Planners for Equal Opportunity records
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes records of conferences and policy and steering committees; newsletters; correspondence; constitutions; and administrative records. Also includes correspondence of the group's executive director, Walter Thabit.
Dates
- 1964-1978.
Creator
- Planners for Equal Opportunity (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
Planners for Equal Opportunity was established in 1964 by a small group of professionals in the housing, planning, architecture and social work fields as an organization through which planning skills and concepts could be used to work for equality among minorities. The group encouraged professional planners to serve as civil rights advocates and to work for the change of policies and practices they considered racist. It published a periodic newsletter, Equalop, which ceased publication in 1971. At its zenith the organization had over 700 members in the United States and Canada with chapters in several regional and urban areas. Under the Planners for Equal Opportunity banner, advocacy planning was conceived, nurtured and to a limited degree, legitimized. The organized disbanded in 1976.
Extent
3 cubic feet. (3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Planners for Equal Opportunity was established in 1964 by a small group of professionals in the housing, planning, architecture and social work fields as an organization through which planning skills and concepts could be used to work for equality among minorities. The group encouraged professional planners to serve as civil rights advocates and to work for the change of policies and practices they considered racist.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Conference Material Box 1
Series II. PEO Policy and Steering Committee Box 1
Series III. PEO Miscellaneous Box 2
Series IV. Equalop Newsletter Box 2
Series V. Correspondence Box 2
Series VI. Constitution Box 2
Series VII. PEO - Administrative Box 3
Series VIII. Policy Committee Box 3
Series IX. PEO Program Framework Box 3
Physical Description
Records, newsletters, correspondence, and constitutions.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- M. Warren
- Date completed:
- November 1981
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad and Kim Bedetti, May-June 2002
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2015
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M. Warren
- Date
- May 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu