Jack L. Cooper papers, 1918-1988.

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Jack L. Cooper papers, 1918-1988.

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Scripts of radio programs, correspondence, contracts, appointment books (12 v.), and scrapbook of Jack Leroy Cooper, a Chicago pioneer in African American radio broadcasting. Includes Black dialect comedy and other program scripts by Cooper, mainly 1930s; scrapbook of clippings and handbills on Cooper's early theater and radio career, chiefly 1918-1931; correspondence, 1939-1988, primarily relative to Jack L. Cooper Radio Advertising Service; radio broadcast advertising contracts, 1933-1943; sundry personal items of Cooper and his wife Gertrude Roberts Cooper; and a sound recording of the Rev. Isaiah Roberts, "Roberts Temple," Sept. 14, 1975.

5 linear ft. (10 boxes, 1 scrapbook)sound recording (1975).

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Pressmann, Arnold.

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Roberts, Isaiah.

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Roberts Temple (Chicago, Ill.)

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Cooper, Gertrude Roberts.

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Cooper, Jack L. (Jack Leroy), 1888-1970.

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