- unitid
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{"value"=>"186630", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22262095", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Browne 1985-40", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1968 May 27-28", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1968-05-27/1968-05-28"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Robert Span Browne audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 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"=>"Robert Span Browne (1924-2004) was an economist who worked to promote Black economic development. The collection consists of four audio recordings of a 1968 conference organized in part by the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers, an organization of Black broadcasters."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Browne, Robert S.", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Robert Span Browne (1924-2004) was an economist, activist, foreign aid officer, and professor of economics who worked to promote Black economic development.</p> <p>Browne was the founder of the Black Economic Research Center (BERC) (1969-1980), and the Twenty-First Century Foundation (1971-1984).</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of four audio recordings of a 1968 conference organized in part by the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers, an organization of Black broadcasters. They are organized chronologically. The original format of the audio recordings was open reel, with many items containing two or more parts.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Robert S. Browne, 1985, 2004.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Robert Span Browne papers, Sc MG 239.</p> <p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Stacey Doyle Ference</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>"}
- 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"=>"Scope and content notes, and extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-05-27"}
- date_start
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1968-05-27
- keydate
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1968-05-27
- date_end
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1968-05-28
- date_inclusive_start
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1968
- date_inclusive_end
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1968
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Robert Span Browne audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}