Box Mixed nav_8
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Contains 14 Results:
Current Federal Housing Problems and Other Urban Development Problems by Robert C. Weaver, 1964 Feb 27
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070201_ARC_Weaver_01-02
Scope and Contents
Robert C. Weaver discusses his work as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He gives historical context to the impact of the Great Migration, beginning in 1910, and population shifts in northern urban centers. Weaver describes the prevalence of female-headed households in urban African-American households, and emphasizes the importance of a living wage as a pathway to financial stability. Weaver discusses class stratification within the African-American demographic, specifically as it...
Dates:
1964 Feb 27
Facts and Fictions in Human Relations by Melvin M. Tumin, 1964 Mar 19
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070204_ARC_Tumin_01-02
Scope and Contents
Melvin Tumin discusses desegregation, including, specifically, the Princeton Plan, and general resistance to social change and manifestations of racism among a variety of social groups. Tumin describes his experiences on campus at Princeton University, where he was a professor; in particular he discusses the formation of a group on Princeton’s campus called Students for Segregation, as well as work by segregationist and Princeton University alumnus Carleton Putnam. Tumin details his work...
Dates:
1964 Mar 19
Untitled Speech by Roy Wilkins, 1964 May 14
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070201_ARC_Wilkins_01-02
Scope and Contents
Roy Wilkins begins by thanking the audience for attending an hour earlier than usual. He explains that as a leader within the NAACP, he must attend to its upcoming Freedom Spectacular, to benefit the NAACP’s voter registration work in the South. He also details the amount of cash bond monies that the NAACP has dispensed in support of such work, and announces that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton will be attending the Spectacular. He discusses the Supreme Court cases of Brown v. Board of...
Dates:
1964 May 14
Women's Work Conference: Women's Work Has Just Begun, 1973 Sep 17
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: 1-7
Scope and Contents
Topics of the conference include: "What's a Nice Person Like You Doing in this State of Society?"; "The Potence of the Individual"; "Making It in Business"; "Why Go To College?"; "Has the Women's Movement brought any New Values to the World of Work?"; "Women as Volunteers: Legitimate Role or Rip-Off"; "Is Business Wooing Women?"; "Job Flexibility and Redesign: New Values at Work"; and "The Personal Function...
Dates:
1973 Sep 17