Scope and Contents SSU Alumnus. Former sound technician and coordinator of The Bean, a coffee house for SSU students, founded in 1974 as Rudolph's Bean. Publisher of a "Springfield Coops and Community News." Helped organize Creative Music Inc. in 1979, which sponsored jazz concerts. Includes by-laws, minutes, newsletters, correspondence, and financial records for The Bean coffee house, 1974-1978, documenting its organization, activities, publicity and finances; SSU class material, 1974-1978,...

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The Thea Chesley papers: SSU clerical Employees AFSCME representation election materials, 1983-1985.

Materials consist of letters from AFSCME; SSU president Durwald Long, Carl Long, Chairperson of the advisory committee on Collective bargaining. AFSMCE literature consists of brochures, memeos, flyers and pamphlets.

Scope and Contents Formed in 1972 to campaign for a referendum that would establish a conservation district in Sangamon County, Illinois by levying taxes to purchase undeveloped lands for the purpose of conservation and recreation. Major campaign strategists of the Committee were Madeline Dorosheff and her son, Nicholas Dorosheff. Referendum was defeated in 1974. Memoranda, correspondence, membership and mailing lists, promotion and campaign notes, organizational plans, speech transcripts, brochures,...

Scope and Contents Formed in 1986 to improve the standard of living and quality of life for the residents of the John Hay Homes public housing project in Springfield, and to promote athletic, artistic, charitable and civic activities. Articles of incorporation documenting the organization's founding, the leaflet and press release distributed at a Voting Rights Rally on July 4, 1986 protesting Springfield's commission form of government and actions by the City Council and Illinois State...

Scope and Contents Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Founded as Springfield Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (SDSOC) in 1980. Name changed due to the national merger of New American Movement and Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee in 1982. Activist and educational group. Members included John Williams, David Lasley and Chet Brandt. Issues of SDSOC's newsletters, Capitol Socialist, 1980-1981, and Capitol Conscience, 1981-1982, discussing local and national...

Scope and Contents Founded in 1982 as the Springfield Peace Coalition by Ed Haber, Phil Salisbury, Alice Kaige, Jarl Tremail, Tom Kinzie, and John Williams. Aligned with the Illinois Nuclear Weapons FREEZE, its purpose was to educate the public about the threat of nuclear war and to secure public support for actions which would reduce the chance of nuclear confrontation between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. In 1985, the Coalition affiliated with the national Mobilization for Survival and changed its name to...

Scope and Contents Appointed by the District 186 School Board in 1970. More than one hundred members chosen after contacting Springfield churches, clubs and civic organizations. Charged to develop plans to reduce racial imbalance which existed in Springfield public schools. Minutes, agenda, memoranda, membership and committee lists, news clippings and reports documenting the Committee's attempts to plan for equal educational opportunity and racial desegregation of the schools. Also contains a...

Scope and Contents Established by order of the U.S. District Court in March 1977, following the Court's December 1976 order providing for the integration of Springfield public schools. Chaired by Ed Armstrong, editor of the Illinois State-Journal Register. Volunteers monitored classrooms and observed bus routes during the first year of integrating Springfield's public schools, rating student-teacher and black-white student relationships, discipline, and health and safety. Administrative records,...

Scope and Contents A not-for-profit corporation of "individuals committed to fostering political participation of people," based in Springfield. Members included Chet Brandt, Steve Kapple, Jill Kunka, David Lasley, Ernie Nielson, Warren Ribley, Michael Schusselle, Gwendolyn Shake, Ralph Stone, and John Williams. Newsletters of "views that span the political spectrum from liberal to radical," including interviews, book reviews, political commentary, announcements and calendars. Eight issues,...

Scope and Contents Local chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Committed to obtaining equal rights for women. Organized in 1971 and chartered in 1972. By-laws, membership lists, correspondence, press releases, clippings, memoranda, photographs, announcements, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) campaign material, phone bank manual and script, position paper, and business records generated by this chapter documenting its campaign and educational activities, including the 1973 ERA Day, 1980...