Box 2
Container
Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
"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
Helen Bass Williams papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310
Overview
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