Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference. Records 1895-2011

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Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference. Records 1895-2011

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The Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference was formed in 1949 to "to build and maintain a stable interracial community of high standards." The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, meeting agendas and minutes, budgets and fundraising material, by-laws, directories, reports; press releases, surveys, newsletters, brochures, clippings, photographs, an audio reel, maps, posters, flyers, pamphlets, booklets, and other documents representing the activities of the Conference. Materials date between 1895 and 2011, with the bulk of the material dating from 1949 to 2000. The records primarily document the administrative functions of the Conference and its program activities related to urban renewal.

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Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference

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The Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference (HPKCC) was formed in 1949 to stem growing physical decay of neighborhoods and to promote better race relations in the community. Following World War II, the South-Side Chicago neighborhood was one of many American communities affected by the nation's housing shortage. The housing problem was aggravated in Hyde Park and Kenwood by illegal conversions of single-family residences into smaller units, and by a general decline in the maintenance...