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Harlem Neighborhoods Association records
- Title
- Harlem Neighborhoods Association records, 1941-1978.
- Author
- Harlem Neighborhoods Association.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 364 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 364 Box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 364 Box 3 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 4 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 364 Box 4 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 5 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 364 Box 5 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 6 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 364 Box 6 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 7 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 364 Box 7 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 8 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 364 Box 8 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 2.7 lin. ft. (8 boxes)
- Summary
- The Harlem Neighborhoods Association records chronicle the deteriorating quality of life in Harlem from the 1940s to the late 1970s. The collection consists of correspondence and memoranda, board of directors and committee minutes, financial reports, publicity and outreach materials, membership lists and printed matter. The committee and program files document an ongoing organizational concern for chronic social dysfunction and urban poverty in Harlem. The most substantive files are the Day Care Committee, 1952-1956; the Housing Committee, 1952-1956; the Recreation Committee, 1948-1958; the Parents Committee, 1952-1968, and several youth related programs spanning from 1948 to 1963. Other substantive issues include: school decentralization in Harlem, urban renewal, drug prevention and family planning. Frequent correspondents include James H. Robinson who served as chairman of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, Harriet Pickens and Mildred Fisher, respectively chairperson and executive secrtary of the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning, and committee chairpersons Exie Welsch, Eugene Houston and Gertrude Tanneyhill. Also included is a scrapbook of articles and other printed matter documenting local efforts in 1963 to raise funds for the construction of a two-hundred bed hospital in Mount Morris Park.
- Subjects
- Social service and race relations > New York (State) > New York
- Harlem Neighborhoods Association
- West Harlem Council of Social Agencies
- African Americans > Housing > New York (State) > New York
- African American youth > Services for > New York (State) > New York
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Archival resources
- Mount Morris Hospital
- African Americans > Hospitals > New York (State) > New York
- Central Harlem Council for Community Planning
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions
- Community development, Urban > New York (State) > New York
- Pickens, Harriet, 1909-1969
- Urban renewal > New York (State) > New York
- Schools > Decentralization > New York (State) > New York
- Day care centers > New York (State) > New York
- Community organization > New York (State) > New York
- Slums > New York (State) > New York
- Note
- Eight photographs of the United Hospital Fund Campaign Committee of Mount Morris Hospital transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Biography (note)
- Launched in 1937 as the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, the Harlem Neighborhoods Association served as a clearinghouse for various social agencies and community organizations operating in Harlem until 1978. The West Harlem Council of Social Agencies began with an informal group of social service professionals which met in 1934 to deal with relief problems caused by the Depression. It gained affiliation with the Welfare and Health Council of New York City in the early 1940s and subsequently changed its name to the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning. The Welfare and Health Council ended its affiliation and funding programs with regional councils in 1956. As a result, the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning discontinued its exclusive relationship with social agencies and became a community and social planning group, with a new emphasis on grassroots participation. A founding community meeting was held in 1959 and the organization renamed itself the Harlem Neighborhoods Association (HANA). For the next fifteen years, the new group organized public campaigns in Harlem around such issues as drug prevention and rehabilitation, housing renovation, school desegregation and decentralization, community control, day care facilities for children, better hospitals, and youth services. HANA was one of the initial sponsors of "Harlem Youth Day" and was instrumental in setting up a mental health clinic at Harlem Hospital. The organization faded out of existence after 1976.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository.
- Provenance (note)
- Papers salvaged by Schomburg Center staff on the grounds of a building under renovation at 200 West 135th Street in Harlem.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 364
- OCLC
- 122532700
- Author
- Harlem Neighborhoods Association.
- Title
- Harlem Neighborhoods Association records, 1941-1978.
- Biography
- Launched in 1937 as the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, the Harlem Neighborhoods Association served as a clearinghouse for various social agencies and community organizations operating in Harlem until 1978. The West Harlem Council of Social Agencies began with an informal group of social service professionals which met in 1934 to deal with relief problems caused by the Depression. It gained affiliation with the Welfare and Health Council of New York City in the early 1940s and subsequently changed its name to the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning. The Welfare and Health Council ended its affiliation and funding programs with regional councils in 1956. As a result, the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning discontinued its exclusive relationship with social agencies and became a community and social planning group, with a new emphasis on grassroots participation. A founding community meeting was held in 1959 and the organization renamed itself the Harlem Neighborhoods Association (HANA). For the next fifteen years, the new group organized public campaigns in Harlem around such issues as drug prevention and rehabilitation, housing renovation, school desegregation and decentralization, community control, day care facilities for children, better hospitals, and youth services. HANA was one of the initial sponsors of "Harlem Youth Day" and was instrumental in setting up a mental health clinic at Harlem Hospital. The organization faded out of existence after 1976.
- Provenance
- Papers salvaged by Schomburg Center staff on the grounds of a building under renovation at 200 West 135th Street in Harlem.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Pickens, Harriet, 1909-1969.Fisher, Mildred.Robinson, James H.Welsch, Exie.Tanneyhill, Gertrude.Houston, Donald Eugene, 1938-Central Harlem Council for Community Planning.Harlem Neighborhoods Association.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 364