Abstract

This collection includes documents, correspondence, published materials, photographs, and audio recordings collected and created by Helen Bass Williams that document her personal life, education, and her work as a civil rights activist in the South, educator, and counselor and professor at Purdue University.

Scope and Contents

Series includes biographical information about Williams and her family, papers from her education at Southern Illinois University, and financial records. Materials include correspondence, tax statements, papers, notes, certificates, legal records, and some professional records.

Scope and Contents

Sub-series includes records related to Williams' finances. Materials include tax statements, W2 forms, copies of cheques, correspondence, and handwritten notes.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes records related to Williams' finances. Materials include tax statements, W2 forms, copies of cheques, correspondence, and handwritten notes.

Scope and Contents

Series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, both personal and professional, poems written to Helen Bass Williams, and a few invitations. Materials of note include letters to and from presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, Senator Hubert Humphrey, her students and colleagues, as well as an invitation to Helen when she was two years old.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, both personal and professional, poems written to Helen Bass Williams, and a few invitations. Materials of note include letters to and from presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, Senator Hubert Humphrey, her students and colleagues, as well as an invitation to Helen when she was two years old.

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Series includes records created and collected by Williams throughout the course of her career in health care, education, and counselling, and her civil rights activism. Materials include correspondence, newspaper articles, grant proposals, manuscripts, internal documents, financial records, hiring documents, research papers, and reports. Photographs from this series have been separated and placed in Series 7.

Scope and Contents Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' work with Head Start programs in Mississippi. This includes her work as an Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) consultant and as the director of Mississippi Action for Progress (MAP). Many of the materials document the racial tensions, inequality, and racism in Mississippi during this period, as well as attacks against civil rights groups. Materials include reports, contracts, correspondence, guides, procedural documents, meeting minutes,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' work with Head Start programs in Mississippi. This includes her work as an Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) consultant and as the director of Mississippi Action for Progress (MAP). Many of the materials document the racial tensions, inequality, and racism in Mississippi during this period, as well as attacks against civil rights groups. Materials include reports, contracts, correspondence, guides, procedural documents, meeting minutes,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' work with Head Start programs in Mississippi. This includes her work as an Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) consultant and as the director of Mississippi Action for Progress (MAP). Many of the materials document the racial tensions, inequality, and racism in Mississippi during this period, as well as attacks against civil rights groups. Materials include reports, contracts, correspondence, guides, procedural documents, meeting minutes,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' work with Head Start programs in Mississippi. This includes her work as an Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) consultant and as the director of Mississippi Action for Progress (MAP). Many of the materials document the racial tensions, inequality, and racism in Mississippi during this period, as well as attacks against civil rights groups. Materials include reports, contracts, correspondence, guides, procedural documents, meeting minutes,...

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Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' career at Purdue University. These records document programs and services aimed at creating racial equity for minority students, staff, and faculty; her research on Black students' experiences and her counselling work; and racial equity issues at Purdue and in Indiana. Materials include grant proposals, articles, correspondence, reports, internal documentation such as memos, constitutions for Black organizations, manuscripts, and notes.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' career at Purdue University. These records document programs and services aimed at creating racial equity for minority students, staff, and faculty; her research on Black students' experiences and her counselling work; and racial equity issues at Purdue and in Indiana. Materials include grant proposals, articles, correspondence, reports, internal documentation such as memos, constitutions for Black organizations, manuscripts, and notes.