mnsss446 New York City Women Community Activists Oral History Project, 2004-2006 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Burd Schlessinger. Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

2008

Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup. June 17, 2008 Finding aid written in English. Collection Overview New York City Women Community Activists Oral History Project2004-2006 MS 524 1 box (.5 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Interviews conducted by Tamar Carroll for her dissertation on women's community activism in New York City, circa 1955-95, including activists involved in Mobilization For Youth on New York City's Lower East Side and members of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women. Scope and Contents of the Collection

This oral history collection consists of fourteen interviews conducted by Tamar Carroll for her dissertation on women's community activism in New York City, circa 1955-95 (for the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Included are interviews with activists involved in Mobilization For Youth, one of the country's first anti-poverty agencies founded in 1957 on New York City's Lower East Side to combat juvenile delinquency such as Frances Fox Piven, Rosalyn Baxandall, attorneys Faith Colangelo and Nancy LeBlanc, and other MFY staff members. Also interviewed are members of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women (of Brooklyn, N.Y.), Sally Martinez Fisher and Ethel Velez. Audio CDs and transcripts.

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The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

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Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

New York City Women Community Activists Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Additional Formats

Original audio recordings have been transferred to CD-ROM for research use.

The New York City Women Community Activists Oral Histories were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection by Tamar Wilder Carroll in 2005 and 2006.

Processed by Burd Schlessinger, 2005, 2006.

Feminists--United States--History--20th century--Sources Juvenile delinquency--United States--History--Sources New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century Poor--United States--Political activity--History--Sources Public welfare--United States--History--Sources Community development--New York (State)--New York--History--Sources Urban renewal--United States--History--Sources Oral history--Archival resources AbuBakr, Rashida Ismaili Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad, 1939 Birnbaum, Ezra Colangelo, Faith Dowery, Mary Anne Fisher, Sally Martinez Gore, Marilyn Josephs, Barbara LeBlanc, Nancy Mizrahi, Terry Piven, Frances Fox Velez, Ethel Mobilization for Youth--History--Sources National Congress of Neighborhood Women--History--Sources Carroll, Tamar