Creator:
Fund for Adult Education (U.S.)
Inclusive Dates:
1950- 1969
Abstract:
The Fund for Adult Education was a subsidiary foundation established and supported by the Ford Foundation. Founded in 1951, its purposes were to aid and encourage liberal adult education in political, economic, and international affairs and in the humanities, with an emphasis on study-discussion. It became instrumental in the establishment of an educational broadcasting system (ETV) in the United States. The Fund officially ended its activities in 1961. Records include correspondence, published material, reports, and work files. Best represented in the collection are the Fund's Test Cities, "Great Men, Great Issues," "Meet the Humanities," "Ways of Mankind" and Experimental discussion Projects.
Type of Material:
35mm (photographic film size)
Audiocassettes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Film reels.
Phonograph records.
Reports.
Subject:
Educators.
Adult education
Adult education.
Community education -- United States
Creator:
New York State Council of Churches.
Inclusive Dates:
1934- 1977
Abstract:
Correspondence, agendas, minutes, memoranda, reports, printed material, and other papers relating to the Council's positions on such legislative issues as abortion, church and state relations, civil rights, family relations, labor, pornography, and Christian education.
Type of Material:
Bills (legislative records)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Sound recordings.
Memorandums.
Minutes (administrative records)
Phonograph records.
Reports.
Subject:
Church and clergy
New York State
Religion and philosophy
Activism and social reform
Abortion.
Alcoholism.
Christianity and politics.
Church and state.
Civil rights.
Domestic relations -- New York (State)
Drug addiction.
Federal aid to education.
Lobbyists -- New York (State)
Lotteries -- Law and legislation -- New York (State)
Migrant labor.
Religion and state.
Prayer in the public schools -- Law and legislation -- New York (State)
Religion in the public schools.