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Description

1. 6 volumes (47; 41; 30; 20; 21; 42 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1921-1961) are about civil rights in the United States and contain ephemera and clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings cover a wide range of topics, including racial discrimination in jury selection and court cases, President Harry Truman's civil rights program, the use of torture-based confessions in court, the Georgia contract labor law, the Negro Freedom Rally of 1944, the 1956 presidential primary and election and the respective candidates' civil rights platforms, the 1956 civil rights rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the process of developing civil rights legislation, recommendations for the Kennedy administration on dealing with civil rights, and attempts to pass several pieces of legislation regarding the poll tax, segregation, and suffrage.
2. Publications represented include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Defender, Louisiana Weekly, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus, as well as the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Daily Worker (New York), New York Herald Tribune, New York Post, New York Times, and Newsweek magazine. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Uniform title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
3. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Civil Rights
2. Boston chronicle
3. Chicago defender
4. Louisiana weekly
5. New York Amsterdam news
6. Norfolk journal and guide
7. Philadelphia tribune
8. St. Louis argus

Subject

1. National Citizens Council on Civil Rights
2. Tinkham, George Holden
3. Bills, Legislative > United States > 20th century
4. Nixon, Richard M (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
5. Clippings (information artifacts)
6. Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
7. Civil rights > United States
8. African Americans > Suffrage > 20th century
9. Primaries > United States
10. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
11. Demonstrations > United States > 20th century
12. Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
13. White, Walter, 1893-1955
14. Eisenhower, Dwight D (Dwight David), 1890-1969
15. Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
16. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
17. Lynching > Law and legislation
18. Jury selection > United States
19. King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
20. Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States > 20th century
21. Rockefeller, Nelson A (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
22. Segregation > Law and legislation > 20th century
23. Poll tax > Law and legislation
24. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
25. Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1882-1958
26. Presidents > Election > 1956
27. Scrapbooks
28. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
29. Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971
30. Democratic National Convention
31. Negro Freedom Rally > 1944
32. Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
33. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Civil Rights)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
2. The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for these volumes are AJ, A McD, AVR, CMN, EJ, EMN, EW, JC, LS, MB, MN, MPT, MS, MW, VK, and WA.
3. Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson and MS likely belong to M. Starke, both of whom clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, assigned to the 135th St. branch of NYPL through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 2

Cite as (note)

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance (note)

1. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960

Title

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Civil Rights.

Production

1. 1921-1961.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Restricted access

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 2

Cite as:

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance

1. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960

Local subject

1. National Citizens Council on Civil Rights
2. Negro Freedom Rally 1944

Spine title

1. Civil Rights

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
3. Pittsburgh courier.
4. Boston chronicle
5. Chicago defender
6. Louisiana weekly
7. New York Amsterdam news
8. Norfolk journal and guide
9. Philadelphia tribune
10. St. Louis argus

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Civil Rights)