Preston Wilcox papers

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  1. Preston Wilcox papers, 1940-2005.
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  1. Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Innis, Roy, 1934-2017.
  2. Windom, Alice, 1936-
  3. Wilcox, Preston. School community control as a social movement.
  4. AFRAM Associates.
Description
  1. 21.6 lin. ft. (51 boxes)
Summary
  1. Collection contains personal and professional papers, writings, office files, and printed matter documenting Preston Wilcox's dual career as an educator and community organizer. Included are biographical and autobiographical narratives; some correspondence, and organization files; an extensive writings series; proposals, minutes, reports and other documents dating from 1958 to 1965 pertaining to the East Harlem Project, the East Harlem Summer Festival, and the Massive Economic Neighborhood Development (MEND); confidential files from the 1964 Princeton Summer Studies Program, the pilot project for the pre-college Upward Bound program; compilations of material on public schools, decentralization, and community control; and Afram's surviving records. Some of the main themes explored in the writings are: decentralization and parental decision-making, community organization, and economic development, Black Power versus integration, social policy and white racism, empowering the poor, and Black studies and Black schools. The Afram files comprise the following subseries: Administrative, Publications, Parent Participation in Follow Through, Malcolm X Lovers Network, and Vertical Files. The latter two categories are compilations of articles and other printed matter, with editorial notes by Wilcox on Malcolm X and on selected topics and personalities, including education, community control, reparations, Harlem, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael), and Leonard Jeffries
Subject
  1. Haskins, Kenneth, 1923-1994
  2. Community centers > New York (State) > New York
  3. School management and organization > Parent participation > United States
  4. Community development, Urban > New York (State) > New York
  5. Social work education
  6. Social group work > New York (State) > New York
  7. Urban renewal > New York (State) > Harlem (New York)
  8. Black author
  9. Nihon Kokusai Kōryū Sentā
  10. Princeton University > Princeton Summer Studies Program
  11. African Americans > Relations with Japanese
  12. AFRAM Associates
  13. Malcolm X Lovers Network (Harlem, N.Y.)
  14. X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
  15. International Conference on Black Power (3rd : 1968 : Philadelphia)
  16. Social settlements > New York (State) > New York
  17. Massive Economic Neighborhood Development
  18. Education > Parent participation
  19. Princeton University > Summer Institute
  20. African American educators
  21. Social service > New York (State) > New York
  22. Inner cities > United States
  23. African American social workers
  24. United Neighborhood Houses
  25. Carmichael, Stokely
  26. Community development consultants > New York (State) > New York
  27. African American authors
  28. Schools > Decentralization > New York (State) > New York
  29. Ferguson, Herman Benjamin
  30. Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.)
  31. Jeffries, Leonard
  32. Community organization > New York (State) > New York
  33. Urban poor > United States
  34. School management and organization > Parent participation > New York (State) > New York
  35. Community and school > New York (State) > New York
  36. Intermediate School 201 (New York, N.Y.)
  37. Children with social disabilities > Education
  38. African American political activists
  39. School children > Transportation > New York (State) > New York
  40. AFRAM Farm (Dundee, N.Y.)
  41. Human services > New York (State) > New York
  42. Segregation in education > New York (State) > New York
  43. Election monitoring > Nigeria
  44. East Harlem Project
  45. Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006
  46. East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions
  47. African Americans > Reparations
  48. East Harlem North Special Improvements Project
Call number
  1. Sc MG 235
Note
  1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
  2. Audiotapes, videotapes and films transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Access (note)
  1. Access to Princeton Summer Studies Program series requires a signed confidentiality agreement.
Source (note)
  1. Preston Wilcox
Biography (note)
  1. From 1958 to 1964, Preston Wilcox worked as a tenant organizer and later as director of the East Harlem Project; as a program consultant to the East Harlem Summer Festival, a United Neighborhood Houses initiative designed to prevent juvenile delinquency; and as a consultant and catalyst for the Massive Economic Neighborhood Development (MEND), an anti-poverty program in East Harlem. He also participated as a social researcher in the Princeton University six week summer studies program for junior high school students that led to the nationally-funded Upward Bound Program.
  2. Known as "the father of school decentralization" in New York City, and "the leading theoretician of the community control movement," Wilcox was at the forefront of the campaigns at Intermediate School 201 in Harlem and later in the Ocean-Brownsville school district, for parent participation in curriculum development, and in the hiring of school supervisors and teachers. A prolific writer, he authored in the period between 1963 and 1973 some 200 articles, position papers and essays on public education and community empowerment, published in professional journals and as chapters in books. He also taught courses in social work theory and community organization at Columbia University's School of Social Work between 1963 and 1968, and at Atlanta University, Medgar Evers College, and other institutions of higher learning in the 1970s.
  3. Wilcox founded Afram Associates in 1968 as a public service agency to provide technical assistance to community groups in the areas of education, economic development, and consumer rights. Between 1970 and 1975, Afram operated a parent-implemented program in education, funded by the Follow Through Program Division of Compensatory Education of the U.S. Office of Education, at eight Afram-affiliated sites in Arkansas, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. Afram also operated a farm experiment, Afram Farm, in upstate New York, as a campsite and recreational center for urban-bound families and groups, and as a conference and rural educational research and study center. In later years, Afram evolved into a one-person alternative clearinghouse compiling and disseminating information relevant to the Black community. An admirer of Malcolm X, Wilcox kept an informal network of Malcolm X followers and former associates: the Malcolm X Lovers Network.
Author
  1. Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006.
Title
  1. Preston Wilcox papers, 1940-2005.
Access
  1. Access to Princeton Summer Studies Program series requires a signed confidentiality agreement.
Biography
  1. From 1958 to 1964, Preston Wilcox worked as a tenant organizer and later as director of the East Harlem Project; as a program consultant to the East Harlem Summer Festival, a United Neighborhood Houses initiative designed to prevent juvenile delinquency; and as a consultant and catalyst for the Massive Economic Neighborhood Development (MEND), an anti-poverty program in East Harlem. He also participated as a social researcher in the Princeton University six week summer studies program for junior high school students that led to the nationally-funded Upward Bound Program.
  2. Known as "the father of school decentralization" in New York City, and "the leading theoretician of the community control movement," Wilcox was at the forefront of the campaigns at Intermediate School 201 in Harlem and later in the Ocean-Brownsville school district, for parent participation in curriculum development, and in the hiring of school supervisors and teachers. A prolific writer, he authored in the period between 1963 and 1973 some 200 articles, position papers and essays on public education and community empowerment, published in professional journals and as chapters in books. He also taught courses in social work theory and community organization at Columbia University's School of Social Work between 1963 and 1968, and at Atlanta University, Medgar Evers College, and other institutions of higher learning in the 1970s.
  3. Wilcox founded Afram Associates in 1968 as a public service agency to provide technical assistance to community groups in the areas of education, economic development, and consumer rights. Between 1970 and 1975, Afram operated a parent-implemented program in education, funded by the Follow Through Program Division of Compensatory Education of the U.S. Office of Education, at eight Afram-affiliated sites in Arkansas, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. Afram also operated a farm experiment, Afram Farm, in upstate New York, as a campsite and recreational center for urban-bound families and groups, and as a conference and rural educational research and study center. In later years, Afram evolved into a one-person alternative clearinghouse compiling and disseminating information relevant to the Black community. An admirer of Malcolm X, Wilcox kept an informal network of Malcolm X followers and former associates: the Malcolm X Lovers Network.
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  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. Innis, Roy, 1934-2017.
  2. Windom, Alice, 1936-
  3. Wilcox, Preston. School community control as a social movement.
  4. AFRAM Associates.
Research call number
  1. Sc MG 235
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