Series I: Subject Files

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{"value"=>"1959-2025", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1959/2025"}
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{"value"=>"Series I: Subject Files"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Subject Files document many aspects of Seraile's career, including his teaching at Lehman College, involvement with the New Alliance party, work with the Schomburg Center, and activities with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). It also holds personal files documenting his continued involvement with his alma maters Garfield High School, Central Washington University, and the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as biographical information, awards, and posters. The largest file sets in the series are devoted to CUNY/Lehman College, ASALH, and the New Alliance party. The series also contains Seraile's correspondence with incarcerated individuals.</p> <p>The CUNY/Lehman files contain administrative and faculty correspondence and memos; correspondence with students, former students, and alumni; departmental and other meeting minutes; course information, syllabi, and assignments; and flyers, programs, announcements, invitations, publications, and other literature, including those announcing lectures or events featuring Seraile.</p> <p>The ASALH files contain meeting minutes, correspondence with other members regarding events and activities, programs, flyers, and other literature produced by the organization.</p> <p>The New Alliance files cover the activities of the party from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s, its organizing for elections in 1984, 1986, and 1988, and Seraile's 1986 congressional campaign. The files hold press releases, correspondence, memos, flyers, posters, programs, clippings, and issues of the party newspaper, <span class=\"title\">The National Alliance</span>. The files for Seraile's 1986 campaign hold fundraising solicitations and donation logs; and letters, flyers, clippings, Seraile's notes, and official election documents regarding his candidacy.</p> <p>Seraile was concerned with conditions in prisons and maintained a file documenting them through flyers and literature. He also corresponded with several incarcerated individuals at the Federal Correctional Institution in Ottisville, New York, and some of those letters are present here. All this material is filed under Prisons and Incarcerated Individuals.</p> <p>The Schomburg Center and Schomburg Corporation files hold meeting minutes, correspondence, programs, and flyers for Schomburg events.</p> <p>There are two research-related files in this series. One is on Susan McKinney Steward, a highly-regarded 19th-century New York physician, and the wife of Theophilus Gould Steward; the other is on George Washington Williams, a 19th-century soldier, minister, politician, lawyer, and journalist. Other research files are in Series II.</p> <p>Other organizational files include those for the Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to Black People (CEMOTAP), which holds flyers, correspondence and programs; Children's Art Carnival, a non-profit for which Seraile volunteered; and Landmarks Harlem, Inc.</p> <p>The files for Garfield High School and Central Washington University cover alumni reunions and honors, as well as a scholarship program at Central Washington funded by Seraile. The biographical file holds resumes, curricula vitae, autobiographical notes, family notes, school transcripts, passports, clippings, and identification cards. The posters push various organizational, social, and political campaigns, such as the New Alliance party, Lenora Fulani, Jesse Jackson, and Barack Obama.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged alphabetically.</p>"}
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1959
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1959
date_end
2025
date_inclusive_start
1959
date_inclusive_end
2025
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10.67 linear feet (26 boxes)

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  1. African Heritage Studies Association
  2. American Book Company Individualized Literature Program
  3. Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith
  4. Association of Black Educators of New York
  5. Association for the Study of African American Life and History [6/1]
  6. Awards
  7. Biographical Information
  8. Black History Advisory Panel -- Sleepy Hollow Restorations
  9. Central Park Conservancy
  10. Central Washington University
  11. Charitable Contribution Acknowledgements
  12. Children's Art Carnival
  13. City University of New York/Lehman College [9/1]
  14. Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to Black People (CEMOTAP)
  15. Cultural Caravan Productions
  16. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
  17. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  18. Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington
  19. George Jackson Center for Working Class Education
  20. Glendora, Mississippi -– Economic Development and Emmett Till Museum
  21. Harlem Educational Activities Fund
  22. Lorey Hayes
  23. Historic Harlem Heritage Markers Project
  24. Howard Beach Murder
  25. Dr. Leonard Jefferies Controversy
  26. Landmarks Harlem Inc
  27. Lifespring Courses
  28. Litton Educational Publishing
  29. Long Island Historical Society
  30. National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality
  31. New Alliance Party [5/1]
  32. Operation Crossroads Africa
  33. Pierian Press
  34. Posters
  35. Practice: The Journal of Politics, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, and Culture
  36. Prisons and Incarcerated Individuals
  37. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [2/1]
  38. Schomburg Corporation
  39. Maya Soetoro-Ng
  40. Susan McKinney Steward [3/1]
  41. George Washington Williams
  42. Women's American ORT and Fundamentalism