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The project coordinator met with 40th district
council member Yvette Clarke to alert her to the project's existence and
goals, get her perspective and ideas for the project's direction, and invite
her to join the project Advisory
Committee
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The project coordinator met with Dr. Kendal
Stuart to introduce the project to him, elicit advice based on his years
of interaction with the community, and to invite him to join the Advisory
Committee
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We introduced the project to Janet Green-director
of the Labor Archives at NYU. She was given an overview of the project's
goals and offered many useful strategies for successfully conducting our
preservation effort.
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Advisory Committee member Jim Dyer introduced
the project to Dr. Kathleen Joyce Prestwidge former Chair of Biology at
Hostos Community College and present television producer for Queens Public
Access Television. We discussed the ways in which we could use television
to publicize the project.
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The project was visited by Dr. Roiyah Saltus
Blackwood of the CASBAH project in London, England. We discussed
the similarities between our two initiatives and methodologies and explored
options for effectively managing preservation effort.
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The project coordinator met with Paula Menzies-director
of the Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center at the Flatbush branch of
the New York Public Library. They are presently exploring ways in
which the two projects can work together.
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We are pleased to announce two new additions
to our advisory committee: The Honorable Yvette Clarke, and the Honorable
Kendal Stuart.
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We have begun a new survey this month and
we continue to survey the papers of the Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations.
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The project continues to contact and follow-up
with the historically significant Jamaican Progressive League and Tobago
Alumni Association.
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Academic research about the Jamaican, Trinidadian
& Tobagonian, and Pan-Caribbean community continues so that the
survey will accurately reflect the dynamics of the community.
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