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Roland W. Burris papers

Speech transcripts, press clippings, event backgrounders for speaking engagements, and other papers of Roland W. Burris, an Illinois lawyer and politician, who was the first African American elected to state-wide office in Illinois. The speeches were given by Burris at various civic engagements during his tenure as Illinois Comptroller (1979-1991) and Illinois Attorney General (1991-1995). Event backgrounders include preparatory information