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The records were a gift of the board of directors of the Child Study Association of America in 1967. The initial gift was followed by additional records in 1975. The archives also microfilmed the minutes of CSAA's predecessor organizations and early conference proceedings in 1967.
The Child Study Association of America (CSAA) records were arranged and described as three distinct groups as new materials were acquired by the archives between 1967 and 1975. The initial gift of records that arrived in 1967, a second gift that was received in 1975, and a set of microfilmed minutes and proceedings were described in three separate finding aids. Formerly, patrons had to consult multiple documents in order to obtain complete information on the CSAA records. As part of a project to mount finding aids online, the archives has merged the information about the CSAA records into one comprehensive finding aid. This finding aid contains information regarding the original records accession and the microfilm edition. Information about the unprocessed supplement to the CSAA records will be added at a later date.
The minutes of Child Study Association of America predecessors are
available on microfilm. These consist of minutes of the Society for the Study
of Child Nature (November, 1890, to March, 1892) and minutes of the Society for
the Study of Child Nature, Chapter I (December, 1896, to December, 1900).
Transcripts of proceedings from the following parent education conferences are
also available on microfilm:
Unpublished inventories available for all records. In particular, patrons who need information about the 45 feet of unprocessed records dating from 1908 to 1972, should contact the Archives for information about the unpublished inventory of the files.
The portion of the Child Study Association of America records that is
described in this guide is organized into seven series:
The Child Study Association of America (CSAA) grew out of the
The
The core of the Association's work was with parents enrolled in study groups under the leadership of a professionally trained staff member. According to the Association, its attitude toward parent education was "a common sense approach to the findings of science." The CSAA studied psychiatry, psychology, and sociology and interpreted "sound and useful" ideas for parents and professionals. In addition to study groups organized at CSAA headquarters in New York City and at private homes in the area, there were a number of groups associated with settlement houses, church and community groups, and housing developments in Harlem and in New York's lower east side. Study groups explored a range of topics including adolescence, discipline, children with physical or developmental disabilities, money, recreation, schools, sex education, sexual behavior, and techniques of leadership for parent education groups.
Another important aspect of the Association's work to disseminate child rearing information was the Program Advisory Service, formerly called the Speakers' Bureau. The service arranged lectures and radio broadcasts by CSAA staff; aided in the preparation of CSAA conferences and symposia; and counseled organizations throughout the United States in the planning of constructive parent-child programs.
The association established committees on children's art and literature. It also instituted bibliography, publications, and radio committees to produce educational and parenting resources. Involving a large number of volunteers, these committees reviewed books for children and adults, prepared exhibits and galleries, presented awards, and prepared materials for publication by CSAA.
In addition to books, manuals, and pamphlets, the CSAA published
CSAA appears to have undergone an important shift in focus during the 1960s. Although CSAA continued to provide discussion groups and other programs delivered directly to parents and to publish resources on child development and family life, it increased its professional education and consultation services. It offered education and training programs and resources to professionals in fields related to children and families. It also offered program consultation to private and public agencies. These efforts included several national-level programs. For example, CSAA ran a five year training program through the United States Children's Bureau for nurses on working with expectant parents or parents of young children and a two year program for family case workers on reaching low income families that was sponsored by the Family Service Association of America. The association also provided curriculum and training in parent education and community action to family agency social workers as part of the OEO-funded Project Enable.
By the 1970s, the association was focusing almost entirely on training professionals who worked with families. A description of CSAA's programs from 1969-1970 stated that it was"primarily a training center for the staffs of public and private health, education, and welfare agencies directly serving parents, children, and communities." In 1967, CSAA began a program to provide parental involvement training to Head Start program staff from agencies in the Northeast (Head start regions I and II). Over the next few years, the program expanded to other regions. The training programs were designed to created a "core of well-trained parental involvement specialists" who would take over upon completion of the CSAA program. In 1969, CSAA also ran a program in the South Bronx area of New York City to train social workers, sociologists and doctors to educate parents regarding health services. Another program trained health department educators to work with para professionals who were recruited as part of a manpower training program. The association appears to have been hoping to develop into an accredited educational institution and was exploring steps necessary to achieve that goal. However, ongoing financial problems, including the termination of funding for CSAA to provide Head Start training, interfered with this goal and helped lead CSAA into a series of mergers that eventually resulted in the parceling out or cessation of all of its programs.
In 1972, CSAA formally dissolved and turned over all of its assets to Wel-Met, Inc. In 1973, CSAA merged with Wel-Met to form Child Study Association of America/Wel-Met. Wel-Met had been founded in 1935 by the Metropolitan League of Jewish Community Associations to operate summer camps for urban children. The new organization ran three camps and provided counseling and referral services. It also planned to provide adult education programs in the "moral, mental and physical training and up-brining of children," which appears to have been CSAA's contribution to the partnership. By 1977, CSAA/Wel-Met was plagued with financial problems, partly due to decreased participation in camping programs. The board decided to terminate operations and was exploring plans for handling the organization's remaining assets, including the formation of a capital preservation corporation. It is not clear what became of the plan or whether CSAA/Wel-Met continued to provide any services or simply existed as a corporate entity. However, CSAA/Wel-Met still existed in 1985, when it merged with Goddard-Riverside Community Center in New York. Goddard-Riverside does not appear to have continued CSAA's parent or professional education efforts, and the merger effectively marked the end of what remained of CSAA as a corporate body and the cessation of any of its original programs.
The Child Study Association of America records consist of: minutes, agenda, correspondence, memorandums, financial records, reports and annual reports, transcripts, photographs, newspaper clippings, articles, invitations, programs, press releases, fliers, form letters, promotional materials, and guest books. A portion of the records consists of microfilm proceedings of parent education conferences that were held during the 1920s and early minutes of CSAA predecessors dating from 1890 to1892 and 1896 to 1900. The records also contain the papers of long-time executive director, Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg, and CSAA staff member, Josette Frank. Concentrations of their papers, which include correspondence, speeches and articles, are found primarily in the Study Department records under Series 3, Departments and Programs. Their personal papers are located in Series 5, Staff.
The CSAA records document the association's efforts to promote understanding of child development, child rearing, and family life by interpreting the findings of psychiatry, psychology, educational philosophy, and sociology for parents and professionals. Small group study and discussion were central to CSAA's educational efforts. The records document the activities of individual chapters as well as the work of the Study Group Department. A significant portion of the records delineates work by CSAA's Program Advisory Service and standing committees to produce lectures, radio broadcasts, courses, conferences, symposia, and published resources on child development topics. These records also document work by various standing committees to study and influence children's media, such as books, radio, and comics. Materials dating from 1955 to 1970 reflect the association's shift toward training social workers, Head Start program staff, nurses, and other professionals to work with parents and children.
In addition to documenting CSAA, the records chronicle its
predecessors, the
Along with the 17 feet of records described in this finding aid, another 45 feet of unprocessed records dating from 1908-1972 is also available and will be added to the online finding aid at a later date. Contact the archives for additional information.
This Child Study Association of America records are indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Series 1, Predecessor Organizations, includes committee minutes, pamphlets, and study group papers of the two predecessors of CSAA: the Society for the Study of Child Nature (folder 1) and the Federation for Child Study (folders 2-5). The minutes and pamphlets delineate the purposes, services, and history of the Society and the Federation. The study group papers record routine conduct of business.
Pamphlet summarizing the work accomplished by Chapter I (of the Society) from 1896-1906. Among the authors discussed by the Society were Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, and Felix Adler.
Minutes for the Society (1890-1892) and for its Chapter I (1896-1900) are available on microfilm.
Included are pamphlets delineating the purposes, services, and history of the Federation.
The minutes of the committee include material suggesting an intensive study of psychoanalysis and references to the advisory board’s desires that the Federation deal "with the child as a social factor rather than dwelling on the personal relationship between parent and child."
The folder contains annual reports, correspondence, lecture outlines, membership lists, and minutes of the study group. Also included are reports on adolescence, the designated topic of the study group.
Series 2, Administrative and Policy-making, contains annual reports, board of directors' papers, and financial records. Reports to the board by executive directors, Sidonie M. Gruenberg and Gunnar Dybwad, are also included.
Included are an agenda of a board meeting, a memorandum on policies, sex education material, and the minutes of a joint meeting of the budget committee and the board publications committee. Also included is correspondence re the relocation of CSAA headquarters and a letter re financial matters.
Material re proposals for a CSAA television committee and a CSAA-sponsored film on reading problems.
Pamphlets delineating the functions performed by and the services provided by CSAA.
Reports to the board re CSAA programs.
Includes material emphasizing areas of particular concern to the director during his first year in office: the schism between old and new staff members, "the desperate financial situation" of the Association, and the bookkeeping and filing systems.
Quarterly reports prepared by the staff for the board of directors and the advisory board. Also included are reports on fiscal year 1928-1929 and on various staff activities.
Routine material re financial matters.
Series 3, Standing Committees, includes papers of CSAA's committees: art, bibliography, children's book, pamphlet, publications, radio, research, and summer play schools. The Children’s Book Committee and its Comics Subcommittee records reflect the concerted effort to define and promote “good books” for children. The Publications Committee records deal with material published by the Association, including files on individual authors, particularly Sidonie Gruenberg. The Radio Committee records deal with efforts to evaluate and shape socially constructive radio programming for children as well as parent education offerings.
Material re temporary exhibits, a permanent gallery, and a summary of the committee’s activities.
In addition to discussions of books reviewed by committee members for possible inclusion in the CSAA library or on CSAA booklists, there are references to establishing formal guidelines for reviewing books.
Contains booklists indicating the disposition of books reviewed by the committee.
Includes lists of inexpensive books for children, booklists for parents and teachers, and book reviews by committee members.
Reviews of books for possible inclusion in the CSAA library or on CSAA booklists. Also included are reviews from journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Reviews of books for possible inclusion in the CSAA library or on CSAA booklists. Also included are reviews from journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Reviews of books for possible inclusion in the CSAA library or on CSAA booklists. Also included are reviews from journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Reviews of books for possible inclusion in the CSAA library or on CSAA booklists. Also included are reviews from journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Committee discussions focus not only upon routine matters such as awards, booklists, and exhibits, but also upon such topics as the purpose of the committee; what constitutes a "good book"; the problem of instilling an interest in "fine things" while allowing for a child’s freedom in reading; and the necessity of enlisting the aid of a psychologist to help committee members better understand the dynamics of child development in relation to a child’s reading needs and interests.
Correspondence re routine committee matters (e.g., awards, book fairs, booklists, child reading problems, and encyclopedias) comprises the major portions of folders 39 to 46. Also includes correspondence re racial and cultural problems, including material from: Eduard C. Lindeman of the Advisory Committee to Intercultural Workshop, Everett Clinchy of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education (folder 40). Other correspondents include educators, libraries, and publishing houses (passim); the American Federation of Teachers and American Sunday School Union (folder 40); Brooks Atkinson, Pearl Buck, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher (folder 41); the Scottish Council for Research in Education (folder 4l); General Board of Education of the Methodist Church (folder 43); Dr. Martha Eliot of the United States Children’s Bureau and the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council for Educational TV (folder 44).
Folders 47 to 56 contain not only routine correspondence but also letters from or pertaining to the following individuals, organization or subjects: Downtown Community School (folders 47-48); CSAA’s Latin American booklist, International Reading Association, National Safety Council, and the National Social Welfare Assembly (folder 49); Association for Family Living, Bureau of Applied Social Research of Columbia University, and Alice Pollitzer of the Encampment for Citizenship (folder 50); National Conference of Christians and Jews and the World Federation for Mental Health (folder 51).
Folders 47 to 56 contain not only routine correspondence but also letters from or pertaining to the following individuals, organization or subjects: Downtown Community School (folders 47-48); CSAA’s Latin American booklist, International Reading Association, National Safety Council, and the National Social Welfare Assembly (folder 49); Association for Family Living, Bureau of Applied Social Research of Columbia University, and Alice Pollitzer of the Encampment for Citizenship (folder 50); National Conference of Christians and Jews and the World Federation for Mental Health (folder 51).
Folders 47 to 56 contain not only routine correspondence but also letters from or pertaining to the following individuals, organization or subjects: Downtown Community School (folders 47-48); CSAA’s Latin American booklist, International Reading Association, National Safety Council, and the National Social Welfare Assembly (folder 49); Association for Family Living, Bureau of Applied Social Research of Columbia University, and Alice Pollitzer of the Encampment for Citizenship (folder 50); National Conference of Christians and Jews and the World Federation for Mental Health (folder 51).
Material generated by the anthologizing of the
Material re the
Correspondence and working papers re the
Routine material re the
Continued from previous folder
In addition to routine material stemming from the
anthologizing of the
Papers related to the collecting of manuscripts for the
Material stemming from the anthologizing of the
Material generated by the anthologizing of the
Includes papers related to the anthologizing of the
Material regarding the unpublished tenth anthology, including manuscripts on famous Americans such as Nellie Bly, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Michelson, F. W. Woolworth, and Peter Zenger.
Includes material generated by the anthologizing of the
Folder includes an analysis of anthology sales through 1960, rejected manuscripts, and committee advice to Crowell on non-CSAA material.
In addition to routine material ensuing from the
anthologizing of
Material relating to the anthologizing of
Material relating to the anthologizing of
Folders include correspondence and papers stemming from the
anthologizing of
Material generated by the anthologizing of the
In addition to articles on children’s reading and on the encyclopedia "racket," there are reports on the objectives of the committee in relation to the listing of books, definition of what constitutes a "good" book, permanent values of fairy tales, and criteria for the selection of children’s books.
Attendance lists, committee membership roster, press releases, and a summary of a panel discussion on the future of children’s books. Also included are the minutes of a meeting re the formation of a juvenile books committee of the Writers’ War Board. Among the organizations represented were CSAA, Bureau for Intercultural Education, National Council of Women, and the Writers’ War Board.
Material re a CSAA-sponsored project for a "Little Library About the U.S.A. for the Children of Norway." This project was part of a comprehensive campaign (organized by the Women’s Council for Post-War Europe) to rebuild destroyed libraries.
Includes memoranda from the board of directors re the use of the CSAA name in endorsements, material re the review of children’s films, transcript of a discussion on the values and dangers of fairy tales, and a discussion re a booklist about America for war refugee children.
In addition to advertising material, newspaper clippings and a chart comparing encyclopedia sets, the folder contains a transcript of a panel discussion on the reluctant reader and a proposal for wider distribution of CSAA booklists.
Articles on children’s reading, clippings, material from
other organizations (e.g., Association for Childhood Education International,
Children’s Book Council, and the National Citizens Committee for Educational
.Television), list of recipients of the committee award, and a list of
Folder includes brochures, circulars, clippings, memoranda,
reprint articles on educational television, and a committee proposal for a
paperback book entitled
Material re
In addition to circulars and newsletters, the folder
contains the finished proposal for a
Routine material includes clippings, list of committee members, lists of outstanding books, memoranda, press releases, and form letters to new members. Also included are forwards and introductions to books edited by the committee and notes pertaining to the wider distribution of committee material.
Resource materials selected from the following sources:
Association for Arts in Childhood, Bank Street Schools, Louise Seaman Bechtel,
University of Chicago Library,
Material arising from the presentation of an annual award for books dealing with "the realities of contemporary life," e.g., anti-semitism, the problems of Japanese-Americans during World War II, racial attitudes, etc. Correspondents include major publishing houses, newspapers, Eduard Lindeman, Eleanor Roosevelt, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Writers’ War Board.
Correspondence and papers generated by the presentation of the annual book award includes a list of award winners from 1943 to 1958 and a description of the criteria used and the selection process. Other than publishing houses and newspapers, correspondents include Pearl Buck (1948) and Eleanor Roosevelt (1950), both of whom were recipients of the award.
Correspondence and guest lists re school exhibits and parties are included.
Correspondence, minutes, and questionnaires re a mobile children’s book exhibit.
Booklists re art, books of the year for children, children in foreign lands, inexpensive books, informational books for a boy of ten, nature study, New York City, Scandanavia, and summer play school.
In addition to material re CSAA booklists, the folder contains booklists published by the American Library Association, Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Cleveland Public Library, and the New York City Public Library.
Material generated by the compilation of CSAA booklists on the following topics: books for babies, children’s emotional adjustments, intergroup relations, Jewish cultural books, and lists for the Play Schools Association.
Correspondence and papers relating to the compilation of the booklist including a memo re the structure of, need for, and aims of the project. Other material relates to the search for funds from both foundations and commercial institutions.
In addition to copies of the CSAA booklist and similar non-CSAA lists, there is correspondence with religious institutions re books intended for inclusion on the booklist. Also included is correspondence re the value of the list, criticism of its content, and material re an exhibit of Biblical and religious books
Material re encyclopedias and book sets for children.
Correspondence arising from the compilation of a children’s booklist about Latin America. Organizations and individuals include the American Red Cross, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, Organization of American States, Pan American Union, Puerto Rican Office of Education, and Nelson Rockefeller. Also included is correspondence re the publishing of the booklist in a Pan American Union periodical.
Correspondence re celebration of publication of the booklist.
Committee members’ reviews of books suggested for possible inclusion on the booklist.
In addition to the CSAA booklist, the folder contains CSAA publicity for the booklist and English and Spanish language newspaper clippings.
Materials relating to the CSAA project include bulletins, and pamphlets from the New York City Board of Education Committee on Inter-American Cooperation, Organization of American States, and the Pan American Union. Also included is material re Pan American Day.
Material generated by compilation of a list of books which dealt with the problems of assimilation of foreigners into the American culture, race prejudice, social and economic differences, and "the translation of democratic ideals into everyday terms."
Booklists for a magazine for parents of young children.
Material generated by CSAA’s cooperation with the Association Press of the YMCA in conjunction with the publication of six children’s books.
In addition to correspondence re a Foundation-sponsored conference on youth, the folder contains programs, transcripts of speeches, and material re the Edison Foundation Awards in Mass Media. Also included is material re the committee’s participation in recommending awards for children’s books. Charles Edison is among the correspondents.
Material re the Edison Foundation’s children’s book award. Charles Edison is among the correspondents.
Articles re children’s reading; booklists on the Bible, nature, New York City, science, and travel; and information re children’s magazines.
The folder contains booklists,
CSAA annual reports, booklists, clippings re committee activities, press releases, and a survey on comics are included. An article by Josette Frank entitled "The People in the Comics" is also included.
Includes CSAA booklists and pamphlets, criteria for selection of books for CSAA lists, encyclopedia information, exhibit photographs, newspaper clippings, press releases, and reviews.
Continued from previous folder.
In addition to material re the formation of the subcommittee, the folder contains correspondence with comic publishers, Chautauqua, Clifton Fadiman of the Writers’ War Board, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, and the Parents’ Institute. Also included is material stemming from Josette Frank’s survey of comics and her subsequent justification and defense of her survey.
Included are exchanges of letters between Josette Frank and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Edwin Lukas of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, State Charities Aid Association, and Dr. Frederick Wertham. Material re a panel discussion on "Comics, Radio, Movies and Children" is also included.
Material re the appearance of CSAA executive director, Gunnar Dybwad, before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. Correspondents include Bertram Beck, Board of Education of the Methodist Church, Church Peace Union, U.S. Representative Carl Elliot, Dorothy Kilgallen, National Association for Better Radio and Television, New York State Youth Commission, and the Religious Education Association.
Includes articles by Josette Frank, lists of comic publishers, review forms for Frank's survey of comics, subcommittee membership list, and a bibliography committee report on comics.
Material arising from a CSAA panel discussion ("What About the Comics"), including the speaker list and the transcript of the meeting. Also included is material pertaining to the appearance of Gunnar Dybwad before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency.
Articles, pamphlets, and reports from sources such as the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers, Chicago Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, National Social Welfare Assembly, and the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
Articles, pamphlets, and reports from sources such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Comics Magazine Association, Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, Institute of Child Study, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Articles and comics from newspapers, magazines, and journals.
The folder contains requests for a list of recommended records for children, material re a committee luncheon, and memoranda re a joint project with the Columbia Record Company.
Minutes and memoranda re changes in the publication policies of CSAA.
Included are discussion re a CSAA pamphlet on sex education,
the combining of the Publications Committee with the Public Relations
committee, the possibility of reorganizing or discontinuing
Routine budget material for both the committee and the Association. Also included is a proposed budget re the management of CSAA publications by the Mental Health Materials Center.
Includes material re publication projects, the Mental Health Materials Center, reports to the board publications committee, and the reactivation of the Pamphlet Committee.
Letters from authors offering manuscripts, editorial services, etc. for CSAA publications.
Articles, pamphlets, and speeches prepared by the director of parent group education of CSAA. Among the topics discussed are discipline, parent education, and the training of professionals for work in family life education.
Material re the pediatrician’s role in the family.
Includes transcripts of speeches and material re a pamphlet on the middle years of childhood.
An article re college admission submitted by the president of the College Entrance Examination Board.
Includes a brief historical sketch re the changes in child-rearing advice given to American parents. Also included is an article re the relation of values and social structures to life planning.
An article by the CSAA executive director re the place of values in parent education.
Material re children and school.
Transcript of a speech by Deutsch, a professor of political science at Yale, on the nature of growth.
An article by a medical psychologist re homework and the parent.
Material re the sexual behavior of adolescents.
Included is an article entitled "Mass Media--A New Kind of Schoolhouse for Our Children."
Material for CSAA pamphlets,
Transcript of a speech on the effect of the mass media on adolescence.
The folder includes a lecture bearing upon parents’ contributions to a child’s struggle for independence.
Material re a child’s home library.
Material re television and children.
Includes articles published in
Articles re comics published in the
Topics considered include child welfare, study groups, and the objectives of parent education.
Continued from previous folder
Material centering on radio and children. Included is Gruenberg’s pamphlet for the Radio Institute of the Audible Arts.
Material re articles Gruenberg desired to publish.
Articles re the importance of continuity between the school and home in a child’s education.
Material re the publication of articles on sex education in
periodicals such as the
Material re a book on intra-familial relationships. Included are manuscripts of chapters.
Material relating to Gruenberg’s magazine column ("Calling All Mothers") which was based on questions from readers.
Material relating to a pamphlet in CSAA’s "Studies in Child Training" series.
In addition to material relating to articles written for the magazine, the folder includes correspondence re Gruenberg’s role as consultant on family relations.
Material re articles on discipline, group prejudice, hobbies, ideals, spontaneity, the challenge that movies and radio present for traditional values, and the shift of influence (upon a child) from parents to friends.
Includes material for a
The folder contains material re an article on youth and the need for a radical revision of values.
Includes an article on the problems of interactions between parents and teenagers.
Includes an article entitled "Physical Health, Mental Health, and the Social Environment: Some Characteristics of Healthy and Unhealthy People."
A CSAA pamphlet entitled
Includes correspondence re a article on children and education.
Material re an article on stuttering.
Material relating to the collaboration of CSAA and Medical Counselors, Inc. in the writing of pamphlets about health problems.
Material relating to a book review prepared for
Included is a topical outline for a pamphlet on sibling relationships and a memorandum re the reorganization of the Publications Department.
Material re an article on social responsibility and the use of television for children.
Included is correspondence re a CSAA pamphlet on twins.
Material re the White House Conference on Children and Youth.
Material re nursery schools.
Material generated during a visit to the U.S.S.R. by Yale University’s Child Study Center director. Included is a lecture re trends in child development research in Russia and their influence on American research and practice.
In addition to articles and speeches re latency in teenagers, the folder includes a draft of a CSSA pamphlet on adolescence.
An article for
Includes an article on the working mother.
Includes a CSAA pamphlet entitled "When a Parent is Mentally Ill."
Articles re color blindness in children, a cross-cultural examination of child-rearing practices in France and the U.S., and an article entitled "Why Do Foreign Observers Call Our Girls Soft?" Also included is correspondence with Anna Freud and a summary of her lecture on the psychoanalytic study of children.
In addition to correspondence with contributors to
In addition to routine correspondence with
Includes an article on cultural values and child training,
and correspondence with Karl Menninger and
Includes an article on cultural values and child training,
and correspondence with Karl Menninger and
In addition to correspondence with potential contributors to
In addition to correspondence with Benjamin Spock, Adlai Stevenson, and Diana Trilling, the folder contains articles on the following subjects: casework concepts in educational counseling; child-rearing in Barbados; and the status of the Japanese in Hawaiian culture.
Includes correspondence with prospective contributors to
Material re reprint permission rights for
Articles and questionnaires
A request for permission to reprint a
Material re the possible collaboration on a pamphlet about the value of an active art experience for children. Also included are notes from a meeting of CSAA’s Active Parents Program on art and children.
Material re royalties and correspondence concerning a proposed CSAA parent’s handbook.
In addition to a statement re CSAA cooperation with
commercial organizations, the folder includes correspondence re Doubleday’s
Routine correspondence with major publishing houses.
Included are articles on foot care, science and human values, and sexual behavior of adolescents.
In addition to correspondence and memoranda re royalties, the folder includes material re children and moving and sex education.
The folders contain correspondence, questionnaires, and reports re a study on radio programming for children.
Includes material re requests to participate in exhibits sponsored by organizations such as the International Conference of Social Work and the National Council on Family Relations.
In addition to articles and pamphlets re radio programs for children and radio programs concerning parent education, the folder contains correspondence with or about organizations such as the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the Women’s National Radio Committee. Also included are committee minutes, a list of committee members, and a list of criteria developed by the committee to facilitate the evaluation of children’s radio programs.
Articles re children’s radio programs, information re the origins of the Radio Committee, and minutes of meetings. Among the correspondents are Lyman Bryson, Institute for Education by Radio, and the Radio Council on Children’s Programs. Social attitudes in radio serials and the use of radio during World War II are among the topics discussed.
In addition to material re a CSAA radio meeting on intercultural education for youth, the folder contains correspondence with or about the Bureau for Intercultural Education, Citizens’ Radio Committee, Institute for Democratic Education, William Heard Kilpatrick, Margaret Mead, and Robert Thorndike.
Material re children’s radio programs and an article about violence in children’s stories.
Articles re children’s radio programs and the shaping of social attitudes through the radio.
Material generated by the consultation given to Superman DC Publications and to New York City radio station WOR re the "Superman" radio program.
Includes material re the altering of Superman’s characterization from that of a gangster fighter to that of a socially motivated citizen who combats racism, religious intolerance, and juvenile delinquency. Correspondents include the Big Brother movement, Council Against Intolerance in America, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Office of War Information, and the Society to Maintain Public Decency.
Material published by CSAA, Progressive Education Association, and the Radio Institute of the Audible Arts. Sidonie Gruenberg and Lyman Bryson are among the authors.
Includes material re an award for an outstanding script for a children’s program. Pamphlets pertaining to radio programming during World War II are also included. Correspondents include Eleanor Roosevelt.
Material stemming from a panel discussion on radio and children includes correspondence and the transcript of the discussion. Correspondents include Lyman Bryson, Benjamin Spock, and Robert Thorndike.
Material arising from a conference re shaping social attitudes (particularly attitudes pertaining to the people of enemy nations) through children’s radio programs. Clifton Fadiman is among the correspondents.
Included is material generated by a conference sponsored by the Institute for Education by Radio.
In addition to routine committee reports, the folder contains a listing of universities, private and public schools, municipal and state agencies, and other organizations to which the committee sent bibliographies and other information.
Included is a list of summer play school centers, references to the ethnic backgrounds of the participants (Irish, Italian, Jewish, and African American), and references to the activities of the centers.
Series 4, Departments and Programs, consists primarily of the records of two of CSAA's core programs. The Study Group Department (folders 253-300) documents the chapters, most located in New York City, where groups of parents and professionals met regularly to discuss child rearing and development. The records of individual chapters are arranged by chapter number and include annual reports, correspondence, and minutes of meetings. Records from the study group department staff, including minutes of staff meetings, correspondence, and membership lists, are also filed in this series. The Program Advisory Service, formerly the Speakers' Bureau, records (folders 301-351) include correspondence, abstracts, and transcripts by Sidonie M. Gruenberg, Josette Frank, and other staff members. These materials relate to various lectures, radio addresses, symposia, and university courses in which CSAA staff members participated.
Discussions re annual conferences, lecture programs, and the procedures of study groups.
Material re the solicitation of members for study groups and a special course in personality development.
Material relating to the history, functions, and purposes of CSAA from 1888 to 1928. Included are a list of chapters, their activities, leaders, location, and status.
Included are names and addresses of study group leaders.
Material re discussion of topics such as adolescence, definition of social development, early childhood, progressive methods in education, sex education, and toddlers.
Pamphlets re the development, methods, and techniques of child study group discussions.
Includes a list of tentative programs, questionnaires for study groups, reports on parent education, and a study group outline on adolescence.
Material re questionnaires on children and money, punishment, and sex education.
Correspondence, outlines, and reports re the teaching of art appreciation to children.
Tentative report prepared by the Study Group Department for the Conference’s subcommittee on cooperation between home and school.
Description of topics discussed by a Roxbury, Massachusetts, study group.
Includes membership list, minutes, reports, and an article by Sidonie Gruenberg which was based upon the chapter’s group discussions. Also included is a CSAA pamphlet on imagination.
In addition to a bibliography on adolescence and a list of chapter members, the folder contains material re the reorganization of the chapter.
Minutes and reports from a chapter studying infancy
Minutes from a study group whose topic was the toddler.
Material re discussion of early childhood, habit in child training, imagination, jealousy, punishment, Santa Claus, and truth and falsehood.
The topic of the group was the child, age 6-10. Included are reports and a questionnaire on rewards and punishments.
Includes material re adolescence, the designated topic of the study group.
Material re discussion of children’s fears, discipline, sex curiosity, and truth and falsehood. An outline on the fundamentals of child study is also included.
Material relating to a group consisting of governesses and mother’s helpers. The purpose of the group was to study the personality of the child.
Discussions re the trends of contemporary education and observations of progressive schools are recorded in the minutes.
Topics covered by this sex education study group were breast feeding, homosexuality, masturbation, and sexual mores.
Material re adolescence, the designated subject of the group. Topics discussed were allowances, coeducational schools, religion, sex education, and social privileges.
Material re the training of leaders for parent education.
Material re a change in the Leadership Education Program from selecting leaders from within the established CSAA study group structure, to emphasizing the training of professional people, e.g., public health nurses, religious educators, and social workers.
Material re a group leadership training program for family caseworkers. The project was cosponsored by CSAA and Family Service Association of America.
Includes discussion records of an expectant mothers’ group. The reports were written by leaders-in-training as part of required field work in a CSAA training program.
Included are records of groups which discussed the following topics: brain injured children, Cooley’s Anemia, handicapped children, preschool children with cerebral palsy , and children subject to seizures. The reports were written by participants in CSAA’s leadership training program.
Reports prepared by leaders-in-training focus on groups whose topics were preschool children, elementary school children, and teenagers. Also included is a report of a study group comprised of medical students’ wives.
Information from organizations such as the American Association for Mental Deficiency, National Association of Social Workers, National Conference of Christians and Jews, National Education Association, and the World Family Congress.
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Includes outlines of courses which were taught by the CSAA staff.
Included are articles on sex education, attendance lists, and minutes of meetings
The folder contains notes of the first meeting and a reading list for the course.
Includes correspondence generated by speaking engagements with the Illinois League of Nursing Education, National Council of Jewish Women, New Jersey Department of Health, and the National Organization for Public Health Nursing.
Correspondence stemming from speaking engagements with organizations such as: American Association of University Women, Health and Parent Education Association, New York Society for the Experimental Study of Education, Nineteenth Century Woman’s Club, and the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association.
Includes material relating to Gruenberg’s Colorado lecture tour, which was sponsored by the Colorado Parent Education Conference.
Material generated by Gruenberg’s participation in the Pacific conference of the New Education Fellowship.
Correspondence arising from speaking engagements with organizations such as: Family and Children’s Society, Family Relations Center, National Conference of Christians and Jews, New Jersey Child Caring Group, New York City Conference on the Emigre and the Community, Progressive Education Association, and the Society for Ethical Culture. Among the correspondents is Rachel Davis-Dubois of the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education.
Material stemming from speaking engagements before the American Association for Adult Education, Association for Family Living, Birth Control Federation of America, Child Education Foundation, Henry George School of Social Science, and the Society for Ethical Culture. Also included is correspondence arising from Gruenberg’s western lecture tour.
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Correspondence re speaking engagements before the American Eugenics Society, Association for Family Living, Child Education Society, Henry George School of Social Science, Jewish Institute on Marriage and the Family, New Education Fellowship, Society for Ethical Culture, and the YMCA.
Material stemming from speaking engagements before the American Social Hygiene Association, Association for Childhood Education, Association for Family Living, Maternity Center Association, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Quaker Emergency Service, Society for Ethical Culture, and the United Neighborhood Houses of New York. Among the correspondents is Dr. Martha Eliot.
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Material re speaking engagements before the Association for Early Childhood Education, Children’s Welfare Federation of New York City, National Council of Jewish Women, National Education Association, New York Academy of Medicine, and the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood.
Correspondents include the Association for Family Living, Infants Welfare League, National Council of Jewish Women, New York State Conference on Social Work, and the Rochester (New York) Guidance Center.
Included among the correspondents are the Association for Family Living, China Aid Council, Church Committee for Relief in Asia, National Conference of Christians and Jews, National Conference of American-Soviet Friendship, and Teachers’ College. Also included is a Gruenberg speech entitled "How Reconversion Problems Affect the Family."
Includes papers re the parent education movement and religious education.
Lectures re child study groups, parent education movement in the US, sex education, the significance of the home in personality development, techniques of parent education, and the training of leaders for parent education.
Includes papers re intra-familial relationships, money, African American study groups, parent education movement, radio, school and home, sex education, and social forces in a child’s life.
Papers re the family and school, marriage, modern problems of community living, and problems arising from World War II.
Papers re the basic factors in parent education, child rearing in the present day world, radio and the child, school and home, and sex education.
Bibliographies for lectures, outlines for courses, and suggested lecture topics. Also present are papers re the world conference of the New Education Fellowship.
Included are programs from conferences, lectures, and symposia in which Gruenberg participated.
Material re Gruenberg’s appearances on radio. Topics discussed include children’s play, modern parents, money and children, planned parenthood, progressive education and character training, radio, and World War II.
Material pertaining to Gruenberg’s courses on the family, parent-child relationships, and parent education at Teachers College and New York University. Included are descriptions of the courses, minutes of class meetings, student reports, and transcripts of lectures. Among the topics discussed are the changing status of women, discipline and authority, habit, leisure time activities, and sex education.
Material re a conference on radio’s postwar responsibilities. Discussions involve intercultural and inter-faith material on the radio and the importance of local programming.
Includes material generated by speaking engagements before the Author’s Guild, Baltimore Ethical Society, Camp Fire Girls, Institute for Education by the Radio, National Council of Jewish Women, New Jersey Association of Nursery Education, and the New York Junior League.
Papers pertaining to Frank’s participation in a workshop at a conference of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. The topic discussed was the impact of modern fiction on the young.
Material re an institute sponsored by the Milwaukee Radio and Television Council. Included is Frank’s address on television and the learning process.
Clippings, correspondence, and radio scripts are included. Topics discussed include the influences of comics, motion pictures, and radio.
Material re Frank’s participation in workshops at the conference. Included are notes, outlines, programs, and workshop recommendations.
Included are radio addresses re adult attitudes and health education, children’s books, habits, school and home, and socializing the infant.
Material re a symposium entitled "What Is Ahead for Youth," and a conference entitled "Parents and Children in Changing Society."
Material re a conference for workers in parent education
Among the papers are the preliminary report, psychiatric history, analysis of progress, and interpretation of a case.
Series 5, Staff, includes staff meeting materials plus the personal papers of two key personnel: Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg and Josette Frank. Professional staff meeting minutes, 1947-1963, and non-professional staff meetings, 1958-1963, document office procedures, personnel policies, reporting structure, and routine activities of CSAA. Includes discussion regarding legislation related to CSAA interests as well as the mission, history, and programs of CSAA.
Material re lines of authority and responsibility for the nonprofessional staff, office procedures, personnel practices, and discussions of CSAA programs.
Material re the routine operations of CSAA including conferences, courses, fund-raising, publications standing committee reports, and staff procedures. Also included are discussions of legislative bills related to CSAA interests.
In addition to discussions re conferences, lecture series, and better utilization of advisory board members, the folder contains a board request for suggestions for a subtitle to follow the Association’s name. Also included is executive director Buchmueller’s announcement that the Association would "be guided by the philosophy and new policy of CSAA’s becoming a training institute."
The folder contains correspondence with Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, III, and others re fund-raising.
Reference material re the history, structure, and purposes of
CSAA. Also included is a report re
Included are memoranda, press releases, descriptions of program developments, and resource material re the activities, history, and policies of CSAA.
Included are committee minutes, fund-raising materials, and papers re the following projects: a conference on mental health education, training professionals for discussion group leadership, and the promotion of mental health within the Westchester Square Health District in New York City.
The papers of CSAA executive director, Sidonie M. Gruenberg, include articles, correspondence, speeches on various topics, and royalty statements. A portion of Sidonie Gruenberg's papers reflects her involvement in efforts to bring European emigres to the United States prior to and during World War II. The records also relate to family and personal matters and Gruenberg's work at CSAA.
Includes Gruenberg’s Ethical Culture class notebook on kindergarten theory.
Articles, personal correspondence, royalty statements, and schedules.
Papers re assignment of copyright, personal correspondence, and royalty statements. Also included are Benjamin C. Gruenberg’s course outlines for the New Education Fellowship Conference and the New School for Social Research.
In addition to articles, personal correspondence and royalty statements, the folder contains a lecture re children’s radio programs.
Papers re the emigration of Gruenberg’s cousin to America. Among the correspondents is the National Council of Jewish Women.
Income tax return forms, royalty statements, and correspondence re the emigration of Europeans to America. Among the correspondents are the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, National Council of Jewish Women, Fritz Redl, and the Workers Education Bureau of America.
Includes affidavits of support for immigrants, itineraries, and royalty statements. Among the correspondents are the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, National Council of Jewish Women, and the National Resources Planning Board.
Clippings, personal correspondence, and material re immigration papers. The American Association for the Advancement of Science and John Lovejoy Elliott are among the correspondents.
In addition to personal correspondence re the war effort, the folder contains material from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Federation of Jewish Charities, and the War Manpower Commission.
Correspondence re Ernest Gruenberg’s escape from a German prisoner of war camp. The folder also contains material from the following correspondents: American Red Cross, Associated Junior Work Camps, Association for Family Living, Walter Damrosch for the Council for Fair Play to Promote Racial Understanding, John Hersey, National Committee for Mental Hygiene, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Parents’ Institute, Society for Ethical Culture, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and Orson Welles for the American Youth for a Free World.
Includes correspondence from Dorothy Canfield Fisher and a citation from the Victory Center.
In addition to personal correspondence, the folder contains articles, itineraries, memoranda, and programs. The White House Conference’s "Children’s Charter" is also included.
The personal papers of CSAA staff member, Josette Frank, include articles, correspondence, and speeches on various topics. Josette Frank's papers reflect her work in the area of children's literature and literacy programs. The papers also include her radio scripts on child development topics. Other topics include radio and television in relation to child development and Frank's visit to Japan in 1962-1963.
Correspondence with authors of children’s books, the American Unitarian Association, Council on Books in Wartime, National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and the Office of War Information. Also included is material re the social psychology of education.
Information re educational television, press releases, and a reading guidance index.
Material re the US Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. Also included are booklists, memoranda, minutes of the children’s book committee, and routine correspondence with educational organizations and publishing companies.
Includes material re the scope and function of the book review committee and a UNESCO report on film production. Correspondents include Helen Hall, the New York Philanthropic League, and the New York Public Library.
Information re projects in children’s literature is included. Correspondents include the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Norman Cousins, and the National Book Committee as well as several libraries, publishers, schools, and television stations. Also included is a list of Frank’s professional contacts during 1955.
Articles, press releases, and speeches are included. Among the correspondents are the Association Press, Children’s Book Council, Family Service Association, Edwin Gould Foundation for Children, National Association for Better Radio and Television, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Material relating to "Parents’ Forum," a radio show sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. Topics discussed scripts by Josette Frank include jealousy, manners, religious education, slang, vacations, and the return of father/soldiers from World War II.
Includes material generated by Frank’s appointment to the national program committee of the Camp Fire Girls.
Correspondence re pamphlets on hospitals.
Material stemming from Frank’s visit to Japan includes correspondence with several Japanese educators.
Material relating to the American Library Association’s "Freedom to Read" program. Correspondents include the Association for Childhood Education International and the National Council of Jewish Women.
Includes material pertaining to Frank’s participation on the selection committee for the Books for Brotherhood awards.
Correspondence re CSAA’s library of children’s books.
Material re Frank’s consultant position for a radio show entitled "Tobe’s Topics." Also included is an outline for a radio series about Superman.
Includes articles and correspondence re the use of television in schools. Also included is a proposal for a CSAA television committee
Material re a request for Frank to serve on the Foundation’s Advisory Board.
Includes material pertaining to children’s reading, functions of the Children’s Book Committee, newspaper clippings, and press releases.
Series 6, Guest books, Notebooks, Photographs, and Scrapbooks, consists of articles, invitations, programs, fliers, pamphlets, form letters, press releases, and promotional materials housed in scrapbooks and notebooks. The series also includes songs and skits from CSAA parties, programs from conferences that were held between 1935 and 1954, and CSAA guest books from the 1920s and 1930s. Finally, the series contains eight folders of photographs dating from 1930 to 1944. The photographs show CSAA exhibits, offices, and meetings. Images of Eleanor Roosevelt, Felix Adler, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Helen Harris are also included.
Invitations, programs, skits, and songs.
Includes names of guests who attended receptions.
Includes names of individuals who visited CSAA headquarters.
Articles, clippings, fliers, invitations, pamphlets, and programs.
Articles, form letters, and promotional material.
Articles, press releases, and promotional material.
Included are photographs of the following individuals and settings: Felix Adler, CSAA library, CSAA meetings, display windows, exhibits, Helen Ferris, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
In addition to programs for symposia and conferences, the folder contains material re the 50th anniversary conference.
Included are clippings, invitations, press releases, promotional material, and a list of Gruenberg’s publications. Also included are articles by Gruenberg on the following topics: her childhood, children’s camps, radio, and the special problems of urban living.
Includes material for CSAA parties.
Series 7, Related Organizations, comprises the records of two organizations closely associated with CSAA. The Inter-Community Child Study Committee (folders 415-459) and the National Council of Parent Education (folders 460-486).
The Inter-Community Child Study Committee (1925-1935) was a semi-autonomous group founded in 1929 to further CSAA's interest in providing parent education in African American communities. The records include executive board minutes, correspondence, reports, and the papers of several local chapters of the committee. These materials detail the formation and work of the Committee, which included child study groups in Brooklyn; Baltimore; Montclair and Englewood, New Jersey; North Harlem; and Washington, D.C.
Includes discussions re the extension of the committee program and a plan to enlist the aid of other organizations.
In addition to a list of officers and a proposed budget, the minutes contain discussions of the structure and functions of the Committee.
Material re the business and operations of the committee.
The folder contains correspondence re the origins of the Inter-Community Child Study Committee. Correspondents include officials of the Brooklyn Urban League Lincoln Settlement, Columbus Hill Neighborhood Center, and the YMCA.
Includes correspondence between Margaret Quilliard (director
of field work) and committee members. Also included is correspondence with the
National Urban League’s
Routine correspondence re committee matters. Correspondents include Bennett College for Women, Harlem Adult Education Committee, and the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers.
Correspondents include the American Social Hygiene Association, Baptist Educational Center, Bennett College for Women, Johnson C. Smith University, and the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers.
Correspondents include Council on Adult Education for the Foreign-born, Harlem Adult Education Committee, National Urban League, and the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers. Also included is correspondence with Violet Hill Whyte of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, who was also an officer of the Inter-Community Child Study Committee.
Material re the committee bulletin and committee conferences. Correspondents include the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Eastchester Neighborhood Association, Social Service Federation of Englewood, and Violet Hill Whyte of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
Correspondence re committee conferences, meetings, and new branches. Correspondents include the Harlem Adult Education Committee and the Society of Friends' Institute of Race Relations.
Routine correspondence re conferences, fund-raising, meetings, and projects. Correspondents include the Boy Scouts of America, Eastchester Neighborhood Association, and the New York Urban League.
Includes correspondence re Margaret Quilliard’s resignation from CSAA and Inter-Community Child Study Committee.
Includes material from the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers.
In addition to the conference minutes, the folder contains an address on child study in the school, questionnaires re the value of the conference, and reports on chapter activities.
In addition to the conference minutes, the folder contains correspondence re the conference, guest lists, programs, and a transcript of an address on the African American family.
Material re the conference includes the minutes, questionnaires re the conference topic, reports from committee branches, and a speech on the needs of the adolescent. Among the correspondents is Oswald Garrison Villard.
Includes the minutes of the conference planning committee, the executive board, and the conference business meeting. Also included are addresses re boy and girl friendships and conflicting loyalties of children.
Material re the conference includes agendas, attendance lists, newspaper clippings, minutes, and programs. Fritz Wittels (a Viennese psychoanalyst) was the guest speaker and is among the correspondents.
Included are attendance lists, expense lists, and notices re the conference.
The folder contains Inter-Community Child Study Committee bulletins 1-7. In addition to information re the history, purposes, and structure of Committee, the bulletins contain reports from the member branches.
Included are the committee membership roster, lists of physicians and African American school teachers in Harlem, a memo re the organizational meeting of the Inter-Community Child Study Committee, pamphlets from the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers, a policy statement re the development of child study groups in the African American community, statistics re economic status of African Americans, and YMCA materials relating to programs for African American boys and girls. Also included are statements re the purpose of Inter-Community Child Study Committee.
Material re the purposes of developing child study groups among African Americans. Also included are attendance records, bulletins, and clippings.
The folder contains clippings, form letters re conferences, budgets for the extension of work among African Americans, and statements re presumed characteristics of African Americans as a group. Also included is material from the Interracial News Service.
In addition to bulletins, clippings, interim reports from the committee branches, and membership lists, the folder contains a chart delineating the development of ICCSC work in African American communities. Also included are lists of African American churches in Brooklyn and Harlem and a list of Harlem agencies that served the area's African American population.
Included are membership lists, a status report on the Inter-Community Child Study Committee, and material re the US Office of Education Conference on Negro Education.
Bulletins, committee membership rosters, guest lists, and a list of officers. Also included is information re the US Office of Education Conference on Negro Education.
Includes bulletins, mailing lists, and programs for the annual conferences.
Material re the functions performed by the CSAA field work department, a pamphlet re the objectives of child study groups, a proposed yearly budget for the extension of work in the African American community, and a report on the status of parent education. Also included are a speech on children’s social attitudes, a copy of the "Negro National Anthem," and statements by African American members re the value of child study groups.
In addition to advisory board minutes, mailing lists, programs from mass meetings, and reports, the folder contains correspondence re the creation of the Baltimore branch. Problems re the intermixing of African American and white study groups in Baltimore are also discussed
Attendance lists, minutes, and correspondence re the formation of African American study groups in Brooklyn.
Includes agenda, attendance records, correspondence re the formation and development of the Englewood branch, membership lists, newspaper clippings, and programs. Material re a branch-sponsored sex education course for local girls is also included. Among the correspondents are the League for Social Service Among Colored People and the Social Service Federation of Englewood.
Minutes of meetings held at the YMCA include discussions of branch activities, disobedience, family relations, fear, habits, and sex education.
In addition to routine correspondence, the folder contains information re the formation and development of the Montclair branch.
Attendance records, bibliographies, membership lists, program suggestions, publicity material, and reports re the value of child study groups.
Includes information re the formation and development of the North Harlem branch.
Minutes of the first meeting are included.
In addition to material re the formation and development of the North Harlem branch, the folder contains membership rosters, lists of proposed projects, and material re funding. Correspondents include the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Henry Street Settlement’s Visiting Nurse Service, Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the Spelman Fund, Utopia Children’s House, the YMCA, and the YWCA.
Includes agendas, memoranda, minutes of a African American mass meeting, programs, and publicity and sex education materials. Also included are outlines of addresses delivered to North Harlem groups.
Advisory group membership list, annual reports, attendance records, financial statements, lists of proposed projects, programs, and publicity materials. Also included are reports from the branch committee on Harlem churches.
Correspondence re the attempts to organize a Tuckahoe branch. Included are attendance records, membership lists, and discussions re financial problems.
In addition to attendance records and membership lists, the folder contains minutes of meetings. Topics discussed were authority and freedom, discipline, and sex education
The National Council of Parent Education (1925-1949) was organized in 1925 at a CSAA-sponsored conference of agencies and groups working on problems related to the education of parents. At the close of the six-day conference, the participants decided to organize the Council. Its mission was to collect and disseminate research material for parent educators, form a clearing house for research, and to formulate qualifications of and training procedures for parent education workers. Prominent members of CSAA remained in the governing structure of the Council until its eventual merger with the National Council of Family Relations. The documents include the constitution, board of governors minutes and correspondence, financial records, and conference records.
Includes certificate of incorporation, revised constitution and bylaws, and the certificate of change of name to the National Committee for Parent Education.
In addition to minutes of the board and of the executive committee, the folder contains executive director reports re council programs, financial status, proposed budgets, and miscellaneous recommendations. Also included is material re the proposed merger with the Progressive Education Association.
Includes conference programs, governing board reports, minutes of National Council of Parent Education meetings, press releases, reports to the Spelman Fund, and a pamphlet re the origin, purpose, and functions of Council. Also included are reports on leadership training for parent education groups.
The folder contains material re the proposed reorganization of the council and correspondence re grant proposals with the Whitney Foundation. Also included is a tentative plan for a national association dealing with family life. Among the correspondents is Eduard C. Lindeman.
Material re board meetings, board of governors elections, conferences, finances, grant proposals, and reorganization of the council.
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In addition to correspondence re the dispersal of Council records to a commission of the American Council on Education, the folder contains material about the liquidation of the Council’s New York City office. Also included is material re proposed changes in the constitution.
Included is correspondence re plans to reorganize through a merger with either the National Conference on Family Relations or the Progressive Education Association. Among the correspondents is Eduard C. Lindeman, who warns of an "increased attack upon progressive education."
Material re the proposed reorganization of the Council into a Commission on Family Life and Education within the Progressive Education Association. Correspondents include Rachel Davis-DuBois, F. H. LaGuardia, and Eduard C. Lindeman.
Material generated by the proposed merger of the Council with the Progressive Education Association and the subsequent decision to remain an autonomous organization.
In addition to correspondence with the committee on the revision of the constitution and bylaws, the folder contains material re the board of governors election, dues notices, meeting notices, and the nominating committee.
In addition to correspondence re the new executive director (Marian McDowell), the folder contains material re financial problems and a list of Council publications.
Material relating to reorganization from a council of organizations to a committee of individuals. Related to this change is correspondence re Eduard C. Lindeman’s resignation from the board of governors. Also included is correspondence with the National Conference on Family Relations.
Includes material about the Council's objectives, its methods of pursuing those objectives, and financial support. Material re the change of name of the organization is also included. Correspondents include the Association for Family Living, National Conference on Family Life, and the National Information Bureau.
Annual statements, routine records, and an accountant’s report are included.
Includes information re the origins of National Council of Parent Education.
Included are reports from the first biennial conference.
Material re a conference for professionals in the field of parent education.
Material re a symposium on "The Future of the American Family" and problems in the post=World War II era. Speakers included Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyman Bryson, and Mark McClosky.
In addition to parent education materials from the US Office of Education, the folder contains membership lists and Council articles re parent education.
Includes applications for membership, a list of voting members, and a questionnaire re the content of the National Council of Parent Education newsletter.
Included are applications for membership, a list of the board of governors, a geographical listing of National Council of Parent Education, and correspondence re dues. Also included is a list of university extension specialists in parent education, child development, and family life.