Joan S. Wallace papers

The Joan Wallace subseries contains records related to Joan Wallace’s education, family, and work. Included are certificates, newspaper articles, correspondence, financial documents, event materials, speeches, travel information, business cards, and materials regarding her involvement with Lake of the Woods Church. Wallace’s educational materials are documented in this subseries which includes materials from Bradley University and copies of her dissertation from Northwestern University. It also documents her family’s history with Esther Scott’s estate papers, her sister’s and father’s report cards, materials relating to her father (painter William Edouard Scott), and loose pages from Scott family scrapbooks.

Materials relating to Joan Wallace’s second husband, the civil rights activist Maurice Dawkins, are contained in this subseries. It includes Dawkins’s writings, correspondence, and materials relating to the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of Broward County, which Dawkins helped revive in 2001; Joan Wallace served on the board of directors after his death.

Joan Wallace served as the Assistant Secretary for Administration in the United States Department of Agriculture from December 1977 to 1981. She also served as an Administrator for the Office of International Cooperation and Development at the United States Department of Agriculture from 1981 to 1989. This subseries includes travel materials, certificates, correspondence, work binders, news clippings, speeches, performance appraisals, and reports.

Joan Wallace served as Diplomatic Representative to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture from 1989 to 1993. During this time she was “on loan” from the United States Department of Agriculture. The Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture was founded in 1942 to encourage, promote, and support activities in agricultural development and rural well-being. In this position she was often called “Joan of Agriculture” by the media. Materials in this subseries include certificates, correspondence, event materials, travel documentation, brochures, lease agreements, speeches, news clippings, and reports.

This subseries documents Wallace’s administrative and teaching positions for different universities. Her work as Principle Investigator and Project Director of Project Enhance at Florida International University in Miami Dade County from 2001-2002 is well documented in this subseries. There are also materials related to her work as Director of the School of Social Work at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan; Vice President for Administration at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1976 to 1977; and as Associate Dean and Professor at Howard University’s School of Social Work in Washington, D. C. from 1973 to 1976.

Wallace began work as Consult and Chairman of Americans for Democracy in Africa in Washington, D.C. in 1995. This organization is a non-profit agency which is interested in United States policy in Africa including acknowledging the sovereignty of African countries. Americans for Democracy in Africa lobbies to remove the United States’ sanctions on African countries and it works to create and hold African Policy Forums throughout the United States. This subseries includes briefing books, brochures, correspondence, funding documents, proposals, reports, travel materials, Nigerian election information, and the organization’s newsletter entitled Toward Democracy.

The Biographical subseries includes six photograph albums and ten scrapbooks documenting Joan Wallace’s personal life. The photograph albums contain photographs of Wallace’s wedding to Maurice Dawkins, her trips abroad, and family. The scrapbooks cover Wallace’s time at Bradley University, her mother (Esther Fulks Scott), her father (William Edouard Scott), her travels, and includes Wallace’s baby book.

The subseries contains three photograph albums and twelve scrapbooks depicting Wallace’s work at the United States Department of Agriculture. The final scrapbook listed in this series also includes information from Wallace’s work with the Urban League.

This subseries consists of two Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture scrapbooks.

In this subseries are two scrapbooks from Joan Wallace’s’ work with the Urban League.

This subseries includes two photograph albums from Joan Wallace’s involvement in Americans for Democracy.