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Milo Kendall Papers

Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records.

Hyde Park Historical Society. Collection

The Hyde Park Historical Society was founded in 1977 to record and preserve the history of the Hyde Park-Kenwood neighborhood. Included are the Hyde Park Historical Society's administrative records, as well as its collection of historic materials. The collection contains architectural drawings, artifacts, audio material, clippings, correspondence, deeds, manuscripts, maps, memorabilia, oral histories, photographs, postcards, posters, publications, scrapbooks, and slides.

Weeks, Charles Bryant Frederick. Papers

Charles Bryant Frederick Weeks, drummer, banker, and board member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago. The Charles Bryant Frederick Weeks Collection includes ephemera on events and organizations in Chicago, administrative records for the Jazz Institute of Chicago, correspondence, catalogs, method books, audio material, articles, photographs, and a scrapbook. The collection documents Weeks' professional life and involvement in Chicago jazz, jazz

Marcy-Newberry Association records

The Marcy-Newberry Association was formed from the Marcy Center and the Newberry Avenue Center. Marcy Center, founded in 1896, offered settlement house services to residents of the Maxwell Street neighborhood and later the Lawndale neighborhood in Chicago. By the 1950s, the Center was serving a primarily African American population. Newberry Avenue Center was founded in the 1930s in the original

Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) Papers 1960-1984

Dennis Brutus, poet and South African expatriate, was an activist, working for an end to racial segregation in sport. The Dennis Brutus Papers comprise correspondence, papers associated with specific organizations and events, and numerous drafts of poems, both handwritten and typed.

Robert W. Smith receipt for enslaved woman, Barbara

Mobile. Receipt for seven hundred and seventy-five dollars paid by N. Robinson for enslaved woman named Barbara; the woman was "guaranteed sound and sensible and a slave for life."

John M. Ragland papers

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers regarding John Ragland, his family, and his career. John Ragland worked for the social and economic betterment of African Americans in Chicago, Ohio, and the U.S. Army during World War II. He was executive director of the South Central Association (Chicago, Ill.) and was involved with the Tri-Faith Employment Program. Mr. Ragland also ran as the

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.

Edward Sadlowski papers

Correspondence, legal documents, election and poll materials, financial records, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, speeches, and other papers of Ed Sadlowski, a labor leader who was elected director of District 31, United Steelworkers of America (USWA) in 1973 and then campaigned for the presidency of USWA. Most of the collection relates to Sadlowski's 1977 campaign against the incumbent, Lloyd McBride;

Catholic Inter-Racial Council of Chicago records

CIC was established in 1945. The name is sometimes spelled Catholic Interracial Council.

The Compassionate Friends records

The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization founded in Coventry, England in 1969 to provide bereaved parents and siblings with support following the death of a child. The Paula and Arnold Shamres of Florida established the first chapter of the Compassionate Friends in the United States in 1972. Since then, the organization has spread, with Compassionate Friends

John A. McDermott papers

Correspondence, clippings, speeches and other materials documenting the life and career of John A. McDermott, an urban affairs and civil rights advocate who founded The Chicago Reporter in 1972, served as chairman of CONDUCT (Committee on Decent Unbiased Campaign Tactics) from 1984 to 1990, and served as executive director of the Catholic Interracial Council (CIC). In addition to the Catholic

Vigils Against Violence posters

Includes notices for speeches and other anti-violence activities held at Stateway Gardens public housing project, located at 35th and State Street in Chicago (Ill.). Collectively known as the Vigils Against Violence, the activities included a candlelight remembrance of the victims of violence on Chicago's south side.

National Black Nurses Association, Chicago Chapter archives

The Chicago Chapter National Black Nurses' Association evolved out of a desire by 6 Black nurses to establish an organization, to which Black nurses could, in an atmosphere of comradeship and sisterhood, implement strategies to effect change in the delivery of health care to minorities and provide a vehicle by which Black nurses could improve their competence. On September 29,

Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence records

The Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) is a private, not-for-profit corporation composed of member organizations throughout the state which are committed to the common goal of preventing and eliminating domestic violence by providing a statewide network of services and through exposing and educating about the roots of such violence. The Coalition was founded in January, 1978 when representatives from

Gartz Family papers

Diaries, letters, scrapbooks, photographs, financial documents, and some artifacts, art, and audiovisual materials documenting Chicago life from the 1910s through the 1960s and 1970s. The Gartz family settled in West Garfield Park, Chicago, and lived there as the all-white, mostly European immigrant families community changed to an all African American community due to housing discrimination in the City. Donor Linda

Muriel Wilson papers

Muriel Wilson is a founding member of the African American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago, an activist in the Episcopal Church, and a prominent genealogical scholar.

Chicago Reader Records

Original copy of articles, legal files, miscellaneous administrative files, and unsolicited manuscripts of the Chicago Reader alternative weekly newspaper.

Charles Luquet slavery document

New Orleans; Sale of enslaved person by Charles Luquet to Charles Weiss.

South Side Redevelopment photographs, 1949-1959

Aerial photographs and photographs of plans and models concerning the post-World War II planned redevelopment of Chicago's South Side. See item listing for description of specific images. Also included are a small number of copies of photographs from other sources.

Maxwell Street Photo collection

Maxwell Street is a famed street on Chicago's Near West Side, including an open-market during the late19th and early 20th centuries when Eastern-European Jewish immigrants populated the surround area. This collection offers pre-gentrification images of the original Maxwell Street before the relocation of the market and the demolition of most of the buildings.

Douglas Cedarleaf Papers

Sermons, preaching notes, subject files, photographs, and other materials related to pastor Douglas Cedarleaf.

Estelle Carol materials on the Chicago Women's Liberation Union

Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) poster and phonograph record. Founded in 1969, the CWLU was a radical feminist organization. The 1972 record album features The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band and The New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band. Chicago Women's Graphic Collective created the poster for the 2004-2005 exhibition: Outspoken: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition, which was displayed at The Newberry

Northwestern University Settlement Association Delinquent Boy Case Files

The series includes case files and address cards as well as papers containing plans for the Delinquent Boys program, letters, a list of acronyms for agencies, and other administrative documents.

Victory Gardens Theater collection

Victory Gardens Theater is a theater in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to the development and production of new plays and playwrights. The theater was founded in 1974 when seven Chicago artists, Warren Casey, Cordis Heard, Roberta Maguire, Mac McGuinnes, Cecil O'Neal, June Pyskaček, and David Rasche each fronted $1,000 to start a company outside the Chicago Loop. The theater's first production,