Scope and arrangement
Arrangement
Arranged first by the James G. Spady collection, then generally in alphabetical order by individual or organization name.
Launched around 2014, the Schomburg Center's Hip-Hop Archive Project aimed to engage activists, writers, collectors, and scholars in documenting the early movement from the mid-1970s. Schomburg Center staff Steven Fullwood and Lela Sowell led the effort. It is unclear when the Project ended. This collection consists of primary source resource materials such as oral histories with journalist Harry Allen and the Awesome 2 (Teddy Tedd, and Special K); promotional materials for Echo Park, "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes and Rage," and "Hip Hop Appreciation Week." There is also information about the Zulu Nation and KRS-One's Temple of Hiphop; a complete run of the International Graffiti Times; the Kid n Play comic series; and various journals, magazines, newspapers, articles, books, theses, and dissertations on hip-hop from various collectors, including James G. Spady and James Top.
Arranged first by the James G. Spady collection, then generally in alphabetical order by individual or organization name.
Stickers donated by Brett Crenshaw, September 2000; James Spady material, gift of James Spady, November 2004; and some material purchased from George Robert Minkoff Rare Books, June 2006.
Accessioned by Steven G. Fullwood, December 2004.
Transferred to the General Research and Reference Division: books and periodicals.
Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.