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Karen Green's Nu Kopelle Scrapbook .375 Cubic Feet 1 flat box

Langdon Manor Books

This collection contains a scrapbook documenting one year of service of the Nu Kopelles, a youth group based in Queens, New York, sponsored by the African American professional and business women's sorority Lambda Kappa Mu. The scrapbook is dedicated to their youth coordinator, Elizabeth Lockett, and the opening title page, written in ink, identifies the club officers: President Karyn Greene, Vice President Jackie Chamacoon, Secretary Yvonne Stallworth, and Treasurer Sheila Blake. This scrapbook shows the many accomplishments of the Nu chapter of the Kopelles in 1975 and includes forty-five photographs, including forty-one color snapshots, with notes captioning the page. Events documented include the girls volunteering with Geraldo Rivera's One-to-One volunteer program, holiday visits to residents at the Irwin Nursing Home, and several luncheons. Some photographs show the girls dressed up, where the Kopelles "exhibited their talents in fashion modeling, dance choreography, music, song, and scholarship." The scrapbook also contains a list of the Kopelles' fundraising efforts and a flyer for a car wash.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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