Morris Child Development Center for Infants and Toddlers photograph album (Addition 58) 2024-0103

Containers:
Box 12, Folder 3
Extent:
0.21 Cubic Feet Photograph album. 45 photographs (removed album and put photographs in sleeves)
Scope and content:

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a photo album for the Morris Child Development Center for Infants and Toddlers. Founded by Earlene and Ernest Morris in 1965, The Morris Development Center for Infants and Toddlers was a Black-owned daycare located in the historically African American Bagley neighborhood in Detroit. In 1965, the center was the only daycare in Michigan licensed to care for infants and toddlers. The center survived and flourished; it allowed neighborhood mothers to work or go to school and served as a meeting place for community activists in the late 1960's and 1970's.

The photographs document the center's daily operations, including staff and children, and special events, including several photographs of its graduation ceremony and a special "Father of the Year" award presentation for the fathers of the "graduating class." The center closed permanently in 2005.

Language:
English
Related material:

See also Series 4 "A Report of a Conference on Day Care and the Working Mother" material from the Morris Child Development Center Addition 23

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
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Phone: (434) 924-1037
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Fax: (434) 924-4968
Parent restrictions:
The collection is open for research use.
Parent terms of access:
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Preferred citation:

MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 58, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.