Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Civil Rights.

Publication

1921-1961.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

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

Summary

• 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.
• 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

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

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

• Civil Rights
• Boston chronicle
• Chicago defender
• Louisiana weekly
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• St. Louis argus

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks.

Note

• Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
• 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.
• 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)

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

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 (Civil Rights)

OCLC

1099525418

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Civil Rights.

Production

1921-1961.

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. 2

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

Local Subject

National Citizens Council on Civil Rights

Negro Freedom Rally 1944

Spine Title

Civil Rights

Added Title

Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)

New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)

Pittsburgh courier.

Boston chronicle

Chicago defender

Louisiana weekly

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Civil Rights)