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Additional authors

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

Description

1. 160 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 160 audio recordings and 21 moving image recordings reflecting Clarke's career as an historian.

Subject

1. Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998
2. African American authors
3. African American historians
4. African American intellectuals
5. African American Jews
6. African American soldiers
7. African American wit and humor
8. African Americans -- Race identity
9. African Americans -- Study and teaching
10. Afrocentrism
11. Black nationalism
12. African Americans -- Relations with Cubans
13. Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
14. Black people -- Study and teaching
15. World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans
16. Africa -- History -- To 1945

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Clarke 1994-50

Note

1. Born in 1915, the oldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, John Henrik Clarke was a self-trained historian who edited and wrote over thirty books, and was a leading figure in the development of African heritage and black studies programs nationwide. He was a co-founder of the Harlem Quarterly (1949-1951) and an associate editor of the journal Freedomways. During the 1960s, he served as director of the African Heritage unit of the anti-poverty program Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU-ACT), and as special consultant and coordinator of the Columbia University-WCBS television series "Black Heritage." He joined the Department of Black and Puerto-Rican Studies at Hunter College in 1969. The founding president of the African Heritage Studies Association, he was a consultant to many projects, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Harlem On My Mind" and the Portal Press Springboards series, "The Negro in American History." He was awarded the Phelps-Stokes Fund's Aggrey Medal in 1994 for his role "as a public philosopher and relentless critic of injustice and inequality." John Henrik Clarke died in 1998.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the John Henrik Clarke archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: John Henrik Clarke papers, 1937-1996. (Sc MG 572). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo John Henrik Clarke Collection).

Author

1. Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998, creator.

Title

1. John Henrik Clarke audio and moving image collection.

Publisher

1. [1994]

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the John Henrik Clarke archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: John Henrik Clarke papers, 1937-1996. (Sc MG 572). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo John Henrik Clarke Collection).

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Added author

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

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Clarke 1994-50