1 10 5 https://corenyc.org/omeka/files/original/76d25d7c5fa7f59e3b9d75418d65cc4a.tiff 559f6278f790c81d5a769aee8b7cd828 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Height 503 Width 356 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brooklyn CORE Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource photo of Jitu Weusi, Brooklyn CORE Description An account of the resource This is a photo of Brooklyn CORE member Jitu Weusi. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he was originally known as Leslie Campbell. He was a member of Brooklyn CORE from its earliest days, partially due to his father's friendship with chairman Ollie Leeds, both of whom were Marxists. After attending Long Island University on a basketball scholarship, he became a teacher in Brooklyn's junior high schools. Upset over the United Federation of Teachers' (UFT) decision not to support the 1964 Citywide School Boycott, he and other Black teachers (including now city councilman Al Vann) formed the Negro Teachers Association. Renamed the African American Teachers Association, the organization played a leading role in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville controversy of 1968. Changing his name to Jitu Weusi, he went on to become a founder and headmaster of the Uhuru Sasa School, one of the most well known of the Black Liberation schools in New York City during the 1970's. 'Uhuru Sasa' is Kiswahili for 'Freedom Now', which interestingly was a slogan heavily used by CORE during the 1960's at its demonstrations. Jitu Weusi 'also from Kiswahili' can be translated into 'Big Black' in English. Weusi and the school's parent organization, the EAST, were primarily responsible for the promotion of Kwanzaa in New York perhaps more than anyone else. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Osei Terry Chandler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived A View from the East Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Syracuse University Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant The East, Brooklyn, 1970 brooklyn core congress of racial equality core Jitu Weusi the EAST https://corenyc.org/omeka/files/original/d62be283a111f8f52cb3f455ec1edeae.mp3 a0d81394dcc1ad7986d64ecd35b721ca https://corenyc.org/omeka/files/original/b793f1ce4f0e3b019e0dc5f911d9df16.tiff 428b4c95ebf430acc89ca5fee5a9c957 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brooklyn CORE Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'Jitu' by Pharoah Sanders , song named for Jitu Weusi, Brooklyn CORE Description An account of the resource This is an audio file of the song 'Jitu' by Pharoah Sanders from the album Shukuru. The song was named after Brooklyn CORE member Jitu Weusi. The photo* is of Weusi when he was still known as Leslie Campbell. Pharoah Sanders was one of the many legendary Jazz musicians that played at the East, the afrocentric educational and cultural community center that Jitu Weusi and others established in Brooklyn in the early 1970's. Sanders album, "Live at The East" was named after the venue. *New York Times, Jan. 23, 1969. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource song: Pharoah Sanders Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived song: Shukuru photo: New York Times, July 23, 1969 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available song: Theresa Records photo: New York Times Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 23, 1969 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource song: Pharoah Sanders photo: New York Times black nationalism black power brooklyn core congress of racial equality core Jitu Weusi https://corenyc.org/omeka/files/original/c648469393a6026c91f6c6261bbe65b9.mp3 5dba731b8163b9c947d7f102520ce45d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brooklyn CORE Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Arnie Goldwag, Brooklyn CORE, on Jitu Weusi Description An account of the resource This is an audio clip of Brooklyn CORE member Arnie Goldwag speaking about working with Brooklyn CORE's Jitu Weusi after Goldwag had been pushed out of Brooklyn CORE because he was White. In his oral history with New York CORE member Sheila Michaels tells a story of how, working as an investigator for the Administration for Children’s Services, he risked his job by insisting on placing a young girl who had to be taken out of an abusive home into the care of Weusi. Rather than place the girl in the foster care/group home system, he believed Weusi could do the job through the EAST, the Black educational and cultural center Weusi helped found in the 1970's. What is interesting is that this was done after Weusi had been labeled as anti-semitic for his various actions during the Ocean-Hill Brownsville demonstrations over community control of local public schools. Goldwag, the brother of an orthodox rabbi, had been pushed out of Brooklyn CORE as it went Black Power, a move for which he blamed Sonny Carson, a man who he had no kind words for. Even with that, his interview indicates his ability to be critical and distinguish between Carson and Weusi, a characteristic the White members of CORE were not often given credit for. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brooklyn CORE Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource photos of and articles on The EAST Subject The topic of the resource Brooklyn CORE members Description An account of the resource This is a collection of photos of and articles on the EAST, the cultural nationalist organization founded by Jitu Weusi (among others). I am including it here for several reasons: <br />- as I have argued previously, the EAST in many ways represents a natural evolution of ideas that started in Brooklyn CORE<br /> - several members of Brooklyn CORE were also members of the EAST and the EAST had a close working relationship with the Dr. Sam Pinn of Brooklyn CORE in the 1970's and 1980's. Brooklyn CORE's Sonny Carson is included in the mural (bottom right) on the building's front. <br />- there has been precious little scholarship done on the EAST. Having all these items in one place encourages scholarship by making it easier for students. <br />* The place to start is still Dr. Kwasi Konadu's book 'A View from the EAST'<br /><br /> Included here (besides the photos of the former EAST headquarters at 10 Claver Place in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn) are:<br /><br /> - a copy of Black News*, a newspaper published regularly by the EAST similar to the Black Panther's newspaper. This copy is significant because it lists Msemaji Weusi (aka (Maurice Fredricks of Brooklyn CORE) as part of the editorial board. It also includes an interesting article on Jitu Weusi and COINTELPRO. (taken from freedomarchives.org) <br /><br />- a hard to find article* on the EAST's jazz nightclub that includes photos taken by Basir Mchawi, a leader of the EAST who also used to hang around the Harlem CORE offices as a teenager in the mid 1960's. (from Wax Poetics magazine) <br /><br />- a journal article on writings by Black prisoners during the 1970's that focuses on the work of Jitu Weusi and Jim Seitu Dyson (also of Brooklyn CORE). This is the only piece I have come across that discusses Seitu's work from a scholarly perspective. Shout out to Dr. Maisha Winn for being down by law.<br /><br /> - this is a link to a conference paper done by Dr. Russell Rickford on the Uhuru Sasa Shule, the school at the center of the EAST ('Uhuru Sasa' is Swahili for "Freedom Now'). The piece is interesting for its praise and damning criticism. Rickford's dissertation was on the Afrocentric independent Black school movement of the 1970's and 1980's. Uhuru Sasa was one of the very first such schools and is discussed at length in his dissertation. <br /><a href="http://avery.cofc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/rickford21.pdf">CLICK HERE</a><br /><br /> - this is a link to series of interviews of members of the EAST including Jitu Weusi in which he discusses his reasons for starting the school in relation to the school boycotts of the 1960's in New York City.<br /><a href="http://www.centralbrooklynjazzconsortium.org/memoriesoftheeast.html">CLICK HERE</a> <br /><br />* photos taken from http://www.placematters.net/node/1545<br />credited to Martha Cooper Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Brooklyn , Bedford-Stuyvesant, 1970's black nationalism black power brooklyn core core Jitu Weusi the EAST https://corenyc.org/omeka/files/original/5c384af3488388c3467741c5dd41ee1b.mp4 9225db1a1de1e4cd4acf3fc9640abf93 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brooklyn CORE member Les Campbell and the "Hey, Jew boy" poem Subject The topic of the resource Les Campbell (a.k.a Jitu Weusi) Description An account of the resource This is a film clip that it comes from the PBS documentary series "The Jewish Americans"... it has to do with Brooklyn CORE member Les Campbell from the Ocean Hill-Brownsville community control demonstrations and the "Hey, Jew boy" poem he read on the radio in 1969. He paid a heavy price as he was labeled as anti-semitic for the rest of his life even though he apologized several times. In the many articles on the issue, which often implied it was Campbell who wrote the poem, his side was rarely discussed. The poem, which the show’s host (Julius Lester of SNCC) asked Campbell to read, had actually been written by a 15 year old student. It was only one of several written by his students and read on the show. Campbell at first refused to read the poem but finally did at the host's insistence. He used the poem to illustrate the type of enmity created by the mostly Jewish United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and of how the students were pointing to the fact that these historical victims of racism were just as guilty of being racist. The poem had been dedicated to Al Shanker, head of the UFT. Even though he had participated in many civil rights demonstrations, specifically with CORE, Shankar went well out of his way to portray the Blacks and Latinos opposed to him and the UFT as Hitleresque monsters who wanted to "kill Whitey". He also warned parents that volunteers who kept the schools open while the UFT was on strike may have "transmissible diseases" stereotyping Blacks and Latinos as unwashed and dirty. As professor Clarence Taylor wrote, “Al Shanker’s attempt to play on the fears of teachers by falsely painting a picture of the whole community control movement as anti-Jewish and out to remove Jewish teachers from their position further heightened the tension and distrust between the Black and Jewish communities.’ (Taylor , Clarence. Knocking At Our Own Door. Columbia University Press.) Campbell , who changed his name to Jitu Weusi, went on to found the Black cultural nationalist organization the EAST. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Jewish Americans Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available PBS black power brooklyn core congress of racial equality core Jitu Weusi les campbell the EAST