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Fannie Rushing papers

Rushing, a professor at Benedictine University, was an early activist in Chicago Friends of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee).

Jacobs, Phoebe. Papers

Phoebe Jacobs, Executive Vice President of The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc. The Phoebe Jacobs Papers contain correspondence, announcements, brochures, advertisements, articles, event ephemera, and press kits.

Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller Photographic Collection

Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller are two Chicago area photographers with many decades of professional experience as exhibit planners, media producers, teaching, writing and other academic and non-academic experience. Alan Teller is the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar Award for his current project “Following the Box” based on a box of photos made by an unknown U.S. soldier in

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.).

Joseph Bachellor Goddard Papers

Incomplete (pages 81-296) manuscript of an anti-slavery essay written by Joseph Bachellor Goddard, a Congregational minister in Londonderry, Vermont, and 1816 graduate of Williams College, who argued for the elimination of slavery, but sharply criticized the program of the American Colonization Society. Goddard preached in Londonderry from 1827 to 1838, and later in Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Also included

Northwestern University African American Publications Collection

Founded in 1851 in Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University is a private research university. Through pioneering research and a collaborative work environment, Northwestern offers its diverse student body an array of academic and cultural opportunities. The Northwestern University African American Publications collection documents the history of African Americans at the university as detailed in the school's own publications. It includes pamphlets,

Marion Kennedy Volini papers

Marion Jean Kennedy was born on November 27, 1934, the daughter of Marion Mitchell and Edward Kennedy. Growing up on the south side of Chicago, she attended Maria High School, but came to the north side of the city to attend and graduate from Mundelein College. She married Camillo Volini, and they raised their five children in the Lakewood-Balmoral neighborhood

Victor Olander papers

Correspondence, financial and membership data, pamphlets, speeches, and other administrative records of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, which Olander served as secretary-treasurer. Includes minutes of meetings, reports, statistical data, and some correspondence regarding the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, 1932-1955, and other relief and welfare organizations and activities in Chicago and Illinois during the 1930s; and correspondence, financial records, and

Eva Lee Stewart papers

Stewart was a nurse during World War II and later a teacher in Cleveland, Ohio.

Lawrence Brooks Collection

Larry Brooks is an Evanston photographer and videographer. For more information, see his website: www.larrybrooksphotography.com

Warren Bacon papers

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Archive

Founded in Chicago in 1864 by Canadian immigrant Richard Robert Donnelley, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company is a leading global provider of printing and print-related services. The archive contains business records, product samples and promotional material, biographical files and personal papers, historical writings and oral histories, artifacts, and thousands of documentary photographs. While the material in this collection is concentrated

Project L.E.A.P. records

Press releases, correspondence, clippings, brochures, meeting minutes, calendars, checklists, publications, reports, financial information, canvas results, primary and election information, ward files, and other papers of the Chicago area Project L.E.A.P. (Legal Elections in All Precincts). Topics mostly relate to elections and voting, including election histories and voter fraud. Sheldon Gardner was a leader of Project LEAP.

DePaul University Center for Black Diaspora records

The Center for Black Diaspora, founded as the Center for African American research in 1993 and renamed the Center for the Culture and History of the Black Diaspora in 1996, was established to promote and support the production of scholarly, cultural, and creative work related to the experience of the African diaspora.

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.

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Ephemera Collection

Posters, paper fans, broadsides, and other ephemera created by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

Wirth, Mary Bolton. Papers

Social worker. Contains correspondence, manuscripts, reports, memoranda, interviews, articles, notes, notebooks, travel accounts, biographical material, and photographs. Papers document Wirth's active career as a social worker, especially in the area of Chicago public housing. Includes material relating to the Chicago Housing Authority for which Wirth served as Supervisor of Community and Tenant Relations (1952-1958), the Department of Urban Renewal, and

Klutznick, Philip M. Papers

Philip M. Klutznick, businessman, philanthropist, diplomat, government official and Jewish leader. The Philip M. Klutznick Papers comprise 175.5 linear feet and include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, published materials, photographs, scrapbooks, architectural plans, awards and mementos and audio and video recordings. The papers document Klutznick's career as a real estate developer, philanthropist, United Nations representative in the 1950s and 1960s, President of

John C. Ogden letter

Letter, from New Haven, to John Lawrence, Esq., Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, regarding payment of wages that is owed to him as the owner of the note of [enslaver of?] Juba Dyer, a soldier in the Connecticut Line, who was previously the servant of Colonel Dyer. [Juba, an enslaved man, was promised his freedom if he served in

Henry J. Hyde papers

Henry J. Hyde was a Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th district of Illinois. He chaired the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001, and the House International Relations Committee from 2001 to 2007.

Alva Beatrice Maxey-Boyd papers

Alva Beatrice Maxey (1913-2009) was a social worker and educator. This collection is largely representative of Maxey’s educational and work history, especially her time as a Professor of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University and her work as the Community Organization Director for the Chicago Urban League in the 1950s. Also well represented is Maxey and Charles Boyd’s battle to preserve

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

Thomas P. Dombkowski papers

Thomas P. Dombkowski helped found Chicago House, an HIV and AIDS hospice, eventually becoming its Executive Director. He also worked for the Howard Brown Health Center and for the Chicago Department of Health, and founded the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.

University of Chicago. Library. Chicago Jazz Archive. Exhibits. Records

The University of Chicago Library Chicago Jazz Archive Exhibits Records contain publicity material, photocopies, brochures, announcements, articles, and ephemera related to Chicago Jazz Archive-produced exhibits, primarily "From Dreamland to Showcase: Jazz in Chicago, 1912-1996" and “Jazz-The Chicago Scene: The Art of Stephen Longstreet.”

Braxton, Anthony. Collection

Anthony Braxton, music professor, composer, and jazz musician. The Anthony Braxton Collection contains concert and lecture ephemera as well as a score titled L/C-J-637 (for orchestra).