Found 6 collections related to Programs (Publications)

Patricia Spears Jones (born in 1951 in Forrest City, Arkansas) is a Black American poet, playwright, writer, educator, editor, and publisher. Her papers date from the 1970s to the 2010s, and chronicle Jones' career and personal life through correspondence; publishing contracts; drafts of poems; notebooks; ephemera; interviews; press clippings; photographs; and recorded poetry readings and performances. The collection illuminates her development as a social justice and environmental activist through her work as a poet, educator, volunteer, and non-profit development officer and administrator. less

Benjamin F. McLaurin (1906-1989) was a Black labor leader and civic worker who held leadership positions within the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) during the 1920s and 1930s. He worked with A. Philip Randolph throughout the Civil Rights Movement, and later advocated for job equality and increased educational opportunities for minority communities while serving on New York City board committees. The collection, dated 1936 to 1989, showcases McLaurin's lifelong labor, civic, and political work through correspondence, project reports, meeting minutes, Senate committee statements and testimonies, convention and conference reports, and newspaper clippings. less

The Association of Black Foundation Executives, Inc., founded in 1971 and based in New York City, is a nonprofit organization of philanthropic professionals that promotes effective and responsive philanthropy in Black communities. The records date from 1971 to 2002 and consist of annual program planning materials; board books; committee meeting minutes; correspondence; financial audits; grant applications; monographs and articles; and program report drafts. less

William Seraile (born 1941) is a noted African American historian, pedagogue, writer, and community activist who was one of the earliest scholars to teach African American history within an academic department focused on Black studies. Seraile played a large role in the establishment of Herbert H. Lehman College's Black Studies department, and taught there for 36 years. His papers, dating from 1905 to 2025 (the bulk date from 1956 to 2024), document his academic career, research, writings, activism, and family through correspondence, research files, writings, clippings, flyers, family papers, scrapbooks, journals, posters, and literature and mailings from multiple community and political organizations and activist groups. less

The Southern Africa Committee (SAC) was an American collective of anti-apartheid activists and scholars who led Southern Africa, a New York City-based monthly magazine discussing liberation and decolonization movements primarily in Southern Africa. The Southern Africa Committee collection comprises research files, administrative files, articles, and correspondence related to Southern Africa and the SAC's anti-apartheid activism. less