Reminiscences of Algernon D. Black, 1978.

Biographical Note

Educator, civil libertarian

Scope and Contents

Immigrant background, Ethical Culture School, Harvard; early interest in civil liberties; Roger N. Baldwin; settlement house work, 1926-1933; work with West Virginia mining families, 1933; teacher and leader at Ethical Culture from 1933; co-chairman, city-wide Committee on Harlem, 1941-1947; job opportunities for blacks; state committee on fair housing, 1949; chairman of board of National Committee on Discrimination in Housing, 1950-1967; black militancy in late 1960s; chairman of Civilian Complaint Review Board of Police Department, New York City, 1966; encampments for citizenship from 1939; writing and broadcasting on ethical issues; internal security investigations

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Black, Algernon D. (Algernon David), 1900-1993--Interviews.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Ethical culture movement.
• Housing.
• Housing policy.
• Internal security.
• Interviews.
• Merritt, Russell, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• New York (N.Y.). Police Department--Complaints against.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social service.
• Society for Ethical Culture.
• United States--Intellectual life.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984