Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Ku Klux Klan.

Publication

1920-1965.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

4 volumes (43; 57; 35; 83 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• These scrapbooks (1920-1965) are about the Ku Klux Klan and contain clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. They mainly cover the rise of the second Klan in the southern United States, detailing their activities, including floggings, cross burnings, voter intimidation, and threats towards African Americans, Jewish people, Catholics, and their white allies. The scrapbooks also cover the Klan's sponsorship of an amateur baseball team in Tennessee, an ongoing conflict with Native Americans in North Carolina, and the arrests and trials of several Klan members.
• Scrapbook 4 is labeled "Clippings from the Stetson Kennedy Papers," and includes local newspapers from towns in the southern United States.
• Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Defender, New York Age, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus, as well as New York Herald Tribune, 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

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

• Ku Klux Klan
• Boston chronicle
• Philadelphia tribune
• St. Louis argus

Subjects

• Detroit (Mich.)
• Alabama
• Florida
• Evans, H. W (Hiram Wesley)
• African Americans > Segregation > 20th century
• Stone Mountain (Ga.)
• Hate groups > United States > 20th century
• Violence > United States > 20th century
• Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971
• New Jersey
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• African Americans > Crimes against > 20th century
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)
• South Carolina
• Simmons, W. J (William Joseph), 1880-1945
• Georgia
• Scrapbooks
• African Americans > Violence against > 20th century
• Hate crimes > United States > 20th century
• Voter intimidation > United States > 20th century
• Racism > United States > 20th century

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 this volume are EJ, EW, GG, JC, LS, MPT, MS, MW, and VK.
• 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, assigned to the 135th St. branch through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 8

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 (Ku Klux Klan)

OCLC

1100768537

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Ku Klux Klan.

Production

1920-1965.

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. 8

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

Location of Other Archival Materials

For more information on Stetson Kennedy, see Stetson Kennedy collection, 1916-1950 (Sc Micro R-3548) and Stetson Kennedy photograph collection [graphic] (Sc Photo Stetson Kennedy Collection).

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

Ku Klux Klan

Added Title

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

Chicago defender.

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

Pittsburgh courier.

Boston chronicle

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Ku Klux Klan)