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Bessie Coleman collection
Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot to obtain a license. Coleman learned French at a Berlitz school in the Chicago loop, withdrew the savings she had accumulated from her work as a manicurist and the manager of a chili parlor, and with the additional financial support of Abbott and another African American entrepreneur, she set off for Paris
Chicago Reader Records
Original copy of articles, legal files, miscellaneous administrative files, and unsolicited manuscripts of the Chicago Reader alternative weekly newspaper.
South Shore Community Collection
The South Shore Community Collection contains manuscripts, printed material and photographs on businesses, clubs and organizations, religious institutions, residents, schools and street scenes in the community area.
Charles W. Pierce collection, 1904-2009
Charles Warner Pierce, 1876-1947 is believed to be the first African American to be awarded a B. S. in chemical engineering in the U.S. He received the degree from Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago) in 1901. Armour Institute is a predecessor school of Illinois Institute of Technology.
Prexy Nesbitt Anti Apartheid Collection
Associated Clubs of Woodlawn records
The Associated Clubs of Woodlawn (ACW) founded in 1927 and incorporated in 1936, was perhaps Woodlawn´s most ubiquitous, powerful and enduring community improvement association. Until its dissolution in February 1970, the ACW served as a clearing house for information of concern to its member clubs and the Woodlawn community as a whole. It also attempted to safeguard and to promote
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).
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
Illinois Pro-Choice Alliance records
The Illinois Pro-Choice Alliance (IPCA) collection reflects the founding, history, activism, membership, and mission of the Alliance from 1979-1991. The material in the collection consists of IPCA pamphlets, flyers, conference packets, correspondence, and meeting minutes. The files chronicle IPCA rallies, celebrations, conferences, and committee and Board meeetings. The collection also contains ephemera generated by the anti-abortion organizations Operation Rescue and
Interviews about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by Greg Leroy
Interviews with present and former officials and members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) or of its International Ladies Auxiliary, conducted by Greg Leroy as the labor union came to a close (dissolved 1978). The BSCP had been the largest predominantly African American union in the United States. Most interviews took place in the Chicago area or aboard
Haute Couture Club records
Newsletters, minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership data, newspaper clippings, programs, photographs, and other working files of the Haute Couture Club (Chicago, Ill.).
Andrea Leland films on Haiti, Carnival, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Andrea E. Leland is an artist, film and video maker.
United Woodlawn, Inc. Records
The collection documents efforts on behalf of neighborhood improvement projects undertaken by United Woodlawn, Inc.
Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago records
The collection contains records from the Society's founding in 1882 to the present. The materials include the constitution and bylaws, reports, minutes, correspondence, financial and legal records, membership lists, speeches, photographs, and newspaper clippings and programs. The Ethical Humanist Society was founded in 1882 as the Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago to "promote a nobler private and juster social
University Photograph collection
Stepin Fetchit collection
Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry) remains one of the most controversial movie actors in American history. While Stepin Fetchit was undoubtedly one of the most talented physical comedians ever to do his shtick on the Big Screen, achieving the rare status of being a character actor-supporting player who actually achieved superstar status in the 1930s, his characterization as
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
Nisi Shawl Papers 1953-2014
Nisi Shawl is an African-American science fiction and fantasy writer best known for her short stories. She was born in 1955 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. At 16, she moved and enrolled at the University of Michigan's Residential College. Due to her experiences at the University, she decided to pursue other options and later moved to a house called Cosmic Plateau and
International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry records
The collection consists of photocopies of photographs and biographical information of ancestors of slaves.
Victoria Starr papers
A social worker and union organizer beginning in the 1930s, Victoria Kramer Starr was one of the three women present at the 1937 founding of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee.
Beverly Area Planning Association records
The correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, publications, research studies and subject files contained in this collection reflect the administration, programming and advocacy efforts of the Beverly Area Planning Association between 1967 and 1972.
Jack Berry papers
Jack Berry was born in Leeds, England, on December 13, 1918. He obtained his B.A. in Classics at the University of Leeds in 1939 and his Ph.D. in Comparative Linguistics at the University of London in 1952. Berry taught at the University of London from 1946 to 1963 when he came to the United States. After brief periods at Michigan
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
Civil Rights Serial Collection
This collection of serials contains first editions of magazines with a specific focus on the American Civil Rights Movement. The serials are organized in chronological order by year. The magazines are stored in one flat archival box.
Chicago Area Project records
Correspondence, minutes, reports, clippings, newsletters, financial records, and research data of the Chicago Area Project, a community oriented program established in the 1930s for delinquency prevention and research, administered by Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay; plus related files of the Institute for Juvenile Research; and files of the Illinois Youth Commission, particularly files of Anthony M. Sorrentino. Topics