Black Women in the Middle West Project collection, ca. 1924-1985.

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Black Women in the Middle West Project collection, ca. 1924-1985.

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Correspondence, lists, publicity materials, and other records of the Black Women in the Middle West (BWMW) Project, a grant-funded project to document the lives of African American women and organizations in Illinois and Indiana and to encourage the donation of their historical records to research repositories. Includes files created by the project under the administration of Darlene Clark Hine, an academic historian and the project director; and through the participation of Emma J. Kemp, a Chicago librarian and one of the organizers of the project; and by Clementine Skinner, a school teacher and librarian who helped promote the project. Includes audio cassettes of radio broadcasts of interviews by Kemp and by Skinner publicizing the project. The collection also includes questionnaires and interviews completed by many women at workshops sponsored by the project, original historical items brought by the women to these workshops, and materials acquired through the efforts of project representatives Barbara A. Clark, Ida M. Cress, Emma J. Kemp, and Clementine A. Skinner, as well as the Black Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This original documentation dating from about 1924 to 1985 includes biographical materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, yearbooks, and brochures from a variety of people, including Ida Roberta Bell, Willa Saunders Jones, Mother Minnie Adams Norman, La Julia Rhea, Mattie Mae Rucker, Eunice Sims, Glennette Tilley Turner, the Black Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and others..

3 sound cassettes (in 1 box)

Chicago History Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8086501

Chicago History Museum

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Hine, Darlene Clark

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African American professor, historian, college administrator, and published author in the field of African American history. From the description of Darlene Clark Hine papers, 1879-1996 and undated bulk 1950-1996. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 458632933 Feb. 7, 1947 Born Darlene Clark in Morley, Missouri, to Levester and Lottie Mae Clark 1968 ...

Wheaton, Thelma Kirkpatrick.

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Thelma Kirkpatrick Wheaton was a co-founder of the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago (Ill.). From the description of Thelma Kirkpatrick Wheaton papers, ca. 1950s-1980s. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 717316751 ...

Bell, Ida Roberta.

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Alpha Gamma Pi.

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Kemp, Emma J.

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Rhea, La Julia

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Sims, Eunice.

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Black Women in the Middle West Project.

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The Black Women in the Middle West (BWMW) Project collected documentation on African American women and organizations in Illinois and Indiana. The project grew out of efforts of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Indianapolis Section to collect materials (ca. 1977-1981). Darlene Clark Hine became project director and obtained funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to plan (ca. 1982-1983) and implement (ca. 1984-1985) the BWMW Project, whose collecting scope was expanded ...

Rucker, Mattie Mae.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

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Norman, Minnie Adams, d. 1984.

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Cress, Ida M.

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Jones, Willa Saunders, 1901-1979

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University of Illinois at Chicago

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The Chicago Circle campus represents the evolution of the University of Illinois Undergraduate Division first established in that city in 1946. Housed in leased facilities at the Municipal (Navy) Pier, the branch offered the first two years of college instruction to the area's increasing numbers of high school graduates and to veterans returned from World War II. In less than a decade, the Pier's consistently high enrollment had attested to the city's need for a larger facility, and...

Turner, Glennette Tilley

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Educator and historical researcher Glennette Tilley Turner was born November 23, 1933 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her mother, Phyllis, was a teacher, and her father, John, was the first executive director of the SCLC. As a child, Turner moved several times with her family, first to Florida, and then to Illinois. After graduating from high school, she attended Lake Forest College, earning her B.A. in 1955, and she later returned to school at Goddard College to earn her master's degree in 1977.Aft...

Skinner, Clementine, b. 1900.

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