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University of Chicago. African Studies Workshop. Records
The University of Chicago African Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum conducted and operated under the auspices of the University Council for Advanced Studies. The collection of African Studies Workshop Records contains administrative data such as period evaluations by the Council for Advanced Studies, participant lists, requests for refunding, meeting agendas, invitations to present and related correspondence, as well as
Mariame Kaba Papers
Mariame Kaba works as a community-based organizer and educator with a focus on violence against women and girls, the prison system and youth leadership development. During her time in the Chicago area, Kaba actively worked with Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander (CAFMA), Chicago Freedom School (CFS), Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls and Young Women, Girl Talk, Project NIA,
Annie Smith photographs of CHA residents
Views of residents of Chicago Housing Authority’s Ida B. Wells, Clarence Darrow, and Madden Park Homes. Includes informal portraits of residents inside and outside their apartments as well as exterior views of the buildings, including scenes of building demolition and residents with Congressman Barack Obama. The artist’s statement as well as detailed descriptions and narratives of the photographs by Smith
Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety records
Members from nine community organizations in Chicago created the Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety (CANS) in 1981 to create safer neighborhoods through the application of volunteer-centered and community-based crime prevention techniques. CANS was instrumental in the campaign to promote community policing in Chicago. The organization deserves much credit for the Chicago Police Department's implementation of the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy
Valmor Products Label Collection
The Valmor Product Label Collection contains a small selection of product labels created in the 1930s and 1940s by the Valmor Products Company or its subsidiary companies: Lucky Brown, Madam Jones, King Novelty and Famous Products Company. The products ranged from hair pomades, perfumes and skin creams to household products that were marketed to African American women prior to the
William H. Exum (1942-1986) Papers1965-1985
William H. Exum became involved in school integration efforts during the late 1950s and early 1960s both as a student and as a civil rights worker. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University in September, 1977 and served as Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology. Exum's research interests are centered around his concern for understanding the "phenomena of difference,"
Young Men's Christian Association - Wabash Avenue records
The YMCA at 3763 S. Wabash Avenue was designed by Robert C. Berlin and financed primarily by Julius Rosenwald, Chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, who added his funds to those raised by community residents. Completed in 1913, the facility provided housing, education, and vocational training for African Americans emigrating from the South who sought new opportunities in Chicago's growing
Jack Conroy Papers
Works, correspondence, and papers of American novelist, folklorist, and editor Jack Conroy. Conroy's novel The Disinherited, published in 1933, is considered a classic in proletarian literature and depicted in gritty detail the realities of the Great Depression. Conroy also edited radical journals The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil.
David J. Griffiths notebooks
Griffiths entered the U.S. Army as a member of the 2nd Kentucky Volunteers and served as medical director at various times in the following units: 11th Division, Army of the Ohio; and in the Army of the Cumberland: 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps; 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps; and 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps.
Gosnell, Harold F. Papers
Harold Foote Gosnell (1896-1997) was a political scientist at the University of Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. He also worked for the federal government and spent the latter part of his academic career at American and Howard Universities. He was renowned for his work on voter behavior, particularly with reference to African-American politics and Chicago politics. The Harold F.
Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago records
The Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago (AAGHSC) was created to preserve and perpetuate the records of African American history and to encourage the study of African American genealogy. AAGHSC is a volunteer organization whose society members are experts in the field of African American genealogical research. AAGHSC helped family historians overcome challenges in African American ancestry research resulting
Susan Eleuterio collection
Anti-KKK demonstration materials distributed at Morton East High School, 2423 South Austin Boulevard, Cicero (Ill.), including a blue ribbon; a sticker (white with blue lettering): ""Say Nay To The KKK""; photocopy of memo issued by J. Sterling Morton High Schools; broadside: ""STOP THE HATE OPEN HOUSE""; brochure: Hate Crime (Crimen de Odio) information in Spanish, from the Chicago Lawyers' Committee
Corneal A. Davis papers
Correspondence, financial materials, speeches, publications, newspaper clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, and other papers of Corneal A. Davis, an African American minister and community leader in Chicago, primarily relating to his work as chairman of the American Negro Emancipation Centennial Commission in Illinois and as a Democratic representative from the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago in the Illinois General Assembly.
Norshore Music Collection
The Norshore music collection includes music by Evanston, Illinois musicians who recorded music from 1947-2009. The music collection consists of commercially successful artists, such as Patti Drew, as well as local up and coming artists, such a MC Longshot (a.k.a. Chad Helsup). The music includes a variety of genres.
Cyrus Colter (1910-2002) Papers, 1935-1995
The papers of Cyrus Colter, African-American writer and educator, fill five archival boxes and span the years 1935 to 1995. The collections consists of biographical material, correspondence, speeches, and publications. Drafts of Colter's publications, especially his two last novels, A Chocolate Soldier and City of Lights, form the bulk of the collection.
Northwestern University Settlement Association Records Scrapbooks, 1917-1984
The Northwestern University Settlement Association was founded in 1891 by a group of administrators and faculty from Northwestern University in order to provide social services, educational programs, referrals, and emergency relief to a poor immigrant neighborhood on Chicago's near northwest side.The scrapbooks in this series, compiled by different groups associated with the Northwestern University Settlement, typically contain newspaper clippings, programs,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences -- Department of Black Studies -- Grace Holt papers
Grace Holt was an instructor at UIC for 22 years. In addition to teaching in the Department of Speech and Theatre and the Black Studies Program (African-American Studies Department), Professor Holt was active in the UIC community throughout her career and became involved in women's and African-American issues at the national level. Professor Holt was a pioneer both for promoting
American Colonization Society records
Correspondence, account sheets, constitution, instructions to agents, letters of introduction from the Board of Managers, and other materials of the American Colonization Society. Topics include the formation of auxiliary societies, importance of suppressing the slave trade, African settlements, fund-raising, and captured Africans recommended to the attention of the society after they have been discharged from the U.S. Correspondents include Dr.
Marjorie Tuite collection
Marjorie Tuite, O.P., (1922-1986) was born and raised in New York City. She is described in the program at her memorial service following her death on June 28, 1986 as “a leading voice for an equal role for woman in the Roman Catholic Church, an advocate for the poor and an educator on a broad range of social justice issues.”
Abraham Feinglass collection of visual materials
Primarily depicts union meetings, conferences, conventions, in Chicago and other cities; and leaders of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union (I.F.L.W.U.) and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America while Feinglass served as I.F.L.W.U. president (1954-1955) and international vice-president of Fur & Leather Dept. of Amalgamated Meat Cutters (1956-1980). Includes a few photographs of demonstrations by
Citizens Alert records
Citizens Alert was created in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois as an organization to help victims of police brutality. Since that time, it broadened its role into that of police watchdog group and sought to improve relations between the police and the communities they served.
Office of the Chancellor -- Chancellor's Central Files
This collection contains the chancellor's central files and includes correspondence, reports, and additional material exchanged between the Chancellor's Office and the colleges, offices, and major programs of the Chicago Undergraduate Division/University of Illinois at Chicago Circle/ University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chicago Defender unprocessed records
Founded by Robert S. Abbott in 1905, the Chicago Defender is one of America's longest-running African American newspapers. The Defender is best known for having spurred the Great Migration of African Americans from the southern United States to the nation's urban centers in the north—especially Chicago—during the first decades of the 20th century. The Defender also paved the way for
Robert Mier papers
Correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, discussion papers, and other working files of Robert Mier, a Chicago city planner, professor, and social activist who served as commissioner of economic development for the City of Chicago in the Mayor Harold Washington administration and as assistant for development and planning in the Mayor Eugene Sawyer administration. Materials pertain to projects with which Mier was
Lawndale Community Committee records
Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, legal documents, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, neighborhood maps, publications, and other records of the Lawndale Community Committee (LCC), a Chicago (Ill.) neighborhood organization that sponsored programs and activities associated with the Fillmore Youth Center. Includes materials regarding consultant director John T. Harris; and administrative files involving other Lawndale organizations, such as the Near West Side