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Call Number: 2010.019
Extent: 5.0 Linear feet, 9 boxes
This collection includes research materials, oral histories and photographs collected through the West Indian Carnival Documentation Project, undertaken by the Brooklyn Historical Society in the mid-1990s. The project attempted to supplement existing scholarship with oral histories done with members of the West Indian community and Carnival participants.
Names:
- Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- West Indian American Day Carnival Parade (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- West Indian-American Day Carnival Association
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Emigration and immigration
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History — 20th century
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
- Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — New York
- Caribbean Americans
- Caribbean Americans — New York (State) — New York
- Caribbean Americans — New York (State) — New York — History — 20th century
- Caribbean Americans — New York (State) — New York — Music
- Caribbean Americans — New York (State) — New York — Social life and customs
- Parades — New York (State) — New York
- West Indian Americans
Types of material:
- Oral histories (document genres)
- Photographs
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Call Number: 1978.009
Extent: 0.16 Linear feet, in two folders
The apartment building located at 959 Park Place in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn was sold to Katy Equities Corporation on September 29, 1967. These records, dated 1965 to 1968, pertain to that sale, as well as negotiations between the Tenants’ Association and Katy Equities concerning rent payments, painting, and general maintenance. The records include notices, receipts, letters, programs, and tickets for the tenant association.
Names:
- 959 Park Place Tenants Association (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Tenants’ associations — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Admission tickets
- Correspondence
- Programs (documents)
- Receipts (financial records)
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Call Number: ARC.002
Extent: 13.75 Linear feet, in 13 manuscript boxes, 5 record cartons, and 2 artifact boxes
The Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection consists principally of the subject files concerning 1960s civil rights activism maintained by Arnie Goldwag, an officer of Brooklyn CORE during the first half of the 1960s. These files include correspondence, newsletters, event announcements (e.g., fliers), directions for demonstrators, photographs, press releases, clippings, and other documents related to many of the actions conducted by Brooklyn CORE, particularly for the period 1961-1965. Actions represented in the collection include those protesting discrimination in employment, housing, schools, and the like, including the controversial initiative to block traffic in connection with the opening of the 1964 World’s Fair. The collection also includes reminiscences by Goldwag and other CORE members looking back from the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to Brooklyn CORE-related material, the collection includes material related to other 1960s activist groups, including those involved with civil rights, Vietnam War opposition, and draft resistance, among others.
Names:
- Committee for Peace Organization
- Goldwag, Arnold
- Lynn, Conrad J.
- Mitchell, David Henry
- Owens, Major R.
- Alliance for Jobs or Income Now (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Civil Rights Defense Committee (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Freedom & Peace Party of New York State
- Harlem Parents Committee
- Metropolitan Council on Housing (New York, N.Y.)
- New York World’s Fair (1964-1965)
- Peace and Freedom Party (U.S.)
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Youth Against War & Fascism
- End the Draft Committee
Places:
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History — Archival resources.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.) — History — Archival resources
Subjects:
- Children’s rights report
- Downdraft
- Ergo (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- African Americans — Civil rights — New York (State) — New York
- African Americans — Education — New York (State) — New York
- African Americans — Employment — New York (State) — New York
- African Americans — New York (State) — New York
- Civil disobedience — New York (State) — New York
- Civil rights demonstrations — New York (State) — New York
- Civil rights movements — New York (State) — New York
- Civil rights workers — New York (State) — New York
- De facto school segregation — New York (State) — New York
- Discrimination in employment — New York (State) — New York
- Discrimination in housing — New York (State) — New York
- Discrimination in public accommodations — Maryland — Cambridge
- Government, Resistance to — New York (State) — New York
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
- Minorities — Civil rights — New York (State) — New York
- Police patrol — Surveillance operations
- Race discrimination — New York (State) — New York
- Rent strikes — New York (State) — New York
- Reunions
- Tenants’ associations — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Books
- buttons (information artifacts)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Fliers (printed matter)
- lapel pins
- Leaflets (printed works)
- Pamphlets
- Photocopies
- Photographs
- Press releases
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Crown Heights Oral History – Listen To This, 2010. Sound recordings: 22 CDs (80 minutes each)
2010.020
This collection of 43 oral history interviews with Crown Heights residents was donated to the Brooklyn Historical Society by project director Alex Kelly. The interviews were conducted in 2010 with the help of the Crow Hill Community Association and five students from Paul Robeson High School who came to the project through the Brooklyn College Community Partnership (BCCP).
Recordings of these interviews and an accompanying guide are available in the library.
Crown Heights Oral History – Bridging Eastern Parkway, 1993-1994. Sound recordings: 40 cassettes (90 minutes each)
ArMs 1994.006
In 1993-1994, the Brooklyn Historical Society collected interviews with residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Thirty-three interviews were conducted by Craig Wilder, Jill Vexler, and Aviva Segall. The subtitle, Bridging Eastern Parkway, refers to racial tensions expressed during the 1991 Crown Heights riots. Narrators are of African American, Caribbean, Jewish, Polish, and Russian descent and include members of the Lubavitch community.
Transcripts of 24 interviews from this collection may be read in the library. Recordings are not currently available to researchers; we anticipate that recordings will be available for researchers to listen to in the library in the Spring of 2010.
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