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Clarence Markham and "The New Negro Traveler" records

African American travel writer. Founded the Travelers Research Publishing Company of Chicago.

Corrine Brown papers

Corrine Brown was an African American business woman in the Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago.

Henry Butler papers

The Livery Business records at the Evanston History Center span the dates 1898 to 1942 and fill one archival box. The records are very, very sparse and incomplete. The bulk of the records that are here pertain mainly to Henry Butler and his silent partner Margaret Fisher, who co-owned the Butler Livery. Henry provided the manual labor cared for the

Lawrence Turner papers

Lawrence Turner, an African American supporter of independent African nations, moved to Tanzania in the 1970s. He established his own business and trained local entrepreneurs.

Lewis, Eva Overton and Julian Herman Lewis, MD, PhD Collection

Julian Herman Lewis (1891-1989) was a pathologist, educator, and author of The Biology of the Negro (1942), a groundbreaking investigation of contemporary scientific data and literature on African-American physiology and pathology that resisted and rebuked scientific notions of racial inferiority. His wife, Eva Overton Lewis (1893-1945), was the daughter of entrepreneur Anthony Overton and a graduate of the University of

Path Press Archives

Path Press, one of the first black-owned publishing companies in the United States, was founded in Chicago in 1969 and remained in operation from 1969-1972 and then again from 1982-2001. In fact, the press had been in the works since as early as 1961, when Bennett J. Johnson (now the Vice President of Third World Press) and Herman C. Gilbert

Wallpaper Design scrapbooks

Scrapbooks for Wallpaper Design, a firm which advertised itself as ""America's first Black-owned and operated wallpaper store,"" at 1635 East 87th Street, Chicago (Ill.).