Morris Child Development Center for Infants and Toddlers photograph album (Addition 58) 2024-0103, 1970's
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- Creation: 1970's
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Full Extent
0.21 Cubic Feet (Photograph album. 45 photographs (removed album and put photographs in sleeves))
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States