Records, 1916-2002.

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Records, 1916-2002.

The Junior Achievement Records document the history of the organization beginning in the 1920s. Records consist of board and committee records, correspondence, financial records, publications, scrapbooks and photographs.

95.0 cubic feet (87 cartons, 3 document boxes, 3 flat boxes, and 1 roll), 24 videotapes, 15 filmstrips, 38 cassette tapes)

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Junior Achievement

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Junior Achievement, Inc. (JA) was founded in 1919 as the Boys' and Girls' Bureau of the Eastern States League. Embracing the concept of "learning by doing," the leaders of the Bureau dedicated themselves to teaching urban youth proper business practice and methods. They accomplished this through hands-on training in management and production. For much of its history, JA used one program to teach business to high school students. Beginning in the 1970s, JA started to expand its programs to includ...