MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Manuscript Collections HUBERT H. HUMPHREY PAPERS An Inventory of His Vice Presidential Poverty and Youth Files OVERVIEW Creator: Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978. Title: Vice Presidential poverty and youth [PVY] files. Dates: 1962-1969. Quantity: 14 boxes and 2 partial boxes. Location: See Detailed Description section for box locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS 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. ORGANIZATION 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.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Processing Information: Catalog ID No.: 1735846 Humphrey, Hubert H., Papers. p. 2 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) Dec. 1964; undated and Jan.-Feb. 1965. 1 folder. March-Dec. 1965. 8 folders. Regarding Archie Moore, 1965-1966[?]. 1 folder. (See also Terris-Stewart files, PVY 2, box 1199) Newspaper Clippings and Magazine Articles re Poverty, 1965. Undated and Jan.-Dec. 1966. 8 folders. Regarding OEO American Indian Programs, 1966. Jan. 1967. 150.G.6.6F 1195 Feb.-Dec. 1967. 4 folders. (Bookbinder, Welsh, Kenneth E. Gray, Julius Cahn, Barbara Currier) 1968. 3 folders. (Currier, Welsh) March 1969. 1 folder. (Welsh) 1 Poverty Programs and Projects: General Files: Nov. 1965 - April 1966. (Ronald F. Stinnett/John G. Stewart) May-Nov. 1966. 2 folders. (Welsh) Jan.-Oct. 1967. (Welsh/Gray) Nov. 1967 - Dec. 1968 (Welsh/Stewart). 3 folders. Inter-Religious Committee Against Poverty (ICAP), 1964-Feb. 1966. Detroit Poverty Programs, 1965-1966. 3 folders. (Stewart)
p. 3 150.G.6.7B 1196 Poor People's Campaign, March-July 1968. 5 folders. (largely Stewart) 1.1 Poverty Conferences, Nov. 1965, Sept.-Oct. 1966. 1 folder. (Welsh/Stewart/Edwin B. Firmage) 1.2 Poverty: Proposed Programs: May-Aug. 1965; April, July, Nov. 1966. 2 folders. (Stewart) 1967. 2 folders. (Stewart/Gray/Bruce J. Terris) 1968. 2 folders. (Stewart/Terris/Norris Ellertson) 1.3 Rural Poverty: May-Nov. 1965. 2 folders. (Stewart/Stinnett) Jan., March 1966; 1967. 1 folder. (Stewart/Welsh/Bookbinder) 1968. 1 folder. (Welsh/Stewart) Mississippi, undated and Feb.-Dec. 1966; Feb., Dec. 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, Aug. 1966. 2 folders. 1.4 Poverty Programs: VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), 1964-1969. 1 folder. (Stewart/Welsh/Gray) 1.5 Poverty Programs: Manpower Retraining: Feb.-April 1966 (Stewart/Firmage). 1 folder. 150.G.6.8F 1197 Manuscripts: Human Service Manpower Crisis, by Center for Community Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1966. May-Dec. 1966 (Stewart/Firmage). 2 folders. 1967 (Welsh). 1 folder. 1968 (Welsh/Terris/Stewart). 1 folder. Cutting of Funds for Washington, D.C., Training Opportunity Center, 1967. (Robotype mail)
p. 4 150.G.6.8F 1197 2 Youth Programs and Projects: Dec. 1965-Nov. 1966 (Stewart/Stinnett). 1 folder. Miscellany re Students in Community Service, 1966. 1 folder. (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, Aug. 19, 1966, mimeographed; "A Plan for National Service," by National Service Secretariat, Nov. 1966; and two miscellaneous items.) 1967 (Stewart/Welsh/Gray). 1 folder. 1968 (Stewart/Currier/Welsh). 4 folders. Special Projects, Office of Vice President, 1966-1968. Washington Briefing for Young Americans, undated and Jan.-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) Jan. 1962, Oct. 1965, Oct. 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.) 150.G.6.9B 1198 1967 (Terris/Stewart files). 18 folders. 150.G.6.10F 1199 1968 (Terris/Stewart files). 3 folders. 2 Youth Programs and Projects: (Terris/Stewart files) Jan.-March, Dec. 1968. 3 folders. Camp Theodore Roosevelt Boy Scout Program, Calvert County, Maryland, May-July 1967, Feb. 1968. (See also PVY 2.6, PCOYO Files, Box 1204) Mission Rebels in Action, Inc., San Francisco, 1967-Feb. 1968. Moore, Archie, 1966-Feb. 1968. (See also PVY General Files, Box 1194) Pride, Inc., Washington, D.C., July 1967 - Feb. 1968.
p. 5 150.G.6.10F 1199 Reports from Vice President: Summer Programs, June-Aug. 1967. Spanish-Speaking Community of Virginia, Committee of the, undated and Dec. 1967 - Feb. 1968. Summer Programs, District of Columbia, Dec. 1966, undated and April-Dec. 1967. 2 folders. Summer Programs, New York City, undated and May-Sept. 1967. TV Job Center Program, undated and Aug.-Dec. 1967. Washington [D.C.] Metro Area Jobs Council, Inc., undated and Feb.-Sept. 1967. Youth Enterprises, Inc., Washington, D.C., undated and May-July 1967. Newspaper Clippings, March and Oct.-Nov. 1966; Feb. 1967 - March 1968. 6 folders. Printed and mimeographed pamphlets and booklets, 1966-1967. 11 items in 1 package. 150.G.7.1B 1200 2.1 Youth Programs: Dropout Campaign: Feb.-Aug. 1965 (Stewart/Edwin B. Firmage) Sept. 1965 - May 1966 (Stewart). 3 folders. July-Dec. 1966 (Stewart/Welsh). Essays: Rexall's Nationwide Teen Forum Youth Responsibility Program, 1966. 90 essays in folder. 1967 - July 1968 (Gray/Welsh). 2 folders. Pilot Center, Minneapolis, Dropout Program, Nov. 1967. (Robotype correspondence) 2.2 Youth Programs: Job Corps: Sept. 1963; March 1965-Dec. 1966 (Stewart). 5 folders. 1967 (Stewart/Welsh/Gray/Edna Ravnholt). Jan.-June 1968 (Stewart). 2.3 Youth Programs: Neighborhood Youth Corps: Feb.-April 1966 (Firmage/Stewart). 2 folders. May-Dec. 1966 (Firmage/Stewart/Welsh). 1967 - Aug. 1968 (Stewart/Gray) 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 and Feb.-Aug. 1968. (Relates to the Ad Hoc Committee to Save the Children of Mississippi, 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 VP (March 8, 1968), and an unsigned undated manuscript filed
p. 6 at the beginning of the folder. See PVY 1.3, box 1196, for information on poverty in Mississippi.) 150.G.7.2F 1201 2.5 Youth Programs: Proposed Programs: Jan.-April 1966 (Stewart). Jan.-Aug. 1967 (Welsh/Gray/Cahn). 2 folders. Sept.-Dec. 1967 (Stewart/Cahn). 1968 (Stewart/Terris). 2.6 Youth Opportunity Campaign (YOC): 1964-1965 (Firmage/Stewart). 5 folders. Undated and Jan.-May 1966 (Stewart). 7 folders. 150.G.7.3B 1202 June-July 1966 (Stewart). 3 folders. Northern California Youth Opportunity Committee, San Francisco, June-July 1966. Aug.-Dec. 1966 (Stewart). 5 folders. Summer Employment, March 1966. (Robotype correspondence) "Operation Champ," Aug.-Sept. 1966. (Robotype correspondence) 2.6 YOC/President's Council on Youth Opportunity (YOC- PCOYO): Undated and Jan.-April 1967 (Welsh/Gray). 3 folders. May-Aug. 1967 (Welsh/Gray/Cahn/Terris). 6 folders. 150.G.7.4F 1203 Sept.-Dec. 1967 (Welsh/Cahn/Stewart). 4 folders. YOC Summer Jobs Program, April-June 1967. 2 folders. (Robotype correspondence) Undated and Jan.-Sept. 1968 (Stewart/Cahn/Welsh/ Terris/Currier). 12 folders. 150.G.7.5B 1204 2.6 PCOYO, by Subject: (primarily John G. Stewart files) Advertising Council, 1967 - May 1968. Advertising: Media, Feb.-May 1968. American Association of Advertising Agencies, March-April 1968. American Association of Advertising Agencies: Communications Coordinators, 1968. Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Dec. 1967; March-April 1968. Cleveland [Ohio] Summer Arts Festival, 1967 - June 1968. Closed Circuit TV Program, April-May 1968. District of Columbia Summer Program, Oct. 1966; undated and Feb.-June 1967. (See also PVY General Files (Terris), Box 1199)
p. 7 150.G.7.5B 1204 District of Columbia Boy Scout Inner City Program, Dec. 1966; undated and June-July 1967. (See also Terris files, Box 1199) District of Columbia Boy Scout Inner City Program: Camp Theodore Roosevelt, undated and Feb.-Aug. 1967. 2 folders. Jackson [Miss.] Summer Program, April-July 1968. National Commission on Civil Disorders, Nov. 1967; March-June 1968. National Alliance of Businessmen, 1968. 5 folders. National Alliance of Businessmen: Scientific-Technological Employment Program (STEP), undated and Oct.-Nov. 1967; March-May 1968. National Summer Job Fair, July-Dec. 1967; undated and Jan. 1968. Neighborhood Youth Corps, Feb.-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) 150.G.7.6F 1205 Summer Programs 1968, April 1967-July 1968. 2 folders. Teacher Corps, June 1966, Jan.-April 1968. Youth Organizations United, Inc. (YOU), undated and April-July 1968. Youth, Miscellaneous, Nov. 1967-July 1968. 2.6 PCOYO Reports (Gerald W. Christensen files): Weekly Reports to the Vice President, May 13, 1967-Jan. 18, 1969. 15 folders. Reports to the President from the Vice President: March 31, 1966. April 1967. June 8, July 12, 1967. Aug. 1967 - Aug. 1968. 150.G.7.7B 1206 Other Reports: March 17, 1966; Nov. 2, 1967. Chairman's Report: Task Force on Summer Programs for 1968, Oct. 14, 1967. Aug. 1 - Nov. 22, 1968.
p. 8 150.G.7.7B 1206 Volunteer Organizations, Feb. 20 - Oct. 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, Sept. 7, Oct. 11, 1967. Council Meeting, Jan. 24, 1968. Council and Citizen's Advisory Board, 1968. 2.6 PCOYO: Youth Opportunity Conference, Jan. 29-31, 1968, Washington, D.C.: Correspondence and Miscellany (Christensen/Cahn), Jan.-Feb. 1968. Transcript, Jan. 29, 1968. Transcript, Jan. 30, 1968. Transcript, Jan. 31, 1968. 150.G.7.8F 1207 2.6 PCOYO: Volunteer Organizations, Nov. 1967 - June 1968. Telegrams from the VP, Dec. 1967 - Jan. 1969. 2 folders. Citizen's Advisory Board on Youth Opportunity, Oct. 1967; March- April 1968. Youth Coordinators, 1968-Jan. 1969. (Served as liaison between mayors of cities and the PCOYO in implementing local youth programs) Youth Coordinators Manual: Preliminary Draft, Jan. 1968. 2 folders. Correspondence and Miscellany (Christenson), June 1965, 1967-1968. 3 folders. Manuscripts: Briefing Paper, Jan. 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, March-Sept. 1968. "Like it is: Newsletter of Photography Project of PCOYO," 1968[?] Sample Packet, YOC 1967: "Help Them Help Themselves," 1967. Sample PCOYO Packet, 1968.
p. 9 150.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): Dec. 1966 - Jan. 1968. 8 folders. 150.G.7.10F 1209 Feb.-Dec. 1968. 8 folders.