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Digital folder MSP00310 Helen Bass Williams papers

 Container

Contains 6 Collections and/or Records:

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

Tougaloo College materials, undated

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 7, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Sub-series includes audio and photographic materials from Williams' career at Tougaloo College. The negative reel documents the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the audio reel recorded a conversation between Frank Stewart and "Mr. Gentle Jackson", and Stewart and Helen Bass Williams regarding Mississippi and issues experiences by Black residents.
Dates: undated

Audio recording, "Mr. Gentle Jackson", undated

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 7, Sub-Series 2, Item 1
Scope and Contents Audio records a conversation between presumably "Mr. Gentle Jackson", a Black Mississippi resident, and Frank Stewart (Side A); and Stewart and Helen Bass Williams (Side B), where they discuss the civil rights movement, Tougaloo College, and issues faced by Black people in Mississippi and the United States.
Dates: 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

Audio recording, "Tape of meeting on race issues", undated

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310, Series 7, Sub-Series 4, File 4
Scope and Contents Recording of a meeting on race issues and voice notes by an unidentified Black student at Purdue. Topics include: purpose of Black Student Unions on integrated campuses, organizing and activism, violence against and suppression of Black people, race issues at Purdue and in Lafayette, and issues within the Civil Rights movement.
Dates: 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