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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"=>"78 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-eight 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 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. See the Related Materials note for more information.</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-eight 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#c1909616'>SERIES I: INTERVIEWS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains interviews arranged alphabetically by the interview subject's last name. Multiple interviews often appear on one recording, and have been described separately. 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, 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#c1909706'>SERIES II: EVENTS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains recordings of events that Nelson attended. The recordings are arranged chronologically. These include a campaign event for Reverend Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential primary and a broadcast of a debate; Nelson's 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 lawyer Alton H. 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#c1909721'>SERIES III: COLLECTED</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains seven recordings collected by Nelson. The recordings are arranged chronologically. They include music, phone conversations pertaining to a tenants' struggle to control four mismanaged buildings, and a radio interview with Marion Barry. Nelson appears in just one recording, a radio advertisement for C. Vernon Mason's 1985 campaign for Manhattan district attorney.</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 titles by Jill Nelson can be found in the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Films by Stanley Nelson can be found in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.</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."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Items' titles, scope and content notes, and AMI identifiers revised for clarity by Lyric Evans-Hunter.", "date"=>"2024-04-18"}
{"value"=>"Scope and content notes, and extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-05-29"}
- 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
- 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"}