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Carol Moseley Braun papers

Carol Moseley Braun was born and educated in Chicago. She became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

University of Illinois at the Medical Center -- Office of the Chancellor -- Chancellor -- records

This collection contains records from the Vice President of the Chicago Professional Colleges and the Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at the Medical Center with information on all of the major offices, colleges, departments for the medical center - including reports, memoranda, policy statements, minutes, publications, programs and correspondence received from or sent to the President, Trustees, administrators,

Juanita Hall papers

Juanita Hall was a singer and choir leader best known for her roles on Broadway.

Leon Despres photograph collection

Includes photographs relating to the career of former Chicago 5th ward alderman Leon Despres of Chicago (Ill.). Includes portraits of Despres and views of Despres with other Chicago municipal officials, such as mayors Jane Byrne and Harold Washington. Despres is shown at various events, such as ground breaking ceremonies, elections, and meetings. Includes a group of large format photographs showing

Abraham, Alton. Collection of Sun Ra

Alton Abraham (1927-1999), entrepreneur and hospital technician, was a longtime friend and business associate of Sun Ra (1914-1993), the influential jazz composer and musician. Alton Abraham collected manuscripts, business records, printed ephemera, artifacts, photographs, audio and video recordings, and other documents of his work with Sun Ra. The collection contains textual, graphic, and audio-visual records of the work of Sun

The Sophia Fund records

Correspondence and other operating files of The Sophia Fund, a Chicago-based foundation that supported women's organizations and projects. Collection includes grant applications, reports, brochures, newsletters, newsclippings, etc. produced by and about groups that received funding. Topics include pro-choice advocacy and reproductive rights, prevention of violence against women, rape counseling, and economic justice. The files include information on the agencies and

Ada Williams Letters collection

Kartemquin Films records

Kartemquin Films is a not-for-profit documentary and educational film production company founded in 1966 in Chicago by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter, three University of Chicago graduates who wanted to make documentary films guided by their principle of ""Cinematic Social Inquiry."" They were later joined by Jerry Blumenthal, who along with Gordon Quinn remains with the organization today.

Northwestern University Settlement Association Clubs and Classes Attendance and Registration Cards, 1886-1953

This series comprises boxes of Attendance Cards for Northwestern University Settlement clubs and classes, and boxes of three-by-five individual Registration Cards.

Records of the Citizens for 65

The records detail many of the issues and events associated with Gregory Coffin’s superintendency of Evanston’s Community Consolidated School District 65 and the contentious 1970 School Board election that determined his tenure.

Oscar DePriest Photograph collection

Portrait and group portrait photographs of Oscar DePriest, African American Congressman from Illinois' 1st District (Chicago's near South Side), and his family. Includes images of DePriest's son Oscar Stanton DePriest as a child and as a teenage member of the Lane Tech City Champs basketball team. Several photographs show a wedding reception, possibly for Oscar Stanton DePriest. Of the people

Learning Logic Foundation archives

Learning Logic Foundation, headed by Calvin Pearce, was a not-for-profit organization think tank created to promote educational discussion and experimental programs between senior citizens and school-age youth.

State of Illinois records: Records relating to CSU

The Office of Public affairs handles all State of Illinois records relating to Chicago State University.

Kartemquin Films Film and Video Project elements

Kartemquin Films is a not-for-profit documentary and educational film production company founded in 1966 in Chicago by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter, three University of Chicago graduates who wanted to make documentary films guided by their principle of ""Cinematic Social Inquiry."" They were later joined by Jerry Blumenthal, who along with Gordon Quinn remains with the organization today.

Chicago Youth Centers Collection

Chicago Youth Centers (CYC) is Chicago's largest independent, locally based, multi-site youth services organization. It was founded in 1956 by two visionaries, Chicago businessmen Elliott Donnelley and Sidney Epstein, who wanted young people living in poverty to have an alternative to the streets. CYC was born out of three boys' clubs that had fallen on hard times. With the merger

Chicago SNCC History Project Archives

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in 1960 on the initiative of Ella Baker, a member and former executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Seeing the need to capitalize on the student sit-in movement across the South and to incorporate more youth into the civil rights movement, Baker held a conference for student leaders in

Rosenwald, Julius. Papers

Julius Rosenwald, businessman and philanthropist. The papers of Julius Rosenwald contain correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and a 1963 Rosenwald family tree. The collection documents Rosenwald's deep sense of social responsibility and commitment to philanthropic and civic endeavors, in particular his support of rural schools for African Americans, higher education, Jewish charities, and medical care. The collection also includes

Harold Washington Archives and Collections. Illinois State Representative Records

Reports, minutes, press releases, speeches, newsletters and news clippings from Harold Washington's tenure as State Representative for the 26th District of Illinois. Major topics covered in this collection include the creation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Law and the Medical Malpractice Act.

Robert Carter papers

Various documents pertaining to Carter's Virginia plantations, especially the enslaved people kept there, including a request by Carter for the baptism of an African American child, 1775; Robert Carter's and Richard H. Lee's proportion of present to De Grasse; several extracts from Northumberland District Court (Va.) records regarding the manumission of several enslaved people owned by Carter, 1791-1792, including Daniel

Chicago Seed (Newspaper) Photograph Collection

The Chicago Seed (Newspaper) Photograph Collection Includes photoprints from the alternative newspaper Chicago Seed. Some photoprints relate to the 1968 Democratic Convention demonstrations in Chicago, the civil rights movement, and other national social and political issues. Negatives show a construction project, an earth-moving project, and an unidentified event with a crowd, possibly in a park. A contact sheet, stored with

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago records

The United Way of Metropolitan Chicago collection consists of materials detailing the history of this institution’s operations from its humble beginnings in 1930s Chicago through its incredible growth into the 1990s. Containing materials that range from correspondence to meeting minutes, and budgetary reports from agencies that received funding support from the institution, this collection provides a glimpse into roughly sixty

Eleanor F. Dolan papers

Eleanor Frances Dolan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 30, 1907, the daughter of Harry Francis Roby and Lillie Eleanor (McFall) Dolan. She has one sister, Elizabeth M. Dolan of New York City. Eleanor F. Dolan received a B.A. (1927) from Wellesley College and her M.A. (1928) and Ph.D. (1935) from Radcliffe College. She served as an intern at Niantic

American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive records

The American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive was an organization created to inform Americans of the conditions in Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970.

Willis, Alfred. Collection of African-American Popular Fiction

A collection of over 1300 paperback volumes of African-American popular fiction, chiefly romance novels. The collection was formed by Alfred Willis, a 1986 graduate of the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago.

Richard H. Newhouse, Jr. papers

Correspondence, reports, news clippings, speeches, legal documents, biographical materials, and other papers of Richard H. Newhouse, Illinois State Senator, 1967-1989, from Chicago's South Side. Topics include discriminatory employment practices, especially in the construction industry; education for minorities; low-income housing; and political participation of minorities. Present are materials related to the Futures Conference, established by Newhouse address the causes of poverty,