Stella Maris House collection, 1940-1973

This series features records pertaining to the ADC Association, an Oregon-based welfare rights group. The series includes program and conference notes from a poverty planning conference, copies of state bills, reports, meeting agendas, newspaper clippings, position statements, newsletters, meeting minutes, and memorandums.

The Albina series contains clippings, leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, charters, budgets, proposals, programs, correspondence, reports, histories, meeting minutes, resolutions, surveys, studies, and memoranda relating to Portland's Albina neighborhood. The print output of Albina-based civic, religious, and civil rights groups forms the bulk of the series. Notably, the series includes material from the Albina Neighborhood Improvement Project, an early urban renewal program based in the Albina area.

This small series features records material related to Portland's Church Community Action Program (C-CAP), a nondenominational religious group that worked for racial equality in education, housing, recreation, and employment opportunity. The series includes invitations, newspaper clippings, reports, histories, leaflets, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, memos, correspondence, newsletters, and pamphlets.

Correspondence, leaflets, pamphlets, meeting minutes, reports, memos, programs, newsletters, invitations, histories, resolutions, constitutions, and newspaper clippings created by Oregon-based civic groups and the Stella Maris House are included in this series.

Featuring records of both local and national civil rights groups, this series includes newsletters, memos, correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets, programs, bulletins, invitations, newspaper clippings, flyers, essays, reports, meeting minutes, receipts, tax returns, histories, studies, articles of incorporation, and survey forms and results. Items of note include an African-American employment survey conducted by the Metropolitan Interfaith Commission on Race (MICOR) and printed material from the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Urban League.

This small series includes pamphlets, memos, correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, leaflets, reports, articles, booklets, newsletters, meeting minutes, and studies related to national and local school integration.

The small employment series includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, leaflets, booklets, reports, and meeting minutes that primarily address employment equality. Materials are arranged alphabetically by subject.

The freeway relocation series includes typewritten notes, maps, reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, survey forms and reports, photographs, a scrapbook, and brochures from the period of freeway expansion in Portland. Of note are scrapbook images illustrating changes to the neighborhood of the Stella Maris House during freeway construction.

Spanning the years 1947 to 1970, the housing series includes a wide variety of printed materials related to housing in Portland. The series features correspondence, memos, newspaper clippings, state laws, petitions, reports, brochures, leaflets, newsletters, fact sheets, programs, meeting minutes, survey forms and results, circulars, typewritten and handwritten notes, studies, annual reports, periodicals, interview transcripts, lists, pamphlets, and press releases. The bulk of the material in the series concerns efforts to provide housing for low-income families, regenerate the inner city, and combat housing discrimination, primarily focusing on Portland's Albina and Irvington neighborhoods. Significant portions of the series include seven folders containing information about the Model Cities program in Portland (part of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society initiative) and six folders pertaining to the Housing Authority of Portland. The Housing Authority folders contain materials documenting the Vanport flood, a historically critical event that forced the relocation of a large portion of Portland's Black community.

Demonstrating the group's involvement with the issue of migrant labor rights, the eleven document cases of the migrant labor series form the largest portion of the Stella Maris House collection. The series contains material both collected and created by the group, including essays, brochures, programs, typewritten notes, reports, lists, memos, correspondence, booklets, a thesis, newspaper clippings, speeches, pamphlets, fact sheets, articles, newsletters, speeches, financial statements, flyers, invitations, proposals, program applications, histories, press releases, financial records, maps, organization bylaws, and leaflets.

Notable portions of the series include a bibliography folder providing a detailed listing of migrant labor rights texts, and a folder of printed material from Cesar Chavez's group, the United Farm Workers.

The poverty series consists of brochures, leaflets, memos, bylaws, correspondence, meeting minutes, resolutions, reports, flyers, histories, programs, directories, lists, papers, articles of incorporation, newspaper clippings, typewritten notes, annual reports, grant applications, and program proposals created by various human welfare organizations and the Stella Maris House. The bulk of materials were created by local groups funded by the national Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). Local OEO groups include the Albina Citizens War on Poverty Committee (ACWOPC) and Neighborhood Service Center (NSC).

The publication series consists of a small number of periodicals focused on civil rights, the peace movement, and religious issues.