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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