Box 5
Container
Contains 9 Collections and/or Records:
Books, 1947 - 1971
Sub-Series — Box: 5
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
Sub-series includes books collected and, in some cases, annotated by Helen Bass Williams. Books are related to her master's thesis and French philosophy; racial inequality and the struggles of Black people in America; education for minority students; and movements for racial equality.
Dates:
1947 - 1971
"French novelists from the revolution to Proust", Frederick C. Green, 1964
Item — Box: 5, Item: 1
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 1, Item 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes books collected and, in some cases, annotated by Helen Bass Williams. Books are related to her master's thesis and French philosophy; racial inequality and the struggles of Black people in America; education for minority students; and movements for racial equality.
Dates:
1964
"The choice: The issue of black survival in America", Samuel F. Yette, 1971
Item — Box: 5, Item: 2
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 1, Item 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes books collected and, in some cases, annotated by Helen Bass Williams. Books are related to her master's thesis and French philosophy; racial inequality and the struggles of Black people in America; education for minority students; and movements for racial equality.
Dates:
1971
"The education of the minority child: a comprehensive bibliography of 10,000 selected entries", Meyer Weinberg, 1970
Item — Box: 5, Item: 3
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 1, Item 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes books collected and, in some cases, annotated by Helen Bass Williams. Books are related to her master's thesis and French philosophy; racial inequality and the struggles of Black people in America; education for minority students; and movements for racial equality.
Dates:
1970
"The American negro revolution: from nonviolence to black power", Benjamin Muse, 1968
Item — Box: 5, Item: 4
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 1, Item 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes books collected and, in some cases, annotated by Helen Bass Williams. Books are related to her master's thesis and French philosophy; racial inequality and the struggles of Black people in America; education for minority students; and movements for racial equality.
Dates:
1968
"The age of reason", Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Eric Sutton, 1947
Item — Box: 5, Item: 5
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 1, Item 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes books collected and, in some cases, annotated by Helen Bass Williams. Books are related to her master's thesis and French philosophy; racial inequality and the struggles of Black people in America; education for minority students; and movements for racial equality.
Dates:
1947
"The wisdom of insecurity", Alan W. Watts, 1951
Item — Box: 5, Item: 6
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 1, Item 6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes books collected and, in some cases, annotated by Helen Bass Williams. Books are related to her master's thesis and French philosophy; racial inequality and the struggles of Black people in America; education for minority students; and movements for racial equality.
Dates:
1951
"The negro novel in America, revised edition", Robert A. Bone, 1966
Item — Box: 5, Item: 7
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 1, Item 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes books collected and, in some cases, annotated by Helen Bass Williams. Books are related to her master's thesis and French philosophy; racial inequality and the struggles of Black people in America; education for minority students; and movements for racial equality.
Dates:
1966
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