Joyce A. Hughes papers, 1968-1983 (bulk 1979-1983).

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Joyce A. Hughes papers, 1968-1983 (bulk 1979-1983).

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Correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, reports, legal and financial records, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Joyce A. Hughes, a Northwestern University law professor who served on the Chicago Board of Education (1980-1982). Materials chiefly pertain to school desegregation and related financial issues. Includes records of the Chicago Board of Education (CBE) Desegregation Committee, Audit and Finance Committee, and Real Estate Committee, as well as the Chicago School Finance Authority (SFA). Also present are case files and reports related to United States v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago proceedings, and reports on education issues by the Chicago Urban League, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

6.75 linear ft. (16 boxes)

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Hughes, Joyce A., b. 1940.

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Joyce A. Hughes has been a professor at the Northwestern University School of Law since 1975. In 1971, as a faculty member of the University of Minnesota Law School, Hughes became the first African American female tenure track professor at a majority white institution in the United States. Hughes served on the Chicago Board of Education from 1980 to 1982 and was involved in school desegregation policy. From the description of Joyce A. Hughes papers, 1968-1983 (bulk 1979-1983). (Chica...

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