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Kenneth B. Clark Papers: Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC) Records (1914 - 2015)
RepositoryNew York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Manuscripts Division
Collection IDSc MG 236
Size9.6 linear feet
Collection Description
Business executive, psychologist, educator, and writer Kenneth Bancroft Clark (1914-2005) was an expert witness regarding the psychological effect of segregation in education for the landmark Brown v. Kansas Board of Education case (1954). Clark also founded and directed the New York City-based Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC), a non-profit research organization concerned with the problems of American urban society.
Collection Contents
In addition to MARC administrative and reference files, the collection contains drafts of Roy Wilkins' and Ramsey Clark's book, "Search and Destroy: A Report" (1973) concerning the police raid on the Black Panther headquarters in Chicago that resulted in the deaths of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Also included are reports issued by the Metropolitan Applied Research Center (1967-1975) and minutes of the New York State Urban Development Corporation.
Newark-related material consists of research files and other records relating to the "Two Cities' Project, a 1969 study that documented the development and condition -- comparing housing, health, business, education, politics, transportation, urban renewal, and the criminal justice system -- of the African-American communities of Newark and White Plains, NY. The research included surveys and interviews with public officials, aid recipients, neighborhood organizers, social workers, etc. Excerpts from the interviews are included in the project's final report.
Box 4: Two Cities Project, contains preliminary outlines and presentations in preparation for the study, as follows: Folder 1, Historical Component, status report (1969); Folder 2, memorandum regarding federal expenditures FY 1968 for Newark and White Plains; Folder 3, outlines for the project under several topics: Housing, Administration of Justice, Education, Economics, and Social Problems; Folders 4-6, more drafts and notes regarding economics, including populations trends; Folder 7, a list of staff members, including Junius Williams, head of the Community Development Administration, Newark
Box 7, "Education," Folder 1: tables with the numbers of children enrolled in school by grades 1-12 and by year 1963-1969; number of "school years" for Newark citizens 25 or older, in three categories: total, non-white, and "negro" for the years 1960 and 1967; graphs of reading achievement test scores for 3rd and 6th graders in ten Newark Title I schools for 1966 and 1967; notes including contacts at schools; a memo regarding a discussion with Michael L. Cabot, Assistant Superintendent of Special Services, regarding students who were given drugs in school (10 students between the ages of 9 and 11, given 10 milligrams of Melaril); a transcript of an interview with Mamma Asali, principal of the "experiment," an African Free School, in the Robert Treat School, that followed the principles of Amiri Baraka, interview conducted by Dan Dodson (1971); typed and handwritten drafts of the education section of the project report
Box 7, Folders 2-7: drafts related to general education, perceptions, segregation, special education, tracking, etc.; Folder 6, includes a description of Project Link Educational Center, a program sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell that offered an alternative education to one hundred 7th and 8th graders
Box 9, "Health": contains drafts and notes regarding public medicine, Medicaid, death rates, consequences of inadequate health services, private v. public health services, perceptions of consumers and officials, delivery of health services, strategies for change, etc. Folder 1, on information on the total number of physicians for 1955, 1965, 1968, including data on doctors and dentists leaving Newark
Box 9, Folder 4: chart of "The Poverty Death Index" with number of deaths, by cause of death, for every year from 1960 through 1970. Pneumonia is the leading cause of natural death, followed by emphysema and tuberculosis, but by 1970 the number of deaths by homicide had tripled and was nearly equal to pneumonia as a cause of death.
Box 9, Folder 6:, graphs and charts for the "Poverty Death Rate" by year from 1960 through 1970 for all ages including infant mortality, for nonwhites, whites, and total, comparesing Newark with Westchester County Health District
Box 9, Folder 9: detailed descriptions of the Bessie Smith Community Center, a clinic started by the Friends of Clinton Hill, and of the North Jersey Community Union in the Central Ward, and a detailed flow chart of the "structure of health service for low-income families"
Box 10, "Housing,": material on integration /segregation, public housing, condition of housing, and delivery of services. Folder 1, summaries of surveys on perception of the degree of integration /segregation in neighborhoods, by race; Folder 5, transcript of an interview with ____ Huff regarding the Tenant Review Committee and the Newark Housing Authority (1971)
Box 13, "Urban Renewal": material on welfare, aid to dependent children, assistance for the elderly, medical assistance to the aged, etc. Folder 1, includes a chart of "public assistance payments per person in the month of January from 1962 through 1971 by Old Age assistance, Aid to Dependent children, Aid to the Blind, Medical Assistance to the Aged; and a chart of Welfare eligibles by program and by race
Box 14, "Welfare": statistics, costs, rights organizations, perceptions, laws and reforms, services, strategies for change, etc.
Box 14, Folder 5: Table of Essex County Welfare Board monthly medical vendor payments and monthly ADC cash payments (1963-1971), and a table of marriages, births, and deaths in Newark (1966-1970)
Box 14, Folder 14: draft of "Attempts at Remediation of Poverty" (60 pp.), including Welfare as a strategy for Alleviating Poverty (Consequences - Newark: Increased Dependence), Strategies for Change: Efforts at Empowerment, etc.
Box 14, Folder 15: draft of "Strategies for Change" section, including discussion of activities and advocacy work of the Newark Welfare Rights Organization (WRO)
Box 14, Folder 18: another draft of "Consequences of Poverty: Welfare Cost, Fiscal and Human," with data on Newark welfare recipients, discussion of the advocacy work of the Newark WRO, discussion of the UCC in Newark, and brief descriptions of grass-roots organizations such as the Committee for a United Newark, the Newark Area Planning Association, and United Brothers
Newark-related material consists of research files and other records relating to the "Two Cities' Project, a 1969 study that documented the development and condition -- comparing housing, health, business, education, politics, transportation, urban renewal, and the criminal justice system -- of the African-American communities of Newark and White Plains, NY. The research included surveys and interviews with public officials, aid recipients, neighborhood organizers, social workers, etc. Excerpts from the interviews are included in the project's final report.
Box 4: Two Cities Project, contains preliminary outlines and presentations in preparation for the study, as follows: Folder 1, Historical Component, status report (1969); Folder 2, memorandum regarding federal expenditures FY 1968 for Newark and White Plains; Folder 3, outlines for the project under several topics: Housing, Administration of Justice, Education, Economics, and Social Problems; Folders 4-6, more drafts and notes regarding economics, including populations trends; Folder 7, a list of staff members, including Junius Williams, head of the Community Development Administration, Newark
Box 7, "Education," Folder 1: tables with the numbers of children enrolled in school by grades 1-12 and by year 1963-1969; number of "school years" for Newark citizens 25 or older, in three categories: total, non-white, and "negro" for the years 1960 and 1967; graphs of reading achievement test scores for 3rd and 6th graders in ten Newark Title I schools for 1966 and 1967; notes including contacts at schools; a memo regarding a discussion with Michael L. Cabot, Assistant Superintendent of Special Services, regarding students who were given drugs in school (10 students between the ages of 9 and 11, given 10 milligrams of Melaril); a transcript of an interview with Mamma Asali, principal of the "experiment," an African Free School, in the Robert Treat School, that followed the principles of Amiri Baraka, interview conducted by Dan Dodson (1971); typed and handwritten drafts of the education section of the project report
Box 7, Folders 2-7: drafts related to general education, perceptions, segregation, special education, tracking, etc.; Folder 6, includes a description of Project Link Educational Center, a program sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell that offered an alternative education to one hundred 7th and 8th graders
Box 9, "Health": contains drafts and notes regarding public medicine, Medicaid, death rates, consequences of inadequate health services, private v. public health services, perceptions of consumers and officials, delivery of health services, strategies for change, etc. Folder 1, on information on the total number of physicians for 1955, 1965, 1968, including data on doctors and dentists leaving Newark
Box 9, Folder 4: chart of "The Poverty Death Index" with number of deaths, by cause of death, for every year from 1960 through 1970. Pneumonia is the leading cause of natural death, followed by emphysema and tuberculosis, but by 1970 the number of deaths by homicide had tripled and was nearly equal to pneumonia as a cause of death.
Box 9, Folder 6:, graphs and charts for the "Poverty Death Rate" by year from 1960 through 1970 for all ages including infant mortality, for nonwhites, whites, and total, comparesing Newark with Westchester County Health District
Box 9, Folder 9: detailed descriptions of the Bessie Smith Community Center, a clinic started by the Friends of Clinton Hill, and of the North Jersey Community Union in the Central Ward, and a detailed flow chart of the "structure of health service for low-income families"
Box 10, "Housing,": material on integration /segregation, public housing, condition of housing, and delivery of services. Folder 1, summaries of surveys on perception of the degree of integration /segregation in neighborhoods, by race; Folder 5, transcript of an interview with ____ Huff regarding the Tenant Review Committee and the Newark Housing Authority (1971)
Box 13, "Urban Renewal": material on welfare, aid to dependent children, assistance for the elderly, medical assistance to the aged, etc. Folder 1, includes a chart of "public assistance payments per person in the month of January from 1962 through 1971 by Old Age assistance, Aid to Dependent children, Aid to the Blind, Medical Assistance to the Aged; and a chart of Welfare eligibles by program and by race
Box 14, "Welfare": statistics, costs, rights organizations, perceptions, laws and reforms, services, strategies for change, etc.
Box 14, Folder 5: Table of Essex County Welfare Board monthly medical vendor payments and monthly ADC cash payments (1963-1971), and a table of marriages, births, and deaths in Newark (1966-1970)
Box 14, Folder 14: draft of "Attempts at Remediation of Poverty" (60 pp.), including Welfare as a strategy for Alleviating Poverty (Consequences - Newark: Increased Dependence), Strategies for Change: Efforts at Empowerment, etc.
Box 14, Folder 15: draft of "Strategies for Change" section, including discussion of activities and advocacy work of the Newark Welfare Rights Organization (WRO)
Box 14, Folder 18: another draft of "Consequences of Poverty: Welfare Cost, Fiscal and Human," with data on Newark welfare recipients, discussion of the advocacy work of the Newark WRO, discussion of the UCC in Newark, and brief descriptions of grass-roots organizations such as the Committee for a United Newark, the Newark Area Planning Association, and United Brothers
FormatTextual materials
SubjectsAfrican-American History / Civil Rights; Medicine / Public Health; Police / Crime / Law Enforcement; Politics and Government; Poverty / Philanthropy / Charities; Property / Urban Development
Time Period20th Century
LanguageEnglish
Access policyOpen for research
ProcessedYes
Finding AidYes
Finding Aid URLhttp://archives.nypl.org/scm/20987