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Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities collection of visual materials
Black-and-white photographic negatives (approximately 1059), photographic prints (383) and contact sheets (76); color transparencies (238) and photographic prints (4) depicting the activities of the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities (LCMOC) and affiliated organizations, including the Housing Investments Fund (HIF), the Regional Housing Coalition, and the South Shore Scene newspaper. The majority of the images depict events, workshops, and publicity
Judge Sidney A. Jones, Jr. papers
Correspondence, publications, programs, legal documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, and writings by and about Judge Sidney A. Jones, Jr., attorney, alderman of the 6th Ward, Cook County Circuit Court judge, and mayoral appointee as director of the Mayor's License Commission under Mayor Harold Washington in the 1980s. A portion of the collection documents his involvement in various fraternities, clubs, and religious
Urban Preceptorship Program records
Correspondence, grant applications, class curricula, student files, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, marketing materials, and other records of the Urban Preceptorship Program (UPP) at the University of Illinois at the Medical Center, which taught medical students, health care professionals, and community health workers about medical care in urban areas. Topics include medical treatment for the poor, prison health, community based
Audley Mackel papers
Audley Mackel was a prominent dentist in the Vicksburg-Natchez Mississippi area. In the 1950s he was active in the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, headed by Dr. T.R.M. Howard. In a legendary incident, he drove Dr. Howard in a hearse past Ku Klux Klan gunners. Dr. Mackel was also instrumental in an NAACP lawsuit challenging “separate but equal.
Spink, George. Collection
The George Spink Collection contains transcripts and audio cassettes of interviews with saxophonist Bud Freeman and Richard "Dick" Wang.
Harold Washington Archives and Collections. Mayoral Records. Public Safety / Regulatory Sub-Cabinet Series
When Harold Washington took office in 1983 he formed five sub-cabinets that were responsible for the coordination, development and implementation of policies that cut across departmental boundaries. Departments reporting to this Sub-Committee include Police, Fire, Consumer Services, Cable Communications and Animal Care and Control. Records from the Police Department are particularly strong in the area of gangs and the Mayor's
Office of Public Relations records
The public relations office was created to serve the needs of Loyola University. Responsible for such things as news releases and various publications, it has grown to become a critical component of the University. Most of the files were collected during the reign of Alvo E. Albini from 1967 to 1983. During his 16-year tenure, Albini directed the public relations
Chicago Boys and Girls Club records
This description does not include unprocessed additions to the collection.
Office of the Chancellor, James F. Maguire, S.J., records
Father James F. Maguire, S.J. began his tenure as Loyola University's 20th president in July, 1955. He served as president for fifteen years, and until 1969 he was also the rector of Loyola's Jesuit Community. During his term, Father Maguire led the university through a period of growth and expansion. By 1970, Loyola had become the largest Catholic university in
Bronzeville Design Symposium collection, 1999
Materials related to "Bronzeville Design Symposium: The Impact of Design on Urban Communities," held at Illinois Institute of Technology October 29-30, 1999. Project was a joint activity of IIT, the College of Architecture, and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Central Area, The Links, Inc. archives
The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. The membership consists of 12,000 professional women of color in 270 chapters located in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring
John Forsyth papers
Letter, from the Department of State, to Nicholas Biddle, president of the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia: Levi Ellmaker, Charles McAlister, Edward D[uncan] Ingraham, and Stephen Allen commissioned as directors of the Bank (1835 February 5, Letter signed, 1 page). Washington; Document to John Mills, U.S. District Attorney: transmit to you the documents sent to this Department by the
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
Chicago Commons Association visual materials
Photographic material documenting activities of the Chicago Commons Association settlement houses in the Near West Side of Chicago (Ill.). Includes views of activities for adults, children, teenagers, and senior citizens, such as handicraft, educational, vocational, and social activities. Also includes scenes relating to nutrition, physical fitness and sports for children and teenagers; children's summer camp (ca. 1920-1969); portraits of various
Young Men's Christian Association - Wabash Avenue records
The YMCA at 3763 S. Wabash Avenue was designed by Robert C. Berlin and financed primarily by Julius Rosenwald, Chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, who added his funds to those raised by community residents. Completed in 1913, the facility provided housing, education, and vocational training for African Americans emigrating from the South who sought new opportunities in Chicago's growing
J. Archie Hargraves papers
Correspondence, reports, proposals, and other papers of Reverend J. Archie Hargraves, chiefly concerning the West Side Organization (WSO), a community organization in Chicago (Ill.). Topics include WSO development plans, drug abuse counseling (a project of the WSO Health Services Corporation), and urban education. Also present are the transcript of a eulogy and tributes to Hargraves, historical notes about the WSO,
Women Employed records
Founded in 1973, Women Employed sought to address issues of sex discrimination among Chicago's Loop office workers. Mixing a combination of innovative campaigning and traditional challenges through federal agencies such as the Office of Federal Contract Compliance, Women Employed helped thousands of women find employment, develop their careers, and overcome sex discrimination in the workplace throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
McIntyre and Heath Archive
The vaudeville partnership of James McIntyre and Thomas Heath spanned more than five decades from 1874 until 1927.
The Suburbanites Social and Civic Club Collection
The Suburbanites Social and Civic Club was a non-profit African-American women’s club in Evanston, Illinois. The Suburbanites Social and Civic Club collection spans from 1965 to 1978, and consists of photographs, artifacts, and meeting information.
Lawrence Brooks Collection
Larry Brooks is an Evanston photographer and videographer. For more information, see his website: www.larrybrooksphotography.com
LaJulia Rhea papers
Correspondence, newsclippings, concert programs, autobiographical booklet, and other papers of LaJulia Rhea, the first African American to audition at the Metropolitan Opera House and America's first black artist to star with a major opera company (which occurred in Chicago in 1937).
Campus Photographs
Collection contains contact sheets ranging in dates from 1981-84 taken by photographer Janis Young and Anne Clarys. Material is not dated but does identify events and people in photographs. Material documents campus events and student life.
Wendell Reid papers
From 2000-2004, Wendell Reid was co-chair of the National Association of Black and White Men Together, a gay, multiracial, multicultural organization committed to overcoming racism, sexism, homophobia, HIV/AIDS discrimination and other inequities through educational, political, and social activities.
Collection of Woodlawn and Hyde Park neighborhood slides
Color 35mm slides of the Woodlawn and Hyde Park neighborhood communities photographed by Tom Staniszewski. Images document deterioration in the built environment of these neighborhoods, including schools, churches, cemeteries, social service facilities, and storefronts. Notable buildings include Tower Theater, Wedgewood Hotel, Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, and 63rd Street elevated train stations.
Frank Marshall Davis Collection
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a prominent poet and journalist who lived in Chicago, Kansas, and Atlanta during the 1930s and 1940s before moving to Hawaii in 1948. Author of three major volumes of poetry, Black Man’s Verse (1935), I Am the American Negro (1937), and 47th Street (1948), Davis was also an active journalist in Chicago and Atlanta; he