Title: Helen I. Barnhill Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1963-1965

Creator:

• Barnhill, Helen I.

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 4

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries' Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections.

Archival Locations:

See the catalog entry for information on possible additional materials and shelf locations.

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Helen I. Barnhill, the executive secretary of the Milwaukee Citizens for Equal Opportunity (MCEO). Mrs. Barnhill was also editor of the MCEO Newsletter, active in the organization's housing referral service, and worked with the allied Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC). The MCEO was part of the Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Community Life, an Illinois-based group which also included the United Citizens' Committee for Freedom of Residence of Evanston, Illinois. The collection consists of printed flyers, memos, and other material of the MCEO, and its parent organization; correspondence received by Mrs. Barnhill and pertaining to equal opportunities and housing; and school curricula and schedules for a “Freedom Day School,” to be held in Milwaukee on May 18, 1964. A few housing referral cards and a folder of fragmentary papers from other community groups are also present. Much of the collection consists of printed material.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00004

Related collections include Milwaukee Citizens for Equal Opportunity, Milwaukee United School Integration Committee, and State Archives Series 1003, Miscellaneous Records of the Equal Rights Division of the Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations, which contains files, 1966-1969, of Mrs. Barnhill while she served as Housing and Public Accommodations Coordinator for the Division.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Helen I. Barnhill, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1966. Accession Number: M66-51

Milwaukee Mss 4 Box   1 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1963-1965, undated
Box   1 Folder   2	Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Community Life Papers, 1965, undated
	Milwaukee Citizens for Equal Opportunity
Box   1 Folder   3	Records, 1964-1965, undated
Box   1 Folder   4	Housing Referral Cards, undated
Box   1 Folder   5	Records of Other Groups and Miscellany, 1963-1965, undated
Box   1 Folder   6	School Curricula and Schedules, and Records of MUSIC, 1964-1965, undated View selections from this folder