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Harlem Neighborhoods Association records

Title
Harlem Neighborhoods Association records, 1941-1978.
Author
Harlem Neighborhoods Association.
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Box 1Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 364 Box 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Box 2Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 364 Box 2Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Box 3Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 364 Box 3Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Box 4Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 364 Box 4Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Box 5Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 364 Box 5Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Box 6Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 364 Box 6Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Box 7Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 364 Box 7Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Box 8Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 364 Box 8Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Additional Authors
  • Pickens, Harriet, 1909-1969.
  • Fisher, Mildred.
  • Robinson, James H.
  • Welsch, Exie.
  • Tanneyhill, Gertrude.
  • Houston, Donald Eugene, 1938-
  • Central Harlem Council for Community Planning.
  • Harlem Neighborhoods Association.
Description
2.7 lin. ft. (8 boxes)
Summary
The Harlem Neighborhoods Association records chronicle the deteriorating quality of life in Harlem from the 1940s to the late 1970s. The collection consists of correspondence and memoranda, board of directors and committee minutes, financial reports, publicity and outreach materials, membership lists and printed matter. The committee and program files document an ongoing organizational concern for chronic social dysfunction and urban poverty in Harlem. The most substantive files are the Day Care Committee, 1952-1956; the Housing Committee, 1952-1956; the Recreation Committee, 1948-1958; the Parents Committee, 1952-1968, and several youth related programs spanning from 1948 to 1963. Other substantive issues include: school decentralization in Harlem, urban renewal, drug prevention and family planning. Frequent correspondents include James H. Robinson who served as chairman of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, Harriet Pickens and Mildred Fisher, respectively chairperson and executive secrtary of the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning, and committee chairpersons Exie Welsch, Eugene Houston and Gertrude Tanneyhill. Also included is a scrapbook of articles and other printed matter documenting local efforts in 1963 to raise funds for the construction of a two-hundred bed hospital in Mount Morris Park.
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Note
  • Eight photographs of the United Hospital Fund Campaign Committee of Mount Morris Hospital transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
Biography (note)
  • Launched in 1937 as the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, the Harlem Neighborhoods Association served as a clearinghouse for various social agencies and community organizations operating in Harlem until 1978. The West Harlem Council of Social Agencies began with an informal group of social service professionals which met in 1934 to deal with relief problems caused by the Depression. It gained affiliation with the Welfare and Health Council of New York City in the early 1940s and subsequently changed its name to the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning. The Welfare and Health Council ended its affiliation and funding programs with regional councils in 1956. As a result, the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning discontinued its exclusive relationship with social agencies and became a community and social planning group, with a new emphasis on grassroots participation. A founding community meeting was held in 1959 and the organization renamed itself the Harlem Neighborhoods Association (HANA). For the next fifteen years, the new group organized public campaigns in Harlem around such issues as drug prevention and rehabilitation, housing renovation, school desegregation and decentralization, community control, day care facilities for children, better hospitals, and youth services. HANA was one of the initial sponsors of "Harlem Youth Day" and was instrumental in setting up a mental health clinic at Harlem Hospital. The organization faded out of existence after 1976.
Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
  • Finding aid available in repository.
Provenance (note)
  • Papers salvaged by Schomburg Center staff on the grounds of a building under renovation at 200 West 135th Street in Harlem.
Call Number
Sc MG 364
OCLC
122532700
Author
Harlem Neighborhoods Association.
Title
Harlem Neighborhoods Association records, 1941-1978.
Biography
Launched in 1937 as the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies, the Harlem Neighborhoods Association served as a clearinghouse for various social agencies and community organizations operating in Harlem until 1978. The West Harlem Council of Social Agencies began with an informal group of social service professionals which met in 1934 to deal with relief problems caused by the Depression. It gained affiliation with the Welfare and Health Council of New York City in the early 1940s and subsequently changed its name to the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning. The Welfare and Health Council ended its affiliation and funding programs with regional councils in 1956. As a result, the Central Harlem Council for Community Planning discontinued its exclusive relationship with social agencies and became a community and social planning group, with a new emphasis on grassroots participation. A founding community meeting was held in 1959 and the organization renamed itself the Harlem Neighborhoods Association (HANA). For the next fifteen years, the new group organized public campaigns in Harlem around such issues as drug prevention and rehabilitation, housing renovation, school desegregation and decentralization, community control, day care facilities for children, better hospitals, and youth services. HANA was one of the initial sponsors of "Harlem Youth Day" and was instrumental in setting up a mental health clinic at Harlem Hospital. The organization faded out of existence after 1976.
Provenance
Papers salvaged by Schomburg Center staff on the grounds of a building under renovation at 200 West 135th Street in Harlem.
Indexes
Finding aid available in repository.
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Added Author
Pickens, Harriet, 1909-1969.
Fisher, Mildred.
Robinson, James H.
Welsch, Exie.
Tanneyhill, Gertrude.
Houston, Donald Eugene, 1938-
Central Harlem Council for Community Planning.
Harlem Neighborhoods Association.
Research Call Number
Sc MG 364
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