Community Service Center records, 1964-1976.

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Community Service Center records, 1964-1976.

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This collection consists of records of the Community Service Center in New Orleans, La., concerning the group's effort to provide retraining opportunities for former prisoners. Included are typed correspondence, handwritten notes, reports, aptitude testing information, proposals, legislative summaries, minutes, forms, financial documents, interview materials, grant applications, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other printed items.

4.5 linear feet (9 boxes)

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8177325

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Community Service Center (New Orleans, La.)

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The Community Service Center, Inc., was a private, non-profit charitable corporation in New Orleans, La. Its purpose was to reduce recidivism by providing opportunities for former Orleans Parish prisoners, and preparing them for self-supporting work. It provided trade training, job opportunities, individual counseling, and group therapy. In the 1960s and 1970s, the organization coordinated its activities with faith-based, state and local agencies. In the twenty-first century, the CSC is an agenc...

Orleans Parish Prison.

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