Papers, 1917-1976; (bulk 1947-1963).

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Papers, 1917-1976; (bulk 1947-1963).

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Correspondence, diaries, financial statements, writings, interviews, notes, drafts of studies and reports, scrapbooks, newsletters, printed material, clippings, photos, and other papers, relating to Warburton's work as executive secretary and director of research of the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth (AGRY), 1947-1963; and to Affiliated Schools for Workers, Atlanta University, Brookwood Labor College, Columbia University, Institute of Social and Religious Research, Mount Holyoke College, Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, Spelman College, U.S. Children's Bureau, U.S. Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture. Topics include the rural youth guidance movement, workers' schools and federal training centers for unemployed teachers in the 1930s, women workers in the North and South in the 1920s, Afro-American issues of the early 1930s, industrial home-work in the Northeast in the late 1930s, Mexican migrant farm workers in the Southwest in the early 1940s and American migrant farm workers in Florida in the early 1950s, socio-economic conditions in coal mining villages in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois in the late 1920s, and in Harlan County, Ky., and Green Sea, S.C., in the late 1940s, and the effects of the National Defense Education Act on guidance in rural high schools.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Affiliated Schools for Workers

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Brookwood Labor College (Katonah, N.Y.)

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Warburton, Amber Arthun, 1898-1976

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Teacher, librarian, and New Deal administrator; b. Amber Arthun. From the description of Papers, 1917-1976; (bulk 1947-1963). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273513 May, 1898 Born in Seattle, Washington June, 1920 Graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor of business administration degree. ...

Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth (U.S.)

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Vocational guidance service organization originally created as the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women (1914-1921) and later known as the Southern Woman's Educational Alliance (1921-1937). Disbanded in 1963. From the description of Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth records, 1887-1963, 1914-1946 (bulk). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 18183059 ...

Southern Woman's Educational Alliance (U.S.)

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Institute of Social and Religious Research

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The survey was conducted in connection with a broader economic and social study conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Survey results were published in Religion in the Highlands: Native Churches and Missionary Enterprises in the Southern Appalachians (1933) by Elizabeth R. Hooker, and Economic and Social Problems and Conditions of the Southern Appalachians by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1935). From the description of Appalachian Religion Survey Records 1931-1933. (B...