This series consists of a wide range of research files pertaining to mid-twentieth century issues of youth and race in New York City, predominantly in the neighborhood of Harlem. The files address subjects such as juvenile delinquency, school integration and decentralization, and institutional racism in foster care. The bulk of the files contain annotated photocopies of documents from relevant community organizations such as the Citizen's Committee for Children of New York City, Mobilization for Youth, Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, and the Metropolitan Applied Research Center, as well as from notable individuals such as Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, Justice Justine Wise Polier, and Dr. Viola Bernard. These materials include reports, correspondence, and clippings. Also included is an extensive collection of documents from the Wilder v. Bernstein (i.e., Wilder v. Sugerman) court case, a class action lawsuit initiated by Judge Polier and filed on behalf of black, Protestant children in need of foster care in New York City.
Box 6 Folder 44
Clippings--Violence in New York City, 1987-1994
Box 6 Folder 45
Harlem and Child Care--General, 1953-1988
Box 7 Folder 1
Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU)--Planning Materials, 1962-1963
Box 7 Folder 2
HARYOU--Relationship with NCCD, 1963-1967
Box 7 Folder 3
HARYOU with Associated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT)--New York Herald Tribune Investigation, 1964-1965
Box 7 Folder 4
HARYOU-ACT--Financial Crisis, 1965
Box 7 Folder 5-6
HARYOU--Clippings, Reports and Correspondence, 1962-1965, (2 folders)
Box 7 Folder 7
HARYOU and Harlem Neighborhoods Association (HANA)--Parents Research Project, 1963
Box 14 Folder 41
HANA--Parents Research Project, 1963
Box 14 Folder 42
HANA--Meeting Minutes, Memoranda and Reports, 1964-1965
Box 7 Folder 8
New York City in Crisis-- HARYOU and Politics of Harlem, 1965
Box 7 Folder 9
Community Service Society--Studies and Programs, 1937-1959
Box 7 Folder 10
Mobilization for Youth--Organization Review and Recommendations, 1964-1965
Box 7 Folder 11-15
Juvenile Delinquency--Reports and Projects, 1923-1992, (5 folders)
Box 7 Folder 16
Juvenile Delinquency--Clippings, 1942-1962
Box 7 Folder 17
Juvenile Delinquency--Clippings and Reports--World War II, 1942-1987
Box 7 Folder 18-21
President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1958-1966, (4 folders)
Citizen's Committee for Children of New York City (CCC)
Box 7 Folder 22
Reports, Correspondence, and Clippings, 1945-1960
Box 8 Folder 1-2
Minutes, Memoranda and Reports, 1952-1960, (2 folders)
Box 8 Folder 3
Family Court--Proposals and Recommendations, 1956-1962
Box 8 Folder 4
Courts and Mental Health Services, 1954-1959
Box 8 Folder 5-6
Juveniles and Narcotics, 1951-1959, (2 folders)
Box 8 Folder 7
Juveniles and Drug Therapy--Clippings and Reports, 1958-1959
Box 8 Folder 8
New York City Youth Board Reports, 1954-1962
Box 8 Folder 9
Newsletter--Legal Services, 1965
Box 11 Folder 12-16
Foster Care--Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1948-1964, (5 folders)
Box 12 Folder 22
Foster Care--Reports, 1945-1948
Box 12 Folder 23-24
Education--Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1948-1964, (2 folders)
Box 12 Folder 35
The "600" School, 1954-1965
Box 12 Folder 37
Schools--Corporal Punishment, 1970s
Box 12 Folder 39
School Finances, 1959-1964
Box 12 Folder 40
Moral and Spiritual Ideals in Public Schools, 1955-1956
Box 12 Folder 41
Meeting Minutes--Teacher Selection Project, 1953-1954
Box 13 Folder 11-12
Reports, Minutes and Correspondence--School Integration, 1961-1964, (2 folders)
Box 13 Folder 28
Youth Services Study--Dr. Richard Cloward, 1963
Box 14 Folder 10
Information on New York City, 1961-1965
Box 14 Folder 11
Housing Integration, 1957-1965
Box 14 Folder 16
Marion Ascoli and Stanley M. Isaacs--Biographical Information, 1960-1982
Box 14 Folder 24
Foster Care--Babies, 1951-1957
Box 15 Folder 19
Social Workers--Correspondence, 1967
Box 15 Folder 20
The Planning and Coordination of Services for Children and Youth in New York City
, 1959
Box 15 Folder 21
Child Welfare--Reports, 1965-1971
Box 15 Folder 22
CCC Blue Book: Facts Every Citizen Should Know About Services for Children and Families in New York City
, 1970
Box 15 Folder 23
A Descriptive Study of the "600" Day Schools
, 1951
Box 15 Folder 24
School Delinquency Crisis, 1958
Box 15 Folder 25
CCC and HANA--School Suspension Crisis, 1958-1968
Box 16 Folder 1-2
Suspensions--Franklin Lane and Canarsie High Schools--Kenneth Clark, 1967-1974, (2 folders)
Box 16 Folder 3-4
An Assessment of Current Mental Health and Social Science Knowledge Concerning Juvenile Delinquency, Appendix II
, 1960, (2 folders)
Box 16 Folder 5
Who Was Reached? An Analysis of the Population Served by Mobilization for Youth, 1962-1965
, undated
Box 8 Folder 10
May or's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency--Reports, 1944-1952
Box 8 Folder 11
Social Security Administration Children's Bureau--Memoranda, 1944-1952
Box 8 Folder 12
Juvenile Delinquency Programs--General, 1964-1965
Box 8 Folder 13
Courts and Psychotherapy--Minutes and Correspondence, 1937-1951
Box 8 Folder 14
Courts and Psychotherapy--May or LaGuardia, 1942
Box 8 Folder 15
Juvenile Delinquency Evaluation Project of the City of New York--Correspondence with NCCD, 1956
Box 8 Folder 16
Juvenile Delinquency--Youth House Detention Facility, 1946
Box 8 Folder 17
Report on Truancy--Conflict Between Courts and Schools, 1954
Box 8 Folder 18-20
Juvenile Delinquency--Correspondence, Reports, and Clippings, 1944-1966, (3 folders)
Box 8 Folder 21
Juvenile Delinquency--Reports and Meeting Transcripts, 1959-1960
Box 8 Folder 22
Children's Bureau Delinquency Committee--Meeting Transcript, 1959
Judge Justine Wise Polier
Box 8 Folder 23
Juvenile Delinquency--General, 1942-1993
Box 8 Folder 24
Juvenile Delinquency--Clippings, 1942-1958
Box 8 Folder 25
Child Guidance Service Program in Harlem, 1940-1942
Box 8 Folder 26
The Pins Child: A Plethora of Problems
, 1973
Box 8 Folder 27
Race and Child Care--Reports, 1936-1973
Box 8 Folder 28-29
Foster Care Integration--Reports and Correspondence, 1936-1974, (2 folders)
Box 8 Folder 30
Juvenile Justice--Reports and Clippings, 1973-1996
Wilder v. Bernstein (also known as Wilder v. Sugerman)
Box 8 Folder 31-32
Reports, Notes, and Correspondence, 1972-1993, (2 folders)
Box 9 Folder 1-18
Depositions and Examinations, 1975-1992, (18 folders)
Box 9 Folder 19
Plaintiff's Exhibits, 1973-1982
Box 9 Folder 20
Notes on Wilder, 1992
Box 9 Folder 21
Juvenile Injustice, 1973
Box 9 Folder 22
The Accountability Gap in Foster Care, 1972
Box 9 Folder 23
Third Amended Complaint, 1981
Box 9 Folder 24
Related Lawsuits, 1966-1973
Box 10 Folder 1-3
Progressed Findings of Facts, 1984, (3 folders)
Box 10 Folder 4
Special Services for Children Agencies: Race, Religion, and Quality of Care--Draft, 1983
Box 10 Folder 5
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, 1973
Box 10 Folder 6
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, 1972-1977
Box 10 Folder 7-8
Pre-Wilder--Correspondence and Meeting Minutes--General, 1952-1966, (2 folders)
Box 10 Folder 9-10
Pre-Wilder--NCCD and Rockefeller Brothers Fund--General, 1948-1991, (2 folders)
Box 10 Folder 11
Pre-Wilder--NCCD and Rockefeller Brothers Fund--Riverdale Children's Association, 1943-1957
Box 14 Folder 23
Catholic Agencies--Response to Lawsuit, 1974
Box 15 Folder 7
Kenneth Clark Deposition and Biographical Materials, 1973-1992
Box 15 Folder 8
Howard Moody Deposition and Bibliography, 1983
Box 10 Folder 12
Juvenile Justice Confounded: Pretensions and Realities of Treatment Services
, 1972
Box 11 Folder 20
Juvenile Justice in Double Jeopardy--Chapters 2-11, 1989
Box 11 Folder 28
Children's Court and Foster Care--Report and Correspondence, 1945-1971
Box 12 Folder 1
Lavanburg House--Memoranda, 1943-1944
Box 12 Folder 2
Correspondence--General, 1948-1981
Box 12 Folder 3
Improving Institutional and Probation Services--Reports and Correspondence, 1955-1956
Box 12 Folder 4
Trip to South--Memoranda, 1966
Box 12 Folder 5
Corporal Punishment and Evasive Social Worker--Court Docket, 1951
Box 12 Folder 6
Youth House--Correspondence, 1945-1951
Box 12 Folder 7
Delinquency and Truancy--Report and Correspondence, 1950-1954
Box 12 Folder 8
MARC and Kenneth Clark--Correspondence, 1972-1974
Box 12 Folder 9
Correspondence and Press Release--NYCLU, 1975-1979
Box 12 Folder 10
New York State Board of Social Welfare--Adoption, 1973
Box 12 Folder 11
Correspondence--Justice W. Bruce Cobb, 1945
Box 12 Folder 12
Race Discrimination--Protestant Big Brothers Movement--Correspondence, 1944
Box 12 Folder 13-16
Foster Care--Clippings and Reports, 1942-1975, (4 folders)
Box 12 Folder 17
Race and Foster Care--Reports, 1953-1959
Box 12 Folder 18
Visit to Warwick--Memoranda, 1958
Box 12 Folder 19
Foster Care Integration--Children's Village, 1941-1944
Box 12 Folder 20
Foster Care--Children and Psychiatry, 1962
Box 12 Folder 21
Articles and Memoranda--General, 1951-1964
Box 12 Folder 32
Correspondence--Racial Discrimination, 1942-1945
Box 13 Folder 20
Foster Care--General, 1947-1974
Box 13 Folder 24-25
Correspondence with Justice John Warren Hill--Foster Care, 1950-1956, (2 folders)
Box 13 Folder 26
Racial Discrimination in Foster Care, 1938
Box 13 Folder 27
Manual of Institution Facilities
, 1938-1939
Box 13 Folder 30
Markowitz and Rosner--"Chapter 5 Notes"--Shad Polier, 1935-1994
Box 13 Folder 36
Correspondence--Jane Bolin--Autobiographical Note, 1978
Box 14 Folder 17
Foster Care--Brown-Isaacs Bill, 1951
Box 14 Folder 18
Children's Center--Heckscher Foundation, 1945-1947
Box 14 Folder 19
Children's Shelter Programs--Memoranda, 1945-1948
Box 14 Folder 20
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and Louise Wise Services--Reports, 1968-1979
Box 14 Folder 21
Race Discrimination in Child Welfare--Reports, 1936-1940
Box 14 Folder 22
Foster Care Institutions--General, 1935-1938
Box 14 Folder 25
Riverdale Home--Clipping, 1945
Box 14 Folder 26
Youth Shelters--Correspondence, 1945
Box 10 Folder 13
A Harlem Almanac--William A. Glaser, 1964
Box 10 Folder 14-15
New York Amsterdam News Clippings--Hospitals, Health Care and Race, 1961-1994, (2 folders)
Box 10 Folder 16
Panel Discussions on Public Health--Transcripts, undated
Box 10 Folder 17
Politics and Poverty--Publications, 1966-1970
Box 10 Folder 18
Department of Health, Education and Welfare--Demonstration Projects Panel, 1962-1963
Box 10 Folder 19
Report to the Congress on Juvenile Delinquency
, 1960
Box 10 Folder 20
Markowitz and Rosner--"Chapter 7 Research", 1979-1990
Box 10 Folder 21-23
"Chapter 7 Research"--The Citizens' Committee for Children of New York and the Evolution of Child Advocacy, 1945-1972 --Mary Jean McDonald, 1993, (3 folders)
Box 10 Folder 24
New York City Social Report: First Quarter
, 1983
Box 10 Folder 25
Environmental Racism: Activism of Black Women When Confronted with the Rhetoric of 'Not in my Backyard, Then Whose?'--Wendy A. Watson, 1994
Jeanette Hopkins
Box 11 Folder 1
Correspondence and Articles--School Segregation, 1966-1995
Box 11 Folder 2
Equality of Educational Opportunity
, 1966
Box 11 Folder 3
Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC) Reports--General, 1967-1975
Box 11 Folder 4-5
MARC--A Study of a Study: Two Cities with Particular Reference to the Participant and Involved Observer Process, 1970, (2 folders)
Box 11 Folder 6
MARC--Two Cities Notes, 1970
Box 11 Folder 7
MARC--Two Cities Interview with Kenneth Clark, 1970
Box 11 Folder 8
Correspondence and Notes--Kenneth Clark, 1964-1983
Box 11 Folder 9
Seminars and Reports--Kenneth Clark, 1961-1971
Box 11 Folder 10
Clippings--Kenneth Clark, 1969-1995
Box 11 Folder 11
ACLU Special Commission on the FBI Files--Report and Notes, 1979
Box 11 Folder 17
Child Care Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, 1952-1955
Box 11 Folder 18
Segregation in Foster Care--Reports, 1961-1964
Box 11 Folder 19
American Jewish Congress--Correspondence--Racism in Adoption, 1962
Box 11 Folder 21
Foster Care--MARC "Project C", 1967-1972
Box 11 Folder 22
New York Department of Social Welfare and Domestic Relations Court--Correspondence, 1942-1945
Box 11 Folder 23-27
Children's Court--Foster Care Facilities--Reports and Correspondence, 1937-1973, (5 folders)
Box 11 Folder 29-30
Children's Court and Foster Care--Reports, 1940-1978, (2 folders)
Box 11 Folder 31
Planning for Brooklyn Children Needing Foster Care
, 1936
Box 11 Folder 32
Public Responsibility for the Care of Children in New York City
, 1956
Box 12 Folder 30
Race and Foster Care--Reports, Clippings and Correspondence--1942-1947
Box 12 Folder 31
Mental Health Resources in New York City
, 1957
Box 12 Folder 33
Statistics--Neglected and Delinquent Children by Race, 1942-1946
Box 12 Folder 36
Articles on Race and Class--Norman and Susan Fainstein, 1993
Box 13 Folder 14
Youth in the Ghetto--HARYOU, 1964
Box 13 Folder 15
Story of the City-Wide Citizens' Committee on Harlem
, 1943
Box 13 Folder 18
Report on 1935 Harlem Riot, 1969, 1935, 1969
Box 13 Folder 19
Clipping--Fight Outbreak at Shelter, 1943
Box 13 Folder 21-22
Dr. Viola Bernard--Mental Hygiene and the Negro Community, 1940-1947, (2 folders)
Box 13 Folder 23
Detention and Reformatory Facilities--Proposal for Readjustments, 1944
Box 13 Folder 29
New York Times Clippings--Race and Children, 1946-1947
Box 13 Folder 31
State Mental Health Program--Child Guidance, 1947-1953
Box 13 Folder 32
Professionalism in Psychology--Memoranda, 1951-1953
Box 13 Folder 33
Psychiatry and Law Symposium--Children's Rights, 1975-1978
Box 13 Folder 34
U.S. Children's Bureau--Juvenile Delinquency, 1952
Box 13 Folder 35
Judge Hubert Delany--Clippings and Correspondence, 1954-1990
School Integration and Decentralization
Box 12 Folder 25-26
Reports and Correspondence, 1959-1969, (2 folders)
Box 12 Folder 27
Speech on Segregation--Kenneth Clark, 1954
Box 12 Folder 28
Board of Education--Racism in Textbooks, undated
Box 12 Folder 29
The New York Teachers Guild--Program to Establish Special High Schools, 1956-1957
Box 12 Folder 34
Clippings, 1958-1959
Box 12 Folder 38
Kenneth Clark and the American Jewish Congress--Notes and Correspondence, 1951-1975
Box 12 Folder 42-43
Skipwith Case--Reports and Correspondence, 1958-1968, (2 folders)
Box 12 Folder 44-45
Harlem Schools--"Harlem Project", 1942-1949, (2 folders)
Box 12 Folder 46-47
Intergroup Committee of New York's Public Schools--Reports and Correspondence, 1954-1957, (2 folders)
Box 12 Folder 48-49
Clippings, Reports and Correspondence--General, 1958-1963, (2 folders)
Box 12 Folder 50-51
Integration in Brooklyn and Canarsie--Reports and Correspondence, 1956-1973, (2 folders)
Box 13 Folder 1-2
Reports, Correspondence and Meeting Minutes--General, 1956-1963, (2 folders)
Box 13 Folder 3
Board of Education Progress Report, 1960
Box 13 Folder 4
Report on the Quality of Education to Majority and Minority Children, 1955
Box 13 Folder 5
Integration Program Progress Report, 1959
Box 13 Folder 6
Study--From Color Blind to Color Conscious, undated
Box 13 Folder 7-9
Harlem Parents Committee--Correspondence and Reports, 1959-1975, (3 folders)
Box 13 Folder 10
Urban League Research Study, 1963
Box 13 Folder 13
Brooklyn Parents--Meeting Minutes and Correspondence, 1958-1965
Box 13 Folder 16-17
Psychiatric Effects of Segregation--Reports, 1944-1974, (2 folders)
Box 13 Folder 37
Afro-Centric Schools--Notes and Clippings, 1989-1991
Box 13 Folder 38
Clippings, Reports and Correspondence, 1967-1969
Box 13 Folder 39
Kenneth Clark--Community Control of Schools, 1958-1970
Box 14 Folder 2-4
Kenneth Clark--School Decentralization, 1965-1972, (3 folders)
Box 14 Folder 5
Public Ethics and the Integration Question--Marion Wright [Edelman], 1957
Box 14 Folder 6
Marion Wright Edelman--Correspondence with the Poliers, 1967
Box 14 Folder 7
Marion Wright Edelman--Profile in New Yorker, 1989
Box 14 Folder 12-13
United Federation of Teachers (UFT)--General, 1966-1972, (2 folders)
Box 14 Folder 14-15
Kenneth Clark and UFT--Community Conflict and Decentralization, 1968-1974, (2 folders)
Box 15 Folder 9-10
Kenneth Clark--School Decentralization--Memoranda, 1967-1969, (2 folders)
Box 15 Folder 11
Southern Civil Rights--Testimony Summaries, 1962
Box 14 Folder 8
Appointment of Simon Gerson--Correspondence and Clippings, 1938
Box 14 Folder 9
Failure to Reappoint Judge Hubert Delay--Clippings and Correspondence, 1950-1955
Dr. Viola W. Bernard
Box 14 Folder 27
Biographical Information, 1970-1992
Box 14 Folder 28
City-Wide Citizens' Committee on Harlem--Reports and Correspondence, 1942-1945
Box 14 Folder 29
Psychiatric Training for Blacks--Correspondence, 1941-1951
Box 14 Folder 30
Kenneth Clark--Blacks and Psychotherapy--Reports, 1961-1971
Box 14 Folder 31
Race and Mental Health--Reports and Correspondence, 1963-1974
Box 14 Folder 32-33
NCCD--Correspondence, Studies and Clippings--General, 1942-1965, (2 folders)
Box 14 Folder 34
Child Guidance--Studies, Reports and Notes, 1945-1952
Box 14 Folder 35
Popular Psychiatry--Reports and Clippings, 1946-1952
Box 14 Folder 36
Correspondence, Clippings and Studies--General, 1947-1971
Box 14 Folder 37
Even the Rat Was White: A Historical View of Psychology
, 1974
Box 14 Folder 38
Rosner--Mid-Century Crisis Over Race, Foster Care and Mental Health--Presentation and Research Materials, 1955-1998
Box 14 Folder 39
Inwood House--Board of Managers Meeting Minutes, 1989-1990
Box 14 Folder 40
Inwood House--Correspondence and Articles--Teen Pregnancy, 1987-1988
Box 15 Folder 1
Mental Health, Educational and Vocational Services--Reports, 1964-1967
Box 15 Folder 3
Harlem's America: From the U.S. Senate Investigation of the Crisis in Our Cities…
, 1966
Box 15 Folder 4-6
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children--Investigation Materials, 1942-1944, (3 folders)
Box 15 Folder 12
Public Housing Discrimination--Reports, 1943-1961
Box 15 Folder 13-14
Central Park North Committee--Reports and Research Materials, 1965-1973, (2 folders)
Box 15 Folder 15
African American Families--Clippings, 1990s
Box 15 Folder 16
Community Council of Greater New York Mental Health Committee--Meeting Minutes--Fee Charging and Welfare Budget, 1955-1958
Box 15 Folder 17
The City--Kenneth Clark--General, 1966-1967
Box 15 Folder 18
Report Re Discrimination Against Alleged 'Radicals" by the New York City Relief Administration
, 1934