Gates Avenue Association records
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Various 1920s-1940s records of the Gates Avenue Association, including a minute book, correspondence, a list of residents and property owners for 1936, and various announcements and notes of the Association. The materials illuminate the Association's regular activities and operations, as well as its opposition to the arrival of African Americans in the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill.
Historical note
Founded in Brooklyn in 1922, the Gates Avenue Association was formed in response, in part, to the movements of African Americans into the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill, a demographic change which some of the older residents opposed.
Scope and Contents
This collection includes various records of the Gates Avenue Association spanning the period 1922 to 1944, including a minute book, correspondence, a list of residents and property owners for 1936, and various announcements and notes of the Association. The materials illuminate the Association's regular activities and operations, as well as its opposition to the arrival of African Americans in the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill.
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Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Gates Avenue Association records, 1977.177, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Harvey J. Swann, 1944.
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