Research Catalog

Title

Preston Wilcox audio and moving image collection : 533 items.

Author

Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006

Publication

[1985]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• AFRAM Associates.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

• 269 videocassettes
• 264 audiocassettes

Summary

The collection consists of 264 audio recordings, and 269 moving image recordings reflecting his career as an educator and community activist.

Subject

• Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006
• X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
• AFRAM Associates
• African American authors
• African American social workers
• Urban poor > United States
• Inner cities > United States
• African American educators
• African American political activists
• Schools > Decentralization > New York (State) > New York
• Urban renewal
• Community and school > New York (State) > New York
• Segregation in education > New York (State) > New York
• Community organization > New York (State) > New York
• East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions

Genre/Form

• Sound recordings.
• Video recordings.

Source (note)

• Preston Wilcox

Biography (note)

• From 1958 to 1964, Preston Wilcox worked as a tenant organizer and later as director of the East Harlem Project; as a program consultant to the East Harlem Summer Festival, a United Neighborhood Houses initiative designed to prevent juvenile delinquency; and as a consultant and catalyst for the Massive Economic Neighborhood Development (MEND), an anti-poverty program in East Harlem. He also participated as a social researcher in the Princeton University six week summer studies program for junior high school students that led to the nationally-funded Upward Bound Program. Known as "the father of school decentralization" in New York City, and "the leading theoretician of the community control movement," Wilcox was at the forefront of the campaigns at Intermediate School 201 in Harlem and later in the Ocean-Brownsville school district, for parent participation in curriculum development and in the hiring of school supervisors and teachers. A prolific writer, he authored in the period between 1963 and 1973 some 200 articles, position papers and essays on public education and community empowerment, published in professional journals and as chapters in books. He also taught courses in social work theory and community organization at Columbia University's School of Social Work between 1963 and 1968, and at Atlanta University, Medgar Evers College and other institutions of higher learning in the 1970s. Wilcox founded Afram Associates in 1968 as a public service agency to provide technical assistance to community groups in the areas of education, economic development and consumer rights. Between 1970 and 1975, Afram operated a parent-implemented program in education, funded by the Follow Through Program Division of Compensatory Education of the U.S. Office of Education, at eight Afram-affiliated sites in Arkansas, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Afram also operated a farm experiment, Afram Farm, in upstate New York, as a campsite and recreational center for urban-bound families and groups, and as a conference and rural educational research and study center. In later years, Afram evolved into a one-person alternative clearinghouse compiling and disseminating information relevant to the Black community. An admirer of Malcolm X, Wilcox kept an informal network of Malcolm X followers and former associates: the Malcolm X Lovers Network.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Preston Wilcox archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Preston Wilcox papers, 1940-2005. (Sc MG 235) . Photographs can be found in the Photograhs and Prints Division.

Call Number

Sc MIRS Wilcox 1985-39

OCLC

1182804706

Author

Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006, creator.

Title

Preston Wilcox audio and moving image collection : 533 items.

Publisher

[1985]

Biography

From 1958 to 1964, Preston Wilcox worked as a tenant organizer and later as director of the East Harlem Project; as a program consultant to the East Harlem Summer Festival, a United Neighborhood Houses initiative designed to prevent juvenile delinquency; and as a consultant and catalyst for the Massive Economic Neighborhood Development (MEND), an anti-poverty program in East Harlem. He also participated as a social researcher in the Princeton University six week summer studies program for junior high school students that led to the nationally-funded Upward Bound Program. Known as "the father of school decentralization" in New York City, and "the leading theoretician of the community control movement," Wilcox was at the forefront of the campaigns at Intermediate School 201 in Harlem and later in the Ocean-Brownsville school district, for parent participation in curriculum development and in the hiring of school supervisors and teachers. A prolific writer, he authored in the period between 1963 and 1973 some 200 articles, position papers and essays on public education and community empowerment, published in professional journals and as chapters in books. He also taught courses in social work theory and community organization at Columbia University's School of Social Work between 1963 and 1968, and at Atlanta University, Medgar Evers College and other institutions of higher learning in the 1970s. Wilcox founded Afram Associates in 1968 as a public service agency to provide technical assistance to community groups in the areas of education, economic development and consumer rights. Between 1970 and 1975, Afram operated a parent-implemented program in education, funded by the Follow Through Program Division of Compensatory Education of the U.S. Office of Education, at eight Afram-affiliated sites in Arkansas, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Afram also operated a farm experiment, Afram Farm, in upstate New York, as a campsite and recreational center for urban-bound families and groups, and as a conference and rural educational research and study center. In later years, Afram evolved into a one-person alternative clearinghouse compiling and disseminating information relevant to the Black community. An admirer of Malcolm X, Wilcox kept an informal network of Malcolm X followers and former associates: the Malcolm X Lovers Network.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Preston Wilcox archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Preston Wilcox papers, 1940-2005. (Sc MG 235) . Photographs can be found in the Photograhs and Prints Division.

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Added Author

AFRAM Associates.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research Call Number

Sc MIRS Wilcox 1985-39