Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : March on Washington 1963.

Publication

1963.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 volume (53 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• This scrapbook is about the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, D.C. and contains clippings from a variety of newspapers. The clippings cover the preparation leading up to the march, including the assurance of cooperation by Washington, D.C. police, maps of the march route, and a meeting between President John F. Kennedy and the march organizers. Immediately following the march, the clippings provide recaps of the event, including the reported number of New York-based participants, the lack of chaos, the march being considered a success, and President Kennedy's support of the march and its leaders' goals.
• Publications include The Daily Worker (New York), New York Times, and Washington Post. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

March on Washington 1963

Subject

• Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
• Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
• Randolph, A. Philip 1889-1979
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
• Civil rights demonstrations > United States

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. 11

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 (March on Washington 1963)

OCLC

1101176617

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : March on Washington 1963.

Production

1963.

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. 11

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

March on Washington 1963

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (March on Washington 1963)