Student conferences, 1936-1946
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning the planning, proceedings and evaluation of southwestern region meetings of student Christian associations. Joint YWCA-YMCA southwestern regional conferences meet to discuss the role of religion on campus and in their lives, social, economic and political problems and trends in the student Christian movement. Annual regional conferences in Hollister Missouri are open to all students and faculty, white and African American, at schools in Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Digitized version includes microdex renewals originally filmed with reel 252 coprised of southwestern student conference materials for 1947-1950. The title card for this microdex says microdex 2 but this is the third microdex on the film.
Dates of Materials
- Creation: 1936-1946
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
However, by agreement with the YWCA of the U.S.A., microdexes known to contain financial records or personal health information (usually on job applications) were not digitized and/or not published in our online repository as part of the CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections grant. These microdexes may still be accessed on the original microfilm, and digital files may be made available to individual researchers upon request.
Extent
552 frames (1 partial reel)
Subject
- National Student YWCA (Organization)
- Student Young Men's Christian Association (Organization)
Genre / Form
- Bulletins
- Bulletins
- Pamphlets
- Proceedings
- Proceedings
- Proceedings
- application forms
- correspondence
- minutes (administrative records)
- programs (documents)
- reports
- schedules (time plans)
Geographic
Topical
- College students -- Political activity
- College students -- Religious life
- College students -- Social conditions
- College students -- Societies, etc
- Congresses and conventions -- Planning
- Education, Higher
- Race discrimination
- Race relations
- Racism
- Student movements
- Universities and colleges -- Religion
- Women college students
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository