{"value"=>"<p>The Professional Series consists primarily of correspondence, arranged alphabetically, while Carrington was a New York State parole officer. There is correspondence between Carrington and his employers as well as correspondence with young men who were in detention centers, with whom Carrington came in contact while volunteering at the Children's Temporary Home School in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. during his student years at Howard University. These young men continued to correspond with Carrington following their release from confinement. In addition, the correspondents include individuals Carrington met while on duty as a New York State parole officer.</p> <p>The prison files are arranged alphabetically. Of interest are the files on a teen-age member of the “Socialistic Dukes” in Harlem in the early 1940's whom Carrington met at the New York State Training School for Boys. Later while in detention at the Elmira Reception Center in upstate New York, the young man wrote in several notebooks of his gang involvement. He sent these notebooks to Carrington and they are among his papers.</p> <p>Carrington frequently taught courses on black studies. There are a few files containing autobiographical information on the students, student papers, and class preparation notes that Carrington kept as an instructor of black studies at the Mount Vernon Cooperative College Center.</p>"}