Reminiscences of Ellen Black Winston : oral history, 1982.

Biographical Note

Sociologist; government executive.

Scope and Contents

Family background; B.A. Converse College, 1924; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1930; public relief researcher, Works Progress Administration, 1934-1940; professor, Meredith College, 1940-1944; Commissioner of Public Welfare, 1944-1962: development of aid programs for the handicapped; United States Commissioner of Welfare, 1963-1967; development of national social service programs, especially Medicaid.

Subjects

• Coll, Blanche, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Medicaid.
• Oral histories.
• People with disabilities--Services for--Subsidies.
• Public welfare--United States.
• Social service--United States.
• Sociologists--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Welfare Administration.
• United States. Works Progress Administration.
• Winston, Ellen, 1903-1984.
• Women--Political activity--Interviews.

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