COBRA Technical Assistance for Neighborhood Development materials, providing an introduction and description of the functions and purpose of COBRA, program components, training design for neighborhood council members and organizers, and training schedule.
Handwritten essay "regarding the need to address inequalities shared by all disadvantaged Americans, white and black. There is an audio tape of Clark giving this talk at Antioch College in 1000-15-10."
Scrapbook pages made of pink construction paper with a decorative vine theme, leaves made of green construction paper. Media types include photographs, newspaper clippings, typescript pages, correspondence, and invitations. All dated material generated in the 1970s.
Typescript copy of essay entitled, "Syrup and Hyssop. On T. Thomas Fortune" by J. Herman Blake about Timothy Thomas Fortune, a man born a slave in Florida in 1856 who wrote famed "Black and White" which was published in 1884.
State of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction publication entitled, "The Disadvantaged: A Bibliography of Resource Materials," "designed to provide references to filmstrips, books, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, papers, and conference proceedings of a nature that is current and especially relative to the disadvantaged child."
Booklet prepared by the Civil Rights Committee of Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO, in order to clarify and dramatize the policies of International Union in the struggle for civil rights.
Letter from I. DeQuincey Newman from State of South Carolina Office of the Governor, Division of Health and Social Development to Septima Clark regarding the Office of Rural Development sponsored Life Skill Education Activity. Enclosed photocopies of supporting materials.
A document entitled, "A Proposal For Historic Building Restoration Project," submitted by John Buffington, Executive Director of Penn Community Services, submitted to Office of the Governer of South Carolina, Manpoower Division.
Document written on behalf of Penn Community Services describing the organization's "dedication to the growth and development of the Black community" in addition to its geographical setting, history, programs, leadership, and flexibility.
Penn Community Services' "Statement of Penn's Board Committees," wherein the author lists "the concepts that [he] understood and have been operating from as it relates to the functions of committees in the past."
Handwritten essay by Septima P. Clark describing specific incidents that made the decade of 1955 to 1968 fabulous, including Rosa Park's education at the Highlander Folk School, Dr. Martin Luther King's influence in Selma, Alabama, and issues regarding social psychology of the American power structure.
Photocopy of United States Commission on Civil Rights published document regarding open hearing procedures and the guidelines for the process of planning, executing, writing, release, followup, and major legal considerations by which they should be organized.
Letter from Willie Williams, Jr. of Willie Williams Real Estate to Septima P. Clark regarding Community Development Act of Columbia, South Carolina and Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Enclosed Community Development Act materials and Summary of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.
The Black Women's Community Development Foundation's publication includes a brief description of the civil rights movement and information on some of the project funded by the organization.
Minutes to undated SAC meeting for United States Commission on Civil Rights broken down by state (i.e. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee).
