Housing

Scope and Contents The Marc H. Morial Papers span two mayoral terms from 1994 to 2002, and include his tenure as President of the United States Conference of Mayors and materials from his work as a Louisiana State Senator.  The main bulk of the collection reflects and documents Mayor Morial's transition period from 1993 and his involvement in the United States Conference of Mayors from 1994 to 2002. The collection is comprised of correspondence, City of New Orleans transition reports and files, which contain...

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Robert B. Pitts helped organize what is now known as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was the first Black man to be appointed to the position of federal regional administrator. His papers include biographical information in the forms of resumes, articles, and tributes. Also included are reports on urban housing and writings by Robert B. Pitts on minority and housing affairs in California.

Scope and Contents The Preston and Bonita Valien papers are a rich source of documentation generated during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and extremely strong in documenting their ground breaking sociology research in the areas of African American higher education, housing segregation, public school and public transportation integration, population migration from the south to the north, race relations, as well as women’s health related to birth control and infant mortality. The...