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Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Basketball.

Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Basketball.
Publication
1931-1961.

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Description
4 volumes (46; 53; 54; 60 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
  • These scrapbooks (1931-1961) are about African Americans in basketball, and contain clippings from a variety of newspapers. Coverage primarily includes daily high school, college, and professional basketball news: player signings and trades, game recaps, and player features, as well as articles about segregation and racism throughout the sport. There is a particular focus on the Harlem Globetrotters and the New York Knicks.
  • African American players covered include Dick Barnett, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton, Walt Dukes, Boo Ellis, Wayne Embry, Ray Felix, Willie Gardner, Sihugo Green, Johnny Green, Hal Greer, Sam Jones, Junius Kellogg, Floyd Layne, Meadowlark Lemon, Willie Naulls, Cal Ramsey, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Tom Sanders, Ray Scott, Tom Stith, Maurice Stokes, Goose Tatum, Frank Thomas, Chet Walker, and Ed Warner.
  • Publications represented include Daily Worker (New York), New York Post, New York Times, and Time magazine (New York). Not all clippings include date or source information.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Alternative Title
Basketball
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Clippings (information artifacts)
  • Scrapbooks.
Note
  • Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
Access (note)
  • Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1
Cite As (note)
  • Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Terms of Use (note)
  • Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
Biography (note)
  • 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)
  • 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
Call Number
Sc MG 958 (Basketball)
OCLC
1091358301
Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Basketball.
Production
1931-1961.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Restricted Access
Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1
Cite As:
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Terms Of Use
Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
Biography
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
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
Spine Title
Basketball
Research Call Number
Sc MG 958 (Basketball)
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