Blog Posts by Subject: #SchomburgSyllabus

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."

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 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.

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.

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.

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.