Robert C. Weaver collection, 1943-1967.

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Robert C. Weaver collection, 1943-1967.

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The collection consists of one letter from Weaver to Russell Ward Ballard and two letters from Weaver to U.S. Representative Barratt O'Hara. It also contains four articles addressing civil rights issues that were written by Weaver. Weaver left the government in 1969 to become president of Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York and from 1970 to 1978 was professor of Urban Affairs at Hunter College. His other publications include The Urban Complex (1964) and Dilemmas of Urban America (1965).

0.25 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7761773

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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Ballard, Russell Ward

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Social worker and teacher, Russell Ward Ballard served as Head Resident of Hull-House between 1943 and 1962. Ballard began his career in East Chicago, Indiana where he worked for the school board as a principal of the James Whitcomb Riley School. In 1936, he was appointed Director of the Lake County Department of Public Welfare where he re-organized and integrated the department. In 1941, he assumed the directorship of the St. Charles School for Boys in St. Charles, Illinois. The School for deli...

O'Hara, Barratt, 1882-1969

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Barratt O'Hara enjoyed one of Illinois' longest legislative careers. He represented the Second Congressional District of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1948 until 1968. Prior to his election to Congress, he was the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, 1913-1917, and a partner in the law firm of William H. Sexton, 1939-1948, representing the city of Chicago in traction litigation and subway construction cases. Barratt O'Hara was elected to Congress as a Democrat and sat on the Hou...

Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997

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Robert Clifton Weaver (December 29, 1907 – July 17, 1997) was an American economist, academic, and political administrator who served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 1966 to 1968, when the department was newly established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Weaver was the first African American to be appointed to a US cabinet-level position. Born in Washington, D.C., Weaver attended the M Street High School, now known as the Dunbar High School, the...