James Weldon Johnson Community Centers, Inc. records 1942-1988 (bulk 1948-1970

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James Weldon Johnson Community Centers, Inc. records 1942-1988 (bulk 1948-1970

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The records include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, program files, newsclippings, brochures, administrative records, reports, funding proposals, executive director files, and photographs. They document the agency from its founding and provide evidence of economic and social conditions, political activity, philanthropy and social work in East Harlem over a forty year period, with a strong emphasis on the 1950s and 1960s.

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

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