Program files, 1936-1975.

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South Carolina Council on Human Relations. Program files, 1936-1975.

Program files, 1936-1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31494465

Criminal Justice files chiefly re Council's program on the Administration of Justice, 1970-1974, including studies of the Law Enforcement Assistance Act, Parole, Prosecutorial Discretion, and Sentencing; questionnaires, correspondence, and other records gathered in Council's research for 1974 publication, Sentencing and the Law and Order Syndrome; topical files re various agencies in the penal system, including South Carolina Department of Corrections, Central Correctional Institute, Richland County Jail, and Black Corrections Officers, an organization later affiliated with Blacks United for Action in June 1972; and materials re the Council's work with South Carolina Association for Improved Justice, founded ca. January 1973, to assist families and friends of inmates. Also includes Economics and Employment files re Council's work with the Rural Advocacy Program and its publication of Black Employment In Selected Agencies of South Carolina State Government, May 1971; Education files, re Council's support for desegregation, its involvement with Head Start, and establishment in 1966 of Student Program for Educational and Economic Development for Underprivileged People (Speed-Up); Housing Files re the Council's publication of Columbia Tenants' Handbook; papers, 1968- ca. 1971, re Council's involvement with Operation Gratitude, providing assistence to Vietnam veterans; Religion Files, 1941-1974, including topical file re dispute over integration, 1955-1956. Contains correspondence, grant proposals, reports, and other materials re Rural Advancement Program; minutes and correspondence, 1966- 1974, of Carolina Commission for Farm Workers, Inc.; voter registration files re Southern Regional Council-sponsored Voter Education Project in South Carolina, 1963-1964, and the South Carolina Voter Education Project, 1965, sponsored by a federation of independent organizations; welfare files re Council's 1969 statewide survey of the school lunch program; records re the Child Development Program, later renamed Citizen's Center for Effective Feeding; and Council publications Keeping The Poor In Their Place, 1972, and A Legal Labyrinth, 1974.

18.75 linear ft. (15 cartons)

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