- unitid
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{"value"=>"186660", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22243932", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Twenty-First 1985-41", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1979-1983", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1979/1983"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Twenty-First Century Foundation audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_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"=>"The Twenty-First Century Foundation was established in 1971 by economist Robert Span Browne to award small grants to African American organizations involved in education and economic development. The collection contains two audio recordings of Clarence L. Holte Prize ceremonies from 1979 and 1983, including presentations by Twenty-First Century Foundation founder Robert Span Browne, writer Vincent Harding, bibliophile Clarence L. Holte, and the historian Chancellor Williams."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Twenty-First Century Foundation (New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Twenty-First Century Foundation was established in 1971 by economist Robert Span Browne to award small grants to African American organizations involved in education and economic development. From 1971 to 1992, the Foundation distributed more than two hundred grants totalling over $1.2 million.</p> <p>In addition to grants, the Foundation also administered the Clarence L. Holte Prize, awarded biennially. The prize was created in 1977 in honor of bibliophile Clarence L. Holte to recognize significant contributions by living writers to the cultural heritage of Africa and the African diaspora.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains two audio recordings of Clarence L. Holte Prize ceremonies from 1979 and 1983. They are organized chronologically. The ceremonies include presentations by Twenty-First Century Foundation founder Robert Span Browne, writer Vincent Harding, bibliophile Clarence L. Holte, the historian Chancellor Williams, and music and poetry performances.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Robert S. Browne, 1985.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Twenty-First Century Foundation records, Sc MG 241.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span> and <span class=\"name\">Christopher Arena</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>See the Clarence L. Holte audio collection, Sc MIRS Holte 2003-07.</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"=>"Extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-04-22"}
- date_start
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1979
- keydate
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1979
- date_end
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1983
- date_inclusive_start
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1979
- date_inclusive_end
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1983
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Twenty-First Century Foundation audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}