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.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6775114

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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James Weldon Johnson Community Centers, Inc. was established in 1948 by a coalition of community service organizations and settlement houses, including Community Service Society and Union Settlement Association, to provide social services to residents of James Weldon Johnson Houses, a New York City Housing Authority project in the East Harlem area of Manhattan. In 1952 the agency became a member of United Neighborhood Houses of New York, Inc., an umbrella organization of settlement houses. By th...

Union Settlement Association (New York, N.Y.)

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