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Marillac House (Chicago, Ill.) records
Correspondence, minutes, financial records, studies, reports, and other papers (primarily in the form of photocopies) of Marillac House, a social settlement house on the West Side of Chicago operated by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent DePaul, a Roman Catholic order. Topics include African Americans, neighborhood organizations, race relations, and social action.
South Shore Commission records
Topical files, operating files, financial records, newsclippings, membership cards, and other records of the South Shore Commission, a community organization serving the Far South Side of Chicago. During a period of racial change in the neighborhood, the Commission attempted to manage integration to promote racial balance and prevent a decline in housing values. Affiliated organizations include Bryn Mawr East Area
Mary Bartelme papers
Part of the Jane Addams Memorial Collection. Part of the Midwest Women's Historical Collection. Mary Bartelme (1865-1954) was the first woman Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County assigned to the Juvenile Court. She held that position from 1923 until her retirement in 1933. Prior to being elected a judge, Mary Bartelme worked in private practice as a probate
Alice Tregay Papers
Alice Lucille Tregay (Hicks) was born November 14, 1929 in Evanston, Illinois. She is one of three siblings; she has three children with her husband James Tregay, and has six grandchildren. She attending Evanston Township High School and later graduated from Roosevelt University. Throughout her life, Tregay was known as a political activist, advocating for civil rights issues. She worked
Girl's Best Friend Foundation Organizational Archives
The mission of Girl's Best Friend Foundation (GBF) was to promote and protect the human rights of girls and young women by advancing and sustaining policies and programs that ensure their self-determination, power, and well-being. As the foundation matured in its grant making practice, it reaffirmed and focused on its original social change agenda for girls by funding girl-led organizing,
Samuel Cochran certificate
State of Illinois, Jackson County, Brownsville. Certificate for removal of two Black servants (possibly enslaved or formerly enslaved men) from Randolph County to Jackson County. Signed also by T. Nash, clerk of the county commissioner's court of Jackson County. Note of Cochran's assignment of rights and interests in above mentioned men.
Claude M. Lightfoot Collection of Visual Materials
Claude M. Lightfoot was a prominent African American official in the Communist Party (CPUSA). He was highly visible and active on local, national and international levels and often represented the CPUSA in Eastern European and other Communist countries. Lightfoot was politically active from his teen years until his death in 1991.
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.
O'Quinn Family papers, 1943-1984.
The O'Quinns are perhaps best known for the O'Quinn Royal Gladiators Drum and Bugle Corps, which they founded in 1962. The Corps have "posted the colors" in numerous community and city events, won awards, and traveled nationwide, while providing recreation and training for hundreds of boys and girls. The Drum and Bugle Corps evolved out of the Fine Arts Academy
Chicago Repertory Group Collection of Scripts and Scrapbooks
The Chicago Repertory Group Collection, presented to the University Library in June, 1958, by Gertrude Gunter Soltker, an original member of the group, consists of typescripts, carbons, and mimeograph copies of 267 plays, songs, and sketches used by the group, as well as six scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, programs, and publicity for the group.
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,"
William H. Twiggs Collection
William H. Twiggs (1865-1960) was a African-American printer, civic leader, and barber in Evanston, Illinois. In 1889, he was involved with the publishing the Afro-American Budget, an early periodical for the African-American community. Spanning from 1905 to 1998, the collection contains original as well as photocopied materials relating to the life, work, and legacy of William H. Twiggs.
Lloyd O. Lewis Family papers
This collection contains the personal papers and a collection of the personal and professional publications of Lloyd and Emma Lewis, reflecting their careers as minister and teacher, and librarian, respectively. It also documents the Lewis’ continued interest in African American history and civil rights.
Platt R. Spencer Papers
Correspondence, photographs, copybooks, penmanship samples, cashbooks, newspaper clippings, poetry, essays, drawings, artifacts and miscellaneous personal items related to the life and career of Platt Rogers Spencer, penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship. The establishment of Spencerian schools of business was a highly successful endeavor in part because the entire family was involved in the business.
Harold L. Lucas papers
Papers documenting the activities of organizer, preservationist, and entrepreneur Harold L. Lucas. Material is related to African American communities, both in Chicago and nationwide. Also includes other activities including historic building preservation, Bronzeville history, heritage tourism, and political work for the city of Chicago.
Young Men's Christian Association - Duncan Maxwell records
The Young Men's Christian Association, Duncan Maxwell Branch, located at 1012 West Maxwell Street was formed in 1932 when the facility, a dispensary for the Michael Reese Hospital, was given to the Chicago YMCA. The Maxwell Street facility was noted for its open door policy, serving all members of the community regardless of age, religion, race or nationality. The Duncan
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
Campbell, Wilbur and Valarie. Collection
Wilbur and Valarie Campbell. Wilbur Campbell, Chicago drummer; Valarie Campbell, wife and jewelry maker. The Wilbur and Valarie Campbell Collection contains correspondence, articles, artifacts, photographs, publications, posters, audio-visual material, and event ephemera.
Hauser, Philip M.. Papers
Philip M. Hauser, sociologist, demographer, writer. The Philip M. Hauser papers include correspondence, class notes, published and unpublished writings of Hauser, minutes of the Social Science Research Committee (1947-1951), and photographs. The materials document Hauser's career as a sociologist. The materials document Hauser's career as a sociologist, demographer, government statistician, administrator, professor, speaker, writer, and editor, from his college years
Ethel and Irene Kawin papers
Irene Kawin was a probation officer of the Juvenile Court of Cook County from 1913 to 1962, serving as deputy chief beginning in 1927. Ethel Kawin was a child psychologist who directed the Pre-School Department of the Institute for Juvenile Research from 1925 to 1934. The collection contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and articles.
Joyce A. Hughes papers
Correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, reports, legal and financial records, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Joyce A. Hughes, a Northwestern University law professor who served on the Chicago Board of Education (1980-1982). Materials chiefly pertain to school desegregation and related financial issues. Includes records of the Chicago Board of Education (CBE) Desegregation Committee, Audit and Finance Committee, and Real
Deton Jackson Brooks, Jr., papers
Articles, biographical materials, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, a scrapbook, speeches, studies, and other papers of Deton Jackson Brooks, Jr., an educator, journalist, administrator, and Chicago public servant. The collection contains reports and studies written by Brooks related to the topics of welfare and literacy; administrative records from Brooks' tenure as executive director of the Chicago Committee on
University of Chicago. Social Science Research Committee. Records
The records of the University of Chicago Social Science Research Committee contain minutes, budgets, financial statements, correspondence, and reports related to the administration of research projects supported by the Committee and its predecessor, the Local Community Research Committee (1923-1930).
Irma Cayton Wertz papers
Irma Cayton Wertz, a graduate of Fisk University, married Chicago sociologist Horace Cayton and moved to Chicago in the late 1930s. During World War II, she served as an early African American WAC officer.
Iroquois League collection
Founded in 1917 by Mrs. Eva Rouse and a small group of women, the Iroquois League sought to provide “a safe, supervised and economical home for Negro working girls.” The home, later called the North Shore Community House, was opened in 1924 on the corner of Garrett and Ridge Avenue and despite financial hardships through 1927, by 1929 the League