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{"value"=>"186359", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22244710", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Nelson 1992-19", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1979-1990", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1979/1990"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Jill Nelson audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"75 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Jill Nelson (1952-) is a journalist and writer. The collection consists of seventy-five audio recordings, mostly interviews, dating from 1979 to 1990."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Nelson, Jill", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Jill Nelson (1952-) is a journalist and writer. Born to Stanley Nelson, Sr., a dentist, and A'lelia Nelson, a librarian, Nelson was raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She grew up attending private schools, vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, and spending time in Harlem with her three siblings, Ralph, Lynn, and Stanley. Stanley Nelson became a well-known documentary filmmaker, whose numerous works include <span class=\"title\">The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution</span> (2015), and <span class=\"title\">Freedom Summer: Mississippi 1964</span> (2014).</p> <p>Nelson attended City College of New York and earned her journalism degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her thesis \"Dope Kids of 115th Street,\" was published on the front page of the <span class=\"title\">Village Voice</span> in 1980 and she began writing as a freelancer for <span class=\"title\">Essence</span> magazine. In 1986, she moved to Washington D.C. to work for the <span class=\"title\">Washington Post</span>, where she conducted many of the collection's interviews with Black activists, artists, public figures, and city residents until 1990. Her experience at the <span class=\"title\">Washington Post</span> inspired her American Book Award-winning memoir <span class=\"title\">Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience</span>, located in the Schomburg Center's Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division.</p> <p>Nelson is the author of four other books, and she is the editor of <span class=\"title\">Police Brutality: An Anthology</span>. Her writing has appeared in numerous other publications including the <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span>. She was a professor of Journalism at the City College of New York from 1998 to 2003. Nelson is married to Flores Forbes, an urban planner, a professor of law at Columbia University, and a former Black Panther.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of seventy-five audio recordings reflecting Nelson's career as a journalist from 1979 to 1990. The collection's original format is cassette, with many items containing two or more parts. Square brackets indicate partial information or unclear spelling.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Jill Nelson audio collection is arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/186359#c1731092'>SERIES I: INTERVIEWS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The collection contains fifty-nine recordings of interviews arranged alphabetically by the interview subject's last name. Nelson conducted the interviews for articles that she wrote for the <span class=\"title\">Washington Post Magazine</span> and <span class=\"title\">Essence</span> magazine. Her interviewees include notable figures such as actor Avery Brooks, political activist Sekou Odinga, musician Diana Ross, and educator and activist Jitu Weusi. Other interviews cover the breadth of her reporting topics, including youth, mental health, and local businesses, as well as police brutality and the U.S. justice system, the Black Liberation Army, and the 1979 Grenadian revolution and the subsequent U.S. invasion of 1983.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/186359#c1731179'>SERIES II: EVENTS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The collection contains recordings of events that Nelson attended. The recordings are arranged chronologically. These include Reverend Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential primary debates, her participation in a panel at a conference of the National Association of Black Journalists in 1986, where she speaks about the responsibility of Black journalists to challenge racist media narratives, an opening statement delivered by Alton Maddox, Jr. during a court trial, and lectures by clinical psychologist Dr. Na'im Akbar.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/186359#c1731197'>SERIES III: COLLECTED</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The collection contains seven recordings in which she does not appear. The recordings are arranged chronologically. They include a campaign spot for C. Vernon Mason recorded off the radio, music, phone conversations pertaining to a tenants' struggle to control four mismanaged buildings, and a radio interview with Marion Barry.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Jill Nelson, 2002.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Jill Nelson papers, Sc MG 457.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Lyric Evans-Hunter</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Nonfiction books by Jill Nelson include: <span class=\"title\">Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience</span> (1993), Sc D 96-560; <span class=\"title\">Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-up Black Woman</span> (1997), Sc D 97-2481; <span class=\"title\">Police Brutality: An Anthology</span> (2000), Sc E 00-657; and <span class=\"title\">Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island</span> (2005), Sc D 22-149.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- date_start
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1979
- keydate
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1979
- date_end
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1990
- date_inclusive_start
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1979
- date_inclusive_end
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1990
- extent_statement
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75 audio_recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Jill Nelson audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}