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Wilson Adonijah Head fonds [textual record, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1945-1994.

Reference:

R1320-0-4-E, MG31-D148

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102242

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Wilson Adonijah Head fonds
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Fonds includes:

6 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1945-1994.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3.15 m of textual records.
1 audio cassette.
1 audio reel.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of biographical and personal information; correspondence; information relating to organizations in which Wilson Head was involved; documents of movements and conferences dealing with social welfare and racial topics; publications of Wilson Head and other authors and also various materials such as clippings; computer print-outs relating to Wilson Head's studies of Blacks in Toronto.

Also included in fonds is a sound recording documenting a speech by Wilson Head.

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Head, Wilson A, 1914-1993

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Head, Wilson A, 1914-1993 : Wilson Adonijah Head was born in 1914 at Milner, Ga., and raised in Atlanta. He received his education from the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, B. Sc. in education 1940, University of Alabama, M.S.W. 1942, University of Chicago, and Ohio State University, Ph. D. in education and social science, 1958. Prior to immigrating to Canada in 1959, he had worked in Chicago as director of Parkway Community House and in Ohio as the head of the state of Ohio Juvenile Diagnostic Centre. When he came to Canada, he became the executive Director of the Windsor Group Therapy Project, and in 1965 he became the Director of research and planning with the research and planning council of Metropolitan Toronto.

He lectured part-time in social work at a number of educational institutions including the University of Windsor, 1960-1964, University of Michigan, 1962-1964, Wayne State University, 1963-1965 and Sir Williams College, Chicago, 1961-1964. He has been involved with a number of organizations including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association of Toronto as vice-president, 1967, National Welfare Council founding member and National Black Coalition of Canada, chairman and president, 1977-1982. Dr. Head became the first chairman of the Bachelor of Social Work Programme at Atkinson College, York University. He has written various articles and research studies including "The Black Presence in the Canadian Mosaic", "The Adaptation of Immigrants".

Although retired from academic life, Dr. Head remained active in organizational work. In 1982, he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from York University.

Doctor Wilson Head passed away on October 6, 1993 just following his 79th birthday.

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a file list of the papers. MSS1458

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1458
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000233.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1982, 1988 and 1994 from Dr. W.A. Head of Willowdale, Ont. and also in 1997 from A.R. Sandy Whitehouse of Burlington, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Wilson Adonijah Head - Biography, 1982 "Who's Who", 1982

Decorations of honour, Academic, 1982 Discrimination Against Blacks in Toronto, 1974

Wilson Adonijah Head - Correspondence, [1946-1983] Metro Toronto Committee on Race Relations and Policy, [1975-1983]

Human rights, [1946-1983] National Black Coalition of Canada, [1975-1983]

Civil rights, [1946-1983] Urban Alliance on Race Relations, [1975-1983]

Peace movement, [1946-1983] International Council on Prison Abolition, [1981-1983]

Toronto (Ont.) - Social institutions, [194-] Poor People's Conference (Toronto, Ont.), [1981-1983]

Toronto (Ont.) - Racism, [194-] Citizen's Independent Review of Police Activities, [1975-1983]

Toronto (Ont.) - Social life and customs, [194-] Council of National Ethnocultural Organizations of Canada, [1975-1983]

Wilson Adonijah Head - Authorship, [194-] World Conference on Religion and Peace (Toronto, Ont.), [1981-1983]

Toronto (Ont.) - Race discrimination, [194-]

Social workers - Canada, [1946-1983]
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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122-020016-6
1988/0148
1994-0264 VSA
1994/0175
1997-03005-5
1997/0079
MG31-D148

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-D148
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1458] 115

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Sound recordings

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