Scope and Content Note
The records of the National Association of Social Workers consist of transcripts of an oral history project begun in 1978 and completed in 1980. Interviews with prominent educators and practitioners from various branches of social work, geographical regions, and ethnic backgrounds document the development of the social work field from the 1920s through the 1970s. Vida S. Grayson conducted the interviews with Harriett M. Bartlett, Arthur Dunham, Arlien Johnson, Gisela Konopka, Inabel B. Lindsay, Helen Harris Perlman, Gladys Ryland, and Gertrude Wilson. Transcripts of the interviews with Dunham and Konopka are incomplete.