Brian Purnell civil rights in Brooklyn research collection
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The Brian Purnell civil rights in Brooklyn research collection includes Dr. Purnell's research notes and photocopies of archival materials held at Center for Brooklyn History and other institutions related to the Brooklyn chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Congress of Racial Equality.
Biographical Note
Brian J. Purnell, Ph.D., is from New York City. He is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at Bowdoin College. Dr. Purnell received his Ph.D. in history from New York University in 2006 and was assistant professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University before teaching at Bowdoin. At Fordham, he also worked as a research director of the Bronx African American History Project.
Dr. Purnell has focused his areas of study on U.S. Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and urban history. His Ph.D. dissertation was titled A movement grows in Brooklyn: the Brooklyn chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the northern civil rights movement during the early 1960's and his first book was published in 2013: Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings : the Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn.
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The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The Brian Purnell civil rights in Brooklyn research collection, 1914-2015, contains the research files from Dr. Brian Purnell's research on the Brooklyn chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Brooklyn branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Most of the materials are photocopies from archival collections held at the Center for Brooklyn History, other institutions, and privately owned, with some of Dr. Purnell's research notecards and annotations. Research was conducted between 2005 to 2015 and the photocopied materials date mostly from the 1940s to the 1970s. The archival collections represented are as follows:
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records (MSS34140) at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
- Rioghan Kirchner Civil Rights in Brooklyn Collection, 1960-2005 (BCMS.0011) at the Center for Brooklyn History.
- Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection, 1943-2007 (ARC.002) at the Center for Brooklyn History.
- Olive and Marjorie Leeds paper held by their daughter Maxine Craig.
- Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter: Records (Mss 847) at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Conditions Governing Use
While many items at the Center for Brooklyn History are unrestricted, we do not own reproduction rights to all materials. Be aware of the several kinds of rights that might apply: copyright, licensing and trademarks. The researcher assumes all responsibility for copyright questions
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Brian Purnell civil rights in Brooklyn research collection, CBHM.0035, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Brian J. Purnell, Ph.D., 2016.
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