Marvel Cooke oral history interview

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unitid

{"value"=>"184397", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Sc MG 859", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"b22270707", "type"=>"local_b"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1989-1992", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1989/1992"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Marvel Cooke oral history interview"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 folders", "unit"=>"folders"}]}

repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

origination

{"value"=>"Cooke, Marvel Jackson, 1903-2000", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Marvel Cooke was a newspaper editor, publisher, magazine and journal editor, and print journalist. Born in April 1903, in Mankato, Minnesota, Cooke attended the University of Minnesota. She became an editorial assistant of the <span class=\"title\">Crisis</span> in New York (1925) and was the secretary to the women's editor at the <span class=\"title\">Amsterdam News</span> in 1928, where she also became the first female news reporter. In 1936, she joined the Communist Party and became the assistant managing editor of the <span class=\"title\">People's Voice</span>, a militant newspaper, in 1942. Cooke also was a reporter for the <span class=\"title\">Daily Compass</span> in New York (1950); the national legal defense secretary for the Angela Davis Defense Committee (1969); and the national vice chair of the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship (1980s). Cooke died in November 2000 in New York, New York.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>This collection includes an interview transcript with Marvel Cooke, conducted by Kathleen Currie, for the Washington Press Club Foundation project, \"Women in Journalism\". It was recorded in 1989. Additionally, there is correspondence between Cooke and the Foundation and a typescript draft of \"Marvel Cooke: An African American Woman Journalist Who Agitated for Racial Reform\" by Rodger Allan Streitmatter and Barbara Diggs-Brown for <span class=\"title\">Afro-Americans in New York Life and History</span>, #16 (July 1992).</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Roger Wilkins, 2012.</p>"}

bibliography

{"id"=>"aspace_08dcb70a89e892f5a1fc40ec9894a821", "value"=>"<p>Library of Congress. \"Cooke, Marvel Jackson, 1903-2000.\" Accessed Octrober 19, 2020, https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93010940.html.</p>"}

note

{"value"=>"Shares a box with other oral history transcripts so folder numbers are listed accordingly."}

date_start

1989

keydate

1989

date_end

1992

date_inclusive_start

1989

date_inclusive_end

1992

extent_statement

2 folders

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Item], Marvel Cooke oral history interview, Sc MG 859, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Marvel Cooke was a newspaper editor, publisher, magazine and journal editor, and print journalist. Born in April 1903, in Mankato, Minnesota, Cooke attended the University of Minnesota. She became an editorial assistant of the <span class=\"title\">Crisis</span> in New York (1925) and was the secretary to the women's editor at the <span class=\"title\">Amsterdam News</span> in 1928, where she also became the first female news reporter. In 1936, she joined the Communist Party and became the assistant managing editor of the <span class=\"title\">People's Voice</span>, a militant newspaper, in 1942. Cooke also was a reporter for the <span class=\"title\">Daily Compass</span> in New York (1950); the national legal defense secretary for the Angela Davis Defense Committee (1969); and the national vice chair of the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship (1980s). Cooke died in November 2000 in New York, New York. This collection includes an interview transcript with Marvel Cooke, conducted by Kathleen Currie, for the Washington Press Club Foundation project, \"Women in Journalism\". It was recorded in 1989. Additionally, there is correspondence between Cooke and the Foundation and a typescript draft of \"Marvel Cooke: An African American Woman Journalist Who Agitated for Racial Reform\" by Rodger Allan Streitmatter and Barbara Diggs-Brown for <span class=\"title\">Afro-Americans in New York Life and History</span>, #16 (July 1992).", "generated"=>true}

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