- unitid
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{"value"=>"25629", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 779", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b17964879", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1987-2001", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1987/2001"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Action for Community Empowerment records"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7.0 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Action for Community Empowerment (ACE) was a grassroots community development non-profit organization based in Central Harlem dedicated to decent housing, safe neighborhoods, and tenant empowerment. The Action for Community Empowerment records, 1987-2006, contain information regarding ACE's efforts to improve housing and organize tenants in Central Harlem from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Action for Community Empowerment (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Action for Community Empowerment (ACE) was a grassroots community development non-profit organization based in Central Harlem dedicated to decent housing, safe neighborhoods, and tenant empowerment. ACE, formerly known as the Hotel Tenants Rights Project, was formed in 1987 by the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ in an attempt to organize the tenants of various government-subsidized affordable housing buildings (\"welfare hotels\") in Manhattan.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Action for Community Empowerment Records, 1987-2006 contain information regarding ACE's efforts in the late 1980s to organize tenants of the Martinique and the Prince Georges hotels, two low-income housing developments. The bulk of the collection, however, deals with ACE's efforts to improve housing and organize tenants in Central Harlem from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. In addition, there is information documenting a youth employment program; tenant rights \"door knocking\" campaign; HPD building condition surveys; and correspondence with City officials and local politicians. Copies of ACE's newsletter, the <span class=\"title\">Catalyst</span>, as well as grant applications and documents describing fundraising efforts, also are found in the collection. ACE's alpha-numeric filing system has been maintained in boxes 1-3, however a chronological system was imposed on the files in box 4 and 5. The files in box 7 are restricted because they contain personal information on former ACE clients and employees.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Action for Community Empowerment records are arranged in seven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25629#c1601190'>Youth programs and tenant organizing</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1994-2001</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes files related to ACE's youth employment and outreach programs; tenant organizing campaign materials; and documentation of ACE's partnerships with various New York City community development organizations such as ACORN, Harlem Tenants' Council, and the Fifth Avenue Committee.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25629#c1601238'>Tenants rights</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1990-1998</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of files documenting ACE's tenant rights \"Door Knocking\" campaign; negotiations and correspondence with New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development officials and tenants; community empowerment workshops; and information pertaining to ACE's annual membership retreats.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25629#c1601308'>Membership retreats and fundraising</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1989-1998</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains files relating to ACE membership retreats, city and state legislative hearings, tenant and youth surveys, and information pertaining to ACE grant writing and fundraising efforts during the early 1990s.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25629#c1601358'>Reports, press releases, and minutes</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1988-2001</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The contents of this box are arranged chronologically from 1988 to 2001 and include a wide variety of ACE documents such as press releases, annual reports, monthly program reports, workshop curriculum, and membership attendance sheets.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25629#c1601477'>Hotel Tenants Rights Project</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>ca. 1987</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The files in the first third of this box contain various ACE documents arranged chronologically from 1993 to 2001. The remaining files include documents relating to ACE's formative years when it was known as the Hotel Tenants Rights Project, information regarding anti-homelessness campaigns, information pertaining to ACE's involvement with properties owned by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and other ACE documents.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25629#c1601528'>Affordable housing</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1987-1994</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>These files include documentation of ACE's tenant organizing efforts in various Manhattan government subsidized affordable housing buildings (\"welfare hotels\") such as the Harriet Tubman Family Living Center, the Prince George Hotel, and the Martinique Hotel; copies of ACE's <span class=\"title\">Catalyst</span> newsletter; outreach letters to politicians; and other ACE documents.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25629#c1601581'>Membership</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>early 1990s</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains restricted material of tenant satisfaction and building condition surveys from residents living in several Department of Housing Preservation and Development properties in Central Harlem during the early 1990s.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged loosely into 7 series based on the contents of each box: I. Youth programs and tenant organizing; II. Tenant rights; III. Membership retreats and fundraising; IV. Reports, press releases, and minutes; V. Hotel Tenants Rights Project; VI. Affordable housing; and VII. Membership.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Jacqueline Mason-Francis, 2007.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Artis Q. Wright, June 2008.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Box 7 is closed due to privacy issues.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2020 October 20"}
- date_start
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1987
- keydate
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1987
- date_end
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2001
- date_inclusive_start
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1987
- date_inclusive_end
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2001
- extent_statement
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7.0 linear feet (7 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Action for Community Empowerment records, Sc MG 779, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}