- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The development of program content at Marcy Center Chicago, Illinois, 1955
- Creator:
- Fields, Ernestine
- Date of Original:
- 1955-06-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Social settlements from their very inception have had as one of their objectives service to their communities. With such an aim they could not exist in a vacuum as a separate entity - apart from their communities. Cooperation between the communities and the settlements to meet situations as they presented themselves was necessary. The aims of the first settlement houses were to improve the physical and educational capacities of the underprivileged, of uninformed exploited people, and immigrants and unskilled workers who came to large industrial centers and large cities. It was believed by social settlements that this goal could not be achieved by relief societies alone, since they limited their activities to medical and material help. Settlement houses, therefore, endeavored to help the underprivileged and the low paid working class to develop a feeling of self-respect. The resident staff felt that this could be achieved in part by sharing with the membership the advantages of its higher education and more enriching cultural experiences. They attempted to accomplish this by living and working in the residences of settlement houses.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1955_fields_ernestine.pdf
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
