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Breiseth discusses coming to Sangamon State University from the University of Chicago and his career at SSU.

4 tapes, 240 mins. Interview by Cullom Davis, 1984 OPEN: narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. See collateral file

Scope and Contents This collection contains material relating to Christopher Breiseth's work at Sangamon State University and his work with various community action organizations. The collection is divided into six series: Community Action Program Mission Notebooks and Reports, Community Action Program Reference Files, ‘The War on Poverty’ Publications, Springfield Urban League, Sangamon State University, and Correspondence.Series I: Community Action Program Mission Notebooks and Reports,...

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The student papers in this series were prepared for "Toward Racial Equality" (1972), "Personalities of Revolutionaries" (1972), History Colloquium (1972), and "Melting Pot Reconsidered" (1972,1975, 1976). Subjects include ethnic cultures (Mexican Americans, Indians, blacks, etc.), racism, Illinois and U.S. history, and biographies of revolutionaries (Castro, Marx, etc.).

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Student papers produced for Summer Institute on Interracial Education, PAC 425. Taught by Chris Breiseth, Judy Everson, Gus Stevens, and James Pancrazio during the summer semester, 1974. Areas of study and research included athletics, minorities, Afro-American studies, black history, black poetry, Springfield Illinois, Washington Middle School, and interracial education.