This collection is mostly comprised of correspondence, meeting minutes, financial reports, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Black librarianship. There is a folder of minutes for the Black Librarians Caucus of Queens, the NYBLC predecessor,...
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This collection is mostly comprised of correspondence, meeting minutes, financial reports, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Black librarianship. There is a folder of minutes for the Black Librarians Caucus of Queens, the NYBLC predecessor, as well as policy statements from both American Library Association (ALA)'s Black Caucus and the NYBLC. The correspondence folder contains letters from Alex Haley, Senator (NY) Carl McCall, Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, and E. J. Josey. Additionally, the collection includes letters documenting the Caucus' position on the showing of the film
The Speaker during the 1977 (Detroit) ALA conference. The film's objective was to demonstrate the problems of censorship and First Amendment Rights violations but the ALA Black Caucus took a strong position against the film and ALA's selection of it. This position was fully supported by the NYBLC. Other material in the collection relates to a series of Genealogy and Oral History workshops presented by the Caucus to celebrate the Bicentennial in 1976.
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