Furnas, Heather Collection of Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards Research Materials, 1957-1967
Collection Number: 6364

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Heather Furnas Collection of Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards Research Materials, 1957-1967

Repository:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives

Collection Number:

6364

Creator:

Furnas, Heather

Sidney Hillman Foundation

Quanitities:

0.5 cubic feet

Language:

Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

The Sidney Hillman Foundation was named for the labor leader, Sidney Hillman (1887-1946), who was the first president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA). Immediately after his death, his union wished to honor him with a memorial that would carry on his commitments to the lives of working people. On November 17, 1946, the General Executive Board of the ACWA voted to establish the Sidney Hillman Foundation. ACWA contributed the first $100,000 and then raised one million dollars from other organizations. In 1947, the Board of Directors issued the first grants for scholarships, research and lectures on college campuses, and for medical research at the Sidney Hillman Health Centers.

In 1950, the Foundation launched the Hillman Prize in order to promote socially-responsible journalism. Starting with awards in Book, Magazine, Newspaper, and Broadcast, the prize is now also offered in the categories of Photojournalism, Web, and Opinion and Analysis. One important note is that the Hillman Foundation changed its dating system for prizes in 1999/ 2000. The Foundation decided to name the prize for the year it was given rather than the year the work was produced, changing the pattern of the previous fifty years. This new system continues to the present. This means that in effect there are no prizes for the year 1999, but a year was not skipped in the granting of awards.

The Hillman Prize has been granted annually by the Sidney Hillman Foundation since 1950 in categories that included Book, Newspaper, and Magazine. The Foundation did not keep complete citations for the articles, nor retain copies of the award-winning submissions. Heather Furnas was contracted by the Hillman Foundation in order to locate the citations for the award-winning newspaper and magazine articles and to obtain copies when possible. Included in the collection is an excel document with tabs for each of the prize categories. The researcher included the complete citation, links if available and indicated if digital copies were obtained. In separate files, there are .pdf files of what the researcher determined to be the winning articles, organized by type of publication and year.

At a later date, the researcher was asked to locate transcripts of the lectures that were a part of the Hillman Lectureship Program. If a transcript was located, a copy was placed in the Lectures folder. The researcher also tried to obtain newspaper articles regarding these lectures, especially if they gave summaries. The best place to obtain a complete list of the lecturers is in the "Twenty-Year Report," found Collection #5619/040 Box 2, Folder 8 and copied into this collection. There is also a complete listing of the Reprint Series.

Some newspaper citations were particularly difficult to track down, and are therefore based on the researcher's best determination. Some awards were granted without titles of particular articles, but rather the body of work of the journalist and themes that were addressed. For example, Murray Kempton was granted the first newspaper award in 1950 for articles on "labor in the south." The digital files obtained on Murray Kempton come from the clippings file in Box 1 Folder 3 (1950) in the Murray Kempton Papers at Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. They are unsorted, and the researcher did not make a determination on which articles won the prize.

Also included in the collection are photocopies from Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections at Montana State University, which hold the papers for Harry L. and Gretchen Billings, newspaper award winners in 1958 for their "editorials on civil liberties and public welfare system" in the People's Voice. These copies come from collection #2095, Box 2, Folder 28-32, which are all labeled "Hillman Award Correspondence"; "Hillman Award Clippings" come from Box 2, Folder 33. These documents might reveal to researchers the process of nomination and selection for the prizes in general, and these award winners in particular, but do not contain the newspaper articles.

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Heather Furnas Collection of Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards Research Materials #6364. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

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SUBJECTS

Names:

Sidney Hillman Foundation

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
Box 1		Harry Billings Correspondence
Box 1	Folder 1	Sidney Hillman Foundation 20 Year Report
Box 1	Folder 2	Hillman Award Correspondence from Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections, Harry Billings Collection	1958-1959
		Scope and Contents Collection no.2095: Box 2: ff 28
Box 1	Folder 3	Hillman Award Correspondence from Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections, Harry Billings Collection	1959
		Scope and Contents Collection no.2095: Box 2: ff 29
Box 1	Folder 4	Hillman Award Correspondence from Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections, Harry Billings Collection	1957-1959
		Scope and Contents Collection no.2095: Box 2: ff 30
Box 1	Folder 5	Hillman Award Correspondence from Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections, Harry Billings Collection	1959
		Scope and Contents Collection no.2095: Box 2: ff 31
Box 1	Folder 6	Hillman Award Correspondence from Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections, Harry Billings Collection	1959-1967
		Scope and Contents Collection no.2095: Box 2: ff 32
Box 1	Folder 7	Hillman Award Clippings from Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections, Harry Billings Collection	1959
		Scope and Contents Collection no.2095: Box 2: ff 33
Box 2		Lectures: directory of PDFs
Box 2	Folder 1	Hillman Lecture List
		Sub-Series Transcripts
Box 2	Folder 2	Anderson at Roosevelt--transcript
Box 2	Folder 3	Bunche, Howard, 1964 The world the United Nations seeks - Lecture Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Box 2	Folder 4	Humphrey, Alliance for Progress, U. of Minnesota
Box 2	Folder 5	Lester, Revolution in Industrial Employment
Box 2	Folder 6	Rand 1951University of Toronto	1951
Box 2	Folder 7	Smith, Roosevelt, transcript
		Sub-Series Clippings regarding lectures
Box 2	Folder 8	Announcement of lectures series 1954.pdf
Box 2	Folder 9	Boas to Deliver Hillman Lectures.pdf
Box 2	Folder 10	Eleanor Roosevelt, Minnesota1957-03-06.pdf
		Sub-Series City College
Box 2	Folder 11	City College 1958 UN Experts.pdf
Box 2	Folder 12	City College 1958.pdf
		Sub-Series Howard University
Box 2	Folder 13	1961 John Hope Frankin.pdf
Box 2	Folder 14	Howard University 1954-1955.pdf
Box 2	Folder 15	James MacGregor Burns.pdf
Box 2	Folder 16	John Hope Frankin Talks on Civil Rights.pdf
Box 2	Folder 17	Keyerling, Howard University Series 54-55.pdf
Box 2	Folder 18	Tugwell December 1959.pdf
		Sub-Series New School
Box 2	Folder 19	(1955) Howe, The Challenge to Liberty ,New School.pdf
Box 2	Folder 20	New School.pdf
		Sub-Series Roosevelt University
Box 2	Folder 21	1956 Chicago.pdf
		Sub-Series University of Rochester
Box 2	Folder 22	Thurgood Marshall.pdf
Box 3		Magazine Articles: directory of PDFs
Box 3	Folder 1	Means, Best Medicine for the Patient	1950
		Scope and Contents 1950 related
Box 3	Folder 2	Means, Government in Medicine	1950
		Scope and Contents 1950 related
Box 3	Folder 3	Means, Doctor's Lobby	1950
Box 3	Folder 4	Means, England's Public Medicine	1950
Box 3	Folder 5	Morse, Who's Trying To Ruin Our Schools	1951
Box 3	Folder 6	Wechberg, Seventeenth of June	1953
Box 3	Folder 7	Knight, What Price Security	1954
Box 3	Folder 8	The Progressive Special Issue on McCarthy	1954
Box 3	Folder 9	Engler, Oil and Politics Part I	1955
Box 3	Folder 10	Engler, Oil and Politics, Parts II-VI	1955
Box 3	Folder 11	Fischer, Harm Good People Do	1956
Box 3	Folder 12	Santillana, Galileo and J. Robert Oppenheimer	1958
Box 3	Folder 13	Sardos, Myth of the Powerful Worker	1958
Box 3	Folder 14	Ernst & Drake, Poor, Proud and Primitive	1960
Box 3	Folder 15	Smith, Ordeal of the Southern Woman	1961
Box 3	Folder 16	Parton, Sometimes Life Just Happens	1962
Box 3	Folder 17	Hano, Burned Out Americans	1963
Box 3	Folder 18	Draper, Dominican Crisis	1965
Box 3	Folder 19	Harris, Medicare Part I	1966
Box 3	Folder 20	Harris, Medicare Part II	1966
Box 3	Folder 21	Harris, Medicare Part III	1966
Box 3	Folder 22	Harris, Medicare Part IV	1966
Box 3	Folder 23	Remsberg, America's Hungry Families	1968
Box 3	Folder 24	Lang, Casualties of War	1969
Box 3	Folder 25	Pyle, CONUS Part I	1970
Box 3	Folder 26	Pyle, CONUS Part II	1970
Box 3	Folder 27	Donner and Cerutti, Grand Jury Network	1972
Box 3	Folder 28	Brodeur, Casualties of the Workplace Part I	1973
Box 3	Folder 29	Brodeur, Casualties of the Workplace Part II	1973
Box 3	Folder 30	Brodeur, Casualties of the Workplace Part III	1973
Box 3	Folder 31	Brodeur, Casualties of the Workplace Part IV	1973
Box 3	Folder 32	Brodeur, Casualties of the Workplace Part V	1973
Box 3	Folder 33	Sheehan, A Welfare Mother	1975
Box 3	Folder 34	Williams, The Mushroom Pickers	1976
Box 3	Folder 35	Marshall, Anatomy of Healthcare Costs	1977
Box 3	Folder 36	Kidder, Soldiers of Misfortune	1978
Box 3	Folder 37	Brown, Love Canal and the Poisoning of America	1979
Box 3	Folder 38	Angolite, Louisiana Death Watch	1981
Box 3	Folder 39	Drew, Politics and Money Part I	1982
Box 3	Folder 40	Drew, Politics and Money Part II	1982
Box 3	Folder 41	Sagan, Nuclear War	1983
Box 3	Folder 42	Salisbury, Strange Correspondence	1984
Box 3	Folder 43	Sharkey, Tug of War	1984
Box 3	Folder 44	Ford, The Button Part I	1985
Box 3	Folder 45	Ford, The Button Part iI	1985
Box 3	Folder 46	O'Brien, God and Man in Nicaragua	1986
Box 3	Folder 47	Adler, Every Parent's Nightmare	1987
Box 3	Folder 48	Weschler, Grand Experiment	1989
Box 3	Folder 49	Clancy, Burnout in LA	1990
Box 3	Folder 50	Clancy, Healing the Delta	1990
Box 3	Folder 51	Udesky, Punishing the Poor	1991
Box 3	Folder 52	Schlefer, What Price Economic Growth	1992
Box 3	Folder 53	Bates, et al, Poverty, Inc.	1993
Box 3	Folder 54	Bernstein, Why America Needs Unions But Not The Kind It Has Now	1994
Box 3	Folder 55	Schlosser, In the Strawberry Fields	1995
Box 3	Folder 56	Bowden, While You Were Sleeping	1996
Box 3	Folder 57	Finnegan, The Unwanted	1997
Box 3	Folder 58	Barlett and Steele, Corporate Welfare Empire of the Pigs	1998
Box 3	Folder 59	Barlett and Steele, Corporate Welfare Fantasy Islands	1998
Box 3	Folder 60	Barlett and Steele, Corporate Welfare Paying the Price for Polluters	1998
Box 3	Folder 61	Barlett and Steele, Corporate Welfare	1998
Box 3	Folder 62	Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed	2000
Box 3	Folder 63	Roberts et al, Workers in Bondage	2001
Box 3	Folder 64	Boo, After Welfare	2002
Box 3	Folder 65	Bowe, Nobodies	2004
Box 3	Folder 66	Evans et al, Big Pharma's Shameful Secret	2006
Box 3	Folder 67	Noah, Great Divergence	2011
Box 4		Newspaper Articles: directory of PDFs
Box 4	Folder 1	Kempton	1950
Box 4	Folder 2	Jenkins, Again, the Klan Old Sheets, New Victims	1952
Box 4	Folder 3	Bagdikian, What Price Security	1955
Box 4	Folder 4	Spiegel, Segregation in Des Moines	1956
Box 4	Folder 5	Arkansas Gazette, Bombs and Justice	1957
Box 4	Folder 6	Atlanta Constitution, No Law Condones Rule by Violence	1958
Box 4	Folder 7	Billings, People's Voice	1958
Box 4	Folder 8	McGill editorials, Atlanta Constitution	1958
Box 4	Folder 9	Harkey clippings	1962
Box 4	Folder 10	Harkey	1962
Box 4	Folder 11	Emmerich, McComb Enterprise-Journal	1964
Box 4	Folder 12	James, Crisis in the Courts	1967
Box 4	Folder 13	Batten and Walls, The People Left Behind	1968
Box 4	Folder 14	Eaton, Chicago Daily News	1969
Box 4	Folder 15	Eaton, from Pulitzer Prize	1969
Box 4	Folder 16	Eaton, picked up by Washington Post	1969
Box 4	Folder 17	Friendly, Victim of the Great American Red Hunt	1971
Box 4	Folder 18	Barlett & Steele, Oil The Created Crisis	1973
Box 4	Folder 19	54 Who Died	1975
Box 4	Folder 20	Seigenthaler, The Tennessean	1976
Box 4	Folder 21	Swofford, Greensboro Daily News	1977
Box 4	Folder 22	Flannery & Ingersoll, Working Wounded	1978
Box 4	Folder 23	Miami Herald, Police Brutality	1979
Box 4	Folder 24	Atlanta Constitution, Black and Poor in Atlanta	1981
Box 4	Folder 25	Ciolli, Island Trees Case	1982
Box 4	Folder 26	Owens, Collection Nightmare December 18-19, 1983	1983
Box 4	Folder 27	Owens, Disability Nightmare March 20-22, 1983 plus followups	1983
Box 4	Folder 28	Clarion-Ledger,Freedom Summer a Generation Later	1984
Box 4	Folder 29	Drug testing on the job	1986
Box 4	Folder 30	Anchorage Daily News, A People In Peril	1988
Box 4	Folder 31	William H. and Margaret Wolf Freivogel, Shift on Civil Rights	1989
Box 4	Folder 32	Detroit Free Press ,Workers at Risk	1990
Box 4	Folder 33	Stancill, Slaves to the Sale	1992
Box 4	Folder 34	Welsome, Plutonium Experiment	1993
Box 4	Folder 35	Morris, Houston Chronicle	1994
Box 4	Folder 36	Kelley, Whither the Cities	1995
Box 4	Folder 37	�Giordano and Lubrano, Philadelphia Inquirer	1996
Box 4	Folder 38	DeParle, Learning Poverty Firsthand	1997
Box 4	Folder 39	DeParle, Welfare to Work- A Sequel	1997
Box 4	Folder 40	Mitchell, The Preacher and the Klansman	1998
Box 4	Folder 41	Schultz, Wall Street Journal	1999
Box 4	Folder 42	Olinger, Seller Beware	2001
Box 4	Folder 43	Schultz & Francis, Valued Employees	2003
Box 4	Folder 44	Callimachi, Children of the Storm	2007
Box 4	Folder 45	Reinemer, A Southern City Debates Nonsegregation
		Sub-Series Boston Globe, School Desegregation, 1974
Box 4	Folder 46	Cohen and Worsham, Boston Globe's school balance plan	1974
		Scope and Contents April 1, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 47	Cohen, Suburban cooperation to be topic in round 3 of imbalance hearing	1974
		Scope and Contents April 7, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 48	Cohen, Busing not main cause of flight to suburbs, study shows	1974
		Scope and Contents April 11, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 49	Cohen, In Pasadens: 2 schools and 2 schools of thought	1974
		Scope and Contents April 21, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 50	Cohen, School desegregation. . . a tale of five cities	1974
		Scope and Contents April 25, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 51	Cohen, Gillette plans high school 'partnership'	1974
		Scope and Contents August 24, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 52	Cohen, Schools and colleges in state prepare for dramatic changes	1974
		Scope and Contents January 6, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 53	Cohen, Suburban cooperation to be topic in round 3 of imbalance hearing	1974
		Scope and Contents display_pdf-17: April 7, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 54	Cohen, Wishing, appeal probably won't make racial balance plan go away	1974
		Scope and Contents February 17, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 55	Cohen, White outlines stand on school balancing	1974
		Scope and Contents February 2, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 56	Cohen, Miss Sullivan urges year's delay in balancing schools	1974
		Scope and Contents February 20, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 57	Cohen, Imbalance: Boston's 3-front battle	1974
		Scope and Contents February 24, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 58	Cohen, Kerrigan vows 'revelations' on desegregation	1974
		Scope and Contents January 8, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 59	Cohen, Drift towards desegregation	1974
		Scope and Contents January 14, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 60	Cohen, Changes in Boston plan on racial imbalance due today	1974
		Scope and Contents January 15, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 61	Cohen, What's metropolitan education? A city to suburbs link	1974
		Scope and Contents January 16, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 62	Cohen, Boston hopes to free Federal funds frozen after '73 segregation ruling	1974
		Scope and Contents July 3, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 63	Cohen, Home and school assn. wants court OK to help make busing 'practical'	1974
		Scope and Contents July 4, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 64	Cohen, School balancing: how much this fall?	1974
		Scope and Contents July 14, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 65	Cohen, Parents want classes out of English HS	1974
		Scope and Contents July 16, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 66	Cohen, Boston warns Garrity of school delay	1974
		Scope and Contents July 17, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 67	Cohen, New state panel to strive for quality education	1974
		Scope and Contents July 21, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 68	Cohen, The birth, death and legacy of the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Law	1974
		Scope and Contents July 28, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 69	Cohen, Court action expected if Sargent balance plan passes	1974
		Scope and Contents June 2, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 70	Cohen, Special Ed law upsets some parents	1974
		Scope and Contents June 6, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 71	Cohen, King tells how he'd OK Sargent's school plan	1974
		Scope and Contents June 7, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 72	Cohen, Black history test for teachers	1974
		Scope and Contents June 9, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 73	Cohen, Court enforcement of balance plan to be asked	1974
		Scope and Contents June 16, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 74	Cohen, Bracing for trauma of Hub racial balancing	1974
		Scope and Contents June 30, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 75	Cohen, Pros and cons of school busing	1974
		Scope and Contents March 3, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 76	Cohen, A novel idea: School based on Mass. av.	1974
		Scope and Contents March 17, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 77	Cohen, Federal, state bills not much threat to Boston busing plan	1974
		Scope and Contents March 28, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 78	Cohen, Prince George's County, Md.: A case of crash desegregation	1974
		Scope and Contents May 5, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 79	Cohen, Sargent struggling to retain balance law's principle but ease its impact	1974
		Scope and Contents May 5b, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 80	Cohen, Hub, Springfield balancing plans are unaffected	1974
		Scope and Contents May 11, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 81	Cohen, Questions and answers on the impact of Gov. Sargent's substitute balance plan	1974
		Scope and Contents May 22, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 82	Cohen, Busing schedules take shape amid court fights	1974
		Scope and Contents May 26, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 83	Cohen, Start due on total desegregation plan	1974
		Scope and Contents October 1, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 84	Cohen, Leary rejects bid by teachers union to shut schools	1974
		Scope and Contents October 9, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 85	Cohen, Training to begin for school workers	1974
		Scope and Contents September 2, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 86	Cohen, Colleges asked: aid integration	1974
		Scope and Contents September 4, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 87	Cohen, Study criticizes HEW for going slow in initiating discrimination cases in North	1974
		Scope and Contents September 6, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 88	Cohen, Desegregation and the oft-missing ingredents of quality education	1974
		Scope and Contents September 8, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 89	Cohen, School Committee votes double sessions for Dorchester High	1974
		Scope and Contents September 10, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 90	Cohen, Supt. Leary spent a long opening school day on emotional roller coaster	1974
		Scope and Contents September 13, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 91	Cohen, 3 Boston information centers busy tracking down desegregation rumors	1974
		Scope and Contents September 26, 1974.
Box 4	Folder 92	Cohen, Judge sets Dec. 16 deadline for Phase 2 plan	1974
		Scope and Contents September 28, 1974.

Contents

Furnas, Heather Collection of Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards Research Materials, 1957-1967 Collection Number: 6364

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Cornell University Library

Furnas, Heather Collection of Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards Research Materials, 1957-1967
Collection Number: 6364

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library