Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Biographical/Historical note
- Scope and Contents note
- Processing Information note
- Related Archival Materials note
- Indexed Terms
- Inventory
Collection Access
West End Block Club Records
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- West End Block Club Records
- Identifier
- BMRC.SHOREFRONT.WEST_END_BLOCK_CLUB
- Repository
- Shorefront Legacy Center
- Language
- English
- Size
- 0.25 Linear feet
- Dates
- 1975-2000
- Abstract
- Organized in 1961 in Evanston, Illinois, West End Block Club was a neighborhood organization that focused on general relaying and resolving neighborhood concerns, such as park maintenance, too many one way streets, traffic lights, and public safety on the West side of the Evanston, Illinois.
Biographical/Historical note
Organized in 1961 in Evanston, Illinois, West End Block Club was a neighborhood organization that focused on general relaying and resolving neighborhood concerns, such as park maintenance, too many one way streets, traffic lights, and public safety on the West side of the Evanston, Illinois.
Scope and Contents note
The West End Block Club records are arranged into two series: “Correspondence” and “Organizational.” The collection spans from 1975 to 2000 and includes material documenting the efforts of the Club such as meeting minutes, agendas, announcements, fliers, reports, petitions, and newsletters.
Processing Information note
Processed by CLIR funded Black Metropolis Research Consortium “Color Curtain Processing Project.” Processor: Dustin Witsman.
Indexed Terms
- African American neighborhoods
- Community development, Urban
- Evanston (Ill.)--History.
- Neighborhood associations
- West End Block Club
- West End Block Club
Inventory
This series is comprised of correspondence detailing the history and the organizational workings and events of the West End Block Club.
- Title
- Correspondence
- Dates
- 1975-2000
- Title
- Stationery
- Dates
- undated
This series is composed of material documenting the activities of the West End Block Club. It includes meeting minutes and agendas, event fliers and plans, newsletters, reports and petitions, and photographs.
- Title
- Meeting Minutes, Agendas, Newsletters, and Membership
- Dates
- 1976-1999
- Title
- Reports and Petitions
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Meeting Announcements
- Dates
- 1975-1985
- Title
- Photographs and Ephemera
- Dates
- 1978, undated