Early Career Files (11 folders), c. mid-1960s to early 1980s

File — Box: 14

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Materials within this file represent correspondence between Marshall and an array of elected officials, community board members and organizers, business representatives, cultural institutions, labor unions, schools and universities, and more, as part of her early career activities as an educator, director of Elmcor (a non-profit youth organization in Queens), early advocate of the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center in Corona (which later became a branch of the Queens Public Library), and political activist.

Dates

c. mid-1960s to early 1980s

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Majority of the materials are written in English. A small quantity of correspondence is in Spanish and Korean. It is possible that there are other languages present throughout the correspondence, though it would be a very small percentage.

Conditions Governing Access

Due to the sensitive nature of the contents and inclusion of personally identifiable information, constituent correspondence is restricted for 50 years from the date of creation. Constituent correspondence has been refoldered separately as a file grouping across this subseries.