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Hilliard, Raymond M., 1907-1966. Raymond M. Hilliard papers, 1922-1967.

Title: Raymond M. Hilliard papers, 1922-1967.

Correspondence, reports, speeches, minutes, news clipping scrapbooks, and other files relating primarily to Raymond Hilliard's career in public welfare administration in New York City and Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Early files, ca. 1934-1948, relate to the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission and the Illinois Public Aid Commission, unemployment relief during the Great Depression, and welfare assistance throughout the state, including southern Illinois. Collection includes files (5 ft.) relating to Hilliard's work as commissioner of the New York City Department of Welfare, 1948-1951, and as executive of the Welfare and Health Council of New York City, 1951-1953, and on Hilliard's efforts to eliminate Communist influence in the department and improve welfare administration. Collection includes files, ca. 50 ft., primarily 1940s-1963, from Hilliard's work with the Cook County (Ill.) Department of Welfare, later known as the Department of Public Aid, especially files of the department's directors Joseph L. Moss and Raymond Hilliard, relating to general administration, policies, public relations and 1938-1949 radio scripts; personnel, unions, and anti-Communist concerns; studies of effective budgeting for relief recipients, studies of groups of aid recipients, and reviews of the effectiveness of public aid programs; 1930s unemployed councils; recommendations for welfare legislation; and provision of medical care, child care, and care for the older persons. Other materials in the collection include Hilliard's professional correspondence, ca. 1944-1966, and 12 ft. of newsletters, mimeographed reports and fliers, and some correspondence with social welfare and civil rights leaders and organizations, including the American Public Welfare Association, the Community Fund of Chicago, the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the National Conference on Religion and Race 1963 conference in Chicago and related organizations, and the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

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