Research Catalog

Title

Rietta Hines Herbert papers, 1940-1969.

Author

Herbert, Rietta Hines, 1911-1973.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

3 reels; 35 mm

Summary

Collection consists of material relating to Herbert's career, including biographical data; educational file with teaching material, class notes from Hunter College, and plans for class presentation; professional file consisting of child placement reports, instructional material, job performance evaluations, and reference material; and conference file with annual reports, notes, dedications, and other papers, relating to a conference at the University of Chicago School of Social Services, 1962, and to other conferences. Includes material relating to the New York State Department of Social Welfare and the New York City Department of Welfare (DW), Children's Placement Division.

Subjects

• Public welfare > New York (State)
• School records
• Job evaluation
• Social work with African American children
• Reports
• Public welfare > New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > Department of Social Welfare
• African American teachers
• Social work with African Americans
• African American social workers
• Social work with African American teenagers
• Education, Elementary > United States
• Women social workers
• Social work with children > New York (State) > New York
• Black author
• New York (N.Y.) > Department of Welfare
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Social service > New York (State) > New York
• Social service > Vocational guidance
• Notes
• University of Chicago > School of Social Services
• Hunter College Students
• African American women > New York (State) > New York
• Herbert, Rietta Hines, 1911-1973

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Women social workers.
• African American teachers.
• African American social workers.
• School records.
• Reports.
• Job evaluation.
• Notes.

Note

• Finding aid at head of each reel.
• Reel no. 3 restricted material, ask for it at Manuscript Archives and Rare Books Division.

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Source (note)

• Alexander, Ethleen

Biography (note)

• Rietta Hines Herbert (1911-1973) (also Rietta May Herbert) was an African American social worker employed in New York City from 1935 to 1965. Herbert spent most of her career as a social investigator and supervisor of child welfare in the Harlem offices of the DW. A magna cum laude graduate of Howard University with some graduate credit in accounting at Columbia University. Shortly after her husband's premature death in 1947, she attended Smith College, receiving her M.S.W. in 1951. Fully credentialed, and with eligibility all the rage, she became a supervisor in 1952, responsible for overseeing the work of child welfare case-workers in one of the Harlem offices.

Call Number

Sc Micro R-6777

OCLC

81090759

Author

Herbert, Rietta Hines, 1911-1973.

Title

Rietta Hines Herbert papers, 1940-1969.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

microfilm reel

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York: New York Public Library, 1977. 3 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-15533)

Biography

Rietta Hines Herbert (1911-1973) (also Rietta May Herbert) was an African American social worker employed in New York City from 1935 to 1965. Herbert spent most of her career as a social investigator and supervisor of child welfare in the Harlem offices of the DW. A magna cum laude graduate of Howard University with some graduate credit in accounting at Columbia University. Shortly after her husband's premature death in 1947, she attended Smith College, receiving her M.S.W. in 1951. Fully credentialed, and with eligibility all the rage, she became a supervisor in 1952, responsible for overseeing the work of child welfare case-workers in one of the Harlem offices.

Source

Alexander, Ethleen Gift 19740401 SCM77-21.

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Finding Aid

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-6777