Interview with Zakiya Collier, Schomburg’s Digital Archivist
by Allison Hughes, Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
September 16, 2021
Zakiya Collier is the first-ever Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center. Her work is particularly focused on developing the #SchomburgSyllabus—an effort to document the #hashtag movement with a collection of public and often crowdsourced online syllabi and reading lists.
Witness to History: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade to Document the Black 20th Century
by Allison Hughes, Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
September 16, 2021
Reddick, a Schomburg curator in the 1940s, devoted his career to documenting the Black experience during World War II and the civil rights movement through letters, documents and ephemera to ensure it wasn't "erased from mainstream narratives."
The Struggle over I.S. 201: Babette Edwards Education Reform in Harlem Collection
by Lauren Stark, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
September 16, 2021
This collection documents inequities at Intermediate School (I.S.) 201 in East Harlem, New York, in the 1960s–70s with a focus on the efforts of parent leader and school reform advocate Babette Edwards.
The Schomburg Curriculum Project
by Lauren O'Brien, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
September 16, 2021
The project is an exciting new initiative that seeks to bring the institution’s dynamic collection of more than 11 million items to classrooms across the country.
The Schomburg Center Clipping Files
by NYPL Staff
September 16, 2021
One of the Schomburg's most popular resources is a collection that has been built personally by the hands of librarians for almost 100 years.
"Proudly We Hail": A Celebration of Frederick Douglass JHS's Harcourt Tynes
by Barrye Brown, Processing Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
September 16, 2021
This homemade book stands as a beautiful tribute to a wonderful teacher and a vibrant learning environment in the Harlem community. It also illustrates the critical role of libraries and archives in collecting and preserving materials that document the history and culture of people of African descent throughout the world for long-term access.
Doc Chat Episode Sixteen: Teaching the #Syllabus
by Julie Golia, Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
March 9, 2021
In this episode, the Schomburg Center's Zakiya Collier and Dr. Yarimar Bonilla of Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center explored Schomburg's #Syllabi web archive collection and the Puerto Rico Syllabus, and discussed erasure and underrepresentation in academia, digital protest, and ways of deploying Hashtag Syllabi in the classroom.