Research Catalog

Title

Chronicle of visits of third world nation heads of state to the Harlem community [videorecording].

Author

Harlem Third World Trade Institute. col

Publication

1984-1988.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Harlem International Trade Center Corporation.
• Harlem Third World Trade Institute.
• Harlem Urban Development Corporation.
• Harlem Third World Trade Institute Collection.

Description

44 videocassettes of 44 (U-matic) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

The collection contains videotapes of meetings of Harlem business and community leaders with the following heads of state: Hugh Desmond Hoyte (Guyana), Justin M. Lekhanya (Lesotho), Joseph Saidu Mohmoh (Sierra Leone), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (Tanzania), Denis Sassou N'Guesso (Congo), Pedro Verona Pires (Cape Verde) and Moussa Traore (Mali). Much of the footage represents official occasions such as welcoming ceremonies and luncheons, but there are also less formal discussions that range widely over cultural, economic, political, and social issues.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

• African American business enterprises > New York (State) > New York
• African American politicians > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > Relations with Africans
• African Americans > Relations with West Indians
• African American businesspeople > New York (State) > New York
• Business enterprises, Black > Africa
• Business enterprises, Black > Guyana
• Black people > Politics and government
• Heads of state > Africa
• Heads of state > Guyana
• International business enterprises > New York (State) > New York
• Presidents > Africa
• Presidents > Guyana
• Prime ministers > Africa
• Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
• Caribbean Area

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual films and videos.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger based on title page of accompanying scrapbooks.

Biography (note)

• Between October 1979 and October 1989, visits by sixteen heads of state and government in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the South Pacific Islands to the Harlem neighborhood of New York City were arranged by the Harlem Third World Trade Institute (The Institute) on behalf of its parent agency, the Harlem Urban Development Corporation (HUDC). The Institute was established by the HUDC in October 1979 as a forerunner to the Harlem International Trade Center Corporation (HITCC), and mandated to cultivate commercial ties between the United States and Third World nations in advance of the construction of the Harlem International Trade Center Complex. The Institute became a unit of the HITCC at the latter's inception in January 1988.

Call Number

SC CR91.083

OCLC

NYPG087000301-F

Author

Harlem Third World Trade Institute. Collector

Title

Chronicle of visits of third world nation heads of state to the Harlem community [videorecording].

Imprint

1984-1988.

Biography

Between October 1979 and October 1989, visits by sixteen heads of state and government in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the South Pacific Islands to the Harlem neighborhood of New York City were arranged by the Harlem Third World Trade Institute (The Institute) on behalf of its parent agency, the Harlem Urban Development Corporation (HUDC). The Institute was established by the HUDC in October 1979 as a forerunner to the Harlem International Trade Center Corporation (HITCC), and mandated to cultivate commercial ties between the United States and Third World nations in advance of the construction of the Harlem International Trade Center Complex. The Institute became a unit of the HITCC at the latter's inception in January 1988.

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Added Author

Harlem International Trade Center Corporation.

Harlem Third World Trade Institute.

Harlem Urban Development Corporation.

Harlem Third World Trade Institute Collection.

Research Call Number

SC CR91.083 Originals of: Sc Visual VRB 960-1003 Sc Visual DVD-630-673 Service copies.