{"value"=>"<p>These scrapbooks (1942-1963) are about housing issues faced by African Americans in New York City and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes discrimination in housing (with a focus on Stuyvesant Town in New York City), the passage of the Sharkey Brown Isaacs bill which outlawed housing bias in New York City, the attempts to take an anti-housing bias bill statewide, the unsanitary conditions and frequent closure of slum apartments, and unfair evictions of African American tenants.</p>"}