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Les Cameos archives
Les Cameos is an African American women’s social organization founded in 1951 as a group of mothers of Girl Scouts, but which continued as a club with parties and charitable events.
Wieboldt Foundation photograph collection
Includes photographs of buildings, primarily housing charitable organizations located in the Chicago metropolitan area (Ill.) that may have been recipients of funds from the Wieboldt Foundation. Organizations include orphanages, settlement houses, clubs, and community centers, among others. One view shows the Wieboldt's North Town Annex on Ashland Avenue.
Fred D. Hubbard collection
The Fred D. Hubbard Collection includes issues of the Independent People's Organization (I.P.O) newsletter, plus a campaign flyer for his 1967 run for the Office of Alderman of Chicago's 2nd Ward.
Lea Taylor papers
Correspondence, minutes, financial and statistical records, articles, sociological studies, arrangements for speaking engagements, and other papers of Lea Taylor, relating to her career as a social worker and head resident of the Chicago Commons settlement house, founded by her father Graham Taylor. Topics include schools, housing, racial discrimination in housing and other areas, employment problems, child care, child labor, juvenile
Joanne Marten Photographs
Joanne Marten was a graduate student of photography in the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology's school of design.
Chicago Urban League Collection
Founded in 1910, the National Urban League is one of the oldest African American social service, research, and advocacy organizations in the United States. A group of sociologists, social workers, and philanthropists founded the Chicago League in 1916 to address the rapidly increasing needs of the African American community during a time of voluminous migration. The specific focus of the
R. Ridgely list of enslaved people and sundries
List of enslaved people and sundries conveyed to W. Morris by R. Ridgely or Amos Long.
Alfred Woods papers
Alfred Lloyd Woods was born February 29, 1944 in Pell City, Alabama to Willie Lloyd Woods and Mary Louis Wrencher Woods. He earned his Bachelor of Arts and a Masters of Library Information Science from the University of Illinois. Following his graduation in 1972, he worked in the Chicago Public Library in multiple positions. Woods also worked as Executive Director
Wayne D. Watson Dissertation Files
In 1972, Chicago native Wayne D. Watson (1945- ) earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. While there he studied the history of the local African American experience through conducting oral histories and gathering copies of primary material. The Wayne D. Watson Dissertation Files are comprised of research files pertaining to Dr. Watson's research conducted between 1969 and
Lea Demarest Taylor papers
Lea Demarest Taylor (1883-1975) daughter of Graham Taylor, founder of the Chicago Commons settlement house, and Leah Demarest Taylor was active in Chicago's social settlement movement. The collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, annual reports, minutes of meetings, and photographs.
Fanniemae and James Summerower papers
Fanniemae Summerower was a schoolteacher, mathematics consultant, philanthropist and widow of real estate broker James Summerower. The couple was prominent in elite Chicago social organizations.
Christopher C. Wimbish papers
Sundry papers including Army bulletins and orders (1917-1918), newsclippings, legal documents and trial transcripts, correspondence, and speeches of Wimbish, an African American lawyer, and his family, most pertaining to his career as a First Lieutenant in the 366th Infantry Brigade, 92nd Division, in Kansas and in France during World War I; Democratic Ward Committeeman in Chicago; Illinois state senator, 1942-1954
Friendship House (Chicago, Ill.) photograph collection, part 2
Friendship House was a Catholic interracial apostolate founded in Toronto in the early 1930s, then New York City in 1938, and established in Chicago in 1942. Friendship House Chicago closed its facilities on March 31, 2000.
Clarence Darrow Community Center records
The collection contains records dating from 1954 to 1970 including committee reports, correspondence, budgets, programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, annual reports and a scrapbook. The materials pertain to the administration of the community center and its programs.
Edith T. Ross Collection
Edith Ross was an English teacher at Chicago's DuSable High School during the 1960s. She attended Western Illinois State College, and received her M.A. in 1951. A religious woman, Edith Ross was involved in her church, the Sixth Grace United Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
Student Protests and Strikes at Northwestern University, 1965-1979
The Student Protests and Strikes Collection consists of diverse materials that document political demonstrations and protests organized by students, spanning from August 1965 through October 1979. Each event included in this collection documents a segment of the history of Northwestern students' political activism. The collection as a whole illustrates the ascendance of political activism among NU students and faculty, both
Board of Trustees Buildings and Grounds Committee minutes, 1943-1975
The Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees consists of ca. 65 members and meets ca. 3 times a year (March, May, November). The Executive Committee (ca. 14 members) meets an additional 3 times (January, July, September).
The New Americans Video Project records
The New Americans is a 411-minute 2004 documentary television series produced by Kartemquin Films. It follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. We follow an Indian couple to Silicon Valley through the dot-com boom and bust. A Mexican meatpacker struggles to reunite his
Sherwood Ross Papers
Papers of Chicago journalist Sherwood Ross, including articles he wrote for the New York Enquirer (1956-1957) and the Chicago Daily News (1962), a syndicated column for Reuters (1992-2002), material from his public relations and social activism work for the National Urban League and records belonging to Sherwood Ross Associates, a media consulting firm Ross founded in 1970.
Charles A. Davis papers
Charles Davis was a journalist, a public relations specialist and an entrepreneur. During the 1940s, he served as the leading political reporter for the Chicago Defender. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO). Davis was director of the National Insurance Association and served on the boards of several important Chicago
Northwestern University Settlement Association Records Case Files 1908-1975
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 Case Files typically feature a case number, client name and the names of immediate family members, their ages,
Pullman Company Records
Records of this railroad sleeping-car operator and manufacturer. The Pullman Company (originally Pullman's Palace Car Company) revolutionized rail travel, dramatically increased employment opportunities for African Americans who served as porters on its cars, and had a significant impact on the American labor movement. Records for the entire firm are included until the mid-1920s division into operating and manufacturing companies; after
Betty Gubert Collection of Black Aviation
Betty Gubert is the former head of reference at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture and the author of several reference works, including "Invisible Wings: An Annotated Bibliography on Blacks in Aviation, 1916-1993."
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.
Coach Jim Brown of DuSable High School collection of visual materials
Photographs relating to the career of Coach Jim Brown, who coached football, baseball, and basketball teams and taught at DuSable High School (Chicago, Ill.) in the 1950s and 1960s. Images include his George Williams College Graduating Class of 1949; Jim Brown playing baseball for the Great Lakes Naval Training Center and playing basketball for Southern University; DuSable sports teams with