Midwest Academy (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1973-1989.

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Midwest Academy (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1973-1989.

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Board meeting minutes, correspondence, pamphlets and fliers, budgets, grant applications and reports, annual reports, news clippings, news releases, research data and topical files, student files, and training curricula of Midwest Academy, a training school for grass-roots organizers in political action campaigns and community organizing. The collection also includes office files of Citizen Action (U.S.); files of the Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition; and files on their affiliated groups and leaders in various states of the U.S.; and smaller amounts of personal files of Heather Booth, founder of the Midwest Academy, relating to her work with SNCC in 1964 in Mississippi, student activist role at the University of Chicago, and early political activist campaigns. Topics discussed in the collection include local and national aspects of environmental concerns, energy policy, community organization and fundraising, empowerment of voters, international affairs, political elections and leaders, labor unions, and women's issues.

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Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago. Washington became the first African American to be elected as the city's mayor in April 1983 after a multiracial coalition of progressives supported his election. He served as mayor from April 29, 1983 until his death on November 25, 1987. Born in Chicago and raised in the Bronzeville neighborhood, Washington became involved in local 3rd Ward politics under Chicago ...

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