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The Lasting Values of the WPA

The Lasting Values of the WPA by Ellen S. Woodward, WPA Assistant Administrator in charge of the Division of Women’s and Professional Projects Ellen Woodward with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt No one...

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The New Governmental Interest in the Arts

The New Governmental Interest in the Arts by Eleanor Roosevelt, a Speech before the Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Artists, 1934   First Lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt I...

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What Religion Means to Me

What Religion Means to Me by Eleanor Roosevelt, an Article in Forum (December 1932) Eleanor Roosevelt It is generally conceded that in a world where material values seem to be dropping out of sight...

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Congress of Racial Equality

 Congress of Racial Equality by Devon McCurdy, University of Washington for BlackPast.org Editor’s Note:  This entry was posted in the BlackPast.org Blog.  The Congress of Racial Equality, though still...

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The Boarding System For Neglected Children (1894)

The Boarding System For Neglected Children A Presentation by Miss C. H. Pemberton, Acting Superintendent of The Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania at the Twenty-First Annual Session of the National...

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The Removal of Children From Almshouses in The State of New York (1894)

The Removal of Children From Almshouses in The State of New York A Presentation by the Hon. Wm. P. Letchworth, Member of the State Board of Charities Of New York, at the Twenty-First Annual Session of...

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The Removal of Children From Almshouses (1894)

 The Removal of Children From Almshouses A Presentation by Homer Folks, Chairman, Secretary of the State Charities Aid Association of New York at the Twenty-First Annual Session Held May, 1894 Editor’s...

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Indoor And Outdoor Relief (1890)

Indoor and Outdoor Relief A Report of the Committee by F. B. Sanborn, Chairman, at the Seventeenth Annual Session of the National Conference of Charities And Correction, 1890 At what precise time these...

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Hull House as a Sociological Laboratory (1894)

Hull House as a Sociological Laboratory This is a presentation by Miss Julia C. Lathrop at an evening session of the Twenty-First Annual Session of the National Conference of Charities and Correction,...

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Nurses In “Settlement” Work

Nurses In “Settlement” Work A Presentation by Lillian D. Wald, New York:  at the Twenty-Second Annual Session of the National Conference Of Charities And Correction, 1895 Editor’s Note: Though she was...

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The Organization, Powers, And Duties of State Boards of Charity (1892)

The Organization, Powers, And Duties Of State Boards  By William P. Letchworth, Chairman Of The Committee On State Boards Of Charities Some thirty years ago, on a cold, raw day, a sad-faced woman left...

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The Place Of Mental Health Clinics In Settlements And Neighborhood Houses

United Neighborhood Houses of N. Y., Inc. 114 East 32nd Street New York 16, N. Y. Phone: Lexington 2-8635 THE PLACE OF MENTAL HEALTH CLINICS IN SETTLEMENTS AND NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES The development of...

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Family Service In The Charity Organization Society, 1935

 Family Service In The Charity Organization Society of New York, 1935 Editor’s Note: (1) In December 1934, Stanley P. Davies, the Executive Director of the organization announced that the  Charity...

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Institute of Family Service, C.O.S.

 Institute of Family Service A Department of the Charity Organization Society Circa 1936    By Anna Kempshall, Director of the Institute of Family Service   Editor’s Note: This article was written by...

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Family Service: Community Service Society 1940

A Report to the Board of Directors of the Community Service Society of New York, November 4 1940 by Anna Kempshall, Director of Family Service   Editor’s Note: (1) In 1939, the Community Service...

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A Discussion of Public Relief: 1940

Suggestions For Discussion Of Public Relief, November 1940   by Anna Kempshall, Director of Family Service of the Community Service Society   Editor’s Note: (1): This report was prepared by Anna...

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Y.W.C.A.: Brief History of Service in Times of War

 BRIEF HISTORY OF YWCA SERVICE IN TIMES OF WAR — 1942 Four wars in a lifetime of eighty-six years is the record so far of the Y.W.C.A. This international fellowship of women, sworn to the task of...

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National Catholic Community Service

The National Catholic Community Service (NCCS): 1940 — 1980   The National Catholic Community Service (NCCS) served the spiritual, social, educational, and recreational needs of the military and...

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Catholic Community Service Organizations in War Time

National Catholic Community Service Organizations in War Time (1917 – 1980)   American Catholics supported the nation’s efforts in the First World War by founding the National Catholic War Council...

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Bondy Appointed Director of ARC Disaster Relief 1931

THE AMERICAN RED CROSS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS   To: National Headquarters and                                                                                Date: October 30, 1931 Branch Office Staffs....

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