Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative audio tapes, 1966-1967
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Summary
- Creator:
- Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative
- Abstract:
- Thirty-three 1/4-inch open-reel audio tapes recording meetings of various directors and committee members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative, especially the founders, Gerald Schaflander and Henry Etzkowitz. Issues discussed include disagreements, employment and firings, stealing, finances, violence and gang fights, drugs, students, the FBI, and black and white division of labor. Notes on some of the boxes include names of persons involved, events, quotes, and content.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear Feet (Five boxes, including three boxes containing 33 audio tapes, and two boxes containing preservation master and use copies on 124 compact discs.)
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Collection ID:
- RL.10040
Background
- Scope and content:
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Thirty-three 1/4-inch open-reel audio tapes recording meetings of various directors and committee members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative, especially the founders, Gerald Schaflander and Henry Etzkowitz. Issues discussed include disagreements, employment and firings, stealing, finances, violence and gang fights, drugs, students, the FBI, and black and white division of labor. Notes on some of the boxes include names of persons involved, events, quotes, and content.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative was a racially-integrated organization founded by sociologists Gerald Schaflander and Henry Etzkowitz in 1966, as a way to connect the diverse residents of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood to goods and services, including food, medicine, and childcare, while investing profits back into the community.
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Processed by: Craig Breaden, September 2013
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[Identification of item], Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative Audio Tapes, 1966-1967, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.