HUBERT H. HUMPHREY:

An Inventory of His Vice Presidential Poverty and Youth Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978, creator.
	Title:	Vice Presidential poverty and youth [PVY] files.
	Dates:	1962-1969.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Quantity:	14 boxes and 2 partial boxes.
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Correspondence, reports, and miscellany on programs and projects for youth and to alleviate poverty. About half of the series consists of files on the Youth Opportunity Campaign (1965-1966) and the President's Council on Youth Opportunity (1967-1968). The PCOYO was established on March 9, 1967, by Executive Order 11330, to coordinate the many youth programs relating to employment, recreation, and education that were being administered by various government agencies and departments. The Vice President was its chairman, and Gerald W. Christenson its executive director.

Other files relate to the Office of Economic Opportunity; various poverty programs and projects, including Detroit poverty programs, the 1968 Poor People's Campaign, and manpower retraining; rural poverty, especially in Mississippi; various youth programs and projects, particularly citizenship and community service, summer employment and recreation programs, and a campaign to discourage school dropout; the Job Corps; the Neighborhood Youth Corps; and Project Head Start.

The files were created or kept by a number of Humphrey staff members, including Christenson, Hyman Bookbinder (assistant director of the Office of Economic Opportunity), John G. Stewart, William Welsh, Julius Cahn, Edwin B. Firmage, and Bruce J. Terris.

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ARRANGEMENT

Organized by office file code number, preceded by a set of unnumbered general files. At the end of the series is a group of additional files found after the main set was processed.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Hubert H. Humphrey Papers. Vice Presidential Poverty and Youth Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: Many, see separate Humphrey, Hubert H. accession file.

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 99006951607010429

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Note to Researchers: The box number as assigned to these files during initial processing has been retained. To request materials, please note both the location and box number shown below.


Location	Box
150.G.6.5B	1194	General Correspondence and Miscellany:
			Hyman Bookbinder, John G. Stewart; some Julius Cahn and William Welsh. The files also include considerable material relating to the Office of Economic Opportunity.
			December 1964; undated, January-February 1965.
			March-December 1965. 8 folders.
			Regarding Archie Moore, 1965-1966?
				See also Terris-Stewart files, PVY 2, box 1199.
			Newspaper Clippings and Magazine Articles concerning Poverty, 1965.
			undated, January-December 1966. 8 folders.
			Regarding OEO American Indian Programs, 1966.
			January 1967.
Location	Box
150.G.6.6F	1195		February-December 1967. 4 folders.
				Bookbinder, Welsh, Kenneth E. Gray, Julius Cahn, Barbara Currier.
			1968. 3 folders.
				Currier, Welsh.
			March 1969.
				Welsh.


		1 Poverty Programs and Projects: General Files:
			November 1965-April 1966.
				Ronald F. Stinnett/John G. Stewart.
			May-November 1966. 2 folders.
				Welsh.
			January-October 1967.
				Welsh/Gray.
			November 1967-December 1968. 3 folders.
				Welsh/Stewart.
			Inter-Religious Committee Against Poverty (ICAP), 1964-February 1966.
			Detroit Poverty Programs, 1965-1966. 3 folders.
				Stewart.
Location	Box
150.G.6.7B	1196		Poor People's Campaign, March-July 1968. 5 folders.
				Largely Stewart.


		1.1 Poverty Conferences, November 1965, September-October 1966.
			Welsh/Stewart/Edwin B. Firmage.


1.2 Poverty: Proposed Programs:
	May-August 1965; April, July, November 1966. 2 folders.
		Stewart.
	1967. 2 folders.
		Stewart/Gray/Bruce J. Terris.
	1968. 2 folders.
		Stewart/Terris/Norris Ellertson.


1.3 Rural Poverty:
	May-November 1965. 2 folders.
		Stewart/Stinnett.
	January, March 1966; 1967.
		Stewart/Welsh/Bookbinder.
	1968.
		Welsh/Stewart. Includes information on Child Development Group of Mississippi.
		See also PVY 2.4, Box 1201, for Mississippi Head Start Program.
	Mississippi, undated, February-December 1966; February, December 1967. 3 folders.
		Welsh/Stewart. Includes information on Child Development Group of Mississippi.
		See also PVY 2.4, Box 1201, for Mississippi Head Start Program.
	Mississippi: Cuts in OEO Children's Projects, April 1968.
		Robotype mail.
	Rural Progress, by State, August 1966. 2 folders.


		1.4 Poverty Programs: VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), 1964-1969.
			Stewart/Welsh/Gray.


		1.5 Poverty Programs: Manpower Retraining:
			February-April 1966.
				Stewart/Firmage.
Location	Box
150.G.6.8F	1197		Manuscripts: Human Service Manpower Crisis, by Center for Community Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1966.
			May-December 1966. 2 folders.
				Stewart/Firmage.
			1967.
				Welsh.
			1968.
				Welsh/Terris/Stewart.
			Cutting of Funds for Washington, D.C., Training Opportunity Center, 1967.
				Robotype mail.


		2 Youth Programs and Projects:
			December 1965-November 1966.
				Stewart/Stinnett.
			Miscellany regarding Students in Community Service, 1966.
				Contains "Report to the Vice President: Current and Potential Involvement of America's College and High School Students in Community Service," by Steve Sammons and Reid Feldman, August 19, 1966, mimeographed; "A Plan for National Service," by National Service Secretariat, November 1966; and two miscellaneous items.
			1967.
				Stewart/Welsh/Gray.
			1968. 4 folders.
				Stewart/Currier/Welsh.
			Special Projects, Office of Vice President, 1966-1968.
			Washington Briefing for Young Americans, undated, January-May 1966. 2 folders.
				Original project title: Washington Classroom for Young Americans.
			Summer Domestic Programs: Task Force on Urban Summer Programs, 1965.
				Title uncertain; originally in unlabelled notebook.
			Summer Programs by Government Agency, A-H, 1966. 2 folders.
				Stewart.
			January 1962, October 1965, October 1966, undated, 1967. 2 folders.
				Mainly files of Bruce J. Terris, here designated as: Assistant to the Vice President for the District of Columbia. Includes some John G. Stewart items. Also present is considerable correspondence between Terris and Stephen J. Pollak, who was the White House Advisor for National Capital Affairs and president of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners.
Location	Box
150.G.6.9B	1198		1967. 18 folders.
				Terris/Stewart files.
Location	Box
150.G.6.10F	1199		1968. 3 folders.
				Terris/Stewart files.


2 Youth Programs and Projects:
	Terris/Stewart files.
	Camp Theodore Roosevelt Boy Scout Program, Calvert County, Maryland, May-July 1967, February 1968.
		See also PVY 2.6, PCOYO Files, Box 1204.
	Mission Rebels in Action, Inc., San Francisco, 1967-February 1968.
	Moore, Archie, 1966-February 1968.
		See also PVY General Files, Box 1194.
	Pride, Inc., Washington, D.C., July 1967-February 1968.
	Reports from Vice President: Summer Programs, June-August 1967.
	Spanish-Speaking Community of Virginia, Committee of the, undated, December 1967-February 1968.
	Summer Programs, District of Columbia, December 1966, undated, April-December 1967. 2 folders.
	Summer Programs, New York City, undated, May-September 1967.
	TV Job Center Program, undated, August-December 1967.
	Washington, D.C. Metro Area Jobs Council, Inc., undated, February-September 1967.
	Youth Enterprises, Inc., Washington, D.C., undated, May-July 1967.
	Newspaper Clippings, October-November 1966; February 1967-March 1968. 6 folders.
	Printed and mimeographed pamphlets and booklets, 1966-1967. 1 package.


Location	Box
150.G.7.1B	1200	2.1 Youth Programs: Dropout Campaign:
			February-August 1965.
				Stewart/Edwin B. Firmage.
			September 1965-May 1966. 3 folders.
				Stewart.
			July-December 1966.
				Stewart/Welsh.
			Essays: Rexall's Nationwide Teen Forum Youth Responsibility Program, 1966.
			1967-July 1968. 2 folders.
				Gray/Welsh.
			Pilot Center, Minneapolis, Dropout Program, November 1967.
				Robotype correspondence.


2.2 Youth Programs: Job Corps:
	September 1963; March 1965-December 1966. 5 folders.
		Stewart.
	1967.
		Stewart/Welsh/Gray/Edna Ravnholt.
	January-June 1968.
		Stewart.


2.3 Youth Programs: Neighborhood Youth Corps:
	February-April 1966. 2 folders.
		Firmage/Stewart.
	May-December 1966.
		Firmage/Stewart/Welsh).
	1967-August 1968.
		Stewart/Gray.


Location	Box
150.G.7.2F	1201	2.4 Youth Programs: Project Head Start:
			1966.
				Stewart.
			1967.
				Gray/Welsh.
			1968.
				Stewart/Welsh/Terris.
			Mississippi Head Start (Welsh/Currier), undated, February-August 1968.
				Relates to the Ad Hoc Committee to Save the Children of Mississippi.
				The Committee was organized to protest the cutback of Head Start funds in Mississippi. Two groups included were Friends of the Children of Mississippi and the Child Development Group of Mississippi.
				See memo, William Welsh to the vice president (March 8, 1968), and an unsigned undated manuscript filed at the beginning of the folder.
				See PVY 1.3, box 1196, for information on poverty in Mississippi.


2.5 Youth Programs: Proposed Programs:
	January-April 1966.
		Stewart.
	January-August 1967. 2 folders.
		Welsh/Gray/Cahn.
	September-December 1967.
		Stewart/Cahn.
	1968.
		Stewart/Terris.


		2.6 Youth Opportunity Campaign (YOC):
			1964-1965. 5 folders.
				Firmage/Stewart.
			undated, January-May 1966. 7 folders.
				Stewart.
Location	Box
150.G.7.3B	1202		June-July 1966. 3 folders.
				Stewart.
			Northern California Youth Opportunity Committee, San Francisco, June-July 1966.
			August-December 1966. 5 folders.
				Stewart.
			Summer Employment, March 1966.
				Robotype correspondence.
			Operation Champ, August-September 1966.
				Robotype correspondence.


		2.6 YOC/President's Council on Youth Opportunity (YOCPCOYO):
			undated, January-April 1967. 3 folders.
				Welsh/Gray.
			May-August 1967. 6 folders.
				Welsh/Gray/Cahn/Terris.
Location	Box
150.G.7.4F	1203		September-December 1967. 4 folders.
				Welsh/Cahn/Stewart.
			YOC Summer Jobs Program, April-June 1967. 2 folders.
				Robotype correspondence.
			undated,January-September 1968. 12 folders.
				Stewart/Cahn/Welsh/ Terris/Currier.
Location	Box
150.G.7.5B	1204		2.6 PCOYO, by Subject:
				Primarily John G. Stewart files.
				Advertising Council, 1967-May 1968.
				Advertising: Media, February-May 1968.
				American Association of Advertising Agencies, March-April 1968.
				American Association of Advertising Agencies: Communications Coordinators, 1968.
				Arts, Culture, Entertainment, December 1967; March-April 1968.
				Cleveland (Ohio) Summer Arts Festival, 1967-June 1968.
				Closed Circuit TV Program, April-May 1968.
				District of Columbia Summer Program, October 1966; undated, February-June 1967.
					See also PVY General Files (Terris), Box 1199.
				District of Columbia Boy Scout Inner City Program, December 1966; undated, June-July 1967.
					See also Terris files, Box 1199.
				District of Columbia Boy Scout Inner City Program: Camp Theodore Roosevelt, undated, February-August 1967. 2 folders.
				Jackson (Mississippi) Summer Program, April-July 1968.
				National Commission on Civil Disorders, November 1967; March-June 1968.
				National Alliance of Businessmen, 1968. 5 folders.
				National Alliance of Businessmen: Scientific-Technological Employment Program (STEP), undated, October-November 1967; March-May 1968.
				National Summer Job Fair, July-December 1967; undated, January 1968.
				Neighborhood Youth Corps, February-April 1968.
				Petitions: United Citizens Committee on Poverty, Philadelphia?, April-May 1967.
					Opposing a plan to classify the Youth Opportunity Program as "OEO Low Priority."
					The original petitions have been discarded, retaining the tabulation sheets and a sample sheet for each area. The sheets contained the city name "Philadelphia." The original boxes provided no other identification of these petitions.
Location	Box
150.G.7.6F	1205			Summer Programs 1968, April 1967-July 1968. 2 folders.
				Teacher Corps, June 1966, January-April 1968.
				Youth Organizations United, Inc. (YOU), undated, April-July 1968.
				Youth, Miscellaneous, November 1967-July 1968.


		2.6 PCOYO Reports (Gerald W. Christensen files):
			Weekly Reports to the Vice President, May 13, 1967-January 18, 1969. 15 folders.
			Reports to the President from the Vice President:
				March 31, 1966.
				April 1967.
				June 8, July 12, 1967.
				August 1967-August 1968.
Location	Box
150.G.7.7B	1206		Other Reports:
				March 17, 1966; November 2, 1967.
				Chairman's Report: Task Force on Summer Programs for 1968, October 14, 1967.
				August 1-November 22, 1968.
				Volunteer Organizations, February 20-October 31, 1968.
					Includes copies of the YOC Newsletter, Nos. 1-8.
					See also similar files in Subject Files, box 1207.
				Work Groups: Background Information, 1968.
				Work Groups: Internal Work Group Reports, 1968.
				Work Groups: Interagency Work Groups Reports, 1968.


		2.6 PCOYO Minutes of Meetings:
			Delegates Meeting, April 21, 1967.
			Council Meeting, June 27, 1967. 2 folders.
			Council Meetings, September 7, October 11, 1967.
			Council Meeting, , January 24, 1968.
			Council and Citizen's Advisory Board, 1968.


		2.6 PCOYO: Youth Opportunity Conference, January 29-31, 1968, Washington, D.C.:
			Correspondence and Miscellany (Christensen/Cahn), January-February 1968.
			Transcript, January 29-31, 1968. 3 folders.


Location	Box
150.G.7.8F	1207	2.6 PCOYO:
			Volunteer Organizations, November 1967-June 1968.
			Telegrams from the VP, December 1967-January 1969. 2 folders.
			Citizen's Advisory Board on Youth Opportunity, October 1967; March-April 1968.
			Youth Coordinators, 1968-January 1969.
				Served as liaison between mayors of cities and the PCOYO in implementing local youth programs.
			Youth Coordinators Manual: Preliminary Draft, January 1968. 2 folders.
			Correspondence and Miscellany (Christenson), June 1965, 1967- 1968. 3 folders.
			Manuscripts:
				Briefing Paper, January 9, 1969.
				Summer Task Force, Chronology of Materials, 1966. 2 folders.
				Camp Roberts (California) Notes and History, 1967-1968. 2 folders.
			Printed Items:
				News Releases, 1967-July 1968.
				News Releases: NOW, 1968.
				Youth Council Idea Notebook, Nos. 1-24, Youth Council Idea Notebook, Nos. 1-24.
				"Like it is: Newsletter of Photography Project of PCOYO," 1968?
				Sample Packet, YOC 1967: "Help Them Help Themselves," 1967.
				Sample PCOYO Packet, 1968.
Location	Box
150.G.7.9B	1208			PCOYO and Youth Activities by City, 1967-1968. 1 package.
				Miscellaneous printed items, 1967-1968. 1 package.


		Additional files:
			Found in Public Relations (PRL) files.
			Correspondence and Miscellany (Stewart), by name A-Z and miscellaneous, 1967-1968. 5 folders.
			2 Youth Programs and Projects: Correspondence and Miscellany (Cahn):
				December 1966-January 1968. 8 folders.
Location	Box
150.G.7.10F	1209			February-December 1968. 8 folders.

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY:

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