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Community History Groups
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Asia Society
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
General NYC History
Time Period:
http://www.asiasociety.org
Bay Ridge Historical Society
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
General NYC History
Time Period:
All Periods
http://www.bayridge.com
Brecht Fourm
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
Radicalism & Reform
, Poverty & Welfare
, Cultural Production
Time Period:
20th Century since WW2
, 19th Century since Civil War
, 19th Century since Civil War
http://Brechtforum.org
Broad Channel Historical Society
To preserve the history of the community of Broad Channel
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
General NYC History
Time Period:
All Time Periods
BROADWAY THEATER INSTITUTE
To preseve, protect and perpetuate the legacy of live theater on Broadway and throughout the world as it relates to Broadway
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
All Subjects
Time Period:
All Time Periods
http://www.directfrombway.org
Bronx African-American History Project
There are now over a half million people of African descent living in the Bronx, well over a third of the Bronx's population. Blacks have been an integral part of the history of the Bronx since colonial times, have contributed greatly to the borough's cultural and political history, and have recently played a major role in the borough's revitalization, but there has been almost nothing written about this large and diverse population other than isolated passages in books about the burning of the Bronx, the rise of hip hop, and the crack epidemic. From the little that has been written, no one would know that many Blacks in the Bronx have been upwardly mobile and have lived in stable communities. The major overview of the history of blacks in New York City, "The Black New Yorkers: The Schomburg Illustrated Chronology," contains only three pages dealing with black life in New York, and there are no historical works dealing in depth with the development of the Bronx's Black neighborhoods. Many African-Americans who grew up in the Bronx are deeply distressed that their experience has been overlooked or seen exclusively through the lens of crime and urban decay.
One of the major reasons for absence of writing about Bronx African-American history is an absence of primary source material.. There has been no systematic collection of the records of black churches, business, community groups, political and civic leaders, or of the publications of community organizations in the Bronx's black neighborhoods. As a result, powerful and important stories have been overlooked, among them, the migration of upwardly mobile black families from Harlem to the Bronx in the 1930's and 1940's, the development of a rich, diverse Bronx musical culture fusing jazz, rhythm and blues, Latin music and calypso; the rise of a Black political leadership in the Bronx; the migration of West Indians and West Africans to the borough.
To fill this gap in the historical record, and respond to the growing demand for information about Blacks in the Bronx from schools, churches and community organizations, the Bronx County Historical Society and Fordham's Department of African and African-American Studies decided to launch the Bronx African-American History Project. The goal of this project is to create and collect the resources necessary to tell the story of African Americans in the Bronx, and then get the story out to the public through lectures, media appearances, books and articles, public exhibitions, and documentary films. We began a little more than a year ago with an oral history project and have received a groundswell of interest in our work from community residents, the media and the academic community .
In addition, the Oral History project hopes to spur individuals and organizations to donate collections of documents to the Bronx African-American History Archives created in the Bronx County Historical Socieety. By the time the Project is completed, we expect to have created an array of materials that will place the Black experience in the Bronx squarely in the center of narratives of Black life in New York City, and indeed, in narratives of Black life in the United States.
Category: Community History Groups
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http://www.fordham.edu/baahp/
Brooklyn Information and Culture
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
General NYC History
Time Period:
All Time Periods
http://www.brooklynx.org/tourism
Center for Jewish History
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
Education
, Ethnicity & Immigration
, Cultural Production
Time Period:
All Periods
http://www.cjh.org
Center for Urban Pedagogy
CUP is a nonprofit research and design office dedicated to creative
education about places and how they change. CUP creates exhibitions
about architecture and planning, designs youth programs about places
and politics, and produces media about communities and social justice.
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
Time Period:
http://www.anothercupdevelopment.org
City Lore
City Lore was founded in 1986 to produce programs and publications that convey the richness of New York City's cultural heritage. Increasingly our many efforts embrace national audiences as well.
Category: Community History Groups
Subject:
Cultural Production
Time Period:
http://www.citylore.org
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