Found 3 collections related to Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

The American Association for Adult Education (A.A.A.E.) was founded in 1926 as an organization to promote continuing education and education for adults. The Association was absorbed by the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A. (A.E.A.) in 1951. Records focus on a radio survey concerning radio listeners who used radio for educational purposes. Survey was conducted across the United States and abroad, although responses from Europe were scarce because of World War II. The A.A.A.E. cooperated with the Federal Radio Education Committee who conducted the study. Both the A.A.A.E. and the Federal Radio Education Committee were headed by Frank Ernest Hill during this period. The Federal Radio Education Committee, in turn, was headed by the United States Office of Education. Two types of questionnaires were sent out. The first type, sent to radio stations, colleges, libraries, all C.C.C. camps, and YMCAs, was designed to locate "listening groups". The second survey was sent to the "listening groups" to establish information about those groups. Results were used to promote better education by radio. America's Town Meeting of the Air, a radio program, as well as Levering Tyson, director of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, took part in the survey. less

Benjamin F. Seldon was State Supervisor of Negro Adult Education for the New Jersey Works Progress Administration from 1938 to 1941. He served in World War I, then completed his education in Europe where he studied the economic, social, and political conditions of several countries. He also taught in France and at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (in 1928). The Benjamin F. Seldon papers consist of correspondence pertaining to various aspects of his career and personal life, and a scrapbook Seldon maintained containing news clippings relating primarily to African Americans in World War I. Many letters relate to Seldon's experiences as the State Supervisor of Negro Adult Education for the New Jersey Works Progress Administration in which he had 136 teachers under his supervision. Letters also pertain to the Civilian Conservation Corps. Additional correspondence is with religious, political, educational, and social organizations, and several prominent people including Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., Bertha B. Randolph (wife of A. Philip Randolph) and L. Hollingsworth Wood. There is also personal correspondence with Seldon's family and friends. A few letters are written in French and Spanish. less

The National Self Government Committee was founded in New York City in 1904 by Richard Welling as the School Citizens Committee "to develop the alert citizens needed in a democracy by practice in schools, colleges and other youth groups." The organization is composed of educators and others interested in education for effective leadership and it supports school/community service programs that actively include students in the self-government process. Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, questionnaires, reports, charters, financial records, grant proposals, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter documenting the activities of the National Self Government Committee (NSGC). General correspondence, 1901-1948, contains Welling's correspondence with educators, students and educational institutions and associations. Administrative records, 1909-1950, include correspondence with directors of the NSGC, minutes of meetings, reports, and constitutions and charters of student government organizations. Subject correspondence, 1913-1985, concerns NSGC publications, surveys in schools, self government in Civilian Conservation Corps camps, comments of students and officials about citizenship training in their schools, and grants from the NSGC to students and communities. Also included are replies to questionnaires, 1911-1924; writings, 1912-1947, of Welling with diaries, notebooks, speeches, and other items; financial documents; scrapbooks; photographs, ca. 1911-1913, of students; video cassette of New York project; and printed matter. less