The Caribbean Collection:
An Archival Survey of the Records of the
Jamaican and Trinidadian Communities of Brooklyn

Progress Report - March 2002


  • Our first Advisory Committee Meeting of the year was held this month.  More than half of our Committee members were in attendance.  We discussed many important project issues and received many useful suggestions for steering the project for the rest of this year.

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  • The Project Assistant prepared a detailed report for our advisory committee members.  This report, requested at the meeting, 

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  • We have began  the project Media Campaign which will be an attempt to publicize the project through and organized and systematic procedure.  So far we have received positive reactions from the media outlets contacted.

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  • We continue to survey the documents of Saint Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church and the Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations.

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  • While surveying the papers of the Saint Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church we found the minutes to the 1916-1926 meetings of the Colored Catholics Club.  This is the organization that helped to start St. Peter Claver in response to White Catholic racial intolerance.  We have contacted the archivist for the Diocese of Brooklyn for proper preservation of the document.

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  • Project Staff is doing the research necessary to prepare our workshops that will be presented next month as a part of METRO training calendar.

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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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