National Association of Social Workers. Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter: Records, 1950-1963

Summary Information

Title: National Association of Social Workers. Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1950-1963

Creator:
  • National Association of Social Workers. Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter
Call Number: Mss 378

Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes)

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Records of the Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter of a national organization of social workers in specialized fields, consisting of organizational materials, administrative records, financial records, election materials, a committees file, section reports, chapter and committee membership lists, newspaper clippings, and the chapter's file of the minutes (1959-1960) of the Council of Wisconsin Chapters of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and of records generated by the national office of the parent organization. Correspondence to and from Wisconsin legislators and U.S. congressmen concerns such subjects as urban renewal, city public housing projects, divorce laws, health and welfare service bills, relief laws, curfew ordinances, and residence requirements for public assistance. Other correspondence, memoranda, minutes and reports, pamphlets, and bulletins pertain to other Wisconsin chapters of NASW; NASW's position on various welfare issues; salary studies; the Tripp Committee Report concerning the School of Social Work of the University of Wisconsin; and the Newburgh (New York) welfare plan which denied relief to specified categories of welfare recipients.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00378
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