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{"value"=>"Sc Micro R-2799", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20568", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1969-1976", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1969/1976"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1969
- date_inclusive_end
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1976
- keydate
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1969
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Community News Service records"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"23 reels of microfilm"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</span>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Community News Service (New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Community News Service was established in 1969 as a Harlem-based organization of minority journalists, providing news of black and Hispanic communities to the media. A staff of twelve, under the direction of executive director Annette Samuels, assembled a daily file of stories concerning minority communities in the city along with a calendar of coming events. The service sent reports several times weekly to more than thirty subscribers including <span class=\"emph\"> <span class=\"emph\">The New York Times, The Daily News, The Amsterdam News,</span></span>CBS-TV, CBS Radio, WNBC- TV, and WLIB Radio. Other subscribers included several community groups.</p> <p>The organization received its initial $275,000 funding from the Ford Foundation as part of the New School for Social Research's Urban Reporting Workshop. Over the next seven years, CNS received a total of $640,000 from the Ford Foundation. The loss of this grant money, coupled with CNS's failure to interest other foundations in giving grants led to the organization's demise. Community News Service laid off all but three staff members in Summer 1976, and ceased operation on 2 October 1976.</p> <p>Shortly thereafter, a committee was formed to consider whether CNS should give up its tax exempt status and become a commercial news service, however, efforts to reopen the organization were unsuccessful.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The records of the Community News Service largely represent the organization's working news files from 30 September 1969 to 20 August 1976. Although they provide very little insight into the background and structure of the organization itself, the records do document current events and social activities relevant to the New York black community during that period.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Community News Service records are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20568#c644580'>DAILY FILE</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Daily File which comprises the majority of the collection consists of a seven year run of daily Community Calendars and Files. The Calendars announce coming events of interest to the black community. The Files each consist of about four stories, whose subjects range from speeches, rallies, and cultural activities to crime and federal, state, and local legislation and programs. The stories emphasize New York City political subjects and events; however, a great many human interest stories are included. For the earlier years of the CNS operation, a Log consisting of abstracts of the File stories was also occasionally produced.</p> <p>The Community Calendars, Logs, and Files are arranged in the above order in one chronological sequence. The sequence is almost complete; only occasional single issues are missing.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20568#c644602'>EDUCATION FILE</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>A smaller Education File, 1963- (1970-1975), follows the Daily File. Arranged by district except for the last citywide folder, this sequence contains educationally related clippings, announcements, press releases, and other printed material. The Citywide folder also includes minutes of school board and parent association meetings, budgets, progress reports, and projections.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20568#c644633'>MISCELLANEOUS NOTES</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1970, May 14-1973, Feb, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Miscellaneous Notes, 1970-1973, n.d., consists of clippings, press releases, correspondence, drafts of CNS articles, and occasional issues of daily files relating to a variety of subjects such as housing and neighborhood organizations.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Presented by L. Clinton Cox, Bronx, New York on 7 December 1976.</p> <p>SCM76-29.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"Note: School District #5 was missing. CNS Files (1970, Apr 14-1971, Dec 31) are also available on microfiche. However, the roll film edition is more complete."}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"Papers organized into three series: I. Daily File; II. Education File; and III. Miscellaneous Notes", "supress_display"=>true}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Community News Service Records consist of the Daily File, the Education File and Miscellaneous Notes."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Community News Service records, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Susan Sharlin; Machine-readable finding aid created by Apex Data Services; revised by Terry Catapano.</p>"}
- date_start
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1969
- date_end
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1976