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Creator
Weaver, Ella Haith
Call number
Sc MG 702
Physical description
1 linear foot (3 archival boxes)
Preferred Citation
[Item], Ella Haith Weaver papers, Sc MG 702, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
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A small body of papers (1933-1993) of Dr. Ella Haith Weaver. The bulk of the collection is comprised of newspaper clippings, documenting the Weavers' Washington D.C. year, class notes from her doctoral studies, field notes from her research, recipes and guest lists. Weaver's dissertation: "An Approach to Language Behavior from the Point of View of General Semantics," is included in the collection. The collection is arranged alphabetically.

Biographical/historical information

Ella Virginia Haith Weaver (1911-1991) was an educator and the wife of Robert C. Weaver, who became the first black cabinet appointee, serving as the Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (1966-1968).

A speech pathologist, Weaver spent most of her professional career at Brooklyn College, 1949-1967, directing the Speech Correction Clinic. She also acted as a consultant on a number of federal social development projects. Included among thes projects were the Women Training Centers, Job Corps and the Changing Dialects Research Projects at the Detroit public schools. In 1968 Dr. Weaver functioned as the chairperson for a project (Thes are my Jewels) aimed at serving children at Northside Center for Child Development in New York City and Washington D.C. (Department of Psychiatry of the Children's Hospital).

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift, 03/--/2002

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Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor