Scope and Contents Springfield radical therapy collective and problem-solving group, founded by Dr. Robert Sipe , Becky McGovern and others in the 1976. Incorporated in 1982 as Cooperative Power, Inc., it assumed management of Issues in Radical Therapy, a periodical merging Issues in Cooperation and Power and State and Mind. Organized the Midwest Radical Therapy Conference, 1980-1984. Planning papers, correspondence, minutes, mailing lists, conference programs, workshop descriptions, contracts,...

Scope and Contents The Taylorville "Mine War" Scrapbook, March l7, l933 - October 11, l933 consists of clippings chiefly from Taylorville, Illinois daily newspapers, the Daily Breeze and the Courier, documenting eight months of the Illinois mine wars which started in 1932 as a wage dispute but soon became a power struggle between the United Mine Workers (UMW) and the Progressive Miners of America (PMA) for control of the mines in central and southern Illinois. The articles document the violence,...

Scope and Contents A Springfield coalition of black community organizations founded in 1968 "to create a unity aimed at strengthening the bargaining position of the Black Community so as to solve its economic, political and social problems." Rudolph S. Shoultz, pastor of Union Baptist Church, and Charles Young were the primary organizers. By-laws, minutes, letters, financial records, and news clippings documenting the philosophy, structure, activities, goals, and concerns of the Black Action...

Scope and Contents Photographs, glass plate negatives, printing plates documenting the First National Bank of Springfield, particularly the lobby at Sixth and Washington Streets (ca. 1917-1919), interior of the building constructed at Fifth and Adams in 1919, and building exteriors. Includes award certificates from the Associated Colleges Of Illinois, Springfield Association of Commerce and Industry, and Committee for Higher Education in Central Illinois; and an architect's sketch of the building by Hemle and...

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Appointed by the Mayor. Advises City Council on federal and state programs which require citizen input.

Minutes, agendas, reports and newsclippings regarding the Eastside urban renewal project, community development, community development block grants, fire protection and the Neighborhood Facilities Building.

Scope and Contents Collection consists of daily diaries and sundry letters, receipts, account books, a Ulery family genealogy, and other personal papers documenting the weather, expenses, daily work and experiences; farming and dairy activities in Macoupin and Christian Counties; and police magistrate duties in Morrisonville. Topics include Morrisonville's Shiloh Church, its UNO Club, crops, shucking corn, cows' breeding histories and dairy yields, hired hands, and income from sales of eggs, butter, hides,...

Scope and Contents Advertising circular, envelopes, offprints, posters, handbills, literary criticism, lithographs, letters, framed pictures and portraits, printed announcement, and lecture program; program and menu for Whitman's seventieth birthday party (1889); proofs of labels and autographs; admission tickets for a Robert Ingersoll lecture (1890); and a facsimile of a Whitman letter. The material was collected by business executive and Whitman scholar, Charles E. Feinberg of Detroit, Michigan....

Scope and Contents Springfield, Illinois chapter of the New American Movement, organized in 1975. Goal was "to act as a catalyst to bring about a strong, class conscious, working class movement in Springfield." Worked with other organizations such as Citizens for a Representative Government, DES Action Group, Springfield East Association, Springfield Coalition for Fair Electric Rates, People's Institute, and Streetside Boosters. Members included Peter MacDowell, Millicent Quam, Michael Quam, Doug Kamholz,...

Scope and Contents Afro-American woman born in Carbondale, Illinois in 1913. Graduated from high school in Metropolis in 1930. Attended Southern Illinois University and Kentucky State University. Taught in secondary schools in Belgrave and Chester, Illinois. Married Luther Wheeler in 1937, and moved to Springfield in 1942. Diplomas, certificates, photograph albums and memorabilia documenting Wheeler's childhood, family members, and educational activities. Also certificate and diplomas documenting...

Scope and Contents Large private utility serving central Illinois. Originally, a very diversified corporation providing electric, gas, ice and water service. Founded in Springfield in 1912.Reports, photographic negatives and prints, charts, maps, notes, service area maps for various utilities, CIPS organizational charts, sales quotas, reports, telegrams, and research files documenting the sales policies, plans, and procedures of CIPS; its participation in award competitions; its research on other...