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YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago records

The YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago was founded in 1876 at a time when a growing number of young single women came to Chicago looking for work. The YWCA provided services to these women, including safe housing, religious and vocational instruction, and help in improving labor conditions labor conditions. The YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago records contain administrative records, publications, newsletters, promotional

Young Men's Christian Association - Wabash Avenue records

The YMCA at 3763 S. Wabash Avenue was designed by Robert C. Berlin and financed primarily by Julius Rosenwald, Chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, who added his funds to those raised by community residents. Completed in 1913, the facility provided housing, education, and vocational training for African Americans emigrating from the South who sought new opportunities in Chicago's growing

Young Men's Christian Association - Duncan Maxwell records

The Young Men's Christian Association, Duncan Maxwell Branch, located at 1012 West Maxwell Street was formed in 1932 when the facility, a dispensary for the Michael Reese Hospital, was given to the Chicago YMCA. The Maxwell Street facility was noted for its open door policy, serving all members of the community regardless of age, religion, race or nationality. The Duncan

Women's Suffrage collection

The Women's Suffrage Collection includes political pamphlets, published articles, clippings, correspondence, programs, reports, and other political literature representing the struggle of American women to secure the right to vote.

Women's Action Coalition - Chicago records

The Women's Action Coalition - Chicago was a grass-roots organization that responded to issues concerned with women's rights. This collection includes both administrative and subject folders.

Women Mobilized for Change records

Women Mobilized for Change (WMC) was a Chicago based activist organization during the late 1960s and the early 1970s.

Women Employed records

Founded in 1973, Women Employed sought to address issues of sex discrimination among Chicago's Loop office workers. Mixing a combination of innovative campaigning and traditional challenges through federal agencies such as the Office of Federal Contract Compliance, Women Employed helped thousands of women find employment, develop their careers, and overcome sex discrimination in the workplace throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Wallace Kirkland papers

The collection consists of photography, writing, correspondence, exhibit materials and family papers of Wallace William Kirkland. The majority of the material dates from the early 1920s to Kirkland's death in 1979. The collection contains material pertaining to Kirkland's work with the YMCA, his career as a social worker at Hull-House, and his career as a photojournalist with Life Magazine. Also

University Offices -- Vice-president for Academic Affairs -- Publications -- "Overview of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action" (1975)

Overview of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action, a report prepared for presentation to the Board of Trustees on October 8th, 1975.

University of Illinois at the Medical Center -- Office of the Chancellor -- Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs -- H.M. Engle -- Affirmative Action Files

H.M. Engle was appointed on 1 Feb 1970 to be vice-chancellor at the Medical Campus and to serve as Medical Director of the University of Illinois Hospital.

University of Illinois at the Medical Center -- Office of the Chancellor -- Office of Student Affairs -- Administrative Files

The Office of Student Affairs dealt with student housing, student employment, financial aid, student government, and other student services and extracurricular activities. In 1968, the Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Donald A. Boulton as Dean of Student Affairs, to begin January 1969 (Source: University of Illinois Board of Trustees Fifty-Fifth Report 1969-1970, November 22 1968, p. 176). Throughout

University of Illinois at the Medical Center -- Office of the Chancellor -- Chancellor -- records

This collection contains records from the Vice President of the Chicago Professional Colleges and the Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at the Medical Center with information on all of the major offices, colleges, departments for the medical center - including reports, memoranda, policy statements, minutes, publications, programs and correspondence received from or sent to the President, Trustees, administrators,

University of Illinois at the Medical Center -- Office of the Chancellor -- Affirmative Action Programs -- Job Registry

The Job Registry is primarily a listing of position openings at the University of Illinois at the Medical Center. Although most of the positions listed are academic, nonacademic vacancies may be included.

University - General -- Publications -- History and Development

At the end of World War II, the University of Illinois opened a two-year undergraduate division at the Navy Pier campus to accommodate the large number of Chicago-area college students and returning veterans who wanted to take advantage of the GI Bill. By the early 1950s, student demand had sufficiently outstripped Navy Pier's capacity, so the University initiated a search

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago records

The United Way of Metropolitan Chicago collection consists of materials detailing the history of this institution’s operations from its humble beginnings in 1930s Chicago through its incredible growth into the 1990s. Containing materials that range from correspondence to meeting minutes, and budgetary reports from agencies that received funding support from the institution, this collection provides a glimpse into roughly sixty

Traveler's Aid Society records

The Traveler's Aid Society of Chicago was established in 1888 as an adjunct of the YWCA. By 1914, as Chicago had become a destination or transit stop for great numbers of immigrants, the unemployed and traveling servicemen, the Travelers Aid Society was established as a separate, non-sectarian organization. The Travelers Aid Society was responsible for the care of dependent children,

Ted and Wyn Hiser Hull House Uptown Center Collection

The collection includes two scrapbooks of color photographs of the activities of VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) Ted and Wyn Hiser at the Hull House Uptown Center from 1978-1979.

Sylvia Cotton papers

Sylvia Cotton (1912- ) was the founder and president of the Day-Care Crisis Council of the Chicago Area (later the Day Care Action Council), an organization that advocates for safe, affordable child care in the Chicago area. Cotton's work as a child care advocate began with her involvement in the education section of the National Council of Jewish Women. Cotton

Students for a Democratic Society collection

The collection consists of statements, newspapers, newsletters, and a resolution pertaining to the educational and social action activities of the Students for a Democratic Society.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee collection

The collection consists of the records of the Chicago SNCC Freedom Center, a local branch which was developed in order to establish programs attacking poverty and poor housing conditions, and to create community action projects and youth council programs. It includes mimeographed correspondence, statements, reports, articles, memoranda, press releases, minutes, programs, newsletters, bulletins, and speeches pertaining to the purposes, objectives,

Southern Regional Council records

The Southern Regional Council was formed as the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in 1919, with the goals of improving relations between blacks and whites and achieving an unsegregated society. The collection consists of annual reports of the executive director, brochures, memoranda, news releases, published and mimeographed reports, research projects, special reports, speeches, and studies.

South Suburban Human Relations (SHURE) Council papers

This collection reflects SHURE's activities in the south suburban Cook County area between the years of 1963 and 1974. It includes information on SHURE's membership, its history and its development as an organization. It also contains documentation of SHURE's various projects and programs, as well as some background information on the political climate of the era in which SHURE was

Sophonisba Breckinridge papers

Sophonsiba Breckinridge (1866-1948) was a welfare worker who led the social work education movement in the United States. Breckinridge graduated from Wellesley College in 1888 and continued her studies in law and political science at the University of Chicago, earning her Ph.D. in 1901. She joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1904, teaching in the Department of

Socialism and Social Welfare Collection

Socialism in America was less well organized than in Europe, but many prominent individuals and organizations were influenced by socialist ideas. Socialists were often active in the early stages of the civil rights movement and argued for women's rights and universal suffrage well before mainstream parties accepted these ideas. A Socialist Labor Party was formed in 1877 and later reorganized

Sierra Leone collection with supplements about the Atlantic Slave Trade

This collection focuses primarily on the British administration of Sierra Leone, 1691-1833. The collection consists of items related to the British administration of Sierra Leone, including public and private papers of British officials in the colony of Sierra Leone, 1792-1825.