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Box 2

 Container

Contains 24 Results:

Awards and recognition, 1967-1991, undated

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 3
Scope and Contents

Series includes materials related to awards received by Williams and recognition of Williams and her work. Materials include correspondence, reference letters, articles, pamphlets, media releases, and photographs. Some of the pamphlets and flyers are annotated with speech notes.

Dates: 1967-1991, undated

Lane Bryant Award, 1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 3, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series includes materials related to awards received by Williams and recognition of Williams and her work. Materials include correspondence, reference letters, articles, pamphlets, media releases, and photographs. Some of the pamphlets and flyers are annotated with speech notes.

Dates: 1968

Letters and news releases, 1974-1975, undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 3, File 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series includes materials related to awards received by Williams and recognition of Williams and her work. Materials include correspondence, reference letters, articles, pamphlets, media releases, and photographs. Some of the pamphlets and flyers are annotated with speech notes.

Dates: 1974-1975, undated

Southern Illinois Woman of the Year, 1986

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 3, File 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series includes materials related to awards received by Williams and recognition of Williams and her work. Materials include correspondence, reference letters, articles, pamphlets, media releases, and photographs. Some of the pamphlets and flyers are annotated with speech notes.

Dates: 1986

Pamphlets and flyers, 1975 - 1986

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 3, File 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series includes materials related to awards received by Williams and recognition of Williams and her work. Materials include correspondence, reference letters, articles, pamphlets, media releases, and photographs. Some of the pamphlets and flyers are annotated with speech notes.

Dates: 1975 - 1986

Writings, 1950-1992, undated

 Series — Box: 2
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4
Scope and Contents

Series includes articles and stories written by Helen Bass Williams. Materials include manuscripts, notes, and published articles that document Black history and Black experiences, including short stories and narratives authored by Williams that document her and other Black peoples experiences in the Civil Rights movement.

Dates: 1950-1992, undated

Articles and newsletters, 1950 - 1992

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Sub-series includes articles and papers written by Helen Bass Williams, predominantly for the #9 (Number Nine) newsletter which is a newsletter for the #9 community in Colp, Illinois. Materials include manuscripts, notes, and published articles that include topics such as Black history in Illinois and narratives of Williams' experiences in the Civil Rights movement.

Dates: 1950 - 1992

"Black history of Southern Illinois", 1950s - 1960s

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes articles and papers written by Helen Bass Williams, predominantly for the #9 (Number Nine) newsletter which is a newsletter for the #9 community in Colp, Illinois. Materials include manuscripts, notes, and published articles that include topics such as Black history in Illinois and narratives of Williams' experiences in the Civil Rights movement.

Dates: 1950s - 1960s

"#9 Newsletter", 1982 - 1992

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, File 2
Scope and Contents

File includes #9 newsletters, many of which contain articles written by Helen Bass Williams. One issue published in 1992 contains a memorial to Helen Bass Williams. This was kept with the other newsletters for consistency.

Dates: 1982 - 1992

"Handwritten notes #9 column", 1982 - 1990

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, File 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes articles and papers written by Helen Bass Williams, predominantly for the #9 (Number Nine) newsletter which is a newsletter for the #9 community in Colp, Illinois. Materials include manuscripts, notes, and published articles that include topics such as Black history in Illinois and narratives of Williams' experiences in the Civil Rights movement.

Dates: 1982 - 1990

Creative writing, 1967, undated

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Sub-series includes stories and poems written by Helen Bass Williams. The stories are based on real-life experiences but tend to be fictionalized in some ways. Most of these stories are recorded and available in MSP 311, Mary O'Hara papers. There is also an untitled poem by Williams.

Dates: 1967, undated

"Birth and childhood stories", undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes stories and poems written by Helen Bass Williams. The stories are based on real-life experiences but tend to be fictionalized in some ways. Most of these stories are recorded and available in MSP 311, Mary O'Hara papers. There is also an untitled poem by Williams.

Dates: undated

"Red, Black and Blue", 1967

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, File 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes stories and poems written by Helen Bass Williams. The stories are based on real-life experiences but tend to be fictionalized in some ways. Most of these stories are recorded and available in MSP 311, Mary O'Hara papers. There is also an untitled poem by Williams.

Dates: 1967

Untitled poem, undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, File 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes stories and poems written by Helen Bass Williams. The stories are based on real-life experiences but tend to be fictionalized in some ways. Most of these stories are recorded and available in MSP 311, Mary O'Hara papers. There is also an untitled poem by Williams.

Dates: undated

Career and Activism, 1950-1987, undated

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1950-1987, undated

Early career, 1950-1966, undated

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' early career in health care work and as an educatior, which includes her tuberculosis work and career at Benedict College and Tougaloo College, both historically Black, liberal arts colleges. Materials include project notes, correspondence, grant proposals, a yearbook, and a finger print chart.

Dates: 1950-1966, undated

"Tuberculosis work", 1950 - 1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 1, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' early career in health care work and as an educatior, which includes her tuberculosis work and career at Benedict College and Tougaloo College, both historically Black, liberal arts colleges. Materials include project notes, correspondence, grant proposals, a yearbook, and a finger print chart.

Dates: 1950 - 1956

“Benedict College (1956-1963), Tougaloo (1956-1962)”, 1964-1967, undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 1, File 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' early career in health care work and as an educatior, which includes her tuberculosis work and career at Benedict College and Tougaloo College, both historically Black, liberal arts colleges. Materials include project notes, correspondence, grant proposals, a yearbook, and a finger print chart.

Dates: 1964-1967, undated

Tougaloo College, grant proposals, 1965 - 1966

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 1, File 3
Scope and Contents

File includes two grant proposals written while Williams was at Tougaloo College. The first proposal is to desegregate schools and the second proposal, written in collaboration with Mary Endres Fyfe, is to develop a Modern Languages Department at Tougaloo College.

Dates: 1965 - 1966

"Tiger", Benedict College yearbook, 1962

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 1, File 4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' early career in health care work and as an educatior, which includes her tuberculosis work and career at Benedict College and Tougaloo College, both historically Black, liberal arts colleges. Materials include project notes, correspondence, grant proposals, a yearbook, and a finger print chart.

Dates: 1962

Activism, 1965-1981, undated

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' participation and interest in activist organizations in the South. Materials include publications, correspondence, reports, and a grant application.

Dates: 1965-1981, undated

"Freedom Radio", 1965 - 1966

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 2, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' participation and interest in activist organizations in the South. Materials include publications, correspondence, reports, and a grant application.

Dates: 1965 - 1966

Highlander Folk School, 1957, 1981

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 2, File 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sub-series includes materials related to Williams' participation and interest in activist organizations in the South. Materials include publications, correspondence, reports, and a grant application.

Dates: 1957, 1981

Helen Bass Williams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310
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.

Dates: 1915 - 2004; Majority of material found within circa 1960s and 1970s