Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities records, 1954-1988 (bulk 1966-1986).

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Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities. Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities records, 1954-1988 (bulk 1966-1986).

Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities records, 1954-1988 (bulk 1966-1986).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713358801

Annual reports, audio tapes, by-laws, correspondence, financial statements, fundraising items, historical information, memoranda, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, newsletters, court cases, and publications and fliers of the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities (LCMOC) relative to its efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in housing in the Chicago area. The collection also contains demographic data on communities in Chicago and the metropolitan area. The records include files from the Gautreaux Demonstration Program in which the LCMOC helped former Chicago Housing Authority residents move into private subsidized housing throughout the metropolitan area. Also present are records relative to the civil rights movement in Chicago including the freedom movement (1966-1967) and the "summit agreement" (1966). Materials pertaining to the Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation and the Metropolitan Housing Coalition, renamed the Regional Housing Coalition in 1973, are also included in the collection.

3 sound recordings.

Chicago History Museum