Model Cities Program (Dayton, Ohio)

Scope and Contents

The collection contains files (primarily published reports) documenting the Dayton Model Cities Program, which implemented various urban renewal, urban development, and education projects in West Dayton (the Inner West) and later city-wide, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Scope and Content From the Collection: The papers of Gladys Turner Finney fall into three main categories: documents concerning her career, papers relating to her personal interests, and materials associated with the career of her husband. The files cover the years between 1957 and 2014, and are arranged into seven series.Series I, Personal, includes autobiographical articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and three resumes, as well as two children's books authored by Gladys Turner Finney and materials related...