- Creator
- Metcalf, George R., 1914-2002
- Call number
- Sc MG 150
- Physical description
- 2 linear feet
- Preferred Citation
- George R. Metcalf papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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Writer, New York State senator (1951-1965), former president of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing. Collection comprises research material for Metcalf's two books, BLACK PROFILES (13 biographies of prominent African Americans living and deceased), and UP FROM WITHIN: TODAY'S BLACK LEADERS (a biographical sequence of emerging black personalities and their contributions to the "black revolution" in America). Material consists of clippings, correspondence, typescripts, transcribed interviews, notes and miscellaneous printed material, and one taped interview with Metcalf on a variety of topics including urban rehabilitation. Material in collection is about Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Roy Wilkins, Shirley Chisolm, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evers, Jackie Robinson, Eldridge Cleaver, Whitney Young, Jr., Harriet Tubman, Edward Brooke, Julian Bond, James H. Meredith, Andrew Brimmer, and others.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Metcalf, George R, 1975Key terms
Names
- Metcalf, George R., 1914-2002
- Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
- Brimmer, Andrew F.
- Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015
- Chisolm, Shirley, 1901-
- Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
- Meredith, James H., 1955-
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
- Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913
- Wilkins, Roy, 1901-
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
- Young, Whitney M.
Subjects
- African American athletes
- African American judges
- African American politicians
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Black nationalism -- United States
- Civil rights workers -- United States
Occupations
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor