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Creator
George, Daisy S. (Daisy Screven)
Call number
Sc MIRS George 1986-64
Physical description
24 audio_recordings
Language
English
Preferred Citation
Daisy George audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library
Sponsor
An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project.
Repository
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
Access to materials
Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.

Daisy Screven George (1907-2004) advocated for women's rights as a member and leader of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. (NANBPW), and the National Council of Negro Women. The collection contains twenty-four audio recordings dated circa 1970-1988.

Biographical/historical information

Daisy Screven George (1907-2004) advocated for women's rights as a member and leader of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. (NANBPW), and the National Council of Negro Women. Many of the organizations to which George belonged had originated in the Black women's club movement of the first half of the twentieth century.

From 1973 to 1985, George served as the NANBPW's accredited representative to the United Nations where she headed a special project to assist women-led small businesses in Senegal, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and Malawi in 1977.

Scope and arrangement

The collection contains twenty-four audio recordings dated circa 1970-1988. The original format of the audio recordings was cassette tape, with many items containing two parts. Square brackets indicate partial information or unclear spelling. Each series is organized chronologically.

The Daisy George audio collection is arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Daisy George, 1986-2002.

Processing information

Collection inventoried by Nathan Evans. Collection processed and described by Lyric Evans-Hunter, archivist; and Shola Lynch, curator. Finding aid published in 2024.

Separated material

See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Daisy George papers, Sc MG 118.

See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.

Using the collection

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Third Floor

Access to materials

Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.