- unitid
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{"value"=>"20671", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 292", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"Sc Micro RS-889", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11732139", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1938-1960", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1938/1960"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Louis E. Burnham newspaper collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 reels, 2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.54 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>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Burnham, Louis E.", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Louis E. Burnham was the Editor of <span class=\"title\">Freedom</span>, the newpaper Paul Robeson founded; Associate Editor of the <span class=\"title\">National Guardian</span> in the 1950s; and a well-known lecturer on African American affairs.</p> <p>Born in 1915 and educated in Harlem, New York, Burnham attended City College of the City University of New York. As a college student, he became interested in the Civil Rights Movement and joined the American Student Movement and the Young Communist League. He later travelled around the country and organized the first chapters of the American Student Union on Black college campuses and was the Youth Secretary of the National Negro Congress. He served as Executive Secretary of the Southern Negro Youth Congress and was editor of its newspaper and its right to vote campaigns. Burnham also helped organize the sharecroppers movement and was active in many campaigns to end segregation in the south. Burnham died in 1960.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Louis Burnham collection reflects Burnham's socialist interests and consists of a complete run of <span class=\"title\">Freedom</span>, a monthly newspaper published by Paul Robeson from 1950-1955 and edited by Burnham; newsclippings of articles Burnham wrote for the <span class=\"title\">National Guardian</span> (1958-1960); copies of various souvenir journals and other printed matter of the Southern Negro Youth Congress; and a copy of Burnham's <span class=\"title\">Behind the Lynching of Emmet Louis Till</span>.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Dorothy Challenor Burnham, 1988.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Researchers are required to use either the microfilmed versions of <span class=\"title\">Freedom</span> or the photocopied versions in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 February 17"}
- date_start
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1938
- keydate
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1938
- date_end
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1960
- date_inclusive_start
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1938
- date_inclusive_end
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1960
- extent_statement
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0.54 linear feet (2 reels, 2 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Louis E. Burnham newspaper collection, Sc MG 292, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>" The Louis Burnham collection reflects Burnham's socialist interests and consists of a complete run of <span class=\"title\">Freedom</span>, a monthly newspaper published by Paul Robeson from 1950-1955 and edited by Burnham; newsclippings of articles Burnham wrote for the <span class=\"title\">National Guardian</span> (1958-1960); copies of various souvenir journals and other printed matter of the Southern Negro Youth Congress; and a copy of Burnham's <span class=\"title\">Behind the Lynching of Emmet Louis Till</span>.", "generated"=>true}