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{"value"=>"Sc MG 364", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20785", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1941-1978", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1941/1978"}
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1941
- date_inclusive_end
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1978
- keydate
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1941
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Harlem Neighborhoods Association records"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"2.7 linear feet (8 archival boxes)"}
- 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"=>"Harlem Neighborhoods Association", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Harlem Neighborhoods Association (HANA) was launched in 1937 as the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies. Its mission was to serve as a clearinghouse for various social agencies operating in Harlem. Membership included churches and schools, community groups, social agencies and individuals. The organization began with an informal group of social service professionals which met in 1934 to deal with relief problems caused by the Depression. The West Harlem Council of Social Agencies gained affiliation with the Welfare and Health Council of New York City in the early 1940s, and subsequently changed its name to the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning. Its board of Directors included officers and administrators of local schools, libraries, hospitals, banks, welfare and youth organizations, child care centers, and local branches of the Urban League, the Salvation Army, the American Red Cross and the Office of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Council had a paid staff which included an executive secretary, the Council's long time chairperson, Harriet Ida Pickens and several committees.</p> <p>The Welfare and Health Council was reorganized into the Community Council of Greater New York in 1956, and ended its affiliation and funding programs with regional councils. As a result, the Central Harlem Council discontinued its exclusive relationship with social agencies and became a community and social planning group, with a new emphasis on grassroots participation. A membership drive was launched to enlist local community groups and individuals. A Founding Community Meeting was held in 1959 and the organization renamed itself the Harlem Neighborhoods Association (HANA). The new group received partial operating funds, as well as office space and some staffing, from the Community Services Society, a former member of the Central Harlem Council. HANA attracted more than 150 individual members and some twenty-four agencies during its first year of existence. For the next fifteen years, it organized public campaigns in Harlem around such issues as drug prevention and rehabilitation, housing renovation and preservation, community control in the area's public schools, better day care facilities for children, and health and youth services. HANA was one of the initial sponsors of “Harlem Youth Day” and the Haryou-Act project during the 1960s, and was instrumental in setting up a mental health clinic at Harlem Hospital. The organization lost its momentum in the late 1960s due partly to funding difficulties, and faded out of existence after 1976.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Harlem Neighborhoods Association Collection is a segment of that organization's records, salvaged from the rubble during renovation of the building where HANA was located. The collection has been divided into two series: <span class=\"emph\">RECORDS OF THE CENTRAL HARLEM COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING</span>which span from 1941 to 1958, and <span class=\"emph\">RECORDS OF THE HARLEM NEIGHBORHOODS ASSOCIATION,</span>1958 to 1978. Each series is in turn divided into two subseries: <span class=\"emph\">Board of Directors Records,</span>and <span class=\"emph\">Committee and Program Files.</span>The collection chronicles the deteriorating quality of life in Harlem over three decades, along with the often ill-adapted responses of social agencies and municipal bodies.</p> <p>The <span class=\"emph\">Board of Directors Records</span>are arranged chronologically and consist of correspondence and memoranda, minutes, agendas and reports, publicity and outreach materials, financial records, membership lists and printed matter. The <span class=\"emph\">Committee and Program Files</span>in both series document an ongoing organizational concern for chronic social dysfunctions and urban poverty in Harlem. The most substantive files are: the Day Care Committee, 1950-1956; the Housing Committee, 1952-1956; the Recreation Committee, 1948-1958; the Parents Committee, 1952-1968; and several youth related programs spanning from 1948 to 1963. Other issues and projects documented in the collection include: the desegregation and decentralization of public schools in Harlem, urban planning and racial segregation, the Haryou-Act project, drug prevention, and family planning. Also included is a scrapbook of articles and other printed matter documenting local community efforts to raise funds for the construction of a new two hundred bed hospital in Mount Morris Park in 1963.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Harlem Neighborhoods Association records are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20785#c650882'>Records Of The Central Harlem Council For Community Planning</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1941-1958</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20785#c650929'>Records Of The Harlem Neighborhoods Association</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1958-1978</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>SCM 89-103</p> <p>Papers salvaged by Schomburg Center Staff on the grounds of a building under renovation located at 200 West 135th Street in Manhattan. The larger part of the records located there had already been discarded by the construction crew, and much of the present materials were strewn among the rubble and demolition heap.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>The following items were removed from:</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Name of Collection</span>Harlem Neighborhoods Association Records</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Accession Number</span>SCM 89-103</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Donor:</span>See Provenance note</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Date received:</span>1989</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Date transferred:</span>July 1993</p> <p>The item(s) listed below have been sent to the division indicated, either to be retained or disposed of there. Any items that should receive special disposition are clearly marked.</p> <p> <span class=\"emph\"> <span class=\"emph\">Schomburg Photographs and Print Division:</span></span></p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Mount Morris Hospital-- United Hospital Fund Campaign Committee, 1963.</span>Eight b&w photographs documenting local community efforts to raise funds for the construction of a two hundred bed hospital in Mount Morris Park in Harlem.</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Accessioned by:</span>A. Elizee</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Date:</span>July 1993</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Papers salvaged by Schomburg Center staff on the grounds of a building under renovation at 200 West 135th Street in Harlem.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"I. Records of the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning, 1941-1958; II. Records of the Harlem Neighborhoods Association, 1958-1978", "supress_display"=>true}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Eight photographs of the United Hospital Fund Campaign Committee of Mount Morris Hospital transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Harlem Neighborhoods Association records chronicle the deteriorating quality of life in Harlem from the 1940s to the late 1970s. The collection consists of correspondence and memoranda, board of directors and committee minutes, financial reports, publicity and outreach materials, membership lists and printed matter. The committee and program files document an ongoing organizational concern for chronic social dysfunction and urban poverty in Harlem. The most substantive files are the Day Care Committee, 1952-1956; the Housing Committee, 1952-1956; the Recreation Committee, 1948-1958; the Parents Committee, 1952-1968, and several youth related programs spanning from 1948 to 1963. Other substantive issues include: school decentralization in Harlem, urban renewal, drug prevention and family planning. Frequent correspondents include James H. Robinson who served as chairman of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, Harriet Pickens and Mildred Fisher, respectively chairperson and executive secrtary of the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning, and committee chairpersons Exie Welsch, Eugene Houston and Gertrude Tanneyhill. Also included is a scrapbook of articles and other printed matter documenting local efforts in 1963 to raise funds for the construction of a two-hundred bed hospital in Mount Morris Park."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Harlem Neighborhoods Association records, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Andre Elizee; Machine-readable finding aid created by Apex Data Services; revised by Terry Catapano.</p>"}
- date_start
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1941
- date_end
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1978