Research Catalog

Title

Christiane C. Collins audio collection : 11 items.

Author

Collins, Christiane Crasemann

Publication

[1988]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

11 audiocassettes

Summary

The collection consists of 11 audio recordings documenting the protests against Columbia University's expansionist plans in Manhattan's Morningside Heights and Morningside Park.

Subject

• Columbia University
• Columbia University > Administration
• Columbia University > Strikes
• Columbia University > Students
• Columbia University. Urban Center
• Morningside Park Association
• Architects' Renewal Committee in Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• West Harlem Coalition for Morningside Park
• Student movements > New York (State) > New York
• Students > Political activity
• Student strikes > New York (State) > New York
• Teacher-student relationships > New York (State) > New York
• Teacher participation in administration > New York (State) > New York
• Universities and colleges > New York (State) > New York
• Campus planning > New York (State) > New York
• Urban renewal > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Race relations
• Morningside Heights (N.Y.)
• Morningside Park (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

Sound recordings.

Biography (note)

• The Christiane C. Collins Collection of the West Harlem Coalition for Morningside Park and Urban Problems of the Contiguous Communities: West Harlem, Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights and Manhattanville documents Columbia University's expansionist plans in Manhattan's Morningside Heights and Morningside Park, and subsequent protests on the part of the community and students in the 1960's and 1970's with the aftermath extending into the 1980's. The materials in this collection were gathered by Christiane Crasemann Collins and her husband Professor George R. Collins, long-time residents of Morningside Heights. Mrs. Collins, an art librarian at the Parsons School of Design (1973-1983), was an active member of the West Side Coalition for Morningside Park. Due to her deep-seated interest in the community's welfare and human rights issues, and her professional specialization in architectural history, she was convinced that the events as they were occurring in Morningside Heights were significant and that it was her “duty” to document the upheavals which took place during this period. She was an unofficial Morningside Park historian and wrote articles about the park for the local newspaper, The Westsider. Dr. George Collins, professor of art history and an architectural historian at Columbia University, was involved in community- university relations as early as the mid-1950's when he began protesting Columbia's expansionist plans. He also became an active member of the University Senate's Committee on Community Relations following the upheavals in the spring of 1968. Professor Collins retired from Columbia University in approximately 1986.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Christiane C. Collins archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Christiane C. Collins collection. (Sc MG 299). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Christiane C. Collins Collection).

Call Number

Sc MIRS Collins 1988-12

OCLC

1191253252

Author

Collins, Christiane Crasemann, collector.

Title

Christiane C. Collins audio collection : 11 items.

Publisher

[1988]

Biography

The Christiane C. Collins Collection of the West Harlem Coalition for Morningside Park and Urban Problems of the Contiguous Communities: West Harlem, Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights and Manhattanville documents Columbia University's expansionist plans in Manhattan's Morningside Heights and Morningside Park, and subsequent protests on the part of the community and students in the 1960's and 1970's with the aftermath extending into the 1980's. The materials in this collection were gathered by Christiane Crasemann Collins and her husband Professor George R. Collins, long-time residents of Morningside Heights. Mrs. Collins, an art librarian at the Parsons School of Design (1973-1983), was an active member of the West Side Coalition for Morningside Park. Due to her deep-seated interest in the community's welfare and human rights issues, and her professional specialization in architectural history, she was convinced that the events as they were occurring in Morningside Heights were significant and that it was her “duty” to document the upheavals which took place during this period. She was an unofficial Morningside Park historian and wrote articles about the park for the local newspaper, The Westsider. Dr. George Collins, professor of art history and an architectural historian at Columbia University, was involved in community- university relations as early as the mid-1950's when he began protesting Columbia's expansionist plans. He also became an active member of the University Senate's Committee on Community Relations following the upheavals in the spring of 1968. Professor Collins retired from Columbia University in approximately 1986.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Christiane C. Collins archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Christiane C. Collins collection. (Sc MG 299). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Christiane C. Collins Collection).

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Added Author

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

Research Call Number

Sc MIRS Collins 1988-12