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Brenetta Howell Barrett papers

A life-long Chicagoan, Brenetta Howell Barrett was a leader and political activist in West Side community organizations. She served in the mayoral administrations of Harold Washington and Eugene Sawyer. Active in housing, environmental and civil liberties issues, she was also involved in community protests in the 1960s and 1970s.

Carole Powell papers

Carole Powell was the Treasurer of the Gerber/Hart Library from 1989-1991; served on the board of Directors of IMPACT, a Chicago based gay and lesbian political action committee; and was involved with the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In 1989, she served as Assistant to the Director of Eugene Sawyer's campaign for Mayor of Chicago. She also worked on

Dan Rostenkowski papers

Dan Rostenkowski (1928-2010) was elected as a Democrat to the Illinois State General Assembly where he served as a representative in the sixty-eighth general assembly (1952) prior to being elected to the Illinois state senate, where he served from 1954 to 1956. Rostenkowski was first elected to the eighty-sixth United States Congress in 1959 and served in seventeen succeeding Congresses

Dempsey Travis papers

Dempsey J. Travis (1920-2009) was an entrepreneur and civil rights activist whose real estate and mortgage businesses helped shape African American communities throughout Chicago during the mid-20th Century. Travis was also a prominent author who wrote about African American history, politics, and music. The papers include writing drafts, transcripts of interviews, and research.

Eric Werner Photographs

Eric Werner was born in Riverside California, but his family moved to Chicago when he was 3 years old. After serving in Vietnam in the 1970s, Werner came back to follow his lifelong passion for photography, working as a public relations photographer for most of his life. He also documented community organizing and events, and musicians, as well as other

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

Gosnell, Harold F. Papers

Harold Foote Gosnell (1896-1997) was a political scientist at the University of Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. He also worked for the federal government and spent the latter part of his academic career at American and Howard Universities. He was renowned for his work on voter behavior, particularly with reference to African-American politics and Chicago politics. The Harold F.

Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force records

Like the New York-based National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, The Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force (originally the Illinois Gay Rights Task Force) was formed to support the rights of gays and lesbians in Illinois by monitoring legislative bills (including the long-running campaign to pass an anti-discrimination bill that would make sexual orientation a protected class in Illinois) and

IMPACT Archives

IMPACT was one of Chicago's earliest gay and lesbian political action committees. Formed in 1987, it charged itself with increasing politicians' responsiveness to the needs of Chicago's gay and lesbian community.

Industrial Areas Foundation records

Josie Brown Childs papers

The Josie Brown Childs papers consist of materials from Childs’ political career. The collection specifically includes her work on the Mayor’s Office of Special Events especially under Mayor Harold Washington; newspaper clippings about Chicago politics, Childs’ professional and personal correspondence, and materials from events she planned, such as the Great Lakes Experience Reunion and the Ellington International Conference. Also included

Margaret Smith Papers

Margaret Smith served in the Illinois State Legislature from 1981 until 2002. She was known as a staunch defender of the rights of women, children, the elderly, the poor, and the incarcerated. Smith was born September 25, 1922 in Tennessee. She attended DuSable High School in Chicago and she studied commerce at Tennessee State University. Margaret Smith’s early career was

Mary Ann Smith papers

Mary Ann Smith is alderman of the 48th ward in Chicago; she was appointed in 1989 by Mayor Richard M. Daley to replace Kathy Osterman; she was first elected in 1991. Mary Ann Smith's papers pertain primarily to her tenure as Alderman of the 48th Ward, and are divided into eleven series with multiple subseries that address her aldermanic duties

State of Illinois records: Records relating to CSU

The Office of Public affairs handles all State of Illinois records relating to Chicago State University.