Box 9
Container
Contains 16 Collections and/or Records:
Personal, 1915-1983, undated
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 1
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.
Dates:
1915-1983, undated
Southern Illinois University, 1964, undated
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 1, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
Sub-series includes papers related to Helen Bass Williams' education at Southern Illinois University. Materials include her master's thesis, class notes, papers, and assignments.
Dates:
1964, undated
Class notes, 1964
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, File 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes papers related to Helen Bass Williams' education at Southern Illinois University. Materials include her master's thesis, class notes, papers, and assignments.
Dates:
1964
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
"Articles on Helen", 1967 - 1991
File — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 3, File 4
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:
1967 - 1991
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
Mississippi Action for Progress and Head Start, 1966-1968, undated
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 3
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,...
Dates:
1966-1968, undated
MAP newsletters, 1967 - 1968
File — Box: 9, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 3, File 7
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,...
Dates:
1967 - 1968
"Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission", 1968
File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 3, File 10
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,...
Dates:
1968
Purdue University, 1967-1987, undated
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1967-1987, undated
"Student unrest Purdue", 1967 - 1987
File — Box: 9, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 1
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.
Dates:
1967 - 1987
Published materials, 1947-1990, undated
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6
Scope and Contents
Series includes published materials such as books, periodicals, and articles collected by Helen Bass Williams. Materials are related to Helen Bass Williams' master's thesis and French philosophy; Black culture, politics, and advancement; racial inequity; education for minority students; integration in the education system; movements for racial equality; and spirituality.
Dates:
1947-1990, undated
Miscellaneous, 1948-1990, undated
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents
Sub-series includes miscellaneous published materials collected by Helen Bass Williams. Materials include pamphlets, articles, magazines and poems and are predominantly related to integration in the education system, student development, and Black culture.
Dates:
1948-1990, undated
Articles and poems, 1948 - 1989
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 3, File 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes miscellaneous published materials collected by Helen Bass Williams. Materials include pamphlets, articles, magazines and poems and are predominantly related to integration in the education system, student development, and Black culture.
Dates:
1948 - 1989
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