Collections in Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Abdul, Raoul
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Abdul 2010-08
10 audio_recordings. 2 video_recordings
The Raoul Abdul audio and moving image collection consists of ten sound recordings and two video recordings of Raoul Abdul's performances, interviews, and broadcasts as a classical singer from 1953-1996.
Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Abyssinian 1995-23
20 audio_recordings
The Abyssinian Baptist Church Oral History Project consists of interviews with ten African American women about their recollections of the church as longtime members. Conducted by Dr. Martia G. Goodson, an American historian specializing in... more
All American News, Inc.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS All-American 1992
39 video_recordings
All-American News was the first newsreel made specifically for African American audiences. This collection consists of 39 video recordings of All-American News productions released from 1943 to 1945.
Ashe, Bernard, 1936-
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Ashe 2007-09
5 video_recordings
The Bernard F. Ashe moving image collection documents the latter portion of Ashe's career as general counsel to the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), and esteemed member of the American Bar Association and American Arbitration Association,... more
Bach, Jean, 1918-2013
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Great 1996
64 video_recordings
A Great Day in Harlem is an Oscar-nominated 1994 documentary directed by Jean Bach (1918 - 2013), a press agent, radio producer, jazz aficionado, and fixture of New York's jazz scene. The collection consists of... more
Barnett, Etta Moten, 1901-2004
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Barnett 1993
106 audio_recordings
Etta Moten Barnett was a performing artist, journalist, and civic leader. The Etta Moten Barnett collection consists of 106 audio recordings created from circa 1935 to 1983, largely representing her career in radio and journalism.
Black Filmmaker Foundation
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Black 2018
1 audio_recording. 715 video_recordings
The Black Filmmaker Foundation (BFF) is a nonprofit membership organization co-founded and led by filmmaker Warrington Hudlin. The Black Filmmaker Foundation collection consists of 715 moving image recordings and one sound recording created from... more
Childress, Alice
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Childress 1998-56
5 audio_recordings. 1 video_recording
Pioneering African American writer, actress, and director Alice Childress (1916-1994) was known for her plays and her best-selling young adult novel, A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich. The collection consists of five... more
Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc CR2011.001
49 sound discs (in 46 cases) : analog, digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.. 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.. 49 Archival original cases in various reel to reel formats and sizes. 1000GB, 1 Hard Drive of partial collection (21 discs) : (1000GB)
The Léon Gontran Damas Recorded Sound Collection consists primarily of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts made during his travels to Africa, France, and the United States etc.; as well as one commercial LP audio recording, "Poesie de la... more
Essence Television Productions, Inc.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Essence
17 video_recordings
Essence was a nationally syndicated weekly magazine television program that ran from 1983 to 1988, produced by the same firm that publishes the long-running Essence magazine. The more
Hip-Hop Education Center
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Hip 2014
446 video_recordings. 41 audio_recordings
Producer, educator, and archivist Martha Diaz formed the Hip-Hop Education Center (HHEC) to formalize and promote hip-hop based education. Its primary holdings are from the Hip-Hop Odyssey (H2O) International Film Festival, which Diaz founded in... more
Kelly, Patrick, 1954-1990
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc Visual DVD 76-87
14 audio-visual items
African-American fashion designer who came to fame in the fashion houses of Paris, Patrick Kelly was voted into the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, the prestigious French organization of fashion... more
Lewis, David L., 1936-
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Levering 1987-15
51 audio_recordings
The Voices from the Renaissance audio collection consists of fifty-one sound recordings, primarily of interviews that David Levering Lewis conducted with and about Harlem Renaissance figures for his 1981 book, When Harlem Was... more
Phelps-Stokes Fund
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Phelps 1984-08
37 audio_recordings
The Phelp-Stokes Fund Black U.S. Ambassadors Oral History consists of ten interviews with Black U.S. ambassadors to African and Caribbean nations, who are also referred to as Chiefs of Mission. Funded by the Ford Foundation and sponsored by the... more
Rollins, Sonny
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Rollins 2017
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7th, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Harlem born and raised, Rollins is considered among the players to have defined the instrument through his prolific practicing, performing and... more
WNBC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Positively 1993
131 video_recordings
Positively Black is a public affairs television program that first aired on New York City's WNBC-TV in 1970, and was hosted by community activist Gustav "Gus" Heningburg through the 1990s. The Positively Black collection... more
WNBC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division | Sc MIRS Their
42 video_recordings
Their Children Learned was a Black History Month special that aired over the course of three nightly news broadcasts on New York City's WNBC-TV in 1983. The Their Children Learned WNBC Black... more
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