, and the Conciliation and Appeals Board of New York City, and has received numerous citations and honorary degrees.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Robert C. Weaver archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. (Sc MG 810)
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- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Weaver 2009-03