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Claude M. Lightfoot papers
Correspondence, speech and manuscript notes and drafts, publicity information, reviews of his books, and news clippings, drafts and copies of Lightfoot's newspaper columns in the Chicago Courier, award certificates, and other papers of Claude M. Lightfoot, an African American author, Chicago resident, political candidate, and member of the Communist Party U.S.A.'s national committee. Topics are court actions against him relating
Frank W. McCulloch papers
Correspondence, notes, articles, reports, minutes, newsletters, and other papers of Frank W. McCulloch about his activities in Chicago on behalf of unemployment relief in the 1930s and labor education in the 1940s. Except for a few miscellaneous items, the collection does not extend beyond late 1948, when McCulloch accepted a staff appointment with Senator-elect Paul Douglas (Democrat; Illinois). Large portions
Henry W. McGee papers
Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, minutes, newsletters, certificates, photographs, and other papers of Henry W. McGee, who served as the first African American postmaster of Chicago (Ill.) after a long career with the United States Postal Service in Chicago. Topics include McGee's career as a postal worker, his service as president of the Chicago branch of the National Alliance of
Pearl Hart papers
Speeches, correspondence, income tax returns and other financial records, pamphlets, and newsclippings of Pearl Hart, a Chicago lawyer who was a leader in leftist political organizations and civil liberties cases, especially some opposing suppression of the American Communist Party, discrimination against gay men and lesbians, and harassment of prostitutes. Topics include Hart's political and civil liberties activities and interests, including
Roland V. Libonati papers
Correspondence with friends and political constituents; copies of speeches, reports, drafts of legislation, and appointment books; reference files containing newsclippings, letters, and brochures on various civic and political organizations, and other papers of Roland Victor Libonati, a Chicago lawyer (office on the Near West Side) who served as Illinois State Representative, State Senator, and U.S. Congressman (Democrat) from Illinois's Seventh
Women for Peace (Chicago, Ill.) records
Correspondence, brochures, fliers, press releases, newsletters, reports, financial materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other records of Women for Peace, the Chicago chapter of the national organization: Women Strike for Peace. Includes materials related to activities and interests of the Chicago chapter and the national organization, as well as other local and national anti-war, activist groups. Also present are copies of