Records, 1945-1987.

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Records, 1945-1987.

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Contains correspondence, minutes, and financial records of the Foundation. Also contains applications, recommendations, reports, newsletters, news clippings, and pamphlets of 65 organizations that applied to the Foundation for support. Also contains photographs. The kinds of projects that received Foundation support included: cooperative nursery care in an interracial community, research projects to identify problems in citizenship organizations, neighborhood improvement organizations, and organizations to improve the citizen participation of minority groups. The Industrial Areas Foundation, headed by Saul Alinsky; the Highlander Folk School Project; the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference; the South Chicago Community Center; the United Community Fund of San Francisco; Citizens Planning and Housing Association of Baltimore; the American Indian Development; and the Migrant Citizen Education Project are just a few of the projects that received funding. Carl Tjerandsen carried out much of the work of the Foundation.

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Alinsky, Saul David, 1909-1972

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Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community activist and political theorist. His work through the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation helping poor communities organize to press demands upon landlords, politicians, economists, bankers and business leaders won him national recognition and notoriety. Responding to the impatience of a New Left generation of activists in the 1960s, Alinsky – in his widely cited Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer (1971) – ...

Industrial Areas Foundation

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The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), founded in Chicago in 1940, trains citizens to organize their own communities. In the 1950s and 1960s, the IAF organized in Chicago, Los Angeles, Buffalo, and Rochester. Later, it developed national training institutes, fostering a network of community organizations. Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972) developed the IAF's principles of community organization and citizen participation, expressed in his books Reveille for Radicals (1946) and ...

American Indian Development Associates

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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...

Emil Schwarzhaupt Foundation

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The Emil Schwarzhaupt Foundation was established in New York on July 21, 1936, by Emil Schwarzhaupt. From the description of Records, 1945-1987. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 57156356 The Emil Schwarzhaupt Foundation was established in New York on July 21, 1936 by Emil Schwarzhaupt, a German immigrant who came to the United States in 1910 at the age of seventeen. Schwarzhaupt first worked as a salesman for several distilling firms in Chica...

South Chicago Community Center.

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Migrant Citizen Education Project.

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Tjerandsen, Carl

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Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)

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Recordings (1954-1960) of folk music and of workshops on leadership, integration and voter registration conducted by the school, including a 1956 integration workshop with comments by Rosa Parks on Martin Luther King and the Montgomery bus boycott. Included are performances by Folk School students, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, Jack Elliott, Frank Hamilton, and May Justus. Also, a radio interview (ca. 1960) with Septima Clark and school founder Myles Horton. From the desc...

Citizens Planning & Housing Association (Baltimore, Md.)

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