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John Henley Williams Papers

Prepared by: Sheena Wilson & Malachi McMahon

Edited & Curated by: Dr. T. DeWayne Moore

Collection Overview

Title of Collection: UA0022 – John Henley Williams Papers

Dates: 1932-1947

Extent:  1.5 linear feet (3 boxes)

Abstract:

Related Collections:

Access Restrictions:   Collection is open for research

Use Restrictions:  Written permission must be obtained from the Special Collections/ Archives Department and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts, or images from any materials in this collection.

Language: English

Biographical Note:  Dr. John Henley Williams Jr. was born December 5, 1921, in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Hempstead Public Schools, and he earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree at PVAMU. He worked as a teacher and coach in Brookshire, Texas, and later became the principal of Cameron High School. Moreover, Williams worked in the extension service in Texas from 1932 to 1947. He was the first minority in the graduate school to pursue his terminal degree (Ph.D.) at the University of Maryland at College Park in 1955.

In 1958, he accepted an appointment to the Washington, D.C. Unemployment Compensation Board, recommended by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. He later worked with the Washington, D.C. public schools, serving as a teacher for delinquent children, a counselor and assistant principal. He completed additional post-graduate study at D.C. Teachers College and George Washington University. He was requested by Attorney General Robert Kennedy to serve on a task force to do research at Bank Street College in New York, N.Y. on curriculum development for integrating schools. In 1967, he left the public schools to enter the Federal Government as the first Employment Policy Officer for Federal Housing Administration developing employment policies for hiring minorities. After a merger of FHA and Housing and Urban Development, he became Deputy Director of Special Personnel Programs at HUD, until asked to go to Indiana and assist in organizing the HUD Indiana State Area Office as the first Director of Administration.

During this time, he served on a White House assignment by President Lyndon Johnson to develop recruitment policy for minority college graduates to enter Federal Service. He served on the Parade Review Committee for the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter and President J.F. Kennedy’s Committee for Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, and he was listed in Who’s Who in government. During his tour of duty in Indiana, he was awarded his terminal degree at the University of Indiana. He remained in Indiana for three years, and he returned to the staff of Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity as a Fair Housing Examiner until retirement.

He returned to his native state of Texas in 1980 and became involved in investigation of abused and neglected children. In 1981, he began the development of the first juvenile program in Waller County, Texas which was started with one person and a budget of $15,756 and grew to a staff of 16 and a budget of near $300,000, as Director of that program. Later, he retired to become President of Williams and Williams Consultant firm. He has been active in the Urban League, N.A.A.C.P. and served on the statewide select committee to remove children from adult jails in Texas for the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. He is a Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the American Society for Public Administration and the National Citizen Participation Council. He is a veteran of WWII, a member and past chairman of the Criminal Justice Advisory Board for G.G.A.C. and served as Vice Chairman for the Statewide Advisory Board for Texas Commission for Alcohol and Drug Abuse. He also served as a member of the University Teachers Center Educational Council at Prairie View A&M University and member of the Local Board of the Selective Service Board for the Texas Region IV for four years. He died on November 24, 2017, in Prairie View, Texas. He rests at the Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia.

Scope & Contents: The John Henley Williams papers documents his activities as an extension service worker in Texas from 1932 to 1947. Most of the materials are correspondence with county agricultural agents concerning farm and demonstration activities. Other materials are certificates, annual reports, meeting minutes, agricultural, livestock and farm reports from the U.S.  War and Food Administration related to farm labor, employment and ongoing issues.

Arrangement: Collection is arranged into two series with one series (Cooperative Extension Work) further arranged into subseries. Materials are arranged chronologically by date.

Series 1              Correspondence, 1932-1942

Series 2.3           Cooperative Extension Work, 1934-1947

Administrative Information

Acquisition:

Preferred Citation: John Henley Williams Papers. UA 0022. Special Collections/Archives Department, John B. Coleman Library, Prairie View A&M University.

Subject Terms:

Williams, John Henley

Negro 4 H clubs

Agricultural extension work—Texas

Farming—Texas

Inventory

SERIES I             CORRESPONDECE, 1932-1942

Box          Folder

1

1

Correspondence March 11, 1932

1

2

Correspondence March 9, 1934

1

3

Correspondence April 8-15, 1935

1

4

Correspondence April 16-20, 1935

1

5

Correspondence December 18, 1940

1

6

Correspondence February 27- December 31, 1941

1

7

Correspondence January 1-9, 1942

1

8

Correspondence January 20-30, 1942

1

9

Correspondence February 1-20, 1942

1

10

Correspondence February 21-27, 1942

1

11

Correspondence March 1-10, 1942

1

12

Correspondence March 11-31, 1942

1

13

Correspondence April 1-18, 1942

1

14

Correspondence April 19-30, 1942

1

15

Correspondence May 1-8, 1942

1

16

Correspondence May 9-30, 1942

1

17

Correspondence June 1-13, 1942

1

18

Correspondence June 15-30, 1942

1

19

Correspondence July 1-8, 1942

1

20

Correspondence July 9-31,1942

1

21

Correspondence August 1-10, 1942

1

22

Correspondence August 16-31, 1942

Box          Folder

2

1

Memorandum, Annual Report, Prairie View, Texas, 1941

2

2

Correspondence September 1-30, 1942

2

3

Correspondence October 1-10, 1942

2

4

Correspondence October 11-19, 1942

2

5

Correspondence October 20-30, 1942

2

6

Correspondence November 3-30, 1942

2

7

Correspondence December 1-30, 1942

2

8

Correspondence January 6-31, 1943

2

9

Correspondence February 1-8, 1943

2

10

Correspondence February 10-25, 1943

2

11

Correspondence March 1-30, 1943

2

12

Correspondence December 31, 1943

SERIES 2             COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WORK, 1934-1947

2

13

Short Course Luling Foundation Tri- County, Luling, Texas, July 24 ,1934

2

14

Agriculture Research Bulletin February 1935- October 1941

2

15

U.S. Extension service Special Standing Committee Organization in County Home Demonstration Councils. [Washington, D.C.], 1936

2

16

Farmers Congress, Prairie View, Texas Paid Registration, 1939-1941

2

17

U.S Department of Agriculture- Plans of Farm Buildings for Southern States, Washington, D.C., 1940

2

18

Combined Annual Report Sothern District, Prairie View, Texas, 1940

2

19

(Memorandum Annual Report) December 18, 1940

2

20

Training Lather, Prairie View, Texas, 1941

2

21

Training Leather [College Station], 1941

2

22

U.S. Extension Service- General Information and Regulations Governing Exhibit and Awards During State Short Course, Washington, D.C.,1941

2

23

U.S. Extension Service- Instructions for Making Annual Reports- County Agricultural Agents [Washington, D.C.], December 1, 1941 to November 30, 1942

2

24

Letter, College Station, Texas to Chairmen of County USDA Defense Boards, January 15, 1942

2

25

Texas Negro 4-H Club Boys and their Part in Production for War Needs. Prepared for Radio Broadcast [Prairie View, Texas], April 18, 1942

2

26

Tri-County 4-H Boy’s Encampment and Defense Rally Luling Foundation Farm, Luling, Texas program, August 6-7, 1942

2

27

Producing Heavy Weight Hog’s for Greater Profits. Prepared for Radio Broadcast [Prairie View, Texas], October 17, 1942

2

28

Letter Caldwell County, Texas to J.H. Williams, Prairie View, Texas, July 25, 1942

2

29

War Letter Washington, D.C. to Farmers, July 27, 1942

2

30

Sketch of Plan and Summary of Results. Fort Bend County, Texas’ 1942

2

31

Request for Authority to make Trip in Interest of Extension Work, Caldwell County, Texas, to John H. Williams, Prairie View, Texas, 1942

2

32

Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College Extension Service County Meeting for Expanding Leadership to meet War Emergencies, College Station, May 9, 1942

2

33

U.S. Selective System- Affidavit to Support Claim for Occupational Deferment of J.H. Williams, Washington, D.C., 1942

2

34

Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College Extension Service Circular Studies in Family Life, College Station, Texas, 1942

2

35

Letter to all Extension Agents College Station, Texas, December 12, 1942

Box          Folder

3

1

Directors for Training, 1942

3

2

Applications for War- Food Demonstrations, 1943

3

3

Protein Conservation, April 15, 1943

3

4

Protein Feed in Texas, 1943

3

5

Protein Feed Requirements, February 1943

3

6

Classification of Farm Labor Expenditures, 1944

3

7

Prisoners in Agricultural Work, March 1944

3

8

Farm Labor Camps, 1944

3

9

Minutes of Conference, April 4, 1944

3

10

Agents in Charge of Club Work, 1944

3

11

Farm Employment Rise, June 14, 1944

3

12

Loan Request, 1944

3

13

Council Forest in Arkansas, July 7, 1944

3

14

Current Issues on War- Food

3

15

EFL Form 16 (Revised), July 11, 1944

3

16

Preparation of Circular Letters, 1944

3

17

Federal- State Publication Program

3

18

Special Weather Forecast for Farmer, 1944

3

19

Handing of Penalty Mail, July 29, 1944

3

20

Planning Meats for Home Supply, 1944

3

21

Farm Defense Plans, September 29, 1944

3

22

Maintaining Employee Wave, 1944

3

23

Field Instructions, December 15, 1944

3

24

Farm Labor Agreements, 1944

3

25

Current News Developments, December 23, 1944

3

26

Farm Labor Extensions,1944

3

27

Current Developments, December 20, 1944

3

28

Post- War Homemaking Education, 1944

3

29

Promoting War Bonds, 1944

3

30

Extension Work with Negroes, 1945

3

31

Emergency Productions & Preservation Work in Texas, 1944

3

32

Approved Fertilizers for Texas in, 1943- 1944

3

33

Responsibility of Citizens Groups (Wartime Program), 1942

3

34

Tydings Amendment, 1945

3

35

Expenditures in Foreign Countries, 1945

3

36

Current Extensions Service News, 1945

3

37

Newsletter (Farm Service), April 5, 1945

3

38

Food Rationing, 1945

3

39

Certificates (Victory Farm Corp), 1945

3

40

Extension Farm Program, 1945

3

41

Hiring Prisoners of War labor, August 14, 1943

3

42

Maintaining World Peace, 1946

3

43

The Bust of Booker T. Washington, May 23, 1946

3

44

Food Preservation, 1946

3

45

Atlantic Coast Migration Movement, August 15, 1946

3

46

Annual Extension Agents Conference, 1946

3

47

Plan of Work for Agents During, November 20, 1946- 1947

3

48

Agricultural Outlook, 1947

3

49

Texas Demonstrations Flock (Poultry Calendar),1947

3

50

Panel Discussion (Agricultural Outlook), 1947

3

51

Agricultural Situation Outlook,1947

3

52

Agricultural Farms (Lager and Fewer), 1947

3

53

Fruits & Vegetables Rationing (Volunteer Workers), 1943

3

54

Current Developments, 1947

3

55

Agricultural was Saving Program (Suggestions)

3

56

Schedule of County Poultry Shows

3

57

Data on White 4-H Club Work,1942-1943

3

58

List of Equipment on Materials for County Agents’ Work

3

59

Tanning Demonstration, Prairie View, Texas

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