Robert Clifton Weaver papers (Additions), 1930-1987.

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Robert Clifton Weaver papers (Additions), 1930-1987.

The Robert Clifton Weaver Papers (Additions) document Weaver's career during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, his departure from federal service in 1968 and subsequent career as educator, public speaker and author. The collection contains published and unpublished speeches (1952-1984) including testimonials, commencement addresses, lectures and keynote addresses on housing discrimination, problems in urban development, the role of the federal government in housing, the college of the future, and African Americans during the New Deal and World War II.

4 lin. ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6723970

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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