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National Research Council Committee on the Status of Black Americans working papers

Title: National Research Council Committee on the Status of Black Americans working papers, 1986-1988.
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Status of Black Americans.

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Use in library	Sc MG 548 Box 1	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Use in library	Sc MG 548 Box 2	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Use in library	Sc MG 548 Box 3	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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1 lin. ft. (2 archival boxes, 1/2 archival box)

Summary

The National Research Council Committee on the Status of Black Americans working papers consist of thirty-three essays prepared by prominent scholars in several fields as background for the publication "A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society" (National Academy Press, 1989). Correspondence and other administrative material are located in the National Academy of Sciences archives.

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National Academy of Sciences

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In 1985, "A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society" was published by the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences of the National Research Council. The work was prepared by the Committee on the Status of Black Americans which was charged by the Commission to "...marshall descriptive data on the changing position of blacks in American society since 1940; ...and explore the consequences, anticipated and unanticipated, of public and private initiatives to ameliorate the position of blacks in America." Topics included health, racial attitudes, identity, political participation and economics, education, and crime. Authors of these papers included Derrick Bell, Clayborne Carson, Henry Louis Gates, Henry F. Jackson, Martin Kilson, Julianne Malveaux and Richard J. Powell. The chair of the committee was Robin M. Williams, Jr. and Gerald David Jaynes was the study director; both served as editors of the final report.

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Sc MG 548

OCLC

603895137

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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Status of Black Americans.

Title

National Research Council Committee on the Status of Black Americans working papers, 1986-1988.

Biography

In 1985, "A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society" was published by the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences of the National Research Council. The work was prepared by the Committee on the Status of Black Americans which was charged by the Commission to "...marshall descriptive data on the changing position of blacks in American society since 1940; ...and explore the consequences, anticipated and unanticipated, of public and private initiatives to ameliorate the position of blacks in America." Topics included health, racial attitudes, identity, political participation and economics, education, and crime. Authors of these papers included Derrick Bell, Clayborne Carson, Henry Louis Gates, Henry F. Jackson, Martin Kilson, Julianne Malveaux and Richard J. Powell. The chair of the committee was Robin M. Williams, Jr. and Gerald David Jaynes was the study director; both served as editors of the final report.

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Bell, Derrick, 1930-2011.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Jackson, Henry F.

Jaynes, Gerald David.

Williams, Robin Murphy.

Powell, Richard J., 1953-

Malveaux, Julianne.

Carson, Clayborne, 1944-

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Sc MG 548

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