NEWSLETTER: "THE SOUNDS OF MOMS AND TOTS" (TWO ISSUES), AND OTHER MATERIALS (APPOINTMENT CARD AND OUTLINE OF SERVICES) FROM THE MOM AND TOTS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER, 1968/04-1973/12

The Nancy Milio Collection contains manuscript and published materials principally related to the organization and operation of the Mom and Tots Neighborhood Center, which Milio established in southeast Detroit, Michigan in 1966. Most important are a series of nine "field notebooks," or diaries kept by Professor Milio between 1965 and 1968. These notebooks comprise a near daily record of Milio's activities, meetings, interactions, conversations, assessments, and impressions of the various individuals and conditions she encountered as a public health nurse and community organizer in the Kercheval and McClellan district of Detroit, a low-income, African-American neighborhood. Of particular significance are the insights Milio gained regarding race relations and identity formation, and the critical importance of collaborative strategies to the successful organization of a truly neighborhood-based women's health service and day care facility.

Dr. Milio wrote of her experiences with the Mom and Tots Neighborhood Center in the book: 9226 Kercheval : The Storefront That Did Not Burn, published in 1970. Correspondence and various news articles concern the book, as well as the operations and funding of Center, which was left untouched in the civil disturbances of 1967, when many of the Kercheval buildings were burned. Manuscript versions of other professional papers and presentations, reprints of journal articles and book chapters, news stories concerning Milio herself, photographs, and an audio cassette interview with Milio recorded in 1994 complete the collection.

Additions to the Milio Collection in 2014 comprise almost entirely copies or reprints of publications by Milio. The items conserved here are rare or difficult to access through standard library databases; for a full inventory of Milio's publications, researchers are advised to consult Milio's curriculum vitae, filed in box 01, folder 001 of this collection. A single folder of the additions contains a historic newspaper collection, assembled by Milio to complement her journal entries.