Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Historical note
- Scope and Contents note
- Processing Information note
- Conditions for Access
- Indexed Terms
Collection Access
Institute for Community Empowerment records
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Institute for Community Empowerment records
- Identifier
- BMRC.CHM.COMM_EMPOWER
- Repository
- Chicago History Museum
- Language
- English
- Size
- 163.0 Linear feet
- Dates
- 1970-1996
- Creator
- Institute for Community Empowerment
Historical note
The Institute for Community Empowerment (ICE) was founded in the 1980s by Chicago community leaders and activists. ICE works with urban communities ""in crisis"" where residents have faced wrenching dispossession and relocation owing to political, social, and/or economic forces seemingly beyond local control. To counteract the democratic deficit typically lying at the root of such communities' problems, ICE provides residents and their organizations with the empowerment tools to stimulate neighborhood vision and planning, to build organizational capacity, and to enact and enforce neighborhood remedies sought by a majority of local residents.
Scope and Contents note
ICE records includes a variety of organizations and initiatives represented in these records from the 1970s through the 1990s, including correspondence, reports, neighborhood surveys, financial records, and photographs.
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2010 October 18 by Lisa Calahan and Andrew Steadham.