Raymond M. Hilliard papers, 1922-1967
Descriptive
Inventory for the Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center
By
Ms. Merle Jacob, 1966; rev. by Archie Motley; rev. by Chris Tounsel
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Title: Raymond M. Hilliard papers [manuscript],
1922-1967
Main entry: Hilliard, Raymond M, 1907-1966.
Inclusive dates: 1922-1967
Size:
67 linear ft.
1 oversize folder.
Collection ID#: CHM66766
Restriction: In order to consult boxes 9-32, 35, 39-44,
77-110, 114-115, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's
"Request for Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
Restriction: Boxes 147 to 152 are closed until 2035;
box 153 is closed until 2036.
Provenance statement: Gift of James P. Hilliard (M1966.0598;
M1966.0625), Mrs. Raymond Hilliard (M1967.0651), Mrs. Mildred Walter
(M1967.0691), and the Cook County Department of Public Aid (M1967.0691,
M1968.0719, M1969.0051, M1971.0691).
Terms governing use: Copyright may be retained by the creators
of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Please cite this collection as: Raymond M. Hilliard papers (Chicago
History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a
specific item.
This descriptive inventory contains the
following sections:
Biographical/historical
note,
Historical
note on public welfare assistance in Illinois and the Cook County Department of
Public Aid,
Summary
description of the collection,
Description
of some materials related to this collections,
List
of abbreviations used in this document,
List
of online catalog headings about the collection,
Arrangement
of the collection,
Detailed
description of archival series in the collection,
List of contents of the collection.
Old list of card catalog headings for this collection.
Biographical/historical note:
Raymond
Marcellus Hilliard (1907-1966) was a leader in establishing efficient public
welfare administration and delivering services to people in need in Illinois,
especially Southern Illinois (1933-1948), in New York City (1948-1953), and in
Chicago and Cook County, Illinois (1940s and 1954-1966).
He
was born in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 8, 1907, to Patrick and Ann (Kelly)
Hilliard. Raymond moved with his family to Chicago in 1911, where he attended
St. Philip Neri grade school (1913-1921) and Mount Carmel High School in the
city (1921-1925), graduating as Valedictorian. He attended Notre Dame
University 1925-1928, majoring in Philosophy. After the death of his father in
1928, Hilliard returned to Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago from
1928 through 1932, when he received a Ph.D. in English; and DePaul University
Law School 1930-1933, receiving his LL.B. in 1933. While attending law school,
he taught English on a part-time basis at Crane High School. Until his
admission to the Illinois Bar in 1934, he served as a clerk in the law office
of Schnackenberg, Hansen, and Towle.
Raymond
Hilliard indirectly entered social welfare work in 1934 when he became an
Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois. He was assigned as the
Legal Representative and Director of Investigation to the Illinois Emergency
Relief Commission (the predecessor to the Illinois Public Aid Commission, which
later became the Illinois Department of Public Aid). He remained in this
position until May 1940, when he became Assistant Attorney General for the
State of Illinois in charge of the Retailer's Occupational Tax Division. In May
1941, Hilliard took the position of assistant to the executive secretary of the
Illinois Public Aid Commission (IPAC), and in September 1942 became executive
secretary of the commission (a position he held until March 1948).
As
executive secretary of the IPAC, Raymond Hilliard placed great emphasis upon
attacking dependency at its source. He introduced measures resulting in: 1. the
elimination of waiting lists for ADC recipients; 2. the merger of all public
assistance and relief functions into one agency to avoid duplication of effort
and expense; 3. the introduction of the County Home Program in the United
States, which resulted in recognition of the need for state and federally
supported institutional facilities for the chronically ill; 4. the passage of a
state law requiring the placing of silver nitrate in the eyes of newborn
babies, thus preventing glaucoma (which had been the most frequent cause of
blindness in Illinois); 5. the modernizing and
streamlining of civil service procedures affecting public assistance
administration. It was estimated that efficiencies in this area saving Illinois
taxpayers 57 million dollars over a six-year period. He also was active in the
economic rehabilitation of the sixteen southernmost counties of Illinois, known
as Little Egypt, where the dependency level was abnormally high.
During
this period, Hilliard also served as secretary of the Illinois Commission on
the Chronically Ill (1943-1947), secretary of the Illinois Public Assistance
Laws Commission (1945-1947), member of the board of directors of the American
Public Welfare Association (1946-1952), and faculty member of the Loyola
University School of Social Work (1947-1948).
In
March 1948, Hilliard resigned as Executive Secretary of the Illinois Public Aid
Commission to become commissioner of the Department of Welfare of the City of
New York, a position he held until April 1951. The State of New York waived its
state employee residence requirements so that Hilliard and the four welfare
administrators he brought with him from Illinois could be employed in the
department. Hilliard took this post at the request of Mayor William O'Dwyer,
who wanted a commissioner who would suppress Communist influence in the
department and reorganize the department. Succeeding in both tasks, Hilliard
modernized the department's physical plant and streamlined the administration
of relief, reputedly saving taxpayers 10 million dollars during his first year
in office. As commissioner he also established the "Hart Island"
project for the rehabilitation of homeless men in the Bowery district and set
up a public foster home program for dependent children.
In
April 1951 Hilliard resigned as commissioner of the Department of Welfare to
become executive director of the Welfare and Health Council of New York City, a
private organization coordinating the work of all principal public and private
welfare and health agencies in New York City. As director, he reorganized the
council and supervised its merger with the Health Council. He placed the
combined council on a sound fiscal basis, encouraged greater participation by public
officials in its work, and increased the membership of private agencies in the
council. He resigned this position in June 1953, when a struggle developed
between council members over efforts to bar the Planned Parenthood organization
from participation.
In
his capacity as commissioner of New York's Department of Welfare, Raymond
Hilliard officially served as: chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Child Care
(1948-1951); chairman of the New York City Commission for the Foster Care of
Children (1948-1951); chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Homeless Men
(1949-1951); chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Displaced Persons
(1948-1951); member of the board of directors of the New York City Youth Board
(1948-1951); chairman of the Mayor's Advisory Committee for the Aged
(1949-1953); and chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Puerto Rican Affairs
(1948-1953).
While
in New York, Hilliard also served as: member of the board of directors of the
Hospital Council of Greater New York (1948-1953): member of the Distribution
Committee and Public Employees Section of the Greater New York Fund
(1951-1953); member of the Advisory Board of Riverside Hospital (1951-1953);
co-chairman of the board of directors of the National Conference of Christians
and Jews, Manhattan/Westchester Region (1951-1953); and chairman of the
Committee on Community Organizations of the NCCJ (1951-1953).
Raymond
Hilliard was appointed assistant director of the Cook County Department of
Welfare in 1954. When Joseph Moss retired as director in June 1954 (after
serving in the position since 1926), Hilliard was appointed to succeed him by
Daniel Ryan (Democrat), president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, on
the recommendation of William N. Erickson, a Republican and past president of the
board. Hilliard remained a political independent in Chicago, never registering
in either party primary although he had registered as a Republican in New York
City, where he was required by law to declare his party.
Hilliard's
responsibilities increased in 1958 when the Cook County Department of
Welfare/CCPDA and the Chicago Department of Welfare merged, and the General
Assistance Program then came under his supervision. Throughout his 12 years as
director, he strove to improve the efficiency of the welfare programs.
Expanding upon the hospital aide and domestic worker programs initiated by
Joseph Moss, the department was innovator in attacking the root causes of
poverty. Although the costs of the welfare program increased during these
years, the number of people on welfare rolls decreased in virtue of the
numerous departmental programs that assisted relief recipients to become
self-supporting through job training and improved education.
On
the national level, Hilliard sought to improve welfare legislation and to
promote a better understanding of people who were poor. Through frequent
correspondence with welfare workers and Congressmen all over the country, and
by his participation in organizations and conferences on welfare, he worked to
educate and influence public and congressional opinion on new methods of
attacking the problems of poverty. Many of his suggestions on social security
were incorporated into the federal social security laws. Many techniques later
employed in the War on Poverty programs were suggested by Raymond Hilliard
before they were applied through national programs. Hilliard also was greatly
involved in improving race relations and in promoting understanding among
peoples of different religious faiths; he particularly emphasized equal rights
and opportunities for African Americans and Puerto Ricans.
Raymond
Hilliard also participated actively in many local and national organizations,
especially as chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews'
Commission on Community Organizations (1956-1958); chairman of the American
Public Welfare Association's Committee on Aging (1956-1958); chairman of the
National Council of Local Public Welfare Administrators (1961-1963); member of
the board of directors of the American Public Welfare Association; chairman of
the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice (1962-1966); member of
the board of directors of the Catholic Inter-Racial Council; consultant to the
American Medical Association's Committee on Welfare Services; member of the
board of directors of the Chicago Urban League; member of the board of
directors of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago; member of the
executive committee of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Chicago
Region; member of Mayor Daley's Commission on Aging; member of the Chicago
Committee on Urban Opportunity; member of the Governor's Advisory Council on
the Improvement of the Economic and Social Status of Older People; member of
the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry's Committee on Full
Employment; member of the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty; member of President
Johnson's National Citizen's Committee for Community Relations; and a member of
the White House Conference on Poverty.
As
director of the Cook County Department of Welfare and its successor, the Cook
County Department of Public Aid, from 1954 through July 4, 1966, Raymond
Hilliard initiated many programs and techniques that earned him the unofficial
title of "Mr. Welfare." Although a controversial figure, he was recognized
as an outstanding administrator and a man of social vision.
Raymond
M. Hilliard died in Chicago on Monday, July 4, 1966. He was survived by his
wife, Mary Catherine (Reardon), whom he married in 1935; and by their two sons:
Raymond Marcellus Hilliard, Jr., who was born in February 1936, and later
resided in LaMarque, Texas; and James Philip Hilliard, born in April 1937, who
later resided in Morton Grove, Illinois, and was a member of the Chicago law
firm of Springer and Casey.
Historical note on public welfare
assistance in Illinois and the Cook County Department of Public Aid:
State
responsibility for the care of poor people in Illinois was first recognized in
the Northwest Territory's poor law of 1790. When the laws of the Northwest
Territory were revised in 1795, many features that still distinguish our relief
laws were introduced, viz.: local residence requirements for eligibility;
financial responsibility of relatives; efforts to assist the poor to become as
self-supporting as possible; care for ill people who are unable to provide for
themselves. At that time, responsibility for public assistance was vested
either in county or township governments, which received their funds through
local taxation. In 1835, the State of Illinois made one year's residence a
legal requirement for obtaining aid. Subsequently this term was raised to three
years, and in 1945 lowered again to one year. County poor houses were
introduced in 1839 in Illinois; and over a hundred years later in 1945, they
were converted into nursing homes for people with disabilities and chronic
illness.
Public
welfare services in Illinois were decentralized until 1917, and "pauper
laws" were revised only as local situations demanded. Under the Illinois
Civil Administrative Code of 1917, the state government tried to centralize
some control over relief matters by establishing code departments that were
responsible directly to the governor. A Department of Public Welfare was
established for the operation of penal and mental institutions, supervision of
children in foster homes, and administration of blind pensions, authorized by
the state in 1908, and the mothers' pension, authorized in 1911. In 1927, the
state for the first time contributed funds for these programs to counties and
townships on a matching or grant-in-aid basis.
In
1925, an act of the state legislature established the Cook County Bureau of
Public Welfare, which became the Cook County Department of Welfare in 1949, and
in 1958 became the Cook County Department of Public Aid (CCDPA). The 1925 law
granted the county authority to conduct local programs of service and
assistance. Under the directorship of Joseph L. Moss, the Cook County Bureau of
Public Welfare operated four consolidated divisions: Court and Institutions for
Correction and Detention, Field Service, Medical Service, and Camp Reinberg.
The
Behavior Clinic of the Criminal Court and the Rural Public Health Nursing
Service were added as divisions in 1931. The department's functions included
family service, outdoor relief, relief to the blind in their homes, relief to
veterans under the Bogardus Act, adjustment of non-support and divorce cases in
which alimony and minor children were concerned, social service for persons
confined in Cook County Jail, deportation of non-residents, admissions to the
Cook County Hospital and Infirmary, medical service to families in their homes,
transportation for those admitted to state schools for the blind and deaf, and
a summer camp for poor people.
By
1930, the patchwork of local and state welfare operations in Illinois was
unable to cope with the problems of the Great Depression. In February 1932, the
state legislature designated the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission (Federal)
to administer 20 million dollars in state relief funds. By July of that year,
these funds were exhausted, but the federal government continued to supply
general funds directly to the commission for relief payments until 1935, when
the U.S. Works Progress Administration and Social Security programs were
introduced.
General
relief in Illinois from 1932 to 1935 was administered through the IERC
(Federal) rather than through the machinery previously established by the local
pauper laws. The decision to work through the IERC (Federal) rather than the
various local-level relief agencies across the state was based partially on the
assumption that the major relief expenditures were temporary measures that
would be discontinued as soon as possible. The IERC (Federal) itself had to be
re-chartered every two years by the state legislature.
In
Cook County, the Public Assistance division of the Cook County Bureau of Public
Welfare served as an agent for the IERC to administer relief for the county.
The IERC underwrote the expenses while the Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare
furnished the personnel. In 1933, this relationship ended, and the IERC assumed
direct responsibility for relief through its own Cook County Relief
Administration. The Public Assistance Division of the Cook County Bureau of
Public Welfare adjusted to serve as part of the Cook County Relief
Administration from 1933 to 1936.
When
federal funding to the IERC (Federal) ended after 1935, general assistance was
handled through local township governments in Cook County.
According
to one history, the Chicago Welfare Administration became officially known as
the City of Chicago Welfare Administration in June 1942, and in 1946, became
known as the Department of Welfare of the City of Chicago. According to other
sources, the Chicago (Ill.) Department of Public Welfare, was created in 1914,
and changed name in July 1936 to the Chicago (Ill.) Department of Welfare. The
department administered general assistance to Chicago residents only until 1958
when it merged with the Cook County Department of Welfare to become the Cook
County Department of Public Aid. General assistance in the rest of Illinois
(outside Cook County) continued to be handled by township governments in the
other counties.
In
other areas of public welfare (besides general assistance), the growing number
of programs and agencies led to duplication of efforts and waste. When Social
Security was introduced in 1936, Illinois amended its Old Age Assistance Act to
meet federal requirements and to receive matching federal funds. The Cook
County Bureau of Public Welfare, under the supervision of the Illinois
Department of Public Welfare, administered old age pensions in Cook County. Yet
the general assistance program was supervised by the IERC; the Mothers' Pension
operated through the Division of Child Welfare of the Illinois Department of
Public Welfare; and the County Blind Relief operated through the Auditor of
Public Accounts.
From
1941 to 1949, the state worked to organize and streamline its welfare services.
The IERC was succeeded by a permanent agency named the Illinois Public Aid
Commission (IPAC) in 1941. The IPAC was intended to be a policy-making
commission, politically non-partisan and representative of the various
geographical sections of the state. Of its ten members, seven were appointed by
the governor, and three state officials served as ex-officio members.
The
Consolidated Relief Bills of 1943 placed the categorical relief programs of the
Illinois Department of Public Welfare under the supervision of the Illinois
Public Aid Commission so that one agency would have charge of all outdoor
assistance programs. Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children (passed in
1943 to replace the 1903 Blind Law), and many other relief programs receiving
state or federal funds were administered through county departments. The IPAC
also could allocate state funds to local government units for aid to the people
who were medically indigent in the state with the exception of Cook County,
which was barred by legislation from receiving state funds. This ban was partially
lifted in 1951 to allow Cook County to be reimbursed for the treatment of
medically-indigent people who were treated in public institutions. The state's
final act of reorganizing its welfare program was the enactment of a Public
Assistance Code in 1949, which brought together for the first time all the laws
pertaining to welfare in the state.
While
the fundamental purpose of the Cook County Department of Welfare was the
administration of categorical assistance to relief recipients, it also sought
to enable aid recipients to become self-supporting. When the Illinois
legislature refused to appropriate funds for the operation of Camp Reinberg in
1946, the Cook County Department of Welfare helped bring together
non-governmental welfare organizations and form the Camp Reinberg Association
to operate the camp. The necessary operational funds were supplied by the
Community Fund, other non-profit organizations, and government agencies using
the camp. For many years, the Cook County Department of Welfare sent hundreds
of ADC families to Camp Reinberg. Under Joseph Moss, the department also
established a Vocation Counseling and Placement Service in 1951 (later called
the Welfare Rehabilitation Service) and the Homemakers Program, to train women
receiving ADC-benefits as homemakers and then to employ them to care for other
ADC families in which the chief care-giver was sick.
After
Joseph Moss's retirement in 1954, Raymond Hilliard directed the department
until his death in July 1966. Hilliard continued to expand its services through
programs to attack welfare dependency. In 1955, a Child Welfare Division was
established to care for the children of Cook County who did not qualify for
services from sectarian agencies or from the Children's Division of the Chicago
Department of Welfare (which was incorporated into the CCDPA's Child Welfare
Division following the 1958 merger of the Chicago and Cook County departments).
Through the efforts of the CCDPA's Child Welfare Division to find new foster
homes for children and to increase the number of African American adoptions,
the Boarder Baby Ward of Cook County Hospital was finally closed in 1965 after
30 years of operation.
Among
the programs introduced by the CCDPA to aid relief recipients were a Geriatric
Rehabilitation Service in conjunction with Michael Reese Hospital (1956);
alcoholic rehabilitation treatment for men on Skid Row, with the help of the
Salvation Army (1958); Rockwell Gardens demonstration project, in which
rehabilitation units were established in public housing projects (1960);
intensive casework units for especially difficult ADC cases (1960); a massive
attack on illiteracy among adult aid recipients through adult education classes
set up with the help of the Chicago Board of Education (1962); and urban living
and household management classes conducted in public housing projects (1965).
With
the receipt of increased federal funds from the War on Poverty Program, the
CCDPA greatly expanded its job-training programs. Programs were established
with the aid of unions, businesses, and other organizations to train relief
recipients as licensed practical nurses and nurses' aides, Yellow Cab drivers,
gas station attendants and managers, laundry room attendants, building
custodians, wood and furniture finishers, IBM key-punch operators, retail
salespeople, institutional diet and kitchen helpers, chefs and short-order
cooks, and office-machine operators.
In
the 1960s, the Cook County Department of Public Aid's emphasized helping relief
recipients to help themselves through education, job training, and medical
rehabilitation. However, the Department's major task was still the supervision
of relief, which was carried out in four separate divisions:
1.
The Public Assistance Division, which administered all categorical assistance
on a county-wide basis, and general assistance in the City of Chicago. This
division operated through eight bureaus: welfare administration, resources and
legal services, medical and institutional service, home economics and family
improvement, training and education, staff development, food stamp operation,
and housing.
2.
The Children's Division, which provided foster home care, adoption,
institutional placement, and related services for children under their care.
3.
The Court Services Division, which handled the legal activities of the
department in support and alimony, desertion, and fraud cases.
4.
The Behavior Clinic, a special division for administrative purposes, which was
an autonomous agency assisting the Criminal Court to determine the sanity of
defendants.
Further
information on public aid in Illinois and on the various agencies administering
it may be found in the following sources, all of which were consulted in
compiling the preceding data: Annual Reports of the Cook County Department of
Public Aid (and its predecessors), 1946-1966, and of the Cook County Board of
Commissioners, 1941-1945; Illinois Blue Books, 1941-1967; Social Service
Directories published by the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago; A History
of Public Assistance in Illinois, reprinted from New Horizons in Public
Assistance in Illinois, June 1959; and the Cook County Department of Public
Aid's Chronology of Action and Events Affecting Public Aid Programs in
Illinois, October 1930-June 1967.
Summary description of the collection:
Correspondence,
reports, speeches, minutes, news clipping scrapbooks, and other files relating
primarily to Raymond Hilliard's career in public welfare administration in New
York City and Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Early files, ca. 1934-1948,
relate to the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission and the Illinois Public Aid
Commission, unemployment relief during the Great Depression, and welfare
assistance throughout the state, including southern Illinois. Collection
includes files (5 ft.) relating to Hilliard's work as commissioner of the New
York City Department of Welfare, 1948-1951, and as executive of the Welfare and
Health Council of New York City, 1951-1953, and on Hilliard's efforts to
eliminate Communist influence in the department and improve welfare
administration. Collection includes files, ca. 50 ft., primarily 1940s-1963,
from Hilliard's work with the Cook County (Ill.) Department of Welfare, later
known as the Department of Public Aid, especially files of the department's directors
Joseph L. Moss and Raymond Hilliard, relating to general administration,
policies, public relations and 1938-1949 radio scripts; personnel, unions, and
anti-Communist concerns; studies of effective budgeting for relief recipients,
studies of groups of aid recipients, and reviews of the effectiveness of public
aid programs; 1930s unemployed councils; recommendations for welfare
legislation; and provision of medical care, child care, and care for the older
persons.
Other
materials in the collection include Hilliard's professional correspondence, ca.
1944-1966, and 12 ft. of newsletters, mimeographed reports and fliers, and some
correspondence with social welfare and civil rights leaders and organizations,
including the American Public Welfare Association, the Community Fund of
Chicago, the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, the National
Conference of Christians and Jews, the National Conference on Religion and Race
1963 conference in Chicago and related organizations, and the Welfare Council
of Metropolitan Chicago.
Description of some materials related to this collections:
Related
materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include photographs of
Hilliard and his wife and a package of miscellaneous pamphlets and other library
materials relating to Hilliard that are cataloged separately. In addition,
photographs and scrapbooks of photographs that came with the Hilliard papers
were transferred to the Prints & Photographs Collection.
List of abbreviations used in this document:
ADC =
Aid to Dependent Children
APWA
= American Public Welfare Association
CCAP
= Citizens Crusade Against Poverty
CCDPA
= Cook County Department of Public Aid (1958- )
and predecessors:
CCBPA-Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare (1925-1949)
and the CCDW-Cook
County Department of Welfare, 1949-1958.
CCHR
= Chicago (Ill.). Commission on Human Relations
CFC =
Community Fund of Chicago (worked with the Welfare Council;
merged into United
Way of Chicago in 1977)
CFGC
= Church Federation of Greater Chicago
CIC =
Catholic Inter-Racial Council
FSAA
= Family Service Association of America
IERC
= Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, 1922-1941
IERC
(Federal) = Illinois Emergency Relief Commission (Federal), 1932-1935 or 1936
IPAC
= Illinois Public Aid Commission, 1941-1963
IWA =
Illinois Welfare Association
NCCIJ
= National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice
NCCJ
= National Conference of Christians and Jews
NCRR
= National Conference on Religion and Race
NCSW
= National Conference on Social Welfare, formerly National Conference on Social
Work
UCC =
United Charities of Chicago
Welfare
Council = Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago, 1940s onward,
previously the
Chicago Council of Social Agencies, 1919-1940s
merged into United
Way of Chicago in 1977)
Welfare
and Health Council = Welfare and Health Council of New York City.
List of online catalog headings about the
collection:
The
following headings for this collections were placed in
the online catalog.
Subjects:
Hilliard,
Raymond M, 1907-1966--Archives.
Moss,
Joseph Lincoln--Archives.
Cook
County (Ill.). Bureau of Public Welfare--Archives.
Cook
County (Ill.). Dept. of Welfare--Archives.
Cook
County (Ill.). Dept. of Public Aid--Archives.
Chicago
(Ill.). Commission on Human Relations.
Chicago
(Ill.). Dept. of Welfare.
Community Council of Greater New York.
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission.
Illinois Public Aid Commission.
New
York (N.Y.). Dept. of Welfare.
United Public Workers of America.
Welfare and Health Council of New York City.
Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago.
National
Conference on Religion and Race (1963 : Chicago, Ill.)
African Americans--Illinois--Cook County--Social
conditions--20th century.
Anti-communist movements--New York (State)--New York--20th
century.
Anti-communist movements--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Catholics--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Catholics--United
States--20th century.
Child
care services--Illinois--Cook County--20th century.
Communism--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Depressions--1929--Illinois.
Medical care--Illinois--Cook County--20th century.
Older people--Illinois--Cook County--20th century.
Public welfare--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Public welfare--Illinois--Cook County--20th century.
Public welfare--Illinois--20th century.
Public welfare--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Radio
programs--Illinois--Cook County--20th century.
Social problems--United States--20th century.
Social workers--Illinois--Cook County--20th century.
Social workers--Labor unions--Illinois--Cook County--20th
century.
Social workers--Labor unions--New York (State)--New York--20th
century.
Social workers--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Trumbull Park Riots, Chicago, Ill., 1953-1955. (series 3,
subseries 3)
Unemployment--Illinois--Cook
County--20th century.
Cook
County (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
New
York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Southern Illinois Region.
Form/genre:
Correspondence.
Minutes.
Reports.
Scrapbooks
Scripts.
Speeches.
Statistics.
Added
entries:
Moss, Joseph Lincoln.
American Public Welfare Association.
Catholic Inter-Racial Council (Chicago, Ill.)
Cook
County (Ill.). Bureau of Public Welfare.
Cook
County (Ill.). Dept. of Public Aid.
Cook
County (Ill.). Dept. of Welfare.
Community
Fund of Chicago, inc.
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission.
Illinois Public Aid Commission.
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice.
National Conference of Christians and Jews.
New
York (N.Y.). Dept. of Welfare.
Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago.
National
Conference on Religion and Race (1963 : Chicago, Ill.)
Arrangement of the collection:
The
collection has been divided into 6 series.
Series 1.
New York City files, 1948-1953 (box 1-8 & 15 scrapbooks)
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 (box
9-115 & 11 scrapbooks) RESTRICTION:
In order to consult boxes 9-32, 35, 39-44, 77-110, 114-115, researchers must
sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research Access to
Confidential Materials" form.
Subseries 1.
Assistance to older persons, 1923-1967 (11 boxes) RESTRICTION: see above.
Subseries 2.
Burials, 1932-1965 (1 box) RESTRICTION:
see above.
Subseries 3.
Case reviews and reports, 1940-1958 (3 boxes) RESTRICTION: see above.
Subseries 4.
Child care, 1925-1966 (9 boxes) RESTRICTION:
see above.
Subseries 5.
Financial and budgeting files, 1939-1965 (3 boxes) RESTRICTION: see above.
Subseries 6.
General administration, 1925-1956 (19 boxes & 11 scrapbooks) RESTRICTION: see above.
Subseries 7.
Hilliard professional career files, 1944-Feb. 1967 (16 boxes)
Subseries 8.
Housing, 1941-1959 (5 folders)
Subseries 9.
Illinois Public Aid Commission and predecessor files, 1934-1963 (4 boxes)
Subseries 10.
Laws and legislation, 1935-1962 (2 boxes)
Subseries 11.
Medical care, 1926-1966 (14 boxes) RESTRICTION:
see above.
Subseries 12 Personnel, 1922-1967
(20 boxes) RESTRICTION: see above.
Subseries 13 Public relations and
publicity 1928-1965 (3 boxes)
Subseries 14.
Unemployed relief, 1927-1944 (4 folders) RESTRICTION:
see above.
Subseries 15.
Veterans' relief, 1927-1966 (1 1/2 boxes) RESTRICTION: see above.
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 (box 116-145)
Subseries 1.
American Public Welfare Association files, 1933-1964 (3 1/2 boxes)
Subseries 2.
Catholic Inter-Racial Council of Chicago files, 1963-1965 (2 folders)
Subseries 3.
Chicago Commission on Human Relations files, 1954-1958 (3 folders)
Subseries 4.
Church Federation of Greater Chicago files, 1925-1958 (4 folders)
Subseries 5.
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty files, 1964-1966 (2
folders)
Subseries 6.
Community Fund of Chicago files, 1933-1964 (6 1/2 boxes)
Subseries 7.
Family Service Association of America files, 1930-1957 (4 folders)
Subseries 8.
Illinois Welfare Association files, 1943-1962 (3 folders)
Subseries 9.
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice files, 1958-1966 (5 boxes)
Subseries 10.
National Conference of Christians and Jews files, 1953-1962 (3 boxes)
Subseries 11.
National Conference on Religion and Race files, 1962-1964 (4 folders)
Subseries 12.
National Conference on Social Welfare files, 1924-1966 (2 folders)
Subseries 13.
United Charities of Chicago files, 1926-1958 (2 folders)
Subseries 14.
Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago files, 1922-1962 (6 boxes)
Series 4.
Hilliard personalia (box 146 & 1 oversize folder)
Series 5.
Confidential files (box 147-152) RESTRICTION:
Closed until 2035
Series 6.
Items received from Cook County Department of Public Aid, 1968-69 (box 153) RESTRICTION:
Closed until 2036
At end of collection: Storage of oversize boxed and unboxed
scrapbooks and plaques belonging to Series 1, Series 2, & Series 4.
Detailed description of archival series
within the collection:
Series 1.
New York City files, 1948-1953 (box 1-8 & 15 scrapbooks)
This series
includes the correspondence, reports, texts of speeches, and scrapbooks of news
clippings relative to Raymond Hilliard's service as Commissioner of the
Department of Welfare of New York City (April 1948-Feb. 14, 1951) and as
Executive Director of the Welfare and Health Council of New York City (Feb.
1951-June 15, 1953). This series is filed chronologically except for Hilliard's
speeches, which are in a separate box, and the scrapbooks, which are stored at
the end of the collection. The majority of the items are manuscripts, but
smaller amounts of mimeographed and printed papers also present.
Series
1 includes Hilliard's personal incoming and outgoing correspondence and
speeches. Besides the routine inquiries and personal notes, there are letters (January-April
1949) to Illinois friends, welfare workers, lawyers, and politicians about
welfare issues in Illinois, particularly Governor Adlai Stevenson's
reorganization of the welfare departments. Hilliard's efforts to eliminate
Communist influence in the New York City welfare department are treated in
letters of: November 8, 1948; April 26, May 9, July 1949; July 1950; February
14, 1951; and July-September 1951. His efforts to keep the Planned Parenthood
organization out of the Welfare and Health Council of New York is mentioned in
correspondence from May-June 15, 1953. The typescripts of speeches (April 15,
1948-March 5, 1953) cover many phases of public and private assistance.
The
printed and mimeographed materials in Series 1 include newspaper articles,
financial reports, minutes of the Inter-Association
Committee on Health, programs from banquets, administrative directories,
appointment books, and American Public Welfare Association materials 1948-1951.
(Additional American Public Welfare Association materials may also be found
among the agency papers in Series 3 of this collection.) Detailed studies and
printed reports of the Department of Welfare, Welfare and Health Council,
Inter-Association Committee on Health, Mayor's Committee on Aged, Mayor's Committee
on Puerto Rican Affairs, and other governmental and private social service
organizations also are present.
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files,
1948-1966 (box 9-115 & 11 scrapbooks). RESTRICTION: In order to consult
boxes 9-32, 35, 39-44, 77-110, 114-115, researchers must sign the Chicago
History Museum's "Request for Research Access to Confidential
Materials" form.
This
series contains papers of agency directors Joseph L. Moss, who served from
1926-1954, and Raymond M. Hilliard, who served from 1954-1966, and papers of
various division directors, as well as working files from the Central
Administrative Office of the Cook County (Ill.) Department of Public Aid
(CCDPA) and its predecessor agencies: the Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare
and the Cook County Department of Welfare.
The
Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare existed from 1925 to 1949; followed by the
Cook County Department of Welfare, 1949-1958, and then in 1958, the Cook County
Department of Public Aid (CCDPA).
The
department files date from 1922-1966 (mainly 1948-1958) and include
correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, inter-office memoranda, some
printed materials received from local and national welfare organizations, and 6
large scrapbooks (scrapbooks #16-21) containing news clippings about Hilliard's
service as director. This series also includes materials regarding Hilliard's
service as Executive Secretary of the Illinois Public Aid Commission in the
1940s.
Scrapbooks
#22-26 contain news clippings regarding Hilliard, public welfare, civil rights,
local and state politics, and columns from political, financial and other
writers, spanning the years 1959-1966.
The
majority of the papers are manuscripts with small amounts of printed and
mimeographed data included. Most department materials in the collection were
directed from the Central Administrative Office to the local district offices.
The only papers generated from the local offices concern complaints or requests
from local office supervisors.
These
materials have been organized by major topics. However, information on a
particular topic may be found scattered through other files in this collection,
and the main files about social service organizations are in Series 3.
Series
2 is arranged in 15 subseries, which are described below.
Series 2.
Subseries 1. Assistance to older persons, 1923-1967
(11 boxes) RESTRICTION: see Series 2 overall description above for box numbers.
Most
of the materials on assistance to older persons concern nursing homes: placement
of aged aid recipients, licensing and investigations, services, and costs. A
smaller lot covers the establishment of recreation programs in the city,
medical needs, geriatric rehabilitation, Old Age Pension and Social Security
laws, the Friendly Visitor Program, and financial responsibility of relatives
for the aged. The manuscripts include inter-office memoranda; Illinois Public
Aid Commission bulletins; incoming and outgoing correspondence, much of it with
nursing home owners and health officials; reports on investigations of nursing
homes and minutes of the CCDPA Advisory Committee on Aging.
The
printed and mimeographed materials include: reports on medical and health needs
of older people; Raymond Hilliard's articles on people with chronic illnesses;
minutes of meetings of local community committees on aging; and booklets,
fliers and announcements of agency programs for older people. A significant lot
of incoming and outgoing correspondence (Oct-Dec. 1956) concerns Hilliard's
efforts to bring Dr. Lionel Cosin, a world-famous geriatric rehabilitation
specialist, to Chicago, to establish a program in this field at the Oak Forest
Infirmary. Many of the papers from 1942-1947 concern
Hilliard's service as Executive Secretary of the Illinois Public Aid Commission.
Series 2.
Subseries 2. Burials, 1932-1965 (1 box) RESTRICTION: see
Series 2 overall description above for box numbers.
This
lot consists of correspondence, news clippings, and other sundry papers
relative to the burial of paupers, military-service veterans, and persons on
relief, and also to laws pertaining to morticians.
Series 2.
Subseries 3. Case reviews and reports, 1940-1958 (3
boxes) RESTRICTION: see Series 2 overall description above for box numbers.
This
subseries provides data on fraud investigations, reviews of Aid to Dependent
Children cases, rules and regulations governing registration of aid recipients,
comments on case recording, and instructions on the use of forms. Papers
dealing with investigation of fraud cases and with the reviews of relief
recipients consist of Illinois Public Aid Commission bulletins, memoranda, and
typewritten and mimeographed reports on the findings of the reviews. Comments
on IPAC findings, statistical reports, and memoranda from the CCDPA Central
Office also are present.
Series 2.
Subseries 4. Child care, 1925-1966 (9 boxes) RESTRICTION:
see Series 2 overall description above for box numbers.
This
subseries pertains to the Aid to Dependent Children Program, handicapped
children, foster homes and adoptions, juvenile delinquency, Selective Service,
unmarried mothers, Homemaker Service Program, and Social Security benefits for
children from deceased or disabled parents. About one-third of this material
consists of printed and mimeographed announcements, booklets, and reports from
local and national organizations and from the U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare. The remaining papers are from the Cook County Department
of Public Aid and include: interoffice memoranda; statistical reports; minutes
of the Advisory Committee on Homemaker Service, the Advisory Committee on Aid
to Dependent Children, and the Advisory Committee on Family Court; routine
thank-you letters for contributions to the summer camp fund; incoming and
outgoing correspondence with other welfare departments on the administration of
their ADC programs; letters to Garrett Keaster, Executive Secretary of the
Illinois Public Aid Commission, on revision of welfare rules; and reports on
all phases of child care. Most of the letters and memoranda are from Albert J.
Neely, Director of the Children's Division of the CCDPA. A few significant
Hilliard letters are present. Two important logs of materials cover the
establishment of the Homemaker Services (1950-1952) and the Child Welfare
Division (Sept. 1954-Mar. 1955).
Series 2.
Subseries 5. Financial and budgeting files, 1939-1965
(3 boxes) RESTRICTION: In order to consult box 35, researchers must sign the
Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research Access to Confidential
Materials" form.
The
financial records are basically concerned with budgeting for relief recipients.
(See the "General Administration" and "Personnel" headings
in this series for most of the papers dealing with staff salaries and
administrative budgets.) The budgeting papers cover room & board costs,
food prices, restaurant surveys, insurance rates, financial responsibility of
relatives, and plans on setting up budgets. The manuscript portion of the
papers includes sample budgets, monthly food & rent cost survey sheets,
minutes of conferences with the Chicago Housing Authority, memoranda and
reports from the budgeting workshop, drafts of budget-manual chapters, interoffice
memoranda commenting on costs, and Hilliard speeches on financing public
welfare. The printed and mimeographed papers are IPAC weekly guides for food
buying; lists of relatives income scale; booklets on family food budgets; U.S.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare reports on retail food prices by
cities; and New York City Department of Welfare materials on budgeting.
Series 2.
Subseries 6. General administration, 1925-1956 (19
boxes) RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes 39-44, researchers must sign the
Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research Access to Confidential
Materials" form.
These
materials concern the policies and operations of the Central Administrative
Office and the district offices of the Cook County Department of Public Aid and
its predecessors. Related materials from local welfare organization and Cook
County and Illinois state agencies also are present. The papers include incoming
and outgoing correspondence, interoffice memoranda, reports, surveys, printed
announcements and pamphlets, minutes of office meetings.
The
papers relative to policies on aid to relief recipients
concern burials, approval for budget items, conservators for people judged to
be mentally incompetents, emergency checks, veterans' benefits, unemployment
compensation, and food and nutritional needs. Operational records of the CCDPA
offices include materials on the reorganization of the Central and district Offices;
district office reports; office leases and supplies; forms; publication
distribution; the CCDPA Advisory Committee; and the A. C. Nielsen and George
Fry surveys on departmental procedures on relief.
Cook
County and state agency materials are from the Behavior Clinic of the Criminal
Court, Family Court, Court of Domestic Relations, Cook County Treasurer's and
Sheriff's Offices, the Chicago Board of Education, and the Illinois Commission
on Human Relations. Local social service organizations represented include: the
American Red Cross, American Legion, Catholic Charities, Chicago City Club,
Chicago Credit Bureau, Chicago Urban League, Henry Booth House, Jewish
Federation of Chicago, Jewish Vocational Service, Illinois Federation of
Women's Clubs, Populations Research and Training Center, Randall House,
Salvation Army, Traveler's Aid Society, and many others.
Significant
materials in this series include letters of Dr. William H. Haines of the
Behavior Clinic (1954-1958), the A. C. Nielsen Survey of the ADC Program
(June-July 1951) and the George Fry Survey of revision of departmental working
procedures (Jan-Mar. 1950).
Series 2.
Subseries 7. Hilliard professional career files,
1944-Feb. 1967 (16 boxes & 11 scrapbooks)
This
subseries is comprised of incoming and outgoing correspondence, speeches,
invitations, and printed materials received by Hilliard as a leader in the
field of public welfare administration and 6 large scrapbooks of news clippings
(scrapbooks #16-21) about Hilliard's service as director of CCDPA.
Scrapbooks
#22-26 contain news clippings regarding Hilliard, public welfare, civil rights,
local and state politics, and columns from political, financial and other
writers, spanning the years 1959-1966. [All scrapbooks are shelved at the end of
the collection. Please specify this when requesting materials.]
The
bulk of the material is routine correspondence with lawyers, congressmen,
welfare administrators, and others working in the field of public welfare.
Letters by Hilliard provide a detailed explanation of his opinions on federal
aid to migrants (Jan.-June 1958), the merger of the Cook County Department of
Public Aid and the Chicago Department of Welfare (July-Dec. 1957), and the
reorganization of welfare systems in other states (Dec. 1956).
Papers
from 1944-1948 are primarily speeches and printed articles by Hilliard as
Executive Secretary of the IPAC. The materials from 1958 through 1966 are a
miscellaneous lot, including items relative to Hilliard's study-tour of the
Southern Appalachia area, particularly Kentucky and Tennessee, during the
summer 1959; and items concerning Hilliard's participation in the planning
session for the White House Conference: "To Fulfill These Rights"
(Oct. 1965-June 1966). A small amount of Hilliard biographical information also
is included.
There
are only a few items involving friends and family in this series. Most of
Hilliard's family correspondence is in Series 4 (Personalia) of this
collection, with a few personal notes scattered throughout Series 1 (New York
City files).
Series 2.
Subseries 8. Housing, 1941-1959 (5 folders)
This
series contains papers on relief recipients in public housing projects,
apartment rental surveys, slum clearance, and urban renewal. Almost all of the
materials involve the Chicago Housing Authority and their handling of rental
payments by relief recipients in CHA projects, and damages to furniture and
apartments. The papers include incoming and outgoing correspondence with the
CHA, minutes of conferences between the CHA and the Cook County Department of
Public Aid, surveys of rentals, newspaper articles on slum renewal, memoranda
on excessive rentals, and reports on training projects and facilities in
housing projects.
Series 2.
Subseries 9. Illinois Public Aid Commission and
predecessor files, 1934-1963 (4 boxes)
The
majority of this subseries concern IPAC rules and regulations on welfare, fraud
investigations, and case reviews, CCDPA budgets, and state and federal welfare
laws. A small amount of material relates to the Illinois Emergency Relief
Commission, the predecessor to the IPAC. Papers from
1942-1947 cover Hilliard's term as Executive Secretary of the commission.
This
subseries includes Raymond Hilliard's letters to IPAC Executive Secretary
Garrett Keaster commenting on proposed rules; a chronology of events in welfare
in Illinois since 1930; memoranda on the implementation of IPAC rules; reports
on case reviews and appeals; summaries of legislation affecting welfare; and
three appointment books (1945-1947) kept by Hilliard on IPAC rules and
regulations.
Series 2.
Subseries 10. Laws and legislation, 1935-1962 (2
boxes)
These
papers concern state and federal public welfare laws, primarily 1949-1958, with
most of the materials relevant to reciprocal state support laws, Illinois laws
on financial responsibility of relatives, residence requirements for
eligibility for aid, and social security amendments. Most of the materials are
printed and mimeographed copies of federal and state bills and laws, lists of
Illinois courts having jurisdiction under uniform support laws, statements by
the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago on residence laws, and U.S.
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare reports on social services. The
remaining papers include many reports by the Illinois Public Aid Commission and
the Cook County Department of Public Aid on proposed changes in welfare laws;
incoming and outgoing correspondence on welfare bills; memoranda on residence
and uniform support laws.
Series 2.
Subseries 11. Medical care, 1926-1966 (14 boxes) RESTRICTION:
see Series 2 overall description above for box numbers.
These
materials are concerned with the administration of the medical care program for
relief recipients and with the illnesses and disabilities most frequently treated
in that program. Many of the administrative papers are correspondence and
memoranda between Cook County Hospital, the Illinois Public Aid Commission, and
the Cook County Department of Public Aid on the establishment of fees at Cook
County Hospital, and the IPAC's payment of these fees. Correspondence,
memoranda, and reports also concern: doctor, dentist, and prescription drug
services and bills; people who were medically indigent; the maternity ward
crisis in Chicago during 1954; the polio vaccination program for the children
of relief recipients (Jan-June 1956); adjustment training for people who were
blind; and the Home Care and Emergency Clinic programs. The lot of manuscript
and printed materials on illnesses includes correspondence, memoranda, reports,
and articles on chronic illness, blindness, tuberculosis, alcoholism, and drug
addiction.
Series 2.
Subseries 12 Personnel, 1922-1967 (20 boxes) RESTRICTION: see Series 2 overall
description above for box numbers.
Personnel
materials concern the Central Administrative Office's policies on and
administration of staff development, efficiency evaluation, promotions,
salaries, vacations, and attendance at welfare conferences; plus materials
relative to employee unions. The papers include Raymond M. Hilliard's
correspondence with the Illinois Public Aid Commission on wage increases for
professional and clerical workers; minutes of meetings of the Staff Development
Committee; lists of attendance at welfare conferences and graduate courses in
social work; and reports of meetings with the union grievance committee.
Printed and mimeographed materials include newsletters and handbills of the
Public and Social Service Employees Union; lists of workers eligible for civil
service promotion examinations; materials from the American Public Welfare
Association and the Joint Negro Appeal; and the department's Manual on
Personnel.
Papers from 1930-1934 concern the formation of a union by
Chicago social workers, with items during 1933-1934 containing information on
social workers who were alleged to be Communists. The accusation of Communist influence also
is treated in items from March 1951 through March 1953 relative to charges by
the American Legion of Illinois that the United Public Workers of America
generally followed a Communist line and that members of this union were
employed by the Cook County Department of Public Aid.
Series 2.
Subseries 13 Public relations and publicity 1928-1965 (3 boxes)
These
materials include scripts of CCDPA and its predecessor's radio broadcasts,
1938-1949; general correspondence with the public and with welfare
administrators on CCDPA relief programs; correspondence with the Chicago
Tribune's Good Fellow Department about Christmas gifts for ADC children; and
printed announcements from the Welfare Public Relations Council of Greater
Chicago.
Series 2.
Subseries 14. Unemployed relief, 1927-1944 (4 folders)
RESTRICTION: see Series 2 overall description above for box numbers.
The
bulk of this lot of correspondence, news clippings and printed items is from
the 1930s and concerns demands of people seeking relief assistance and to
demonstrations at various relief stations. These papers frequently pertain to
organizations, some of them Socialist or Communist, which represented
unemployed people, among them: the Unemployed Councils of Chicago, the Chicago
Workers' Committee on Unemployment, the Workers League of America, the
Unemployed Workers League, and the Young Communist League.
Series 2.
Subseries 15. Veterans' relief, 1927-1966 (1 1/2 boxes) RESTRICTION: see Series 2 overall description above
for box numbers.
This
lot consists of correspondence, clippings, financial records, etc. relative to
relief offered veterans under the Bogardus Act; to claims by Spanish-American
War veterans and to claims by veterans of World War I and/or World War II.
Papers from Jan. 1933 through Apr. 1935 relate to an investigation of
fraudulent relief orders issued by the Veterans Bureau.
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 (box 116-145)
This series
consists of groups of newsletters, minutes of meetings, reports, fliers, and
small amounts of correspondence and from national and local social welfare and
civil rights organizations to which either Raymond Hilliard or the Cook County
Department of Public Aid had ongoing relationships. Most of the papers are
mimeographed or printed.
Series
3 had 14 subseries arranged alphabetically by organization. Scattered materials
from similar organizations also are present in Series 2 of this collection.
Series 3.
Subseries 1. American Public Welfare Association
files, 1933-1964 (3 1/2 boxes)
The
American Public Welfare Association (APWA) has served as a forum for public
welfare administrators to air public welfare problems and proposed solutions.
APWA membership included the Cook County Department of Public Aid and many of
its social workers, with Raymond Hilliard serving on both national and regional
advisory committees of the APWA. While in New York City, Hilliard served on the
APWA board of directors, an alternate to its Inter-association Committee on
Health, and on the committees on Aging and Medical Care. When Hilliard became
director of the Cook County Department of Public Aid in 1954, he resigned from
all APWA committees except the one on Aging. He later served on the National
Awards Committee, acted as an advisor for regional round table discussions, and
was a guest speaker at regional and national meetings of the APWA.
Most
of the papers are mimeographed articles, reports, pamphlets, committee and board
meeting minutes, financial reports, memoranda, speeches, and drafts of
statements of principle on social welfare matters. A small lot of
correspondence is routine notification of meetings and personal greetings to
and from Hilliard, although some of the letters pertain to the inside workings
of the APWA. (Additional APWA papers are in Series 1 of this collection.)
Series 3.
Subseries 2. Catholic Inter-Racial Council of Chicago
files, 1963-1965 (2 folders)
The
Catholic Inter-Racial Council was an organization run by Catholic laymen that
worked through educational and service programs for equal opportunity in the
Catholic and general communities. Hilliard was a member of the council and also
served on its board of directors. Local CICs financially supported and worked
with the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, of which
Hilliard was chairman. Materials in this series include reports, minutes of
meetings, letters to council members, and financial statements. Materials
concern integration problems in the Archdiocese of Chicago and in Chicago more
generally. (For related materials, see also Series 3. Subseries
9. National Catholic Conference for Interracial
Justice.)
Series 3.
Subseries 3. Chicago Commission on Human Relations
files, 1954-1958 (3 folders)
The
Chicago Commission on Human Relations was a government agency established by
the Mayor of Chicago to combat discrimination in all aspects of urban living.
Raymond Hilliard served as an advisor to the commission's subcommittee on public
service and an advisor to the Committee on New Residents. This subseries
includes minutes and reports from these two committees, including reports on
the Trumbull Park Homes racial riots.
Series 3.
Subseries 4. Church Federation of Greater Chicago
files, 1925-1958 (4 folders)
This
subseries involves the Church Federation of Greater Chicago's Department of
Social Welfare, the Boys' Court Service Committee, and the several CCDPA
administrative assistants who served them as advisors. Some correspondence is present,
but most of the items are mimeographed copies of minutes of committee meetings,
questionnaires, reports on delinquency, and recommendations on state welfare
legislation.
Series 3.
Subseries 5. Citizens Crusade Against
Poverty files, 1964-1966 (2 folders)
The
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty (CCAP) was a national
non-partisan coalition of organizations and individuals working to elimination
of poverty. As chairman of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial
Justice, Hilliard was invited to join the National Committee of the CCAP. The
papers include minutes of meetings, drafts of the CCAP constitution,
newsletters, newspaper press releases, materials from committees, reports on
delinquency, and recommendations on legislation. (For related materials, see
also: Series 3. Subseries 9. National
Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice.)
Series 3.
Subseries 6. Community Fund of Chicago files,
1933-1964 (6 1/2 boxes)
The
Community Fund of Chicago was the united fund-raising organization providing
financing to approximately 140 non-profit health and welfare organizations in
the Chicago metropolitan area through the Welfare Council. Although the Cook
County Department of Public Aid received no Community Fund donations directly,
the CCDPA advised on welfare costs and services. Raymond Hilliard was a member
of the budget committee of the Community Fund from 1954-1957, after which an
administrative assistant in the CCDPA took his position. The vast majority of the papers in this subseries concern the work of
the budget committee, and include reports on the costs of medical care, budget
policies, requests from agencies for supplemental funds, statements on the
minimum needs of the agencies, and minutes of committee meetings.
Of
especial importance are the resource folders published by the budget committee
and the reports of the reviewing subcommittees. The resource folders
(1951-1957) give information on the joint efforts of the Welfare Council of
Metropolitan Chicago and the Community Fund in assessing agency needs, provide detailed budgets for each agency, and set
staff policies in reviewing budget requests. The reviewing committees provide
the budget committee with a detailed analysis of each agency. The reviewing
committees' reports explain how each agency is set up and operates; and
evaluates its strengths and weaknesses, its needs for the coming year, and its
financial basis and budget. The agencies are reviewed in groups by the
appropriate committee.
The
Welfare Council was founded in 1914 as the Chicago Central Council of Social
Agencies; incorporated in 1919 as the Chicago Council of Social Agencies, and
became the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago in the 1940s. In 1971 it was
renamed the Council of Community Services; and in 1977 merged with the
Community Fund of Chicago to become the United Way of Chicago.
Series 3.
Subseries 7 Family Service Association of America files, 1930-1957 (4 folders)
The
Family Service Association of America promoted and publicized family welfare
and guidance services throughout the country. The Cook County Department of
Public Aid maintained an agency membership in the FSA until 1957, when Raymond
Hilliard withdrew the department from membership on the grounds that the FSA's
services pertained to private voluntary agencies rather than to public
agencies. The papers contain conference minutes, meeting agendas, newsletters
on legislation, materials for National Family Week, and reports on family
service in Chicago and the nation.
Series 3.
Subseries 8. Illinois Welfare Association files,
1943-1962 (3 folders)
The
Illinois Welfare Association advised on and publicized the work of the public
aid departments of counties within the state of Illinois. The Cook County
Department of Public Aid often acted as host to IWA annual meetings while
Raymond Hilliard held various offices in the association. Most of these
materials are letters, memoranda, news releases, programs, and reports relative
to the coordination and operation of IPWA conferences. Lists of officers and directors,
district meeting minutes, an officers manual, and
letters from the awards committee are also present.
Series 3.
Subseries 9. National Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice files, 1958-1966 (5 boxes)
The
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice (NCCIJ) publicizes and
operates national programs, although most of its work is carried on by local
Catholic Interracial Councils, churches, and other civil rights groups. In
1962, Raymond Hilliard became chairman of the NCCIJ and remained in that post
until his death in July 1966. The routine NCCIJ materials include minutes and
notifications of meetings, appeals for donations, newsletters, financial
statements, reprints of magazine articles on integration, and copies of
Executive Director Mathew Ahmann's letters. There are significant logs of
incoming and outgoing correspondence dealing with racial problems in the South
in 1963, President Kennedy's civil rights stance, the riots in the Watts area
of Los Angeles during August 1965, and the attempt on James Meredith's life in
Mississippi in June 1966.
The
reports of the NCCIJ's Southern Field Service detail the problems of
integrating parochial schools in New Orleans (La.) in August 1962 and in other
Southern dioceses. The Southern Field Service reports describe Catholic Church
efforts at integration in various cities and contain data on bishops' support
of and objections to NCCIJ work. Other NCCIJ projects included the Cabrini
Project, a summer pilot program for remedial and enrichment education in a
Chicago ghetto; and efforts to use the church's buying power to promote equal
employment opportunity policies among businesses. Booklets put out by the NCCIJ
pertain to the training of priests in race relations matters, program work in
Black ghettos, and other racial problems.
Series 3.
Subseries 10. National Conference of Christians and
Jews files, 1953-1962 (3 boxes)
Hilliard
was a leader of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ). In New
York City, Hilliard was co-chairman of the board of directors of the
Manhattan-Westchester Region Council of the NCCJ; and in Chicago, he was
elected to the board of directors of the Chicago Region NCCJ, and served as a
member of the budget committee, chairman of the National Commission of
Community Organizations (1955-1959), member of the National Awards Committee,
and chairman of Brotherhood Week in 1962. These materials include minutes and
reports from council and committee meetings, financial statements, reports from
different councils across the country on brotherhood projects, lists of award
nominees, programs form the Vassar Summer Institute,
and correspondence with friends on problems within the NCCJ.
Series 3.
Subseries 11. National Conference on Religion and Race
files, 1962-1964 (4 folders)
The
NCCR was convened in 1962 by the Department of Racial and Cultural Relations of
the National Council of Churches, the Social Action Commission of the Synagogue
Council of America, and the Social Action Department of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference to combat the evils of prejudice, discrimination and
segregation and to hasten the advent of full racial justice for all. Raymond M.
Hilliard served as a member of the Chicago Host Committee for the NCCR. These
materials consist of newsletters, minutes, correspondence and other items
relating to the creation of conference and to meetings sponsored by it,
particularly the first NCRR conference, which was held in Chicago during
January 1963. a few items from the Chicago Conference
on Religion and Race are also present in this lot.
Series 3.
Subseries 12. National Conference on Social Welfare
files, 1924-1966 (2 folders)
The
National Conference on Social Welfare (formerly known as the National
Conference on Social Work), an organization of professional and lay persons and
local, state and national agencies interested in social welfare, was founded in
1874. The director and various staff members of the Cook County Department of
Public Aid have been members of the NCSW. The NCSW conducts annual forums to study
basic social welfare problems and issues. This lot of materials consists of
programs, speeches, sundry printed items, and some correspondence relative to
these forums.
Series 3.
Subseries 13. United Charities of Chicago files,
1926-1958 (2 folders)
The
United Charities of Chicago is a non-sectarian welfare organization that
specializes in helping families in distress. The United Charities works closely
with the Cook County Department of Public Aid (CCDPA) and refers many of its
cases to the department. All of the materials in this lot are from the Legal
Aid Bureau of the United Charities of Chicago. The correspondence with the
CCDPA concerns Illinois laws and their application to aid cases, lost
relief-recipient checks, and policies of the United Charities. Other materials
include minutes of board meetings, admission acceptance policies, statements on
divorce policies, conference materials, and routine mailings.
Series 3.
Subseries 14. Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago
files, 1922-1962 (6 boxes)
The
Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago (formerly known as the Council of
Social Agencies of Chicago) is an association of public and private welfare
organizations, which plans and coordinates welfare services to avoid
duplication of effort and service, and to discover unmet community needs. This
lot of papers mainly concerns the Welfare Council's Social Service Exchange,
which maintains a confidential index of case records of member agencies; and
the council's volunteer bureau, which recruits and refers volunteer workers to
health and welfare agencies. The Cook County Department of Public Aid worked
with the Welfare Council in planning services; used the council's Social
Service Exchange; and employed the Volunteer Bureau to recruit worker for its
Friendly Visitor Program, in which volunteers pay social visits to old age
relief recipients. (See the materials under the "Older people"
heading in Series 2 of these papers for related data.
The
Social Service Exchange items include correspondence with the Exchange and with
welfare departments in other cities; minutes of the Advisory Committee on the
Exchange; and reports on minimum standards of and use of the Exchange. The
Volunteer Bureau materials provide letters to volunteers, Advisory Committee
minutes, reports on new projects, and data on the selection of the Mother of
the Year. A few general Welfare Council items are also present.
Series 4.
Hilliard personalia (box 146 & 1 oversize folder & plaques)
This
series is filed chronologically and contains miscellaneous personal papers,
correspondence of Raymond M. Hilliard with his family and friends, 1948-1953;
business correspondence relative to setting up his New York City apartment,
1948-1949; dinner programs, menus and admission tickets to affairs attended by
Hilliard and his family; 42 issues of the Notre Dame Alumnus, 1948-1963; and
citations and awards given to Hilliard by various organizations (some of these
are in the form of plaques).
The
oversize folder is stored separately; when requesting it, please specify it
clearly.
Some
plaques are stored in the large box and wrapped packages that are shelved at
the end of the collection. When requesting this material, please specify it
according to the information at the end of the section named: "List of
contents of the collection."
Series 5.
Confidential files (box 147-152) RESTRICTION: Closed until 2035
This
series is comprised of papers removed from Series 2 and Series 3 because relief
recipients are named in them. The papers include correspondence, case histories
and records, and various lists.
Series
5 contains materials taken from the following categories in Series 2 of the
papers: (1) Assistance to older persons: 8 folders; (2) Case records and
reviews: 4 folders; (3) Child care: 4 folders; (4) Financial records: 2
folders; (5) General administration: 4 folders; (6) Hilliard personal papers: 1
folder; (7) Housing: 1 folder; (8) Illinois Public Aid Commission: 2 folders;
(9) Laws and legislation: 1 folder; (10) Medical care: 6 folders; (11) Personnel:
1 folder; (12) Public relations and publicity: 2 folders; (13) Veterans'
relief: 1 folder. One folder was removed from Series 3 of the papers and placed
in this confidential classification.
Series 6.
Items received from Cook County Department of Public Aid, 1968-69 (box 153)
RESTRICTION: Closed until 2036.
List of contents of the collection:
Series 1.
New York City files, 1948-1953 (box 1-8 & 15 scrapbooks) [scrapbooks are shelved at end of
collection]
box
1 New York City speeches, Apr.
1948-Mar. 1953
box
2 New York City files, Oct. 1947-Dec.
1948
box
3 New York City files, Jan-Nov. 1949
box
4 New York City files, Dec. 1949-June
1950
box
5 New York City files, July-Dec. 1950
box
6 New York City files, Jan-Aug. 1951
box
7 New York City files, Sept.
1951-July 1953
box
8 New York City files, Aug. 1953-1955
& undated
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 (box
9-108 & 11 scrapbooks)
[scrapbooks are shelved at end of collection]
Subseries 1.
Assistance to older persons, 1923-1967 (box 9-19):
RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes 9-32,
researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research
Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
9 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1923-1937
box
10 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1938-1943
box
11 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1944-1946
box
12 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1947-1948
box
13 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1949-Mar. 1951
box
14 Files on assistance for older
persons, Apr. 1951-1953
box
15 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1954
box
16 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1955-June 1957
box
17 Files on assistance for older
persons, July 1956-1957
box
18 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1948-1949
box
19 Files on assistance for older
persons, 1960-1967
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 2.
Burials, 1932-1965 (box 20):
RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes 9-32,
researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research
Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
20 Burial assistance files, 1932-1965
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 3.
Case reviews and reports, 1940-1958 (box 21-23):
RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes 9-32,
researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research
Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
21 Case records and reviews, 1940-1949
box
22 Case records and reviews, 1950-1952
box
23 Case records and reviews, 1953-1958
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 4.
Child care, 1925-1966 (box 24-32):
RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes 9-32,
researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research
Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
24 Files about child care, 1925-1942
box
25 Files about child care, 1943-1946
box
26 Files about child care, 1947-1948
box
27 Files about child care, 1949-Aug.
1951
box
28 Files about child care, Sept.
1951-Apr. 1954
box
29 Files about child care, May
1954-Sept. 1955
box
30 Files about child care, Oct.
1955-Sept. 1956
box
31 Files about child care, Oct-Sept.
1956
box
32 Files about child care, Oct.
1958-1966
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 5.
Financial and budgeting files, 1939-1965 (box 33-35):
box
33 Financial records, 1939-Mar. 1953
box
34 Financial records, Apr. 1953-1957
box
35 Financial records, 1958-1965 RESTRICTION: In order to consult box 35, researchers
must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research Access to
Confidential Materials" form.
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 6.
General administration, 1925-1956 (box 36-54):
box
36 General administration, 1925-1939
box
37 General administration, 1940-Sept.
1943
box
38 General administration, Oct.
1943-Apr. 1946
box
39 General administration, May
1946-Aug. 1947 RESTRICTION: In order to consult
box 39-44, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
40 General administration, Sept.
1947-1948 RESTRICTION: In order to consult
box 39-44, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
41 General administration, Jan-Nov.
1949 RESTRICTION: In order to consult
box 39-44, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
42 General administration, Dec.
1949-Aug. 1950 RESTRICTION: In order to consult
box 39-44, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
43 General administration, Sept.
1950-Oct. 1951 RESTRICTION: In order to consult
box 39-44, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
44 General administration, Nov.
1951-July 1952 RESTRICTION: In order to consult
box 39-44, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
45 General administration, Aug.
1952-Feb. 1953
box
46 General administration, Mar-Oct.
1953
box
47 General administration, Nov.
1953-May 1954
box
48 General administration, June-Dec.
1954
box
49 General administration, Jan-July
1955
box
50 General administration, Aug.
1955-Mar. 1956
box
51 General administration, Apr-Dec.
1956
box
52 General administration, 1957
box
53 General administration, 1958
box
54 General administration, 1959-1966
& undated
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 7.
Hilliard professional career papers, 1944-Feb. 1967 (box 55-70 & 11
scrapbooks): [scrapbooks
are shelved at end of collection]
box
55 Hilliard professional career papers,
1944-1955
box
56 Hilliard professional career papers,
Jan. 1956-June 1958
box
57 Hilliard professional career papers,
July 1948-Dec. 1959
box
58 Hilliard professional career papers,
1960
box
59 Hilliard professional career papers,
Jan-Nov. 1961
box
60 Hilliard professional career papers,
Dec. 1961-June 1962
box
61 Hilliard professional career papers,
July-Oct. 1962
box
62 Hilliard professional career papers,
Nov. 1962-May 1963
box
63 Hilliard professional career papers,
June-Dec. 1963
box
64 Hilliard professional career papers,
Jan-Apr. 1964
box
65 Hilliard professional career papers,
May-July 1964
box
66 Hilliard professional career papers,
Aug-Dec. 1964
box
67 Hilliard professional career papers,
Jan-May 1965
box
68 Hilliard professional career papers,
June-Oct. 1965
box
69 Hilliard professional career papers,
Nov. 1965-Jan. 1966
box
70 Hilliard professional career papers,
Feb. 1966-Feb. 1967
Scrapbooks
#16-26 (news clippings, 1954-1966) belonging to Series 2 are stored at the end
of the collection
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 8.
Housing, 1941-1959 (box 71 folders 1-5):
box
71
folders:
1-5 Housing 1941-1959
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 9.
Illinois Public Aid Commission and predecessor files, 1934-1963 (box 71-74):
box
71 - continued
folders:
6-7 Files on Illinois Public Aid
Commission, 1934-1944
box
72 Files on Illinois Public Aid
Commission, 1943-1948
box
73 Files on Illinois Public Aid
Commission, 1949-1953
box
74 Files on Illinois Public Aid
Commission, 1954-1963
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 10.
Laws and legislation, 1935-1962 (box 75-76):
box
75 Laws and legislation, 1935-1955
box
76 Laws and legislation, 1956-1962
& undated
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 11.
Medical care, 1926-1966 (box 77-90):
RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes
77-110, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for Research
Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
77 Medical care, 1926-1941
box
78 Medical care, Jan. 1943-May 1944
box
79 Medical care, Jan. 1942-May 1944
box
80 Medical care, Aug. 1946-Oct. 1948
box
81 Medical care, Nov. 1948-Apr. 1950
box
82 Medical care, May 1950-Nov. 1951
box
83 Medical care, Dec. 1951-Dec. 1952
box
84 Medical care, Jan. 1953-Apr. 1954
box
85 Medical care, May 1954-July 1955
box
86 Medical care, Aug. 1955-Sept. 1956
box
87 Medical care, Oct. 1956-Dec. 1957
box
88 Medical care, 1958-1959
box
89 Medical care, 1960-1963
box
90 Medical care, 1964-1966 &
undated
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 12.
Personnel, 1922-1967 (box 91-110):
RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes
77-110, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
91 Files about personnel, 1922-1936
box
92 Files about personnel, Jan.
1937-July 1941
box
93 Files about personnel, Aug.
1941-Mar. 1943
box
94 Files about personnel, Apr.
1943-Dec. 1945
box
95 Files about personnel, Jan.
1946-Aug. 1947
box
96 Files about personnel, Sept.
1947-Dec. 1948
box
97 Files about personnel, Jan.
1949-Mar. 1950
box
98 Files about personnel, Apr.
1950-Mar. 1951
box
99 Files about personnel, Apr-Dec. 1951
box
100 Files about personnel, Jan-Nov. 1952
box
101 Files about personnel, Dec. 1952-Oct.
1953
box
102 Files about personnel, Nov. 1953-July
1954
box
103 Files about personnel, Aug. 1954-Apr.
1955
box
104 Files about personnel, May-Dec. 1955
box
105 Files about personnel, Jan-July 1956
box
106 Files about personnel, Aug. 1956-June
1957
box
107 Files about personnel, July 1957-June
1958
box
108 Files about personnel, July 1958-Dec.
1959
box
109 Files about personnel, Jan. 1960-July
1962
box
110 Files about personnel, Aug. 1962-1967
& undated
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 13.
Public relations and publicity 1928-1965 (box 111-113):
box
111 Public relations and publicity,
1928-1952
box
112 Public relations and publicity,
1953-1956
box
113 Public relations and publicity,
1957-1965
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 14.
Unemployed relief, 1927-1944 (box 114 folder 1-4):
RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes
114-115, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
114
folders:
1-4 Unemployed relief, 1927-1954
Series 2.
Cook County Department of Public Aid and predecessor files, 1948-1966 -
continued
Subseries 15.
Veterans' relief, 1927-1966 (box 114-115):
RESTRICTION: In order to consult boxes
114-115, researchers must sign the Chicago History Museum's "Request for
Research Access to Confidential Materials" form.
box
114 - continued
folders:
5-8 Veteran's
relief, 1927-1933
box
115 Veteran's relief, 1934-1966
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 (box 116-145)
Subseries 1.
American Public Welfare Association files, 1933-1964 (box 116-119):
box
116 American Public Welfare Association,
1933-Nov. 1951
box
117 American Public Welfare Association,
Dec. 1951-Dec. 1954
box
118 American Public Welfare Association,
Jan. 1955-Apr. 1958
box
119
folders:
1-5 American Public Welfare Association,
May 1958-Mar. 1964
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 2.
Catholic Inter-Racial Council of Chicago files, 1963-1965 (box 119-120):
box
119 - continued
folders:
6 Catholic Interracial Council,
1963-1964
box
120
folders:
1 Catholic Interracial Council, 1965
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 3.
Chicago Commission on Human Relations files, 1954-1958 (box 120):
box
120 - continued
folders:
2-4 Chicago Commission on Human Relations,
1954-1958
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 4.
Church Federation of Greater Chicago files, 1925-1958 (box 120-121):
box
120 - continued
folders:
5-6 Church Federation of Greater Chicago,
1925-1951
box
121
folders:
1-2 Church Federation of Greater Chicago,
1952-1958
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 5.
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty files, 1964-1966 (box
121):
box
121 - continued
folders:
3-4 Citizens Crusade Against
Poverty, 1964-1966
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 6.
Community Fund of Chicago files, 1933-1964 (box 122-128):
box
122 Community Fund of Chicago, 1933-1949
box
123 Community Fund of Chicago, 1950-1951
box
124 Community Fund of Chicago, Jan.
1952-June 1955
box
125 Community Fund of Chicago, July
1955-Feb. 1956
box
126 Community Fund of Chicago, Mar-Dec.
1956
box
127 Community Fund of Chicago, 1957
box
128
folders:
1 Community Fund of Chicago,
1958-1964
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 7 Family Service Association of
America files, 1930-1957 (box 128):
box
128 - continued
folders:
2-5 Family Service Association, 1930-1957
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 8.
Illinois Welfare Association files, 1943-1962 (box 129):
box
129 Illinois Welfare Association,
1943-1962
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 9.
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice files, 1958-1966 (box
130-134):
box
130 National Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice, Jan. 1958-June 1963
box
131 National Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice, July 1963-Aug. 1964
box
132 National Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice, Sept. 1964-Jun3 1965
box
133 National Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice, July-Dec. 1965
box
134 National Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice, 1966
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 10.
National Conference of Christians and Jews files, 1953-1962 (box 135-138):
box
135 National Conference of Christians and
Jews, 1953-1955
box
136 National Conference of Christians and
Jews, 1956-1957
box
137 National Conference of Christians and
Jews, June 1957-Dec. 1962
box
138
folders:
1-4 National Conference on Religion and
Race, 1962-1964
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 12.
National Conference on Social Welfare files, 1924-1966 (box 138):
box
138 - continued
folders:
5-6 National Conference on Social Welfare,
1924-1966
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 13.
United Charities of Chicago files, 1926-1958 (box 139):
box
139 United Charities of Chicago,
1926-1958
Series 3.
Social service organizations materials, 1944-1966 - continued
Subseries 14.
Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago files, 1922-1962 (box 140-145):
box
140 Welfare Council of Metropolitan
Chicago, 1922-1949
box
141 Welfare Council of Metropolitan
Chicago, 1950-1953
box
142 Welfare Council of Metropolitan
Chicago, Jan. 1952-Mar. 1956
box
143 Welfare Council of Metropolitan
Chicago, Apr. 1956-Nov. 1957
box
144 Welfare Council of Metropolitan
Chicago, Dec. 1957-June 15, 1960
box
145 Welfare Council of Metropolitan
Chicago, June 16, 1960-1962
Series 4.
Hilliard personalia (box 146 & 1 oversize folder & 9 plaques).
box
146 Hilliard personalia
1
oversize folder (stored separately)
Plaques
that belong to this series are stored at the end of the collection.
Series 5.
Confidential files (box 147-152) RESTRICTION: Closed until 2035
box
147 RESTRICTION: Closed until 2035
Aged,
1927-1953
box
148 RESTRICTION: Closed until 2035
folders:
1-3 Files on assistance to older persons,
1954-1959
4-5 Case records and reviews, 1942-1965
box
149 RESTRICTION: Closed until 2035
folders:
1-2 Case records and reviews, 1953-1958
3-6 Child care, 1942-1965
box
150 RESTRICTION: Closed until 2035
folders:
1-2 Financial
records, 1946-1958
3-6 General administration, 1932-1948
7 Hilliard professional career
papers, 1954-1958
box
151 RESTRICTION: Closed until 2035
folders:
1 Housing, 1948-1958
2-3 Illinois Public Aid Commission,
1950-1956
4 Laws and legislation
5-6 Medical care, 1935-1953
box
152 RESTRICTION: Closed until 2035
folders:
1-4 Medical care, 1954-1958
5 Personnel
6 Public relations and publicity
7 Veteran's relief
8 From Series 3. Social service
organizations (confidential)
Series 6.
Items received from Cook County Department of Public Aid in 1968-69 (box 153) RESTRICTION: Closed
until 2036.
box
153 Correspondence and publications,
1947-1966 RESTRICTION: Closed until 2036.
At end of the collection: Storage of oversize boxed and unboxed
scrapbooks and plaques belonging to Series 1, Series 2, & Series 4:
box
154 Plaques, etc. described in Series 4
(1 cubic ft. box)
Unboxed
scrapbooks described in Series 1 and Series 2:
Scrapbooks #20, 21, 22, 23, 25 [Shelf B0516B]
Scrapbooks #4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13,
15, 17, 19, 24, 26 [Shelf B516C]
Scrapbooks #1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12,
14, 16, 18, four plaques [Shelf B516D]
Old list of card catalog headings for this
collection:
The
following headings were made for this collection in the Manuscript Card
Catalog:
Subjects:
Aged.
Burial.
Children.
Charities, Protection, Etc.
Communism. U.S. 1917.
Housing.
Chicago.
Medical Care.
Negroes.
Chicago.
New
York (City).
Public Welfare.
Public Welfare. Chicago.
Social Service.
Social Service. Chicago.
Veterans.
Added
entries:
Cook County, (Ill.). Department of Public Aid.
Moss,
Joseph Lincoln, 1884-1955.
American Public Welfare Association.
Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago.
Chicago Commission on Human Relations.
Church Federation of Greater Chicago.
Citizens
Crusade Against Poverty.
Community Fund of Chicago.
Family Service Association of America.
Illinois Public Aid Commission.
Illinois Welfare Association.
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice.
National Conference of Christians and Jews.
National Conference on Religion and Race.
National Conference on Social Welfare.
United Charities of Chicago.
Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago.
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