Records, 1964-1988.

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Records, 1964-1988.

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Collection documents the activities of the various Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OICA) administrative bodies including, the Board of Directors, Executive Directors Office, Executive Council, Executive Assembly, National Auxiliary, National Technical Advisory Council and the National Industrial Advisory Committee. The bulk of the collection describes the job training and economic development activities undertaken by the different OICA departments and program. Files are incomplete for the years 1964-1969 1981-1988; and they focus primarily on OICA activities in Pennsylvania and the surrounding Delaware Valley region.

90 c.f (90 Paige boxes).

Temple University Libraries, Paley Library

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Temple University Libraries, Paley Library

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United States. Department of Labor

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Rice, James Donald.

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Opportunities Industrialization Centers Annual Convocation.

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Executive Director's Association.

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Opportunities Academy for Management Training, Inc.

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Fitzgerald, Webster.

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Dawkins, Maurice.

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Thompson, Leonora.

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Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America

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The Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OICA) is a national network of employment and training centers which serve the hard core poor and unemployed. The Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America was founded in 1964 by Reverend Leon Howard Sullivan in an old abandoned jailhouse at 19th and Oxford Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The organization worked to help those individuals with special barriers to employment, such as ex-offenders, form...

Jenkins, Camilla

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Hutchins, Robert.

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Oates, Milton.

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Downes, William V.

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Zuckerman, Alan S., 1945-....

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Well, Ira K.

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Miller, F. DeWolfe (Frederick DeWolfe), 1943-

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United States. Department of Labor. Comprehensive Employment Training Act.

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Childs, Oliver.

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Jolly, Elton.

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Lattimore, Benjamin.

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Duffan, Kenneth.

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Ellis, Thomas I.

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Van Hoy, Maria.

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Cotton, Thomasenia.

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Sullivan, Leon Howard, 1922-2001

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Civil rights leader, entrepreneur, and minister. From the description of Papers of Leon Howard Sullivan. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132881 Leon Howard Sullivan (1922-2001) was born to Charles and Helen Sullivan of Charleston, West Virginia on October 16, 1922. After graduating from West Virginia State College in 1943, Sullivan moved to New York City to attend Union Theological Seminary. Sullivan had been ordained as Baptist minister at the age of 18. He attended the Se...