Guide to the Planners for Equal Opportunity Records,
1964-1978

Collection Number: 3943

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:

M. Warren

Date completed:

November 1981

EAD encoding:

Martin Heggestad and Kim Bedetti, May-June 2002

Date modified:

RMC Staff, March 2011

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Planners for Equal Opportunity Records, 1964-1978

Collection Number:

3943

Creator:

Planners for Equal Opportunity.

Quantity:

3 cubic ft.

Forms of Material:

Records, newsletters, correspondence, and constitutions.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Language:

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.

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.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Planners for Equal Opportunity.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Planners for Equal Opportunity Records, #3943. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

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

CONTAINER LIST

Description	Container
Series I. Conference Material
PEO - 3rd Annual Conference, 1969	Box 1	Folder 1
1966 - PEO Conference materials	Box 1	Folder 2
PEO billings, 1965-1971	Box 1	Folder 3
6th Annual Conference, Apr. 1972	Box 1	Folder 4
PEO Conference, 1971	Box 1	Folder 5
PEO - 3rd Annual Meeting, 1969	Box 1	Folder 6
Cincinatti 1969 Conference, ASPO	Box 1	Folder 7
PEO, Apr. 1970 , 4th Annual	Box 1	Folder 8
PEO 4th Annual Meeting Conference Archives, 1970	Box 1	Folder 9
PEO Resolutions to AIP, Pittsburgh, 1968	Box 1	Folder 10
PEO Pittsburgh, Oct. 1968	Box 1	Folder 11
Information sheets	Box 1	Folder 12
Mar. 16, 1968 Conference	Box 1	Folder 13
PEO Conference proceedings, Mar. 1968	Box 1	Folder 14
Washington Conference mailing list, 1967	Box 1	Folder 15
PEO 1967 AIP Conference	Box 1	Folder 16
Oct. 1967 AIP Conference	Box 1	Folder 17
War Against the Cities, 1967	Box 1	Folder 18
PEO positions and resolutions, AIP Conference, Vietnam petition, 1967	Box 1	Folder 19
Joint AIP-PEO Committee on Minorities, 1967, 1968	Box 1	Folder 20
Draft AIP platform/PEO Jan. 31, 1969 , revised Mar. 5, 1969	Box 1	Folder 21
Oct. 3 Resolutions, 1967	Box 1	Folder 22
AIP election campaign - 1969 biographical data; PEO platform	Box 1	Folder 23
PEO/AIP, 1968, 1969	Box 1	Folder 24
AIP revolt, 1968, 1969	Box 1	Folder 25
Series II. PEO Policy and Steering Committees
PEO IV, 1964-1969	Box 1	Folder 26
Policy/Steering Committees, 1967	Box 1	Folder 27
Minutes - Steering Committee, 1969	Box 1	Folder 28
Minutes - Policy Committee, 1969, 1970	Box 1	Folder 29
PEO Chairman's notes - File, 1965-1969	Box 1	Folder 30
Washington PEO - Conference press coverage	Box 1	Folder 31
Chairman's File - PEO, 1969	Box 1	Folder 32
President's File - PEO, 1970	Box 1	Folder 33
PEO President's File, 1971	Box 1	Folder 34
PEO Policy/Steering Committees, 1964-1965	Box 1	Folder 35
PEO Policy/Steering Committees, 1966	Box 1	Folder 36
PEO Policy/Steering Committees, 1968	Box 1	Folder 37
Series III. PEO Miscellaneous
PEO-ADVO Case #1, n.d.	Box 2	Folder 1
PEO - Advocacy jobs file, 1969	Box 2	Folder 2
PEO archives material, 1964-1968	Box 2	Folder 3
Archives material, 1965-1967	Box 2	Folder 4
PEO - Miscellaneous, 1968-1971	Box 2	Folder 5
PEO - Miscellaneous	Box 2	Folder 6
Series IV. Equalop Newsletter
Vol. 1, No.1, Spring 1965	Box 2	Folder 7
Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1965	Box 2	Folder 8
Vol. 1, No.3, Winter 1965	Box 2	Folder 9
Vol. 1, No. 4, Spring and Summer 1966	Box 2	Folder 10
Vol. 1, No. 5, Spring 1967	Box 2	Folder 11
Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1968	Box 2	Folder 12
Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1968	Box 2	Folder 13
Vol. 2, No.3, Winter 1969	Box 2	Folder 14
Vol. 2, No. 4, Spring 1969	Box 2	Folder 15
Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 1969	Box 2	Folder 16
Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1969	Box 2	Folder 17
Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1970	Box 2	Folder 18
Vol. 3, No. 4, Spring 1970	Box 2	Folder 19
Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 1970	Box 2	Folder 20
Vol. 4, No. 2, 3 & 4, Spring 1971	Box 2	Folder 21
Vol. 5, No. 1, 2 & 3, Winter 1971	Box 2	Folder 22
Equalop (material?)	Box 2	Folder 23
Series V. Correspondence
Correspondence, 1965-1970	Box 2	Folder 24
Correspondence, 1970-1972	Box 2	Folder 25
Correspondence, 1968	Box 2	Folder 26
Correspondence, 1969 , outgoing	Box 2	Folder 27
Correspondence, 1973, 1974	Box 2	Folder 28
Correspondence, 1969 , incoming	Box 2	Folder 29
PEO requests, 1966-1971	Box 2	Folder 30
PEO correspondence, to end 1971	Box 2	Folder 31
PEO - Material to review, 1966	Box 2	Folder 32
PEO newsletter material, 1966, 1967	Box 2	Folder 33
Equalop correspondence and background material, 1966, 1967	Box 2	Folder 34
Series VI. Constitution
Constitution PEO, 1969	Box 2	Folder 35
PEO - Mailing	Box 2	Folder 36
PEO mailing list, Nov. 1967	Box 2	Folder 37
PEO letterheads, envelopes, membership cards	Box 2	Folder 38
PEO - Library requests	Box 2	Folder 39
Steering Committee meeting notice	Box 2	Folder 40
PEO Constitution, 1965	Box 2	Folder 41
Purposes	Box 2	Folder 42
Series VII. PEO - Administrative
PEO Treasurer, 1965-1970	Box 3	Folder 1
PEO Foundation, 1969-1978	Box 3	Folder 2
PEO Pending, 1964-1968	Box 3	Folder 3
Materials for Executive Secretary, 1968-1970	Box 3	Folder 4
Done, 1968-1971	Box 3	Folder 5
PEO Organizing (chapters)	Box 3	Folder 6
Chapter contracts, 1965-1970	Box 3	Folder 7
Potential interested organizations, 1968	Box 3	Folder 8
PEO mailing, 1975	Box 3	Folder 9
PEO - Solicitations, 1964-1969	Box 3	Folder 10
PEO - Reproduction, 1967-1969	Box 3	Folder 11
Conference call layout, 1968	Box 3	Folder 12
Series VIII. Policy Committee
PEO elections, 1967-1970	Box 3	Folder 13
PEO Policy Committee ballot, Mar. 16 positions, 1968	Box 3	Folder 14
Program outline, 1966	Box 3	Folder 15
Policy statement, Aug. 1968	Box 3	Folder 16
PEO Policy Committee meeting, May 25-26, 1968	Box 3	Folder 17
Letter to Policy Committee member, Dec. 23, 1968	Box 3	Folder 18
PEO Policy Committee, 1966-1969	Box 3	Folder 19
PEO Conclave, 1974-1976	Box 3	Folder 20
PEO Internal, 1969	Box 3	Folder 21
Series IX. PEO Program Framework
PEO Funding proposal - 10 cities background, 1966	Box 3	Folder 22
PEO - 10 cities, 1966	Box 3	Folder 23
PEO Model Cities proposal, 1968	Box 3	Folder 24
Tenants Rights proposal, 1966, 1967	Box 3	Folder 25
PEO in Pittsburgh, 1968	Box 3	Folder 26
Hartman case, 1970	Box 3	Folder 27
PEO consultants list, n.d.	Box 3	Folder 28
Press release scoring lack of C.P.D. minorities, Feb. 17, 1969	Box 3	Folder 29
Blueprint for Integrated Education, 1965	Box 3	Folder 30
PEO - Letter to Mrs. Flatow	Box 3	Folder 31
ALPA report, 1966-1969	Box 3	Folder 32
PEO Advocacy cases requests, 1968	Box 3	Folder 33
Crisis in rent control, 1967	Box 3	Folder 34
Communities of Tomorrow, Town & Country Alliance, 1967, 1968	Box 3	Folder 35
10 Cities proposal, Summer 1966	Box 3	Folder 36
Harlem TV programs, ca. 1970	Box 3	Folder 37
PEO requests file, 1964-1965	Box 3	Folder 38
PEO Program Committee, 1966-1968	Box 3	Folder 39
Nixon Administration Urban problem report card, 1970	Box 3	Folder 40
Local planning - Local contrals press release, 1970	Box 3	Folder 41
Press release, Apr. 6, 1970	Box 3	Folder 42
Harvard Urban Field Service, Hartman, 1970	Box 3	Folder 43
1st Annual Conference - Proceedings, 1966	Box 3	Folder 44
Rent contral fact sheet #7, 1970	Box 3	Folder 45
4th Annual Conference, 1970	Box 3	Folder 46
Resolutions for ASPO, Actions, 1970	Box 3	Folder 47
Dues schedule, n.d.	Box 3	Folder 48
1969 PEO Policy Committee reports and minutes	Box 3	Folder 49
Women and Planning, 1970	Box 3	Folder 50
Jobs for Advocates, n.d.	Box 3	Folder 51
Covering letter for demand for Planning Services, 1969	Box 3	Folder 52
Special Award: Hartman, 1970	Box 3	Folder 53
Release, Apr. 15, 1971 , Watchdogging public agencies, 1971	Box 3	Folder 54
Steering Committee letter re: 1973 lunch meeting	Box 3	Folder 55
5th Annual Conference (announcement), 1971	Box 3	Folder 56
Apr. 1974 , Steering Committee letter	Box 3	Folder 57
Oct. 1973 , Preliminary proposal for 1974 meeting	Box 3	Folder 58
Press release, Apr. 4, 1970 , Hartman citations	Box 3	Folder 59
Press release, Apr. 7, 1970 , PEO Conference, NY	Box 3	Folder 60
Policy statement PEO (2nd Annual Conference), 1968	Box 3	Folder 61
Blank sheets "News from ... PEO"	Box 3	Folder 62
6th Annual PEO announcement, 1972	Box 3	Folder 63
Master plan policies for the people, ca. 1969	Box 3	Folder 64
Task Force on New York Critique, PEO 4th Annual Conference, 1970	Box 3	Folder 65
Press release, Dec. 1970 , make-up of City Planning Committee, 1970	Box 3	Folder 66
PEO Archives (photos, buttons, embosser, etc.)	Box 3	Folder 67
Clarence Funnyé: The Man and His Views, ca. 1970	Box 3	Folder 68

Guide to the Planners for Equal Opportunity Records, 1964-1978

Collection Number: 3943

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the Planners for Equal Opportunity Records,
1964-1978

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library