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Chicago Black Lives Matter Protest Collection
Announcements, flyers, artwork, buttons, newsletters, photographs, posters, t-shirts, and other materials collected by various individuals at Chicago protests, 2015-2016, responding to recurring police violence and civil rights violations against black citizens. This documentation was solicited as part of a 2016 Newberry Library exhibition, From Civil War to Civil Rights, and also includes responses to events posted by visitors to the
Thomas McReynolds papers
Correspondence of McReynolds, a resident of Macoupin County (Ill.); bill of sale (1832) to McReynolds for an enslaved girl from Kentucky; and a list of trustees of a Macoupin County school (1839). McReynolds describes Illinois and the Black Hawk War in an 1831 letter. Letters from his native Kentucky contain his father's description of a cholera epidemic (1835) and his
Edmund Randolph letter
Letter from Randolph, New Kent Court-House, to the governor of Virginia, at Richmond. Makes a plea for the life of a Black person condemned to death for stealing, states belief that the law was misinterpreted in the case.
Northwestern University Settlement Association Records Financial Records, 1918-1971
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. This series contains the financial records of the Northwestern University Settlement. The records fill twenty-eight boxes and span the
Institute for Community Empowerment records
The Institute for Community Empowerment (ICE) was founded in the 1980s by Chicago community leaders and activists. ICE works with urban communities ""in crisis"" where residents have faced wrenching dispossession and relocation owing to political, social, and/or economic forces seemingly beyond local control. To counteract the democratic deficit typically lying at the root of such communities' problems, ICE provides residents
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Midwest records
Correspondence, legal files, topical files (especially 1968-1974 from Tom Herriman's office), pamphlets, and four scrapbooks of the Chicago and Central States Joint Board, as well as correspondence and minutes from various locals of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, including: Local 6 minute and cash books (in Czech), 1919-1940; Local 39 minute books, 1922-1927 and 1939-1949; Local 61
Records of the Northwestern University Settlement Association Records North Shore Junior Board 1937-1992
This collection consists of 11 boxes organized in 4 series: Administrative Notebooks, 1959-1983; Benefit Committee records, 1978-1986: President's Books, 1980-1986; and Publicity records, 1969-1977. The materials include: meeting agendas and minutes; correspondence; treasurer's reports; financial records; tax letters; committee notes, secretary, treasurer, and chairman reports; meeting agendas and minutes; guidelines; calendars; annual reports; yearbook materials; press releases; clippings; income tax
Phillip Sang papers
Phillip Sang was a collector of manuscript materials and memorabilia on slavery and abolitionism.
Chicago Seed (Newspaper) Photograph Collection
The Chicago Seed (Newspaper) Photograph Collection Includes photoprints from the alternative newspaper Chicago Seed. Some photoprints relate to the 1968 Democratic Convention demonstrations in Chicago, the civil rights movement, and other national social and political issues. Negatives show a construction project, an earth-moving project, and an unidentified event with a crowd, possibly in a park. A contact sheet, stored with
Chicago Normal School records
Chicago Normal School came into existence when the Chicago Board of Education took over the Cook County Normal School in 1896. The institution continued to enjoy an international reputation for progressive education under its principals, Francis Parker, Arnold Tomkins, and Ella Flagg Young. The collection contains course catalogs for much of CNS’s history, photographs, research materials on Ella Flagg Young,
George White Civil War documents
White was an African American born in Baltimore. He enlisted in the army at age 33 or 34 as an engineer and served as a sergeant in the 3rd Missouri Colored Infantry Volunteers (which became the 67th Regiment of Colored Infantry in 1864). On May 16, 1863, he was promoted to the 1st Regiment Mississippi Volunteers (which eventually merged into
Merriam, Charles E. Papers
Charles E. Merriam, professor of Political Science and politician. Candidate for mayor of Chicago, 1911 and 1919. Founder, Social Science Research Council, 1924. Contains personal and professional correspondence; manuscripts; class notes Merriam took as a student; memoranda; election campaign material; minutes; reports; scholarly and political speeches; articles; diaries; book reviews; degrees; and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia. Materials
North Shore Illinois Chapter of The Links, Incorporated Collection
The Links, Incorporated is an African American professional women's organization founded in 1946 with chapters throughout the United States. The North Shore Illinois Chapter of the Links, Inc. was established in 1972, encompassing members in Chicago's suburban northern and northwest suburbs. The collection was assembled by Shorefront Legacy Center with the majority of the collection coming from North Shore Links
Seminarians Organized for Racial Justice records
Correspondence, newsletters, reports, memos, and history of Seminarians Organized for Racial Justice (SORJ), a Chicago-area group organized in 1968 to eliminate racism, promote Catholic Church ties with affirmative action businesses, and construction of low-income housing for minorities in Arlington Heights. Most of the newsletters discuss "Project Equality," an attempt to raise awareness from within the dioceses on SORJ’s activities. Box
Davis, Allison. Papers
Allison Davis (1902-1983), Professor of Education. The papers contain reprints, manuscripts, and annotated drafts, field notes and various interview data from key projects, correspondence and enclosures, research notes, and associated works by colleagues.
Church Federation of Greater Chicago photograph collection, Part 1
Photographs relating to the Church Federation of Greater Chicago, an organization established in 1907 to unite Protestant denominations and later, other faiths in the Chicago area. Material depicts social service activities for youths, including Parkway Community House work project (1949); Mobile Seminar on Social Problems (1950, 1951), and Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (1950).
Loyola University Chicago Oral History Project, John Felice Rome Center oral histories
Initiated in 2006, The Loyola University Chicago Oral History Project is documenting the history of Loyola University Chicago through oral history interviews of administrators, staff, faculty, and alumni. Administration, faculty, staff, and alumni were interviewed about their experiences at the John Felice Rome Center as part of the project.
West Side Christian Parish (Chicago, Ill.) records
Scrapbooks, questionnaires, interviews, meeting minutes, reports, speeches, press releases, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other records related to the West Side Christian Parish (WSCP), an interdenominational religious and social service organization. Includes materials collected and interviews of WSCP employees conducted by Raymond Owens, whose master's thesis on the organization is included in the collection. Also present are articles,
Charles Walton Papers
Charles Walton was a jazz drummer, music educator, and author of "Bronzeville Conversations," a research and oral history project that documented the jazz and blues world in Black Chicago. Walton was born in Selma, Alabama and moved to Chicago's South Side as a child. Following high school, Walton joined the United States Navy and later attended Kentucky State College and
Chad Allen Helsup Papers
Chad Allen Helsup, stage name MC Longshot, is a hip-hop rapper from the Southside of Chicago, IL. The collection includes diaries, song lyrics, recording contracts, photographs, hotel key cards, and audio-visual recordings.
Bronzeville Artifacts Grand Theatre tickets, 1950s
Three tickets to the Grand Theatre, 3110 S. State Street, Chicago with face value of 25 cents each. Artifact.
Chicago Metro Ethics Coalition records
The Chicago Metro Ethics Coalition is a tax-exempt non-partisan organization whose purpose is to monitor Chicago's local government, conduct research into ethical problems, and educate the public about the need for reform. The Chicago Metro Ethics Coalition Records include reports, minutes, memoranda, correspondence, clippings, published articles, copies of Chicago ordinances and other legal documents, financial statements, budgets, policy statements, press
Chicago Circle Center -- Campus Programs -- records
Campus Programs is an office in Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, and within the Department of Campus unions. The office of the Vice Chancellor works to "create a student body that reflects the diversity of Illinois, facilitate graduation through special programs and services, and establish a positive and diverse learning environment that is necessary to expand student's
Adrian Scheltes collection
The Adrian Scheltes collection contains photographs either taken by or collected by Scheltes while he was the Supervisor of Counsel and Guidance for the Blind from the Illinois Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this position he assisted blind people with learning professional skills to enter the workforce. Scheltes also advocated for black blind
Jeanne Boger Jones papers
The Jeanne Boger Jones papers contain materials that document the history of African Americans in the Midwest, including religious, military, occupational, and recreational endeavors, from the Civil War to the present. The records highlight such issues as equal opportunity in employment and housing, fair administration of veteran's benefits, and the history of African-American participation in the armed forces. Venues of