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North Shore Summer Project collection
The collection consists of general and financial reports, newsletters, bulletins, publicity releases, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings. The materials pertain to the operation of the North Shore Summer Project and its relation with other Chicago area civil rights groups.
Near West Side Community Committee records
The Near West Side Community Committee was founded as the West Side Community Committee in 1938 to improve Chicago's 20th ward. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, directories, newsletters as well as the constitution and by-laws of the organization dating from 1947 to 1966.
National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter Records
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded in 1966 and the Chicago Chapter of NOW was organized two years later, in 1968. By working with business leaders, politicians, and social organizers, Chicago NOW focused on creating jobs, equal wages, and legislation for workplace safety for women and other marginalized groups. The National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter Records document
National Black Feminist Organization collection
The National Black Feminist Organization Collection includes minutes, correspondence, memoranda, by-laws, published material, and clippings related to the work of the Chicago chapter plus some additional materials from the National Office.
National Alliance of Black Feminists collection
The National Alliance of Black Feminists Collection includes leaflets, a membership application, statement of purpose, calendar, syllabi, and workshop resolutions.
Miscellaneous Nursing School records
Records include photographs and artifacts from Provident School of Nursing, Englewood Hospital Training School, Cook County School of Nursing, and Chicago State University School of Nursing. Among other things, the photographs depict nursing school directors, graduating students, and African American nursing students.
Miriam Tyler papers
Part of the Jane Addams Memorial Collection. Miriam Tyler worked as a case worker for the Juvenile Protective Association from 1945 to 1955 in the section of the city bordered by Division St. on the north and 45th on the south. Miriam Tyler also lived in the Jane Club for eight years. In 1954, she left Chicago for the Shenandoah
Michael Reese Hospital School of Nursing Student Enrollment Records
Michael Reese Hospital was founded on the near south side of Chicago in 1881 with a mandate to treat patients regardless of race, creed, or nationality. From 1890 to 1981, the hospital operated a training program for nurses. The Michael Reese Hospital School of Nursing Student Enrollment records include student applications for admission, academic records, and photographs. The collection is
Michael A. Bilandic papers
Michael A. Bilandic served as Mayor of Chicago from 1976-1979 and as Supreme Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1994-1997. This collection includes minutes and reports of the Chicago City Council, Bilandic's personal notes and information he gathered in preparation for City Council meetings and hearings, correspondence between Bilandic and fellow alderman, Mayor Daley, interested parties, and citizens. The
Metropolitan Planning Council records
The Metropolitan Planning Council is an independent nonprofit Chicago area planning organization. According to its website, it is committed to developing a sustainable and prosperous Chicago region, and since its founding in 1934 it has played a critical role in city infrastructure planning, providing housing for low income individuals, sponsoring urban renewal, protecting the environment, and advocating health care for
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.
Mary Crane League records
The Mary Crane League was founded in 1932 as a not-for-profit membership service organization to financially support the Mary Crane Nursery School. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, bylaws, budgets, program materials, legal and financial documents, newsletters, annual reports, photographs, and pamphlets dating from 1922 to 1981.
Mary Bartelme papers
Part of the Jane Addams Memorial Collection. Part of the Midwest Women's Historical Collection. Mary Bartelme (1865-1954) was the first woman Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County assigned to the Juvenile Court. She held that position from 1923 until her retirement in 1933. Prior to being elected a judge, Mary Bartelme worked in private practice as a probate
Martin H. Kennelly papers
Martin H. Kennelly (1887-1961) served as the mayor of Chicago from 1947 until 1955. The Martin H. Kennelly Papers consists primarily of speeches, correspondence, and newspaper clippings from Kennelly's three campaigns for the Chicago mayoralty and his eight years in office, from 1947-1955. In addition, there are materials relating to Kennelly's business ventures and to his tenure as the head
Martin Bickham papers
Rev. Martin Hayes Bickham (October 7, 1880 - May, 1976) was a minister, sociologist, civil rights activist, and civil liberties advocate. Martin Bickham's work brought him into a leading role in addressing the issues of his times, including temperance, unemployment, the rights of the disabled, civil rights, and fair housing. He was a member of the Illinois chapter of the
Marie Agnes Fese papers
The Marie Agnes Fese Papers reflect her work in the founding and leadership of the Coalition of Labor Union Women at both the national and local level, as well as her own political involvement and campaign for the Illinois 14th Congressional District seat. The collection includes primarily minutes, newsletters, clippings, background literature, correspondence and speeches.
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
Marcus H. Morgan papers
Marcus H. Morgan (1920- ) was a minister with the Church of God and longtime pastor of the Emerald Avenue Church of God in Chicago. Morgan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he attended Pittsburgh Public Schools and graduated with honors in 1940. In 1942, he married Eanistine J. Cuff. Morgan entered the Christian Ministry on September 1, 1946 and
Louise deKoven Bowen papers
Part of the Jane Addams Memorial Collection. Louise deKoven Bowen (1859-1953) was a Chicago philanthopist, social reformer and benefactor of Hull-House. She was the director of the Woman's Club of Chicago and served as Hull-House Treasurer and president of the Board of Directors. She also served as the first president of the Juvenile Protective Association where she supervised research examining
Lloyd O. Lewis Family papers
This collection contains the personal papers and a collection of the personal and professional publications of Lloyd and Emma Lewis, reflecting their careers as minister and teacher, and librarian, respectively. It also documents the Lewis’ continued interest in African American history and civil rights.
LeRoy Winbush design papers
LeRoy Winbush is an African-American design consultant who became famous for his innovative work with elaborate advertising displays in Chicago's financial district. The LeRoy Winbush Design Papers consist of publications designed by LeRoy Winbush, promotional information for Winbush Associates, an offprint of an article from Ebony profiling LeRoy Winbush, as well as Winbush's resume.
League of Women Voters of Oak Park - River Forest records
The Suburban Civic and Equal Suffrage Association of Oak Park, Illinois, was organized around 1909. The organization shortened its name to the Oak Park Civic League after women gained the right to vote and became the Oak Park League of Women Voters in 1924, later known as the League of Women Voters of Oak Park - River Forest.
League of Women Voters of Illinois (LWVIL) collection
The state league of the National League of Women Voters was formed in Chicago in October of 1920 to "foster education in citizenship to increase the effectiveness of women's votes, and further better government." This collection reflects the activities of the League of Women Voters of Illinois.
League of Women Voters of Cook County records
The collection contains minutes of Board of Directors' annual meetings, correspondence, programs, studies, memoranda, pamphlets, annual reports, and surveys from 1923 until the present. The materials pertain to such issues as corrections, housing, health care, elections, the environment, and the organization of the League of Women Voters in Cook County.
League of Women Voters of Chicago records
The League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was passed. It grew out of the National Women’s Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters of Chicago was organized in 1950, when ten Chicago-area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Cook County merged. The League’s objectives are to