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{"value"=>"Robert C. Weaver papers"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Robert Clifton Weaver, the first black presidential cabinet officer, served as the first Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon Baines Johnson. However, this represented only one of a series of important posts in federal, state and municipal governments as well as private foundations, organizations and universities held by Weaver during his long and illustrious career. As economist, public administrator, educator and author, Weaver devoted himself to the multifaceted issues of minority labor and urban problems.</p> <p>In 1933, Weaver was one of a number of young men drawn to Washington by the New Deal administration, where he received a succession of assignments as adviser on minority problems to various agency administrators. He soon became the leader of “The Black Cabinet” whose efforts resulted in increased participation by and benefit to minority groups in the numerous projects and programs sponsored by the government during this period. His associates in this group included Ralph Bunche (United Nations Undersecretary General), U.S. Court of Appeals Judge William H. Hastie and N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. While in the federal service, Weaver also supervised the National Survey of Negro White Collar and Skilled Workers sponsored by the Department of the Interior and served as a consultant both to the T.V.A. and to President Franklin Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Education.</p> <p>After World War II, Weaver left the federal government to teach and write on the problems of urban living. His research resulted in numerous articles as well as the following monographs: <span class=\"title\">Negro Labor</span>(1946), <span class=\"title\">The Negro Ghetto</span>(1948), and <span class=\"title\">The Urban Complex</span>(1964).</p> <p>In 1961, Weaver returned to Washington when President Kennedy appointed him Director of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, which later became the Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.). There Weaver tried to stimulate a more aesthetic environment in public housing and to improve relocation policies by increasing funds available to small businessmen displaced by urban renewal. He ensured that the Housing Act of 1961 included grants for recreational and scenic areas and pushed through the controversial Section 221d3, giving non-profit corporations cut-rate mortgage loans to provide housing for displaced families of low and moderate income.</p> <p>Weaver was born and raised in Washington, D.C. His father, Mortimer Grover Weaver was a U.S. postal clerk. Weaver's maternal grandfather, Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman, the first black in the United States to earn a doctoral degree in dentistry, graduated from Harvard's dental school with its first class in 1869. Both Weaver and his brother, Mortimer, attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. where Weaver had his own electrical business during his senior year. Mortimer Weaver, who graduated from Williams College and Harvard University, was an assistant professor of English at Howard University at the time of his death in 1929 at the age of twenty-three.</p> <p>Robert Weaver was a Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Director of Urban Research Center at Hunter College. He was also a member of the New York City's Municipal Assistance Corporation, the Rent Stabilization Board, and the Conciliation and Appeals Board of New York City, and has received numerous citations and honorary degrees.</p> <p>For more detailed information on Weaver's life and career, see Chronology.</p> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <div class=\"head\">Chronology</div> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1907, Dec 29</span> <span class=\"event\">Born in Washington, D.C. to Mortimer Grover Weaver and Florence E. Freeman Weaver.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1929</span> <span class=\"event\">Graduated with a B.S. cum laude from Harvard College where he won the Pasteur Medal and Boylston Speaking Prize.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1931</span> <span class=\"event\">Received an M.A. in economics from Harvard University.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1931-1932</span> <span class=\"event\">Taught economics at the Agricultural and Technical College, Greensboro, North Carolina.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1932-1933</span> <span class=\"event\">Doctoral student and Austin Scholar at Harvard University.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1933-1934, Nov</span> <span class=\"event\">Associate Adviser on Negro Affairs, Department of the Interior under Clark Foreman.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1934</span> <span class=\"event\">Received Ph.D. in economics from Harvard with a thesis entitled <span class=\"title\">The High Wage of Prosperity.</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1934-1938</span> <span class=\"event\">Adviser on Negro Affairs, Department of the Interior under Secretary Harold L. Ickes and Consultant to the Housing Division of the Public Works Administration.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1935, July</span> <span class=\"event\">Married Ella V. Haith, who had graduated from the Drama Department, Carnegie Institute of Technology before receiving an M.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Speech.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1938-1940</span> <span class=\"event\">Special Assistant in charge of race relations to Nathan Straus, Administrator of the U.S. Housing Authority.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1940-1942</span> <span class=\"event\">Administrative Assistant to the Labor Division, National Defense Advisory Commission under Sidney Hillman.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1942</span> <span class=\"event\">Chief, Negro Employment and Training Branch, Labor Division, Office of Production Management.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1942-1943</span> <span class=\"event\">Chief, Negro Employment and Training Branch, Labor Division, War Production Board.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1943-1944</span> <span class=\"event\">Chief, Negro Manpower Service, War Manpower Commission.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1944-1945</span> <span class=\"event\">Executive Director, Mayor's Committee on Race Relations, Chicago.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1945-1948</span> <span class=\"event\">Director, Community Services Division, and later Consultant to the American Council on Race Relations, where he was concerned with intergroup understanding and developing programs and techniques and determining causes for tension in employment, housing, education, law enforcement and community organization.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1946, Mar-Aug</span> <span class=\"event\">Supply Officer and Acting Deputy Chief, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Mission to the Ukraine.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1946</span> <span class=\"event\">Publication of <span class=\"title\">Negro Labor.</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947, Summer</span> <span class=\"event\">Visiting Professor of Economics, Teachers College, Columbia University.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947-1948</span> <span class=\"event\">Lecturer in Economics, Northwestern University.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1948</span> <span class=\"event\">Publication of <span class=\"title\">The Negro Ghetto.</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1948-1951</span> <span class=\"event\">Visiting Professor, School of Education, New York University.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1949, Summer</span> <span class=\"event\">Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research, Summer Session in Europe.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1949-1951</span> <span class=\"event\">Member of the Fellowship Committee, Julius Rosenwald Fund.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1949-1955</span> <span class=\"event\">Director, Opportunity Fellowships, John Hay Whitney Foundation.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1950-1955</span> <span class=\"event\">Chairman, National Committee against Discrimination in Housing.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1952-1954</span> <span class=\"event\">Member, National Selection Committee, Fulbright Fellowships.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1952-1956</span> <span class=\"event\">Member, Board of Directors, Health and Welfare Council of New York City.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1953-1955</span> <span class=\"event\">Member of the Advisory Committee on Urban Renewal, U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1955</span> <span class=\"event\">Deputy Commissioner of Housing, New York State.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1955-1959</span> <div class=\"eventgrp\"> <span class=\"event\">New York State Rent Administrator. The first black to serve in the New York State Cabinet, Weaver advanced a four point program:</span> <span class=\"event\">1) decreasing the demand among non-whites for middle-income housing in the center of cities.</span> <span class=\"event\">2) removing the attraction of racial homogeneity from the suburbs.</span> <span class=\"event\">3) reducing the snob appeal of racial exclusiveness.</span> <span class=\"event\">4) preventing “tipping” (overbalance) in any open neighborhood.</span></div></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1955-1959</span> <span class=\"event\">Member, Executive Committee of the Commission on Education, New York Board of Education.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1955-1959</span> <span class=\"event\">Vice-Chairman, National Board, N.A.A.C.P.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1959-1960</span> <span class=\"event\">Chairman, National Board, N.A.A.C.P.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1959, Sept-1960, Oct</span> <span class=\"event\">Consultant to the Public Affairs Program, Ford Foundation.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1960, June-Dec</span> <span class=\"event\">Vice-Chairman, New York City Housing and Redevelopment Board.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1961-1966</span> <span class=\"event\">Administrator, U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">ca.1963</span> <span class=\"event\">Death of Weaver's adopted son, Robert C. Weaver, Jr.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1964</span> <span class=\"event\">Publication of <span class=\"title\">The Urban Complex.</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1966-1968</span> <span class=\"event\">Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1966-1969</span> <span class=\"event\">Member, Board of Trustees, Antioch College.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1969-1970</span> <span class=\"event\">President, Baruch College, City University of New York.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1970-1971</span> <span class=\"event\">Professor of Economics, City University of New York.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1971-</span> <span class=\"event\">Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs, Hunter College.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1973</span> <span class=\"event\">Chairman, Mayor Abraham Beame's Housing and Land Use Task Force.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1974-1975</span> <span class=\"event\">Chairman, Governor Hugh Carey's Task Force on Housing.</span></li></ul>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Robert Clifton Weaver Papers, 1869, 1923-1970, document the varied career of a major figure in the field of urban affairs. The collection primarily concerns Weaver's professional activities and development from his entry into the federal service in 1933 until his return to the government under the Kennedy administration in 1961. Material prior to 1933 relates largely to the Weaver family. The documentation of Weaver's years as administrator of the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is less complete than that for the earlier period. The collection itself has been arranged in the following series: <span class=\"emph\">PERSONAL FILE, CORRESPONDENCE, WRITINGS AND SPEECHES, PRINTED MATERIAL, PHOTOGRAPHS, SCRAPBOOKS AND ALBUMS, and HONORARY DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES.</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Robert C. Weaver papers are arranged in seven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20790#c650968'>PERSONAL FILE</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1869, 1925-1959</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The <span class=\"emph\">PERSONAL FILE,</span>1869, 1925-1959, contains a wide variety of material on Weaver and various members of his family, arranged in chronological order. Included in this folder are Weaver's resume [1959?], his federal government service rating notices, selective service reclassification notices and book contracts as well as transcripts and recommendations for his brother, Mortimer Grover Weaver. Of particular interest is the 1869 diary of Weaver's grandfather, Robert T. Freeman, the first black in the United States to earn a doctoral degree in dentistry.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20790#c650969'>CORRESPONDENCE</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p><span class=\"emph\">CORRESPONDENCE,</span>1933-1960, consists of a single sequence of incoming and outgoing letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent's last name, with certain exceptions. Copies of letters neither to nor from Weaver are filed by the author's name, unless they are enclosures, in which case they have been retained with their covering letters. Within each name, the letters are filed chronologically. Memoranda and press releases of the Democratic Advisory Committee have been included with the correspondence.</p> <p>The letters are substantive, describing policy development and program implementation in great detail. Weaver's letters elaborate his theories on urban development as well as the effects of economic legislation on minority groups, i.e., the Baker-Metcalf Law of 1955 prohibiting discrimination in housing built or altered with the aid of government insured mortgage loans (see Finletter, Thomas K.). Extensive correspondence with Walter White, Executive Secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. elaborates N.A.A.C.P. policy on specific issues. There is also a series of letters between Weaver and his publisher, Harcourt, Brace and Company (see Davis, Lambert).</p> <p>Weaver corresponded with a wide range of notable figures in the government and other related fields including Mary MCLeod Bethune, Ralph Bunche, John P. Davis, John Kenneth Galbraith, William H. Hastie, T. Arnold Hill, Frank Horne, Davis McEntire, Henry Lee Moon, Alonzo Moron, Constance Baker Motley, Lawrence D. Reddick, Walter White and Carter G. Woodson. Although the correspondence represents a business file, Weaver maintained personal friendships with many of these individuals, which is evident in the letters.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20790#c650991'>WRITINGS AND SPEECHES</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>An extensive series of <span class=\"emph\">WRITINGS AND SPEECHES,</span>1925, 1933-1970, n.d., has been divided into two files; those by Weaver and those by other authors. Weaver's writings and speeches include reprints of his articles as well as typescript drafts, ranging from scholarly articles and commencement addresses to official reports. These writings have been arranged in a chronological sequence followed by a typescript draft of <span class=\"emph\">The Negro Ghetto.</span></p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20790#c651010'>PRINTED MATERIAL</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p><span class=\"emph\">PRINTED MATERIAL,</span>1923-1968, consists of programs, transcripts, housing reports, memoranda, bulletins and newspaper clippings on such topics as housing, urban development and slum clearance. Some of the organizations represented in this series include the American Federation of Labor, Slum Clearance Advisory Committee, Democratic Advisory Council and the Conference on the Scope and Powers of the Committee on Fair Employment Practice. A number of commencement and conference programs from black educational institutions and associations can also be found in this series. The Newspaper Clippings relate largely to Weaver. The Printed Material is arranged in chronological order with the Newspaper Clippings following in a separate chronological sequence.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20790#c651018'>PHOTOGRAPHS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p><span class=\"emph\">The PHOTOGRAPHS,</span>1953-1970 mainly concern particular events in which Weaver participated, ranging from college commencement exercises to visits to housing projects in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Photographs have been arranged in chronological order.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20790#c651039'>SCRAPBOOKS AND ALBUMS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p><span class=\"emph\">SCRAPBOOKS AND ALBUMS,</span>1925-1963, mainly concern particular events in which Weaver participated, ranging from college commencement exercises to visits to housing projects in the United States and Puerto Rico. The scrapbooks also contain newspaper clippings and memorabilia relating to Weaver's family, and the albums include printed material connected to the specific event covered in the album. The creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the erection of the Department's new building are most fully documented in this series. The Scrapbooks and Albums have been arranged in chronological order, although material within individual scrapbooks and albums often ranges widely in date.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20790#c651057'>HONORARY DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p><span class=\"emph\">HONORARY DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES,</span>1925, 1927, 1950-1970, consists mainly of diplomas from honorary degrees conferred on Weaver by colleges and universities, arranged alphabetically by the name of the institution. Occasionally citations lauding Weaver's accomplishments are included with the diplomas. In addition, certificates from various civic and municipal organizations, praising Weaver's contributions to the field of housing and urban affairs are included, arranged chronologically following the honorary degrees. Mortimer Weaver's diplomas from Williams College and Harvard University can also be found in this series.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Presented by Robert Clifton Weaver, 1970 and 1971.</p> <p>SCM76-2</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<div class=\"head\">Separation Record</div> <p>The following items were removed from:</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Name of Collection/Papers:</span>Robert C. Weaver Papers</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Accession Number:</span>SCM76-2</p> <p><span class=\"emph\">Donor:</span>Robert C. Weaver</p> <p> <span class=\"emph\">Gift: X</span></p> <p>The item(s) listed below have been sent to the division indicated, either to be retained or disposed of there. Any items that should receive special disposition are clearly marked.</p> <p> <span class=\"emph\"> <span class=\"emph\">Schomburg Photographs and Print Division:</span></span></p> <p>Boxes 6, 8, 9, 11</p>"}
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1869
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1970
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{"value"=>"Collection organized into seven series; I. Personal File; II. Correspondence; III. Writings and speeches; IV. Printed Material; V. Photographs; VI. Scrapbooks and Albums; and VII. Honorary Degrees and certificates", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection available on microfilm.; New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"The Robert Clifton Weaver Papers primarily concern Weaver's professional activities and development from his entry into government service in 1933 to 1961. Material prior to 1933 relates to the Weaver family."}
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1869
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{"value"=>"Robert C. Weaver papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Susan Sharlin; Machine-readable finding aid created by Apex Data Services; revised by Terry Catapano.</p>"}
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1869
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1970
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1923
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1970