Box 7
Container
Contains 8 Collections and/or Records:
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
"New south: a quarterly review of Southern affairs", 1972
File — Box: 7, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 2, File 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sub-series includes runs of periodicals collected by Helen Bass Williams. Periodicals are related to integration in the education system, Black culture and politics, Black experiences in the South, and Black scholarship.
Dates:
1972
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
Booklets and pamphlets, 1990, undated
File — Box: 7, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 6, Sub-Series 3, File 2
Scope and Contents
Includes one pamphlet titled, "Why pick on me?" and a booklet with a lecture given by Mary Endres Fyfe
Dates:
1990, undated
Photographic and Audio materials, 1916-1980, undated
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 7
Scope and Contents
Series includes photographic and audio materials belonging to Helen Bass Williams. Materials include photographs of Helen Bass Williams and persons close to her, civil rights activism in the South, and her career and work at Head Start, Mississipi Action for Progress, and Purdue; as well as negatives and audio recordings from her time at Tougaloo College and Purdue University.
Dates:
1916-1980, undated
Purdue University materials, 1968 - 1978
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 7, Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
Sub-series includes photographs from Williams' time at Purdue University and an audio recording. Photographs depict Williams around campus and at speaking engagements, as well as photographs of students and notable persons. Photographs of significance include Williams speaking at a campus protest and a Martin Luther King Jr. ceremony, as well as photographs of a student civil rights leader and Dick Gregory. Audio records discussions of race issues on university campus and specific issues at...
Dates:
1968 - 1978
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