Research Catalog

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Additional authors

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

Description

1. 48 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 48 audio recordings and 1 moving image recording on various topics related to civil rights from her personal recordings collection.

Subject

1. Video recordings
2. Sound recordings
3. China > Social conditions > 1949-1976
4. Communists > China
5. Political activists
6. Communism
7. Labor unions
8. African American intellectuals
9. African Americans > Civil rights
10. African Americans > China
11. African Americans > Relations with Chinese
12. African American communists
13. African American political activists
14. African American women
15. Garvin, Vicki, 1915-2007

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.
2. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Garvin 1998-54

Note

1. Victoria "Vicki" (December 18, 1915 - June 11, 2007) Garvin was an African-American trade union and political activist as well as a pan-Africanist and internationalist. Garvin became a prominent organizer in the Black Left during the height of McCarthyism, before traveling to Nigeria, Ghana, and China. From 1946-1950 Garvin served as a research director of the United Office and Professional Workers of America. In 1951 she took part in the formation of the National Negro Labor Council and became a national vice president and executive secretary of the New York City chapter. She taught English in Ghana 1963-1964, and 1964-1970 she taught English to advanced Chinese students at the Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute.

Source (note)

1. Vicki Garvin

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Vicki Garvin papers, 1923-1998. (Sc MG 647). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division.

Author

1. Garvin, Vicki, 1915-2007, creator.

Title

1. Vicki Garvin audio and moving image collection.

Publisher

1. [1994]

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Vicki Garvin papers, 1923-1998. (Sc MG 647). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid for the collection
2. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

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

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Garvin 1998-54