Abstract The records of the Community Relations Conference--which lasted longer than any other such group in the nation--include full minutes for the first ten annual meetings, with executive committee, board of directors and delegate assembly minutes covering the following 31 years. Correspondence files for successive executive directors of the Conference display the range of their influential acquaintance, and their skill and patience in advocacy and mediation. Correspondence with well known...

Abstract Papers of Frances Lomas Feldman (1912- ), faculty member of the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California since 1954. Feldman's teaching areas were social welfare history, policy, and administration. Feldman's research and writing center on the psychological, social, and economic meanings of money and work in American families.Her writings on the meanings of money still constitute the seminal work in this field and have received continued...

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Consists of publications from the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, Los Angeles.

Abstract The Los Angeles Roundtable For Children began in the fall of l982 with a series of informal monthly meetings convened by faculty members at the University of Southern California's School of Social Work, when child welfare leaders from the public and private sectors met to address evident deterioration of Los Angeles county's protective services. The collection contains the group's groundbreaking early volunteer research reports, designed to provide crucial missing information and...

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Collection consists of the casefiles, correspondence, ephemera, and recordings of USC alumnus and California attorney, Paul Morantz (1945-2002). Paul Morantz (1945-2022) was an American attorney who specialized in litigating against cults, and self-help groups raising the issue of brainwashing.

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The records of the USC School of Social Work include administrative, curriculum, and professional materials created by the faculty of the School. Also included are Alumni Association papers and materials created by various student associations and caucuses. This is an on-going collection.