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{"value"=>"188300", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Rice 2002-75", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1967-2012", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1967/2012"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Florence M. Rice audio and moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"261 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"35 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"=>"Florence M. Rice (1919-2020) was a Harlem-based consumer rights activist and educator. The collection consists of 261 videos and thirty-five audio recordings, including Rice's television show, public and news media appearances, and personal and collected material, dating from 1967 to 2012."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Rice, Florence M., 1919-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Florence M. Rice (1919-2020) was a Harlem-based consumer rights activist and educator. From the 1990s through the 2010s, she hosted and produced the public-access television show, <span class=\"title\">30 Minutes with Florence M. Rice</span>. On the show, she welcomed legal experts, activists, and entrepreneurs to educate viewers on consumer affairs. Rice was the founder of the Harlem Consumer Education Council, Inc. (HCEC), which addressed the socio-economic issues of low-income residents of New York City and Harlem in particular. Prior to her public-access television show, Rice also hosted a radio show entitled <span class=\"title\">The Consumer Advocate</span> (which may have also been known as <span class=\"title\">Community Consumer Advocate</span>) from circa 1967 to 1979.</p> <p>Born in Buffalo, New York, on March 22, 1919, Rice lived in the Colored Orphan Asylum and various foster homes throughout New York State. She left school in the eighth grade to work a variety of domestic and sewing jobs in New York City. She was a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) until she was blacklisted in 1962, after accusing the union of discrimination against Black and Latino members at a congressional hearing held by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. While working at a Harlem furniture store, a dispute with the proprietors prompted her to start the Harlem Consumer Education Council in 1963. She saw the organization as a platform for teaching Black Americans about economics, supplementing what she saw as a gap in their education. HCEC organized boycotts, rent strikes, and conferences focused on economic inequality.</p> <p>As an educator and consultant, Rice advised on the educational film <span class=\"title\">The Poor Pay More</span> (1967). She became an instructor in consumer education at Malcolm-King College in 1975. Starting in 1976, Rice served as staff liaison to the Consumer Advisory Council of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.</p> <p>In her work as a consumer rights activist, Rice was able to reopen a closed Bell Atlantic building as a community technology center in Harlem in 1995. In 1999, she supported community activists and Con Edison workers protesting the closure of a customer service office in Harlem. Rice fought her own eviction beginning in 2004, and took up the cause of educating the elderly about their housing rights.</p> <p>Rice served on the boards of various organizations including the New York State Public Utility Law Project, the Ripon Society New York City branch, and the New York State Senate Consumer Advisory Committee. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards including the Ophelia DeVore Award for Community Service.</p> <p>At the age of 100 years old, Rice died in New York City on March 19, 2020.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Florence M. Rice audio and moving image collection consists of 261 videos and thirty-five audio recordings, including Rice's television show, public events and news media appearances, and personal and collected material, dating from 1967 to 2012. The bulk of the collection comprises Rice's public-access television show <span class=\"title\">30 Minutes with Florence M. Rice</span>. The collection also contains oral history interviews with Rice, an episode of her radio show <span class=\"title\">The Consumer Advocate</span>, conference presentations, and appearances on news media, as well as recordings documenting her eviction case from 2004 to 2006. The original formats of the audio recordings are cassette and open reel, with many items containing two parts. Many video items contain multiple episodes or other recordings. Some audio recordings and videos are described separately. Square brackets indicate partial information or unclear spelling.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Florence M. Rice audio and moving image collection is arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/188300#c1922181'>SERIES I: 30 Minutes with Florence M. Rice</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>circa 1990-2012</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>194 moving_image_recordings</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains 194 videos of Rice's public-access television show, <span class=\"title\">30 Minutes with Florence M. Rice</span>, organized chronologically, dating from circa 1990 to 2012. Each episode is thirty minutes long. Dates represent the earliest date provided in the original collection documentation, and may reflect either the date of recording or broadcast, which is indicated when known. Some episodes include titles devised by Rice, reflecting topics covered in the episode, which are transcribed when available. Guests' biographical information is derived from the episode and represents their titles and roles at the time of the taping.</p> <p>Rice served as the host and executive producer. From the 1990s to 2001, the show was produced at ELA Studios in New York City, where the production team included Cesar Arzu, D. Elaine Brown, David Jenkins, Kurt Liburd, Vasil Mitchev, John Rivera, LaWanda Williams, Lynn Wilson, and Nat Wood. From the end of 2001 through 2012, the show was produced at Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), where the production team included David Baughan, Sheila Berry, Chris Cofer, Roberto Espinal, Earlene \"Queen Earlene\" Hilton, Wilbur McReynolds, and Nat Wood. Public-access broadcast channels are unidentified.</p> <p>Notable guests include James Haughton, Alton H. Maddox, Adam Clayton Powell IV, Nadhege Ptah, Charles Rangel, Percy Sutton, Preston Wilcox, and Camille Yarbrough. Repeated guests include Duborah Oya Bakr, Sheila Berry, Samuel Cotton, Edward R. Culvert, Beverly Clark-Griggsby, Barbara Flatts, Earlene Hilton, Dennis A. Lane, Sarah Ludwig, Shirley Middleton, and Carol Taylor. Some guests appear more than once representing different organizations. Organizations include Bridge the Gap, Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan, Coalition to End Racism in Construction, Harlem Fight Back, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, and Uplifting Children. Topics covered extensively include consumer rights and education, labor and housing rights, the foster care system, Harlem politics, and other national and international contemporary events.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/188300#c1922384'>SERIES II: CONSUMER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ADVOCACY</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1967-2012</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>18 audio_recordings. 23 moving_image_recordings</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains eighteen audio recordings and twenty-three videos, organized alphabetically by title and media type. The recordings date from 1967 to 2012. Titles are devised based on content of the recording or original documentation. Rice created or appears on most of the recordings.</p> <p>The recordings cover topics related to consumer education and Rice's work as a community activist. They include an episode of Rice's radio show, <span class=\"title\">The Consumer Advocate</span>; <span class=\"title\">The Poor Pay More</span> (1967), an educational film on which Rice consulted; conferences; and community information sessions. News media programs featuring segments about Rice's work as a consumer educator and community activist include <span class=\"title\">Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Home Show</span>, <span class=\"title\">The McCreary Report</span>, <span class=\"title\">News and Views</span>, and news coverage of the SOS campaign to keep Con Edison's Harlem service centers open. Public events at which Rice appears include an HCEC award ceremony, a fundraiser for the National Black United Fund, and an event called Son-in-Law Day highlighting Black men's contributions to the community.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/188300#c1922427'>SERIES III: PERSONAL RECORDINGS</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>circa 1986-2006</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 audio_recordings. 4 moving_image_recordings</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains four audio and four videos of Rice's personal recordings. They are dated circa 1986 to 2006, and are organized alphabetically by title. The recordings include personal notes; oral histories with Rice; her eighty-sixth birthday celebration; an interview, conducted by Rice, with former Consumer's Union librarian Florence Mason; and footage of the condition of her apartment for use in her eviction case, dating from 2004 to 2006.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/188300#c1922436'>SERIES IV: COLLECTED</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>circa 1967-2012</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>11 audio_recordings. 43 moving_image_recordings</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains eleven audio recordings and forty-three videos, organized alphabetically by title and media type. The recordings date from circa 1967 to 2012. They include television programs, films, and music collected by Rice. Titles are devised based on content of the recording. Rice does not appear on the recordings unless otherwise stated.</p> <p>Television programs collected by Rice cover a range of subjects including the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, the 1992 US presidential election, religious leader Louis Farrakhan, Spike Lee's film <span class=\"title\">Malcolm X</span> (1992), and Ossie Davis's funeral. Recurring programs include <span class=\"title\">CBS News</span>, <span class=\"title\">Good Morning America</span>, <span class=\"title\">Like It Is</span>, <span class=\"title\">NBC News</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Oprah Winfrey Show</span>, and religious programming.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Florence M. Rice, 1986, 1997, 2002, 2007.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Florence M. Rice Papers, Sc MG 352.</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\">Ornella U. Baganizi</span> and <span class=\"name\">Lyric Benjamin-Hunter</span>, archivists. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2026</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>One recording, relating to the legal case of IRS investigation of tax preparer Michael A. Allamby, contains personal identifying information and is not described in this finding aid.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Preston Wilcox audio and moving image collection, Sc MIRS Wilcox 1985-39.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division for <span class=\"title\">Stompin' at the Savoy</span> 1 of 2, 243241; and <span class=\"title\">Stompin' at the Savoy</span> 2 of 2, 243272.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>A copy of an episode of <span class=\"title\">30 Minutes with Florence M. Rice</span>, item 266666, can also be found in the Preston Wilcox audio and moving image collection, Sc MIRS Wilcox 1985-39.</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."}
- date_start
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1967
- keydate
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1967
- date_end
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2012
- date_inclusive_start
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1967
- date_inclusive_end
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2012
- extent_statement
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261 video_recordings. 35 audio_recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Florence M. Rice audio and moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}