- unitid
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{"value"=>"188294", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22778712", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Burns 1997-50", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1988-1995", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1988/1995"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Haywood Burns audio and moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 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"=>"William Haywood Burns (June 15, 1940 - April 2, 1996) was an author, civil rights activist, lawyer, professor, and the second dean of the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. The collection consists of seven audio and four video recordings, including self-recordings of Burns and programs related to legal matters."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Burns, W. Haywood (William Haywood)", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Born in Peekskill, New York, William Haywood Burns (June 15, 1940 - April 2, 1996) was an author, civil rights activist, lawyer, professor, and the second dean of the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. Burns graduated from Harvard College with honors, and from Yale University Law School in 1966.</p> <p>After law school, Burns joined the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, but left shortly after to become law clerk to US District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley. He was assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc. from 1967 to 1969. He also served as general counsel to Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign in 1968. Burns was one of the founding members of the National Council of Black Lawyers in 1969, and became its first director from 1970 to 1973. Other notable clients include activist Angela Davis, and men incarcerated at Attica Prison who faced further charges following the 1971 uprising.</p> <p>Burns was the founding dean of the City College Urban Legal Studies Program from 1977 to 1987 and dean of CUNY School of Law from 1987 to 1994. He was president of the Nation Institute, a foundation devoted to the alternative press and social justice. After meeting with Nelson Mandela in Harlem, Burns was a legal advisor to the drafting of South Africa's interim constitution in 1993. He died in an automobile accident while attending the International Association of Democratic Lawyers conference in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1996.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of seven audio and four video recordings, dating from 1988 to 1995. They are arranged chronologically. The audio items include Haywood Burns's self-recordings about CUNY School of Law, highlights from a conference called \"The Supreme Court and Daily Life: Who Will the Court Protect in the 1990's?\", and speeches on legal matters by Colin Greer, President of the New World Foundation, and JoAnne Page, former CEO of The Fortune Society. The audio items' original formats are cassettes, and two of them contain two parts, one for each side of the cassette. The videos include an interview with Russian historian Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov about the Alger Hiss case, the documentary film <span class=\"title\">Juvenile Detention: The Broward County Story</span> (1992), an episode of <span class=\"title\">Berger and Diskin's Show and Tell Mime</span>, and a memorial service for Judge Simon H. Rifkind. Item titles are devised from the content of the recordings.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Marilyn Burns, 1997.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Haywood Burns papers, Sc MG 625.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Haywood Burns photograph collection, Sc Photo Haywood Burns Collection.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Art and Artifacts Division for the artifact.</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\">Ornella U. Baganizi</span>, archivist. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division for titles by Haywood Burns.</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"=>"Item AMI identifiers, titles, scope and content notes, and extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Ornella U. Baganizi.", "date"=>"2026-05-01"}
- date_start
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1988
- keydate
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1988
- date_end
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1995
- date_inclusive_start
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1988
- date_inclusive_end
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1995
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Haywood Burns audio and moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}