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Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : FEPC - US.

Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : FEPC - US.
Publication
1941-1950.

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r. 5: Education-North Carolina- v. 1-5, HaitiMixed materialUse in library Sc Micro R-707 r. 5: Education-North Carolina- v. 1-5, HaitiSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Mixed materialRestricted use Sc MG 958 (FEPC)Offsite

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Description
1 volume (50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
This scrapbook (1941-1950) is about the establishment and ongoing attempts to support of the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) and contains clippings from a variety of newspapers. Coverage includes the creation of the FEPC in 1941, which was intended to end discriminatory hiring practices in war-related work, and the ensuing battle to keep it open and viable. Clippings cover which politicians did or did not support the FEPC, underfunding of the committee, repeated use of filibustering to avoid progress, a rally at Madison Square Garden in support of the committee, and the involvement of the Communist Party. Publications include Daily Worker (New York), New York Post, and New York Times. Not all clippings include date and source information.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Alternative Title
FEPC - US
Subject
  • Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore, 1877-1947
  • Haas, Francis J. 1889-1953
  • McNutt, Paul V. 1891-1955
  • Ross, Malcolm, 1895-1965
  • Taft, Robert A. 1889-1953
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945
  • Schwellenbach, Lewis B. 1894-1948
  • National Negro Congress (U.S.)
  • United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice
  • Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation > United States
  • Discrimination in employment > African Americans > 20th century
  • United States > Politics and government > 1933-1953
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. 5
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 (FEPC)
OCLC
1099576631
Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : FEPC - US.
Production
1941-1950.
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. 5
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
FEPC - US
Research Call Number
Sc MG 958 (FEPC)
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