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Charles A. and Eula C. Wilson papers
Obituary and Funeral Program Collection
The Obituary and Funeral Program collection is comprised of almost 1200 African American obituaries, funeral programs, funeral hymns, and thank you cards and letters from Evanston and the North Shore area. A database of the holdings is available onsite at Shorefront Legacy Center for use by researchers. The materials span from 1941 to 2012.
Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church archives
The oldest African American congregation in Chicago, Quinn Chapel A.M.E. was founded in 1844.
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).
Lea Demarest Taylor papers
Lea Demarest Taylor (1883-1975) daughter of Graham Taylor, founder of the Chicago Commons settlement house, and Leah Demarest Taylor was active in Chicago's social settlement movement. The collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, annual reports, minutes of meetings, and photographs.
Blackburn Family Papers
Papers of A. B. Blackburn, A. W. Blackburn, W. H. Blackburn of North Carolina, and other family members. Consists of correspondence, journal account book, financial documents, deeds, wills, Civil War documents, and other miscellaneous items.
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.
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
Ronald E. Kennedy papers
Ronald Eugene Kennedy was appointed assistant professor at the Northwestern University School of Law in 1974. Kennedy was active in legal work on behalf of ethnic minority groups as well as in several professional organizations.
Scottsdale Homeowners Association Records
The Scottsdale Homeowners Association (SHA) was established in 1952 by a group of residents of Scottsdale, a newly formed subdivision on the southwest side of Chicago. The mission of the SHA is to meet regularly with Scottsdale residents in order to discuss and take action on community issues and services; for example, the association worked to obtain sidewalks on major
Paul Horvat/International Peasant Movement Collection
Paul Horvat was born to a Slovene peasant. As a teenager Paul Horvat began to organize efforts by Slovene peasants to sell their products directly to consumers. Arriving in the United States in 1952, Horvat continued his economic and political organizing efforts in an American context. His International Peasant Movement supported the conservative social values, nationalism, dignity, and economic independence
Reverend Floyd Daniel Johnson and Sweetie C. Johnson papers, Zion Temple Missionary Baptist Church archives
The Reverend Floyd D. Johnson and Sweetie C. Johnson Papers, Zion Temple Missionary Baptist Church Archives includes papers from both Floyd and Sweetie Johnson and records pertaining to the history of Zion Temple Missionary Baptist Church. Floyd Johnson’s papers consist of conference journals and programs, correspondence, newspaper articles, speeches, sermons and notes, Foreign Mission Board administrative records and travel records,
Charles Hayes papers
Charles Hayes was a union leader in the United Packinghouse Workers of America and in two successor unions from the 1940s through the 1980s. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993.
Langston Hughes Society records
Langston Hughes was an American poet.
Cyrus Colter (1910-2002) Papers, 1935-1995
The papers of Cyrus Colter, African-American writer and educator, fill five archival boxes and span the years 1935 to 1995. The collections consists of biographical material, correspondence, speeches, and publications. Drafts of Colter's publications, especially his two last novels, A Chocolate Soldier and City of Lights, form the bulk of the collection.
John M. Talbot bill of sale
Louisville, Kentucky. Bill of sale to his daughter, Emma R. Hewet[?], in consideration of his love and affection for her and the sum of one dollar, a 23-year-old enslaved Black man and a number of specified household furniture and effects.
Earl B. Dickerson Papers
Earl Burrus Dickerson was among the most prominent leaders in African American business, politics, and law in the twentieth century. He was born on June 22, 1891 in Canton, Mississippi, near Jackson. His parents, Emma Garrett Fielding and Edward Dickerson, married in 1890. His father, an upholster, died in 1896. His maternal grandfather Benjamin Franklin Garrett, who purchased himself and
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
Eric Werner Photographs
Eric Werner was born in Riverside California, but his family moved to Chicago when he was 3 years old. After serving in Vietnam in the 1970s, Werner came back to follow his lifelong passion for photography, working as a public relations photographer for most of his life. He also documented community organizing and events, and musicians, as well as other
Institute of the Church in an Urban Industrial Society (ICUIS) records
The Institute of the Church in an Urban Industrial Society was the umbrella organization for a number of Church organizations, including the Urban Training Center and Association for Christian Training. Founded in 1967, it acted as a clearing house, distributing literature on multiple topics related to the Church, civil rights, missionary work around the world, the environment, foreign and corporate
Andrew Paschal papers
Andrew Paschal (1907-1990) was a Chicago-based historian and educator who specialized in social history and the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois. A graduate of Northwestern University’s school of journalism, Paschal wrote for the WPA Illinois Writers’ Project and was published in several newspapers and journals, including the Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, Crisis, Journal of Negro History, and Chicago Bee.
Paul Stensland papers
From 1982-1983, Paul Stensland served on the Steering Committee of the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Black and White Men Together (NABWMT), a gay, multiracial, multicultural organization committed to overcoming racism, sexism, homophobia, HIV/AIDS discrimination and other inequities through educational, political, and social activities.
Les Cameos archives
Les Cameos is an African American women’s social organization founded in 1951 as a group of mothers of Girl Scouts, but which continued as a club with parties and charitable events.
Gosnell, Harold F. Papers
Harold Foote Gosnell (1896-1997) was a political scientist at the University of Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. He also worked for the federal government and spent the latter part of his academic career at American and Howard Universities. He was renowned for his work on voter behavior, particularly with reference to African-American politics and Chicago politics. The Harold F.
Archives of the South Side Community Art Center
The South Side Community Art Center opened in 1940 and is one of the only surviving community art centers founded through New Deal’s Federal Art Project between 1937 and 1942. In its early years the Center was a hive of activity, as well as a who’s who of the Chicago Renaissance. Federal spending on WPA projects was cut dramatically upon