Harlem Neighborhoods Association records 1941-1978

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Harlem Neighborhoods Association records 1941-1978

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The Harlem Neighborhoods Association records chronicle the deteriorating quality of life in Harlem from the 1940s to the late 1970s. The collection consists of correspondence and memoranda, board of directors and committee minutes, financial reports, publicity and outreach materials, membership lists and printed matter. The committee and program files document an ongoing organizational concern for chronic social dysfunction and urban poverty in Harlem. The most substantive files are the Day Care Committee, 1952-1956; the Housing Committee, 1952-1956; the Recreation Committee, 1948-1958; the Parents Committee, 1952-1968, and several youth related programs spanning from 1948 to 1963. Other substantive issues include: school decentralization in Harlem, urban renewal, drug prevention and family planning. Frequent correspondents include James H. Robinson who served as chairman of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, Harriet Pickens and Mildred Fisher, respectively chairperson and executive secrtary of the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning, and committee chairpersons Exie Welsch, Eugene Houston and Gertrude Tanneyhill. Also included is a scrapbook of articles and other printed matter documenting local efforts in 1963 to raise funds for the construction of a two-hundred bed hospital in Mount Morris Park.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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Houston, Eugene

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Fisher, Mildred

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Harlem Neighborhoods Association.

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Launched in 1937 as the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, the Harlem Neighborhoods Association served as a clearinghouse for various social agencies and community organizations operating in Harlem until 1978. The West Harlem Council of Social Agencies began with an informal group of social service professionals which met in 1934 to deal with relief problems caused by the Depression. It gained affiliation with the Welfare and Health Council of New York City in the e...

Central Harlem Council for Community Planning.

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Robinson, James H., 1907-1972

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Mount Morris Tuberculosis Hospital

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Welsch, Exie

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Tanneyhill, Gertrude

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Pickens, Harriet

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West Harlem Council of Social Agencies.

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