Box 4
Container
Contains 16 Collections and/or Records:
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
Office of Economic Opportunity, Head Start/CAP Grant, approximately 1966-1967
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 3, File 18
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:
approximately 1966-1967
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
"Letter to friends", July 19, 1976
File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 2
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:
July 19, 1976
"Proposals - Purdue minority students", 1973
File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 3
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:
1973
"Purdue - Nomination", May 7, 1975
File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 4
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:
May 7, 1975
Africana Studies program, 1974 - 1975
File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 5
Scope and Contents
File includes materials related to the development of the Africana Studies program and annotated by Williams.
Dates:
1974 - 1975
"Correspondence/Controvery Purdue", 1975 - 1976
File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 6
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:
1975 - 1976
Purdue Black Faculty-Staff Caucus, 1974 - 1975
File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 7
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:
1974 - 1975
Indiana Interreligious Commission, 1974 - 1977
File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 8
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:
1974 - 1977
Counselling Black students, 1973-1977, undated
File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 9
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:
1973-1977, undated
Report, “The academic performance of Black students at Purdue University”, approximately 1970
File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 10
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:
approximately 1970
Harambee, 1974 - 1975
File — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 11
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:
1974 - 1975
The Learning Center, 1970 - 1975
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 5, Sub-Series 4, File 12
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:
1970 - 1975
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