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- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1960s-2003", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1960/2003"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Preston Wilcox photographs"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.38 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Preston Wilcox (1923-2006) was a Black educator, sociologist, and community organizer. Wilcox was at the forefront of the community control movement in the mid-1960s, and founded AFRAM Associates, a public service agency in Harlem, in 1968. The Preston Wilcox photographs, dated from the 1960s to 2003, showcase his personal life and AFRAM Associates' community work via photographic prints, slides, and negatives."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Wilcox, Preston, 1923-2006", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Original biography written by Serena Torres. Additions written by Em Longan in 2023.</p> <p>Preston Rosenthal Wilcox was born on December 27, 1923 in Youngstown, Ohio, to John Wilcox and Ida Mae Rousseau Wilcox. An avid basketball player, Wilcox played for Rayen High School, Morehouse College, and the New York Gothams. He left Morehouse after a year and joined the United States Army in 1942. After his discharge in 1946, Wilcox moved to Brooklyn, New York, where his mother had relocated. He enrolled in City College and completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1949, and later earned a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University in 1956.</p> <p>Wilcox married Katherine Knight in 1951. They had three children together: Gwynne Alicia, David Preston, and Susan Elise. Wilcox and Knight later divorced, and in 1974, Wilcox had a daughter, Liana Amani, with Marylyn Yangson. Also in 1974, Wilcox was severely injured in an automobile accident, which affected him for the rest of his life.</p> <p>Known as \"the father of school decentralization\" in New York City, and \"the leading theoretician of the community control movement,\" Wilcox was at the forefront of the campaigns at Intermediate School 201 in Harlem and later in the Ocean-Brownsville school district, for parent participation in curriculum development, and in the hiring of school supervisors and teachers. Between 1963 and 1973, Wilcox authored approximately 200 articles, position papers, and essays on public eduction and community empowerment. His work was published in professional journals and as chapters in books. Wilcox also taught courses in social work theory and community organization at Columbia University's School of Social Work between 1963 and 1968, at Atlanta University, Medgar Evers College, and other institutions of higher learning in the 1970s.</p> <p>In 1968, Wilcox founded the National Association of African American Educators (NAAAE). In the same year, he founded AFRAM Associates, a public service agency that provided technical assistance to community groups in education, economic development, and consumer rights. Between 1970 and 1975, AFRAM operated a parent-implemented program in education, funded by the Follow Through Program Division of Compensatory Education of the United States Office of Education, at eight AFRAM-affiliated sites in Arkansas, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. AFRAM also operated a farm experiment, AFRAM Farm, in upstate New York, as a campsite and recreational center for urban-bound families and groups, and as a conference and rural educational research and study center. In later years, AFRAM evolved into a one-person alternative clearinghouse compiling and disseminating information relevant to the Black community. An admirer of Malcolm X, Wilcox kept an informal network of Malcolm X followers and former associates: the Malcolm X Lovers Network.</p> <p>Preston Wilcox died in his East Harlem home on August 12, 2006.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Preston Wilcox photographs date approximately from the 1960s to 2003, and chronicle Wilcox's personal life and the work of AFRAM Associates in Harlem. Loose prints, negatives, contact sheets, and slides are arranged by topic into Personal and AFRAM Associates files.</p> <p>Personal photographs date from 1964 to 2001, and include prints, slides, and negatives. Images portray Wilcox, friends, and family at private events such as social gatherings, graduation ceremonies, cookouts, and holiday celebrations. There are also some photographs from Wilcox's travels to Africa and Asia.</p> <p>Loose prints, slides, and contact sheets illustrate AFRAM Associates' dual work as a public service agency and community archive documenting Black society and culture. These images are dated from approximately the late 1960s to 2003, and are arranged topically into local and national conferences; day-to-day life in Harlem; examples of community-controlled schools; and images of notable Black individuals. Individuals present in the collection include Mae C. Jemison; Clara (Mother) Hale; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; and James Baldwin.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Preston Wilcox in 1985 and 2005.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Photographs transferred from the Preston Wilcox papers in Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Em Longan</span> in <span class=\"date\">2023.</span></p>"}
- date_start
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1960
- keydate
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1960
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2003
- date_inclusive_start
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1960
- date_inclusive_end
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2003
- extent_statement
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1.38 linear feet (4 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Preston Wilcox photographs, Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}