Title: Rubie Bond Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1930-1959

Creator:

• Bond, Rubie, 1906-

Call Number: Whitewater Mss AP

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives & Area Research Center, Harold Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Whitewater Library / Whitewater Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Rubie Bond, a Beloit, Wisconsin, resident, chiefly pertaining to a number of local civil rights and black service organizations in which she was active: the Women's Community Club, the Mothers' Club, and the Beloit Council on Human Relations. Included are a constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Women's Community Club, and minutes and other papers of the Mothers' Club. Scattered correspondence in the collection deals with her attempts to set up an interracial organization in Beloit in 1930, the organization in 1953 of the human rights council, and her 1959 nomination to the Governor's Commission on Human Rights (which she refused).

Language: English

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Rubie (Mrs. Frank) Bond was active for many years in Beloit human and civil rights organizations. The Women's Community Club, an organization of young black women which was founded on May 9, 1943. The club emphasized ideals of education and service, and strove to improve home and community life among the city's black population. Mrs. Bond also helped organize the Mother's Club. Founded on the same date as the WCC, this organization worked to improve home life and surroundings, health, education, social and religious life; and to promote better public and community relations, and fuller employment. Mrs. Bond served as the first president. WCC efforts in the 1940s included protests against racial discrimination in local Girl Scout troops and in local hospital wards.

A tape recording of an interview with Mrs. Bond, conducted as part of the Beloit Bicentennial Oral History Project, is housed at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Rubie Bond, Beloit, Wisconsin, 1976. Accession Number: M76-391, M76-477

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd, February 21, 1979.

	Women's Community Club
Box   1 Folder   1	Constitution and By-Laws, 1943
Box   1 Folder   2	Minutes, May 1943-May 1945
Box   1 Folder   3	Mothers's Club papers, May-Oct 1943
Box   1 Folder   4	Correspondence, 1930, 1943-1945, 1953, 1959