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Auburn Park Property Restriction Association collection [manuscript]
Restrictive covenant ("Anti-Colored Restriction Agreement"), cover letter, and notary public form from the Association's president Walter Fulton to John F. Wagner of 7253 Emerald Avenue, Chicago. Requests that Wagner sign the covenant agreeing not to sell or lease his house to African Americans.
Chicago Teachers Union records
The records of the Chicago Teachers Union are primarily textual and include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, reports, financial information, contracts, publications, clippings, flyers, scrapbooks, materials for mass distribution, and general office files created by the CTU, the Men’s Teachers Union, the Federation of Women High School Teachers, the Joint Board of Teachers’ Unions and the American Federation of Teachers.
George A. Patterson papers
Correspondence, meeting minutes, grievance reports, membership lists, company-union material, agreements, newsclippings, pamphlets, and other papers regarding George A. Patterson's role as a leader in the unionization of steel workers in the Chicago area in the 1930s, and later organizing activities and service to steel workers' unions in Illinois and Wisconsin as a staff member of United Steelworkers of America (USWA),
Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives
The Archives of the Illinois Central Railroad Company document the activities of the Company and its subsidiary lines and companies from before its charter on Feb. 10, 1851, through and a bit beyond 1972, when the line merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to become Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. The collection includes correspondence of administrators and staff, minutes,
Jack L. Cooper papers
Scripts of radio programs, correspondence, contracts, appointment books (12 v.), and scrapbook of Jack Leroy Cooper, a Chicago pioneer in African American radio broadcasting. Includes Black dialect comedy and other program scripts by Cooper, mainly 1930s; scrapbook of clippings and handbills on Cooper's early theater and radio career, chiefly 1918-1931; correspondence, 1939-1988, primarily relative to Jack L. Cooper Radio Advertising
Joe Jacobs papers
Biographical materials, correspondence, research files, legal documents, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks (2 volumes; newsclippings 1938), and other papers of Joe Jacobs, a Chicago labor lawyer. Most of the collection relates to Jacobs' work with labor unions, including the Chicago Teachers Union, Upholsterers' International Union, United Steelworkers of America, Amalgamated Transit Union, and Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen