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Grzeca, Dan. Collection
Dan Grzeca artist, painter, and printmaker. The Dan Grzeca Collection contains posters, programs, and print works for various concerts and venues.
Griffin Funeral Home Records
Records of the Griffin Funeral Home, and its predecessor, the Bell Auto & Undertaking Company, which served the African American community in Chicago,1929-2007. Entries contain the decedent's name, address, occupation, physical characteristics, next of kin, date/place of birth, date/place of death, minister's name, and place of burial. Limited information of plot purchasers is also included.
Good Shepherd Parish Metropolitan Community Church records
The Good Shepherd Parish Metropolitan Community Church was chartered in Chicago in 1970 by the Reverend Arthur Green. The Metropolitan Community Church doctrine included open acceptance and welcoming of gays and lesbians, and Good Shepherd Parish was the first MCC to minister specifically to Chicago's gay community. Among its efforts at outreach to the community were its participation in the
Go on Girl! Book Club archives
“Go On Girl!,” an African American book club, was the vision of three girlfriends, Monique Greenwood, Lynda Johnson and Tracy Mitchell-Brown, in 1991 and has developed into a national book club with over 25 chapters. Its mission is to expand the African American reading experience, concentrating on authors from the African diaspora. In 1995, the Club became a legally incorporated
Glennette Tilley Turner papers
Glennette Tilley Turner is the leading authority on the Underground Railroad in Illinois. She is the author of African American history books and of books for children.
Girl's Best Friend Foundation Organizational Archives
The mission of Girl's Best Friend Foundation (GBF) was to promote and protect the human rights of girls and young women by advancing and sustaining policies and programs that ensure their self-determination, power, and well-being. As the foundation matured in its grant making practice, it reaffirmed and focused on its original social change agenda for girls by funding girl-led organizing,
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network collection
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network was formed in 1990 to work with educators, policy makers, community leaders, and students to address homophobic and heterosexist behavior and bias in schools. GLSEN aims to protect students from bullying and harassment, to advance comprehensive safe schools laws and policies, to empower principals to make their schools safer, and to build the
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
Fritz Pollard papers
An early and exceptional football star, Fritz Pollard played for Lane Tech High School, Brown University, and in the National Football League.
Friendship House (Chicago, Ill.) records
Correspondence, staff meeting materials and annual convention reports, photographs, and other records, mainly from the Catholic interracial organization Chicago Friendship House (FH) and national headquarters; together with records from Friendship Houses in Shreveport (La.), New York City, Portland (Or.), and Washington, D.C. Includes information on the operation of the Friendship Houses, known as centers, and on the policies of the
Freedom Day Film Project elements
The Freedom Day footage is from an unfinished film project produced by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner, and others when they were students at the University of Chicago and before they formed Kartemquin Films. The original footage was shot in Chicago on October 22, 1963, during a one-day school boycott and march on the headquarters of the Chicago Board of Education
Frank Untermyer papers
Frank Untermyer taught Political Science at Roosevelt University from 1946-1982. He was instrumental in the founding of the University and actively recruited African American and African students. He focused on African politics, taught in Ghana in 1960 and had close relations to Ghana government officials. After his death, it was discovered that he secretly provided scholarships for African students to
Frances Minor Papers
Frances Minor was born Frances Anderson, an only child, to Francis Elmo Anderson and Sadie Hilyard on February 8, 1923, in Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. She married Chicago Public Schools administrator Byron Minor. Ms. Minor has collected from, and provided support to, African American artists in Chicago for nearly five decades. She is a board member of the both the
Foster School Reunion Collection
Foster School was a de facto segregated public school in Evanston, Illinois. Opened in 1905, Foster School began with a one hundred percent white student body and faculty, but demographics began to shift, and by 1945, it was nearly one hundred percent African-American. In 1976, the school was closed. The Foster School Reunion collection includes Reunion Committee meeting minutes, Foster
For Members Only Publications
This collection contains publications by For Members Only. Established in 1967, For Members Only is an African American student group at Northwestern University that seeks to provide a unified voice for Northwestern University’s African American student population. The Northwestern University For Members Only Publications, dating from 1981 to 2010, contains three different forms of publications including newspapers, newsletters, and magazines.
Fannie Rushing papers
Rushing, a professor at Benedictine University, was an early activist in Chicago Friends of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee).
Family Focus Evanston Records
Founded in Chicago in 1976, Family Focus is a Chicago-based nonprofit family support organization that provides community-based programs for parents, children and teens. In 1979, it expanded with the opening of Family Focus- Our Place, located in the Weissbourd-Holmes Center on Evanston’s West Side. The Family Focus Evanston Records primarily consist of paper documents, namely annual reports, publications, financial reports,
Faculty Governance
The Faculty Governance record group covers the activities of the CSU Faculty Senate and other related organizations. The CSU Faculty Senate is charged with presenting faculty issues and recommendations to the University on all matters affecting the academic functions of the University and the general welfare of the University.
Eve L. Ewing Papers
Correspondence, works, publicity, biographical material, ephemera, family papers, and photographs of author, poet, and academic Eve L. Ewing.
Evanston-Area Lifestyle Publications Collection
The Evanston-area Lifestyle Publications collection is comprised of issues of local interest magazines, Exposure and What's Happening. Published monthly, these publications report on community happenings, local activities, music, church, and business news.
Evanston Sentinel Publications
The Evanston Sentinel is a free newspaper published and edited by Bennett Johnson. Published monthly, it focuses on national and local politics, Evanston community news and events. The collection contains a near-complete run of the publication's issues from 2000 to 2012.
Evanston Connection Newsletters
The Evanston Connection is a newsletter for and about current and former Evanston residents. Norma Taylor is a former Evanston resident and publisher of The Evanston Connection and is featured prominently in the newsletters. The collection consists of copies of The Evanston Connection newsletter.
Evanston Community Development Corporation Records
The Evanston Community Development Corporation was founded in July 1975. It worked to foster and coordinate community rehabilitation of residential and commercial areas, eliminate deteriorating sections of the city's African-American community, and engender economic development in the city of Evanston, Illinois. The Evanston Community Development Corporation disbanded in the 1990s. The collection covers the organizational history including meetings, proposals, resolutions,
Eugene Feldman papers
Eugene Pieter Romayn Feldman (1915-1987) was one of the founders of the DuSable Museum of African American History and fulfilled a number of roles in his 26 years at the museum, including Director of Research and Publications, Public Relations Officer, and Chief Archivist. The Eugene Feldman papers span from 1942-2002 with the bulk of material from 1969-1986. The papers provide
Etta Moten Barnett papers
An internationally-acclaimed concert and musical theater singer, social activist and philanthropist, Etta Moten Barnett’s career began in the 1930s and continued past her 100th birthday. She starred in Broadway musicals and in films. Her husband was Claude Barnett, founder and president of the Associated Negro Press. She was active in the Chicago chapter of The Links, Inc. Barnett's papers include