Feeding a Need: The Role(s) of Food in Settlement House Work by Joyce Milambiling, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2705-0211 I am the people, humble, hungry, mean– Hungry yet today despite the dream. Langston Hughes, from “Let America Be America Again” in A New Song (1936) Between 1880 and 1920, it is estimated that more than 20 million…
Continue Reading »Social work is often celebrated for its commitment to social justice, aiding vulnerable populations, and driving societal change. Yet, this narrative too frequently fails to grapple with the darker elements of the profession’s past—namely, the instances where it has caused harm to those it intended to help. Throughout its history, social work has not only offered support and advocacy but has also, at times, played a role in perpetuating injustices and societal harms.
Continue Reading »Ora Brown Stokes founded and was the driving force behind the Richmond Neighborhood Association (RNA), an organization which has received little attention despite its centrality to social welfare work among Richmond’s African Americans between 1912 and 1924, particularly among children and young women.
Continue Reading »With the entry of the United States into World War II and extending throughout the 1940s, there developed a tremendous need for medical and psychiatric social workers. A crisis existed within the profession to which the Veterans Administration responded. The VA became the largest employer of social workers in the nation.
Continue Reading »H. D. C. Maclachlan Social reformer, community leader and advocate for juvenile courts Alice W. Campbell January 3, 2022 Hugh David Cathcart Maclachlan, D. D. (1869-1929) was born March 16, 1869 in Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland. As a young man, he earned A. M. and B. L. degrees from the University of Glasgow. Then, in…
Continue Reading »By Alice W. Campbell, 2021. The National Association of Black Social Workers was founded on May 8, 1968 in San Francisco, CA.
Continue Reading »SOCIAL ECONOMY SCHOOL OPENS ON OCTOBER 1 Dr Hibbs Says New Institution Has Prospects for Large Number of Students The Richmond School of Social Economy, which is the first training school for social workers and public health nurses to be established in the South on a permanent basis, will open October 1 at…
Continue Reading »Richmond School of Social Economy – Beginnings. October 1916 – July 1917 Alice W. Campbell The Richmond School of Social Economy was a training school for social workers established in Richmond, Virginia. The school changed its name and character over time, and in 1968 merged with the Medical College of Virginia to form Virginia Commonwealth…
Continue Reading »A Negro Visitor in Negro Homes The Survey, July 12, 1919 (Vol. 42, Issue 15), 574. This article reports on the work of Lulu Maxwell, the first African American social worker with the Associated Charities of Minneapolis. Incidents of truancy and delinquency, along with Maxwell’s work with the elderly and orphans are discussed. …
Continue Reading »A fictional conversation in which three delegates to the National Conference on Social Work discuss the effects of segregation and racism on African American social workers.
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