- unitid
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{"value"=>"186663", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22255238", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Garvin 1998-54", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"circa 1980-2007", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1980/2007", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Vicki Garvin audio and moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 video_recording", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"44 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"=>"Victoria \"Vicki\" Garvin (December 18, 1915 - June 11, 2007) was a trade union leader, Black radical intellectual, Pan-Africanist, and activist. The collection contains forty-four audio recordings dating from circa 1980 to 1998, and one video dated 2007."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Garvin, Vicki, 1915-2007", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Victoria \"Vicki\" Garvin (December 18, 1915 - June 11, 2007) was a trade union leader, Black radical intellectual, Pan-Africanist, and activist.</p> <p>In the 1940s and 1950s, Garvin held executive positions at the United Office and Professional Workers of America, and the New York City chapter of the National Negro Labor Council. During this time, Garvin befriended, mentored, and collaborated with Malcolm X while they worked as Black leftist organizers in Harlem.</p> <p>American history and Africana studies scholars Erik S. McDuffie and Komozi Woodard have argued that Garvin's activism likely influenced Malcolm X's radical politics. From 1963 to 1964, Garvin worked with other Black American intellectuals in Ghana. Together with poet Maya Angelou and community leader Alice Windom, they formed the Malcolm X Committee to welcome and introduce Malcolm X to diplomats during his 1964 visit.</p> <p>Garvin taught English and African American history in Shanghai, China, from 1964 to 1970. When she returned to the US, she served as director of the Tri-City Citizen's Union, area leader for community interaction at the Center for Community Health Systems of Columbia University, and editor at the <span class=\"title\">New China</span>, a newspaper published in China by the non-profit US-China Peoples Friendship Association.</p> <p>Through the 1980s and 1990s, Garvin remained engaged in activism through her support for organizations such as Black Workers for Justice, the Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People (CEMOTAP), and Sisters Against South African Apartheid (SASAA). She died in 2007.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains forty-four audio recordings dating from circa 1980 to 1998, and one video dated 2007. A video of her memorial service highlights the activism she engaged in throughout her life. Forty-four audio recordings collected by Garvin reflect her interest in the work of activists and scholars of Black history, Afrocentrism, and Pan-Africanism. Many items contain two or more parts, because the original format of the audio recordings was cassette, and the original format of the video was DVD.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Vicki Garvin audio and moving image collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/186663#c1909285'>SERIES I: MEMORIAL FOR VICKI GARVIN</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains one video of a memorial service for Vicki Garvin shortly after her death.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/186663#c1909287'>SERIES II: COLLECTED PROGRAMS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains forty-four audio recordings of panel discussions, lectures, and radio programs collected by Garvin. They are organized alphabetically by title. They include events commemorating the life and assassination of Malcolm X, discussions about the history of Africa and the African diaspora, and lectures and interviews by scholars including Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Michael Parenti, and Ivan Van Sertima. Square brackets indicate partial information or unclear spelling.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Vicki Garvin, 1998.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Vicki Garvin papers, Sc MG 647.</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\">Christopher Arena</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Lyric Evans-Hunter</span>, archivist. 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"=>"2026-06-01"}
- date_start
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1980
- keydate
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1980
- date_end
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2007
- date_inclusive_start
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1980
- date_inclusive_end
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2007
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Vicki Garvin audio and moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}