- unitid
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{"value"=>"20668", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 480", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11732136", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1930-1993", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1930/1993"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Eugene Mason collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 folders", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.03 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Eugene H. Mason collection provides limited information on Mason's activities, primarily in New York City and California. There is a folder of photocopies of correspondence detailing his speaking engagements as Associate Director of the Intercultural Education Workshop in New York City, 1940s. Photocopies of correspondence and news clippings discuss his lectures in California and other parts of the country. A small amount of family history completes the collection."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Mason, Eugene Harold", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Eugene Harold Mason was a teacher, specialist in race relations and intercultural education, and lecturer. Born in 1901 in Kentucky, he attended Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, the University of California, and the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley. He was the first African-American male to graduate from the latter school with a theological degree in 1935.</p> <p>Early in his long career, Mason taught in the Kentucky public schools and the Social Studies Division of the California public school system. In 1937, he was chosen by the United States Office of Education to direct a survey of vocational guidance in California schools. In California, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, Mason was associated with community church fellowship houses, and served as a lecturer for the Fellowship House in California in the early 1940s. He was Associate Director of the Intercultural Education Workshop in New York City from 1942-1948. This group offered consultative service to churches, schools, and community groups on problems related to minority groups, racial, religious and cultural conflicts. He lectured to schools and organizations during this time. Mason was an early promoter of Black studies, teaching a class in a Baptist Church and a YWCA in Oakland, California in the 1930s. He cofounded that city's Carter Woodson's Historical Society in 1956. Although this society did not have a permanent address, in 1965 he helped to found the East Bay Negro Historical Society in Oakland.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Eugene Harold Mason was a teacher, specialist in race relations and intercultural education, and lecturer. The Eugene H. Mason collection provides limited information on Mason's activities, primarily in New York City and California. There is a folder of photocopies of correspondence detailing his speaking engagements as Associate Director of the Intercultural Education Workshop in New York City during the 1940s. Photocopies of correspondence and news clippings discuss his lectures in California and other parts of the country. A small amount of family history completes the collection.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection organized into three series: I. Biographical Information; II. Activities in California; III. Intercultural Education Workshop</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift, Mason, Eugene H, 04/14/93</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"This finding aid was updated by Allison Hughes.", "date"=>"2022 November 18"}
- date_start
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1930
- keydate
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1930
- date_end
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1993
- date_inclusive_start
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1930
- date_inclusive_end
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1993
- extent_statement
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0.03 linear feet (3 folders)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Eugene Mason collection, Sc MG 480, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}