Charl Ormond Williams papers, 1924-1959 (bulk 1935-1945).
- 3,200 items. 9 containers. 4 linear feet.
- Arranged in 8 series. Series 1: Democratic Souvenir File, 1936; Series 2: Eleanor Roosevelt, 1924-1959; Series 3: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1935-1949; Series 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Library, 1947; Series 5: Harry S. Truman, 1945-1954; Series 6: White House Conference on Rural Education (1944), 1944-1954; Series 7: White House Conference on How Women May Share in Post-War Policy Making (1944), 1944-1948; and Series 8: Miscellany, 1937-1955.
Open to research.
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, newspaper clippings, printed material, charts, and other papers relating chiefly to Williams's association with the National Education Association of the United States and her work in the field of education and educational reform, including her participation in the 1944 White House Conference on Rural Education. Subjects include the 1944 White House Conference on How Women May Share in Post-War Policy-Making, the Democratic Party, effects of the Depression on education, proposals for a federal department of education, employment of the handicapped, Native Americans, school segregation, separation of church and state, welfare legislation, the 1937 Supreme Court packing plan controversy, and the plight of displaced persons resulting from World War II. Correspondence is primarily with Eleanor Roosevelt. Other correspondents include Alben William Barkley, Mary Ritter Beard, Mary McLeod Bethune, Hugo LaFayette Black, James F. Byrnes, Tom Connally, James Forrestal, Cordell Hull, Herman Kahn, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Lester Smith, Margaret Chase Smith, Adlai E. Stevenson, Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, and Caroline Salome Woodruff.
Educator.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012028
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Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 --Correspondence. Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 --Correspondence. Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 --Correspondence. Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971 --Correspondence. Byrnes, James F. 1882-1972 --Correspondence. Connally, Tom, 1877-1963 --Correspondence. Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 --Correspondence. Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 --Correspondence. Kahn, Herman, 1907-1975 --Correspondence. Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 --Correspondence. Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 --Correspondence. Smith, Henry Lester, 1876- --Correspondence. Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995 --Correspondence. Stevenson, Adlai E. 1900-1965 --Correspondence. Truman, Bess Wallace--Correspondence. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 --Correspondence. Wallace, Henry A. 1888-1965 --Correspondence. Woodruff, Caroline Salome, 1866- --Correspondence.
United States. Supreme Court. Democratic Party (U.S.) National Education Association of the United States.
White House Conference on How Women May Share in Post-War Policy-Making Washington, D.C.) (1944 : White House Conference on Rural Education (1944 : Washington, D.C.)
Church and state--United States. Depressions--United States.--1929 Education--United States. Education and state--United States. Education, Rural--United States. Educational change--United States. Indians of North America. People with disabilities--Employment--United States. Public welfare--Law and legislation--United States. Segregation in education--United States.