Papers, 1897-1994 (bulk 1935-1990).

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Papers, 1897-1994 (bulk 1935-1990).

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Correspondence, memoranda, subject and project files, speeches and writings, transcripts of interviews and testimony, book drafts, minutes, reports, administrative, academic, and financial records, printed matter, and secondary background material. The bulk of the collection (1935-1990) relates to Clark's career as a psychologist and professor at the City College of New York, his contributions to the African American civil rights movement and equal educational opportunities, and his various consulting firms, especially Metropolitan Applied Research Center, a group he organized in New York, N.Y., to advocate for the urban poor and disadvantaged. Topics include the psychological effects of racial discrimination and segregation, school integration, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, riots in Harlem, New York, N.Y., the integration of public schools in Little Rock, Ark., and the work of psychologist Otto Klineberg. Clark's work with his wife, child psychologist Mamie Phipps Clark, with whom he founded the Northside Center for Child Development, New York, N.Y., is also documented. Other affiliations represented include Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU), Intergroup Committee on New York's Public Schools, Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Child Labor Committee, National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Also includes records of the Central Division, Brooklyn, N.Y., of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (1922-1962). Correspondents include Gordon W. Allport, Hubert T. Delany, Alfred Lee McClung, Gardner Murphy, A. Philip Randolph, Louis L. Redding, and Elizabeth Avery Waring.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Randolph, A. Philip, 1889-1979

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Asa Philip Randolph (born April 15, 1889, Cresent City, Florida-died May 16, 1979, New York City), African-American labor leader and early civil rights spokesman. Influenced by the socialism of Eugene Debs, Randolph began publishing his magazine The Messenger in 1917. He opposed U.S. entry into the first World War. In 1925 he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His associations with Bayard Rustin and James Farmer influenced his dedication to nonviolence. Randolph was a founder of ...

National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)

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Founded in 1904 under the leadership of Edgar G. Murphy, Felix Adler, Samuel McCune Lindsay, Owen Lovejoy, and A.J. McKelway. Its aims were legislation, investigation, and publicity to promote the interests of children. From the description of Records, 1914-1943. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122421727 The National Child Labor Committee was formed after a conference held in New York between Edgar Gardner Murphy's Alabama Child Labor Commi...

Northside Center for Child Development

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The Northside Center for Child Development is a child guidance clinic for troubled children in New York City founded in 1946 by Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark and Dr. Kenneth B. Clark. From the guide to the Northside Center for Child Development records, 1947-1972, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Klineberg, Otto, 1899-1992

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Psychologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Otto Klineberg : oral history, 1984. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743413 ...

McClung, Alfred Lee

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Metropolitan Applied Research Center

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Universal negro improvement association

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International black fraternal and philanthropic organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey. Originally designed to promote Pan-Africanism, it later developed into a radical political organization which advocated the repatriation of blacks to Africa. From the description of Records 1921-1986. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17975241 The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA) was founded in Jamaica on August 1, 1914...

Delany, Hubert T.

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Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940

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Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005

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Psychologist and educator. From the description of Kenneth Bancroft Clark papers, 1897-1994 (bulk 1935-1990). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982674 Social psychologist, educator, and author. From the description of Audio materials, 1950-1975 [sound recording]. 1950-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723090 African American psychologist and educator. From the description of Papers, 1897-1994 (bulk 1935-1990). (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Allport, Gordon W. (Gordon Willard), 1897-1967

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Allport earned his Harvard AB in 1919, his AM in 1921 and his PhD in 1922. From the description of The study of character : historical views and the empirical approach, May 1921. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075455 Allport graduated from Harvard in 1919 and taught psychology and social ethics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Gordon W. Allport, 1907-ca. 1974 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972973 ...

HARYOU (Organization)

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Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education

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Murphy, Gardner, 1895-1979‏

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Psychologist and parapsychologist. From the description of Papers, 1938-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155494325 Research director at the Menninger Foundation in Kansas and at different times the president of both the American Psychological Association and the American Society of Psychical Research. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1945-1963. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585542 ...

Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (1950 :

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City University of New York. City College

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Society for the psychological study of social issues

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Waring, Elizabeth

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Intergroup Committee on New York's Public Schools

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National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students

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Clark, Mamie Phipps

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Child psychologist; interviewee married Kenneth B. Clark. From the description of Reminiscences of Mamie Phipps Clark : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309729829 ...

Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961

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