New York Urban League. Records of the Secretary of the Board of Directors moving image collection

id
11729
origination
New York Urban League
date statement
1987-1990
key date
1987
identifier (local_mss)
186644
org unit
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
call number
Sc MIRS NY 1983-13
b-number
b22244983
total components
2
total series
0
max depth
1
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2024-09-06 20:27:47 UTC
updated
2026-04-24 19:52:01 UTC
status note
(missing)
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true

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unitid
{"value"=>"186644", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22244983", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS NY 1983-13", "type"=>"local_call"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1987-1990", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1987/1990"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"New York Urban League. Records of the Secretary of the Board of Directors moving image collection"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"The New York Urban League was founded in 1919 to provide housing, education, and job opportunities in Black communities. The collection contains two videos of Frederick Douglass Award Dinners held in 1987 and 1990."}
langmaterial
{"value"=>"English"}
origination
{"value"=>"New York Urban League", "type"=>"corpname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>The New York Urban League (NYUL) was founded in 1919 by a group of interracial New Yorkers to provide employment and educational opportunities for Black people migrating to the North from the rural South and the Caribbean. The organization works to provide housing, education, and job opportunities in Black communities.</p> <p>The secretary of the board of directors, Ann Sunstein Kheel, organized the first Annual Frederick Douglass Award Dinner in 1966, as a fundraiser for the NYUL. She served in the role from the mid-1960s to the 1990s.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains two videos of Frederick Douglass Award Dinners held in 1987 and 1990. They are arranged in chronological order.</p>"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Ann Kheel, 1983.</p>"}
separatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the New York Urban League. Records of the Secretary of the Board of Directors, Sc MG 128.</p>"}
processinfo
{"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
{"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
{"value"=>"Extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-04-22"}
date_start
1987
keydate
1987
date_end
1990
date_inclusive_start
1987
date_inclusive_end
1990
prefercite
{"value"=>"New York Urban League. Records of the Secretary of the Board of Directors moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}

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