Martin Bickham papers, 1895-1970.

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Martin Bickham papers, 1895-1970.

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This collection contains correspondence, minutes, reports, speeches, financial records, photographs, and published materials. The materials relate to such issues as Christian evangelism, Methodism, temperance, the Works Progress Administration, employment of the disabled, and race relations and racial discrimination in the Chicago area.

129 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7758726

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Bickham, Martin Hayes.

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Civil rights worker Martin Bickham (1881-1976) began his career as a social worker, graduating from the University of Chicago with a Ph. D. in 1924. In 1931, he was appointed Director of Church Co-operation for the United Charities of Chicago, leaving in 1933 to become Chairman of the Chicago Civil Works Commission. Bickham spent much of his career in the field of race relations and was a founding member of the North Shore Human Relations Council and the West Suburban Human Relations Council. As...