Josephine Mathewson Wilkins papers, 1920-1977.

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Josephine Mathewson Wilkins papers, 1920-1977.

The Josephine Mathewson Wilkins papers contain correspondence, subject files, minutes, reports, financial records, press releases, clippings, photographs, and miscellany. The earliest records date from 1920s and document the work of the Georgia Children's Code Commission (GCCC) prior to and during Josephine Wilkins' association with the GCCC. The heaviest concentration of material in the collection dates from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Correspondence, minutes, reports, subject files, financial records, clippings, and photos, relating chiefly to Wilkins's work with Georgia Children's Code Commission (1921-1931), Citizens' Fact Finding Movement of Georgia (1937-1950), and Southern Regional Council (1956-1964). Topics include social reform, race relations, child welfare and labor, civil rights movement, and social and economic conditions in Georgia. Correspondents include Jessie Daniel Ames, James McBride Dabbs, James A. Dombrowski, Harold C. Fleming, Frank Porter Graham, Julian LaRose Harris, Charles H. Herty, Clark Howell, James A. Mackay, Ralph McGill, Richard M. Nixon, Arthur Raper, Eurith Dickinson Rivers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard B. Russell, Dorothy Rogers Tilly, Philip Weltner, and Emily Woodward.

48.25 linear ft. (66 boxes, 3 oversized bound volumes (OBV), 4 oversized papers (OP))

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