Papers relating to the Charleston Welfare Council, 1946-1947.

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Papers relating to the Charleston Welfare Council, 1946-1947.

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Contains typescript (carbon and mimeograph) copies of a study and reports annotated in pencil, correspondence, and a speech by Simons relating to the work of the Charleston Welfare Council. A typescript (carbon and mimeograph copies) study (1946 March-April) entitled "A study of the social and economic conditions of the Negro population, Charleston, South Carolina" conducted for the Charleston Welfare Council by the National Urban League as part of its Community Relations Project contains data about socio-economic, health, housing, education, and religious conditions of Charleston, South Carolina African Americans. Typescript (mimeograph) copies of excerpts from National Urban League Community Relations Project (for interracial social planning) reports of consultants and specialists contain recommendations and follow-up proposals. A speech (1947 May 6) to the Charleston Welfare Council concerning the activities of the Urban League Steering Committee delivered by Harriet P. Simons. A typewritten agenda of the Steering Committee - Urban League Survey contains annotations in pencil. A document written by the Charleston Welfare Council concerns the establishment and the functions of the Urban League Survey Project and its committee. Correspondence includes letters (1947 March 19-May 22) to Mrs. Albert [Harriet P.] Simons from individuals at the National Urban League including Warren M. Banner, Ethel R. Clark, Paul B. Cornely, Lester B. Granger, and Nelson C. Jackson. A letter (1947 June 13) from R.B. Herbert asks Simons to serve on the Committee on Law Enforcement of the South Carolina Committee of Southern Regional Council. A copy of a letter (1947 May 28) from Simons to Nelson C. Jackson, Director of the Southern Field Division of the National Urban League, thanks him for his letter and invites him to visit Charleston to discuss how his office may assist the Urban League Survey Committee in implementing their plans.

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National Urban League. Community Relations Project

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Simons, Harriet Porcher Stoney, 1896-1971.

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Chairman of the Community Relations Project Advisory Committee of the Charleston Welfare Council (Charleston County, South Carolina). The Community Relations Project Advisory Committee undertook the Urban League Survey Project to provide a basis for biracial social planning in Charleston County. Harriet Porcher Stoney married Albert Simons (b. 1890) in 1917. From the description of Papers relating to the Charleston Welfare Council, 1946-1947. (The South Carolina Historical Society). ...

National urban league

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The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, later the National Urban League, resulted from the 1910 merger of three welfare organizations in New York, N.Y.: the Committee for Improving Industrial Conditions among Negroes in New York, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, and the National League for Protection of Colored Women. From the description of Records of the National Urban League, 1910-1986 (bulk 1930-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130941 ...

Charleston Welfare Council (S.C.)

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