Found 20 collections related to Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Eddie Bonnemère was an African American composer, church musician, jazz pianist, and New York City public school teacher. Bonnemère's papers comprise correspondence, music compositions, and promotional materials that detail his musical pursuits and performances, educational achievements, and his thirty-three year tenure as a public school music teacher. less

Catholic interracial center, also known as Friendship House, established in 1938 to assist Harlem residents in need of relocation due to inadequate housing. Information sheets and relocation questionnaires in addition to various federal, state, and city housing reports. less

The Southwest Harlem Neighborhood Council was founded in 1934 to promote better recreational facilities in the southwest district of Harlem, bound by 110th and 125th streets and Fifth and Morningside avenues. Its membership consisted of public and private agencies, including local businesses, schools, churches, community groups, local libraries and various charitable institutions. The council served a mainly Spanish-speaking immigrant community. Its executive body consisted of a president, Leah Lewinson, a treasurer and secretary and several committees. The collection, which includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, and reports and bylaws, documents efforts by the Southwest Harlem Neighborhood Council to promote better recreational facilities in southwest Harlem. less

Ted Poston was the first full-time African-American reporter for the New York Post, where he worked from 1936 covering many major black-oriented news stories, until his retirement in 1972. The Ted Poston Research Collection consists of biographical information about Poston and a transcript of an interview that Professor Luther P. Jackson did with Ted Poston on "interracial reporting" in October 1968. Most of the collection consists of typescripts of articles and columns written by Poston (1927-1971) collected and prepared by the donor, Kathleen Hauke. less

Bertha Des Verney was a pianist, composer, arranger, writer, singer, playwright, concert promoter, and music teacher. The Bertha Des Verney papers include programs and flyers for musical events that she was involved in, annotated musical texts, scripts, holograph music of her arrangements and compositions, correspondence, and news clippings. From the Washington Music School there are reports, financial records, and a history of the school (1931). Material for the National Association of Negro Musicians includes programs for conventions. The collection also includes two scrapbooks, one of which contains news clippings and programs for musical concerts, primarily featuring African-American artists (1929-1957). The second scrapbook contains news clippings about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and other noteworthy events in the Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson families, as well as obituaries of a number of black personalities, and some musical programs (1936, 1959-1974). There are also a few letters in the collection. less

Alfred Newell Johnson (1915-1989) was an entrepreneur whose work varied from electrical engineering, journalism, photography, public relations and publicity, to political campaign management. The A. Newell Johnson papers date from the 1920s to the 1980s (bulk dates 1950s-1970s) and contain correspondence, notes, articles, reports, clippings, photographs, audiovisual materials, and ephemera that document his many endeavors and engagements. less

The Lester A. Walton Papers document his diversified careers as a journalist, diplomat, and civic leader and consist of personal papers, material on his entertainment and journalistic careers, his tenure as the American representative to Liberia, his political activities, general correspondence, and printed matter. less

The Utility Club of New York City was founded in April 1917 to raise money and entertain soldiers during World War I. Over the years it evolved into a community organization focusing on expanding volunteer service throughout Harlem. Led by Mrs. Louise Fisher Morris who was president from 1933 until her death in 1979, the Utility Club awarded scholarships and educational aid, in addition to annual contributions to over thirty social welfare and civic agencies and organizations. An annual event was the anniversary luncheon in which members of the community were honored. In 1954 the Utility Club presented its first annual debutante cotillion, which served as the Club's prime fund raising affair. The Utility Club of New York City Records consist of letters of acknowledgement from the recipients of funds donated by the Club, invitations and programs for events it sponsored, and souvenir journals for luncheons and cotillions. less

John "Snookie" Rendall Walker was a Harlem business entrepreneur and organizer/manager of several Harlem-based youth and professional athletic teams. He lived his entire life in Harlem (1919-1985), opening the Sugar Bowl Restaurant on West 137th Street and Seventh Avenue in 1947, which he co-owned with his wife, Dolores. In 1950, he organized Snookie's Sugar Bowl Five basketball team, which featured semi-professional and professional players and had its glory years from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. In 1951, Walker helped to reorganize the New York Renaissance, or Rens, the well-known professional basketball team, and was the team's manager-coach through the mid-1950s. In 1957, he organized the boys' Biddy Basketball League of Metropolitan New York and became its first commissioner. Walker's "Biddy" teams went on to win national and international basketball tournaments from the mid to late 1960s. He also formed youth leagues in softball and baseball for pre-teens throughout the 1950s to the 1970s, and an all-women's basketball team, the Harlem Globe Travellettes, in the early 1950s. The John "Snookie" Walker scrapbook consists primarily of printed material relating to the activities of several of the athletic clubs Walker organized and managed from the early 1950s to the 1970s. Included are a history of the Renaissance Basketball Team and news clippings about the team under his management, as well as Snookie's Sugar Bowl Five, the Biddy Basketball League, and the Harlem Globe Travellettes. The articles discuss games and players. There are also programs for tournaments in which these teams competed in New York City and out of state, 1950-1974. The collection includes a file of letters written by executives in various athletic organizations as well as from Jackie Robinson (1961) during his tenure as vice president of personnel with Chock Full o'Nuts. Information about "Snookie" himself is foundd in news clippings in addition to letters pertaining to a salute honoring him in 1985, recognizing his many years contributing to Harlem life. less

The Alice Childress papers document Alice Childress's career as a writer and actress, and her activities in the theatre for five decades in New York City. The Personal Papers series includes correspondence, an oral history conducted by Ann Shockley, Childress's FBI file, diaries, calendars, interviews, educational materials, family letters, files for her two husbands, and biographical information about Childress. Significant correspondents include writers Kay Bourne, Harold (Hal) Courlander and Susan Koppleman. less

The Wilhelmina F. Adams Papers (Additions) consist principally of her files chronicling her work as a civic leader primarily with New York Democratic club activities, the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs (NANBPWC) and the National Council of Negro Women. These files contain correspondence, newsletters, programs, brochures, minutes of meetings, official memoranda, reports, invitations, and news clippings. Files of the NANBPWC also include membership records, directories of officers, handouts, annual conference programs, and the constitution. Scrapbooks of the NANBPWC document annual events such as contests, parties and conferences from 1968-1972, and contain programs, invitations, certificates, handmade illustrations, newsletters, correspondence, and news clippings. less

Ted Poston was the first full-time African-American journalist for the New York Post. The Ted Poston Scrapbook contains newspaper articles by Poston for four series: "Dixie's Fight for Freedom" (1959) called the Little Scottsboro Case concerning three African-American youth convicted of raping a white woman in Tavares, Florida in 1949, "Nine Kids Who Dared: Human Drama in Little Rock" (1957), "Inside the Policy Racket" focusing on the Harlem numbers racket (1960), and "Prejudice and Progress in New York," n.d., all published by the New York Post. less

The Ludlow W. and Georgianna Werner papers consist primarily of material documenting some of the work of the Ludlow Werner Associates firm, particularly their account with the New York City Board of Education. Georgianna Werner served as the public relations coordinator for Districts 11-14 in northern Manhattan. less

Hibernia "Bernia" Austin and her husband, William Harry Austin, were members of Harlem society, most notably during the 1920s and 1930s. Bernia Austin was a member of the Campaign Committee of Harlem and the Cooperating Committee on Relief and Unemployment (1931), along with Bessie Bearden, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Hubert Delaney, Wilhelmina Adams, and William L. Imes. She also engaged in political work and civic activities. Her husband, Harry Austin, was elected a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936. The Hibernia "Bernia" Austin Scrapbook focuses on the social life of the Black middle and upper class, primarily of Harlem, New York, during the 1920s-1940s. The scrapbook contains a variety of material: clippings; photographs; invitations; birth, marriage and death announcements; letters; and greeting cards. Also included is information about entertainers and civic and social leaders. less

Harlem Hospital Center (HHC) is a public, municipally-owned hospital that provides a wide range of services to the Central Harlem, West Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. Gene-Ann Polk (1926-2015) was a physician, hospital administrator, and educator known for her pioneering clinical work at HHC. The Gene-Ann Polk Harlem Hospital Center files date from 1930 to 2005 and contain memoranda, notes, reports, appointment books, ledgers, and publications that document the departments and various projects Polk administrated. less

The St. Philip's Church records (1867-1994, bulk dates: 1957-1978) document the administrative, spiritual, and social service activities of the Harlem-based Episcopal church. The majority of the collection reflects the career of Pastor Moran Weston, who served as rector of St. Philip's Church from 1957 to 1982. Weston's board activity, sermons, writings, and professional endeavors are strongly represented, as are the church's housing properties and its Community Service Council. less

The collection primarily documents people, places and events in Harlem from the early 1930s to the mid-1950s. The collection consists of studio and candid portraits of mainly African American personalities, Harlem residents, and fashion models; views of various social and political events in Harlem; and coverage of sports events and other news stories, representing the Smiths' freelance photography work for the New York Amsterdam News, the New York Age, and other African-American newspapers. Images depicting the personal activities of the Smith brothers are limited. less