Business and Professional People for the Public Interest records, 1938-2003.

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Business and Professional People for the Public Interest. Business and Professional People for the Public Interest records, 1938-2003.

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest records, 1938-2003.

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Working files, including correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, and topical files of the Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPPPI), a public interest law firm engaged in litigation against police spying, segregation in public housing, industrial pollution, and other issues. Materials include files of attorney Alexander Polikoff on the Gautreaux case against the Chicago Housing Authority for allegedly building subsidized apartments solely in low-income African American neighborhoods and other Chicago housing discrimination cases; files on the case of Jurellene Jordan against the Veterans Administration for allegedly failing to monitor and regulate its Home Guaranty Mortgage program resulting in rapid racial resegregation in the Marquette Park neighborhood of Chicago; and files on efforts to regulate safety at nuclear reactors in Illinois, particularly the Braidwood reactor operated by Commonwealth Edison in Zion (Ill.).

204 linear ft.

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