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Dorothy Hunt and James Williams Urban League records (MSS-0008)

Special Collections

Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-8380
email:digitalcommons@ric.edu

Inventory

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Photographs of Dorothy Hunt
1943, 1949
Box 1, Folder 2 Obituary of Dorothy Hunt
1970 July 4
Box 1, Folder 3 Providence Urban League Annual Reports
1940-1949
Box 1, Folder 4 Providence Urban League Annual Reports
1950-1959
Box 1, Folder 5 Providence Urban League Annual Reports
1960-1966
Box 1, Folder 6 Providence Urban League assorted papers: budget requests, correspondence, Board of Directors meeting minutes, statement of income and expenses, foster care and adoption services for minority groups
1954-1956
Box 1, Folder 7 Providence Urban League assorted papers: bulletin, Board of Directors list of officers and members, Board of Directors meeting minutes, statement of income and expenses
1959
Box 1, Folder 8 Providence Urban League “A Decade of Dynamic Democracy!” play written and directed by Charles W. Pine, member of the Board of Directors
1950
Box 1, Folder 9 “Urban League Service to Industry”: plan lays out how to improve Black citizen’s status as wage-earners and expand opportunities for all American workers.
1958
Box 1, Folder 10 Correspondence regarding Black nurses
1943-1944
Box 1, Folder 11 Correspondence regarding Black nurses
1944
Box 1, Folder 12 Correspondence regarding Black nurses
1945
Box 1, Folder 13 Providence Urban League General Welfare Committee
1945
Box 1, Folder 14 Black Art exhibit sponsored by Brown University
1942
Box 1, Folder 15 Black Art exhibit sponsored by RISD
1946
Box 1, Folder 16 Newspaper clippings regarding Providence Urban League
1941-1944
Box 1, Folder 17 Newspaper clippings regarding Providence Urban League
1941-1959
Box 1, Folder 18 Newspaper clippings regarding Black individuals
1941-1944
Box 2, Folder 1 Pamphlets and articles: Urban League and NAACP newspaper clippings from the Providence Chronicle, Interracial News Services issues, Dr. George W. Carver newspaper clipping from the Providence Journal Evening Bulletin, Channels Vol. XXI, No. 6, Workers Defense Bulletin, President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice advance release, “The World From London” by Maurice Cranston, “Philadelphia’s Stitch in Time” by Avis D. Carlson, The Saturday Review of Literature articles regarding Black Americans. “France Forever” by the Fighting French Committee in the U.S.
1942-1944
Box 2, Folder 2 Pamphlets and articles: “They Did Not Sing” by E. Stanley Jones; “Every Tenth American Is a Negro”, by Walter Hoving; “Citizens of Negro Blood”, Collier’s for October 4, 1944
1942-1944
Box 2, Folder 3 Recreation pamphlets
1943-1947
Box 2, Folder 4 Recreation newspaper clippings
1945-1946
Box 2, Folder 5 Recreation newspaper clippings and correspondence
1947
Box 2, Folder 6 City Planning reports
circa 1943-1946
Box 2, Folder 7 Providence Community Fund Annual Report
1946
Box 2, Folder 8 Providence Council of Social Agencies
1945
Box 2, Folder 9 National Urban League pamphlet
1944
Box 2, Folder 10 Providence Urban League bulletin
1946
Box 2, Folder 11 Providence Urban League Board of Directors
1947-1949
Box 2, Folder 12 Providence Urban League Annual Dinner
1946-1947
Box 2, Folder 13 Pamphlets and Articles regarding Black individuals
1942-1943
Box 2, Folder 14 Literature on Poll Tax: contains important publications regarding the fight to abolish the poll tax in the United States including Supreme Court decisions and legislative amendments with writings from the American Associations of University Women, Editorial Research Reports and Southern Conference for Human Welfare
1942
Box 2, Folder 15 Various pamphlets on “Race” including: Odell Waller, 24-year old sharecropper: doomed!, Workers’ Defense League
circa 1940-1946