URBS 3310: Race, Space and Urban Schools

Board of Education, 1900-1975. This collection consists of over 50,000 images documenting school buildings, staff, educational activities, and special events in the school system. The board's official photographers used many formats, including glass plates, lantern slides, and various types of film. Also included in the collection is a set of 19th-century engravings of school buildings.

This is the finding aid to the NYC Board of Education Records held at the Municipal Archives. The Municipal Library and Archives’ public reading rooms re-opened to the public (by appointment only) on July 12, 2021, with appropriate health and safety protocols in place.

"This guide aims to facilitate access to curriculum materials, broadly defined. These
include courses of study, which outline the subjects to be covered, and syllabi, which typically provide more details. Also included are resource guides, providing informational resources to teachers to help in designing their teaching. Other curriculum materials include guide to help teachers in curriculum development; records of curriculum policy-making; reports of experiments and research studies relating to curriculum; and even some materials intended for student use."

Fordham's Bronx African American History Project is regarded as one of the premier community based oral history projects in the United States. Founded in the spring of 2002 in collaboration with the Bronx County Historical Society, the BAAHP has conducted over 300 full length interviews with African American political leaders, educators, musicians, social workers, business people, clergy. athletes and leaders of community based organizations who have lived and worked in the Bronx since the late 1930s, along with a small number of their Latino and white neighbors and co-workers.

Brooklyn Historical Society’s oral history collections now include over 1,200 interviews. The following collections contain interviews whose audio, and in some cases transcripts, can be accessed online.

To search BPL's digital collection for documents relating to these oral histories, or to download audio files of individual interviews, visit our catalog. You can also explore our oral histories on SoundCloud, Tumblr, or listen to some of our highlighted collections on this page.

The Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH) is the oldest and largest organized oral history program in the world. The Oral History Archives is one of the largest oral history collections in the United States. Here you can find the interviews that have are available online.

The New York Public Library's Community Oral History Project was an initiative at NYPL branches that aims to document, preserve, and celebrate the rich history of the city's unique communities by collecting the stories of people who have experienced it firsthand.

The Queens Memory team collaborates with community members to collect personal histories, images, and other records of life in the borough of Queens. These materials get a permanent home in the Library’s Digital Archives. Staff and volunteers showcase collection highlights on the Gallery page of the Queens Memory website.

The StoryCorps Archive comprises one of the largest born-digital collections of human voices, featuring conversations recorded across the United States and around the world. The full collection is housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The collection accessible here represents a growing selection of these stories, all recorded with StoryCorps, the non-profit organization that has, since 2003, given people of all backgrounds and beliefs the chance to record conversations about their lives. It includes all public conversations recorded by users of the StoryCorps App and StoryCorps Connect, in addition to a growing collection of interviews recorded by StoryCorps with our Mobile Tour, permanent StoryBooths in Chicago and Atlanta, and other projects and locations. New conversations are added every day by StoryCorps and by people from across the country and the world. NOTES: You must register for a free account to view all results.

Some Weeksville Heritage Center oral histories can also be found via StoryCorps and the Brooklyn Historical Society.

The Center for Brooklyn History (Brooklyn Public Library) makes its collections available to all researchers. We welcome scholars, teachers and students, genealogists, artists, documentarians, and anyone else curious about the history of Brooklyn.

The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. The CRDL features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. The CRDL provides educator resources and contextual materials, including Freedom on Film, relating instructive stories and discussion questions from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, and the New Georgia Encyclopedia, delivering engaging online articles and multimedia.

The Digital Library Collections (DLC) website is a gateway to digital reproductions and descriptions of photographs, posters, drawings, objects, ephemera, and manuscripts as well as other archival material from Columbia's rare and special collections. The DLC repository includes more than 515,000 unique images and documents, a portion of which are restricted to onsite viewing in the Libraries.

Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York (DCMNY) provides online access to digital collections of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies located in and around New York City. The collections include photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs from events, catalogues, memorabilia and ephemera.

A portal to the digitized collections of various institutions across the nation, including millions of photographs, documents, books, audio materials, and moving images.

Flickr is a photo management and sharing site, which offers users the ability to search by licensing types. In advanced search by licensing information.

Historypin is a digital, user-generated archive of historical photos, videos, audio recordings and personal recollections.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives was established in 1982 to collect, preserve, and make available primary materials documenting the social and political history of New York City, with an emphasis on the mayoralty and the borough of Queens. The Archives serves researchers, journalists, students, scholars, exhibit planners, and policy makers examining the history of Greater New York. The Archives also produces public programs exploring that history. Its website provides a webdatabase to the collections, which include more than 100,000 digitized photos, and nearly 2.5 million digitized documents.

This database contains over 185,000 images (including photographs, maps, archival materials and multimedia) related to the history of New York City.

Created as part of the library, this digital collection represents a small portion of NYHS' archival and photographic holdings. You can search the entire holdings of NYHS' library through their catalog.

Digitized materials from New York Public Library's archival collections.

The Digital Archives at Queens Public Library is the online repository for selected maps, photographs, manuscripts, newspapers, and books documenting Queens, Brooklyn, and Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here.

Established in the year 2000, the New York Public Radio Archives are the station's physical link to its rich and storied past. The department provides a central repository for more than 70,000 audio recordings on nearly every format (except cylinder and wire), photographs, memorabilia, reports, news items, program guides, institutional records, and promotional materials. You can request WNYC audio materials for research purpose by filling out their form below. They claim that someone will respond within ten business days.

From the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School

Since 1968, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has conducted the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation's public schools. The CRDC collects a variety of information including student enrollment and educational programs and services, most of which is disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency, and disability. The CRDC is a longstanding and important aspect of the ED Office for Civil Rights (OCR) overall strategy for administering and enforcing the civil rights statutes for which it is responsible. Information collected by the CRDC is also used by other ED offices as well as policymakers and researchers outside of ED.

Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Drawing on 1850, 1880, and 1910 census data, it shows how migration, residential, and occupational patterns shaped the city. The Digital Atlas breaks new ground by locating each person counted in the Census at their home address, sometimes before the street grid was even established. This is a living project that will expand to include all five boroughs up to the 1940 census.

Mapping Inequality introduces viewer to the records of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on a scale that is unprecedented. Here you can browse more than 150 interactive maps and thousands of "area descriptions." These materials afford an extraordinary view of the contours of wealth and racial inequality in Depression-era American cities and insights into discriminatory policies and practices that so profoundly shaped cities that we feel their legacy to this day.

You can search by type to find maps.

Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty? The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s. Now you can trace the roots of today's affluence and poverty back to the neighborhoods where people grew up. See where and for whom opportunity has been missing, and develop local solutions to help more children rise out of poverty.

This data provides a portrait of segregation in New York City schools, including identifying the 10 most segregated and 10 least segregated schools in the city.

Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. The link provided takes you directly to New York City.

For a quarter century, the federal government provided funding for cities large and small to raze "blighted" or "slum" neighborhoods. Though improved housing opportunities was the ostensible goal, over time, cities used federal funds to stimulate commercial and industrial redevelopment. Through these programs, cities displaced hundreds of thousands of families from their homes and neighborhoods. Renewing Inequality visualizes those displacements and urban renewal more generally.

Article and visualization capturing the geographic representation of students in New York’s selective high schools.

Data analyses and visualizations from the Research Alliance for New York City Schools

Data visualizations to demonstrate the level of integration or segregation in New York City school districts relative to the neighborhood level of integration or segregation.

A project of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School, InsideSchools provides reviews of NYC schools based on visits and school data.

NYC Open Data makes the wealth of public data generated by various New York City agencies and other City organizations available for public use. As part of an initiative to improve the accessibility, transparency, and accountability of City government, this catalog offers access to a repository of 1,500+ government-produced, machine-readable data sets. The data sets are available in a variety of machine-readable formats and are refreshed when new data becomes available. Data is presented by category, by City agency, or by other City organization.

The New York City Department of Education makes available a variety of data about NYC schools and students, including test results, graduation results, demographic information, enrollment and attendence rates, New York State Report Cards, and School Quality Reports.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity collecting and analyzing data related to education. It provides includes many resources, including the Digest of Education Statistics and State Education Data Profiles.

Sample APA citations for films, videos, TV, music, YouTube/online videos, podcasts, artworks, photographs

Sample APA citations for newspaper, magazine, journal article

Sample APA citations for websites, various social media sites, online forums, etc.

Sample APA citations for interviews, archival materials, personal communications, etc.

This Barnard College guide will walk you through ideas about fair use and when you might need to seek permission to re-use other people's intellectual property.

This page provides an overview of procedures for contacting and requesting permission from a copyright owner to use a copyrighted work. If you already know exactly what you want and are in communication with the copyright owner, you may go directly to one of the permission forms found at the end of this section.