Thomas Sinclair, Jr., was an African-American lawyer, director of the Upper Manhattan Rent Commission, Chairman of the Housing Committee of the Harlem Neighborhoods Association, and a New York City Housing Court judge. The Thomas Sinclair collection consists of biographical data, some letters and speeches, minutes and other documents of Community Boards 10 and 11 regarding urban renewal in Harlem in the 1960s, and some legal files, one of which concerns the proposed installation of Stuart H. Merriam as minister of Harlem's Broadway Presbyterian Church (1961-1962).
Thomas Sinclair, Jr., was an African-American lawyer, director of the Upper Manhattan Rent Commission, Chairman of the Housing Committee of the Harlem Neighborhoods Association, and a New York City Housing Court judge.
The Thomas Sinclair collection consists of biographical data, some letters and speeches, minutes and other documents of Community Boards 10 and 11 regarding urban renewal in Harlem in the 1960s, and some legal files, one of which concerns the proposed installation of Stuart H. Merriam as minister of Harlem's Broadway Presbyterian Church (1961-1962).
Gift, Salvage, 200 West 135 St., 1989
This finding aid was updated by Allison Hughes. (2020 August 12)