Social Welfare Activities, 1962-1980 and undated

This series documents the wide range of activities promoting social change in which Elizabeth Lee Scull and, to a lesser extent, David Scull were participants or leaders. The records cover the couple's participation in a number of organizations and boards, such as District of Columbia Women's Commission for Crime Prevention (1968-1969), the Human Relations Commission of Montgomery County (1962-1966), Suburban Maryland Fair Housing, Inc. (1965-1970), and the Citizens' Commission for Human Relations of Montgomery County (1965-1966). Included in these records are meeting minutes and agenda, newspaper clippings, correspondence, publications, and memoranda.

The records cover three notable issues of concern to the Sculls, fair housing, open occupancy, and pornographic movies and bookstores. During his tenure as a councilman, David Scull was heavily involved in an effort to enact an open occupancy ordinance in Montgomery County. Both David and Elizabeth Scull were deeply concerned with sub-standard housing, especially as it concerned several African American enclaves scattered throughout rural Montgomery County; Elizabeth Scull was instrumental in securing the county's first public housing project for the community of Tobytown, circa 1965 to 1977. Her files on this effort include extensive newspaper clippings, correspondence with federal and state agencies, copies of official Montgomery County documents, and the records of the Friends of Tobytown.

The final major focus of this series is Elizabeth Scull's effort to limit the existence of pornographic movie houses and bookstores in Montgomery County. Her campaign against pornography, undertaken when she joined the county council in 1973, is documented by extensive copies of county records, newspaper clippings, commentaries she wrote on this issue, considerable personal correspondence, bills she drafted, and transcripts of two 1973 hearings on pornographic movies.

This series is arranged alphabetically by topic.