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Rolland Bradley papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0247

Overview This collection contains the papers of Rolland Bradley, Texas State legislator. The collection includes a bound manuscript copy of Bradley’s master’s thesis for the University of Texas on proportional representation in the United States. Also included are several chapters of his book and assorted speeches and pamphlets.

Dates: 1930-1967

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Sandra Block American Jewish Committee records

Collection

Identifier: MS 780

Overview This collection contains materials pertaining to the Texas Jewish Feminist Conference led by Sandra Block as a part of the American Jewish Committee Houston Branch.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1984; 1990-92

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Sherry Merfish Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 815

Overview The collection contains correspondence, awards, memorabilia, photographic slides, speeches, sermons, and conference/meeting and marketing/publicity materials that document Sherry Merfish's activism to end the negative stereotyping of Jewish women in the guise of the "Jewish American Princess" and, to a lesser extent, her work with EMILY'S List.

Dates: 1971 - 1993

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Shirley Barish papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 755

Overview The collection contains correspondence, certificates, event materials, speeches and sermons, news clippings, newsletters, conference materials, photographs, a book draft and educational materials catalog, reports, and organizational materials that document Shirley Barish's time as an educator at Congregation Emanu El Religious School and as a youth group advisor for the Congregation's Temple youth groups.

Dates: 1965 - 2011

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William V. Ballew, Jr. papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0254

Abstract: The collection consists of William V. Ballew, Jr.'s workpapers, correspondence, minutes, and news clippings relating to the Houston-Harris County Economic Opportunity Organization. William V. Ballew, Jr., a Houston attorney, served as Chairman, Board of Trustees, Houston-Harris County Economic Opportunities Committee, an organization that initiated welfare programs as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.

Dates: 1965 - 1968

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William V. Houston Personal Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0426

Overview The William V. Houston Personal Papers document Houston's personal life and academic career beginning with his university education at Ohio State and Chicago in 1925, and continuing with his studies in Munich and Leipzig during 1927 and 1928 and his work at the California Institute of Technology from 1928 until he accepted the presidency of Rice Institute in 1946.

Dates: 1925-1968

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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Rolland Bradley papers

Sandra Block American Jewish Committee records

Sherry Merfish Papers

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William V. Ballew, Jr. papers

William V. Houston Personal Papers

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