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Formal title:
Irving Jay Fain papers
Extent:
1.85 cubic feet
Date range:
1940-1974 (bulk 1959-1970)
Abstract:
Papers relating to Irving Jay Fain’s concern for and activities regarding housing, civil rights, poverty, and nutrition. The collection includes materials about the Rhode Island Fair Housing Law and the National Welfare Rights Organization.
Repository:
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:
MSS-0003
Formal title:
Dorothy Hunt and James Williams Urban League records
Extent:
1 cubic foot.
Date range:
1940-1975 (bulk 1941-1959)
Abstract:
Papers documenting some of the programs and activities of the Urban League of Rhode Island, Inc. from its inception to 1975. Correspondence and newspaper articles regarding Black nurses and artists in Rhode Island are included. The collection also includes literature regarding the Poll Tax in the United States.
Repository:
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:
MSS-0008
Formal title:
Dorothy Hunt records of the Mayor’s Recreation Advisory Committee
Extent:
0.75 cubic feet.
Date range:
1944-1954.
Abstract:
Records documenting the City of Providence’s Mayor’s Recreation Advisory Committee. This collection includes correspondence, reports, budgets, newspaper clippings and meeting minutes.
Repository:
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:
MSS-0086
Formal title:
John R. Kellam papers
Extent:
3.0 linear feet
Date range:
1935-1973
Abstract:
John R. Kellam was a Quaker and an American prisoner of conscience in World War Two. He later devoted his life fighting against discrimination in general and in particular housing discrimination against minorities. This collection contains his papers relating to his work with the Rhode Island Committee Against Discrimination in Housing from 1950 to the early 1960s.
Repository:
Phillips Memorial Library
Collection call no:
kellam
Formal title:
Urban League of Rhode Island collection
Extent:
54 linear feet
Date range:
1938-1970
Abstract:
The Urban League of Rhode Island collection contains a wide variety of materials which detail the functions and operations of the League from the 1940s until 1974.
Repository:
Phillips Memorial Library
Collection call no:
SC017

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