Scope and Contents The Foundation was established in 1986 to present an annual lecture series marking the deadly coal miners' strike in Virden, Illinois in 1898. For many years the Foundation held its annual Mother Jones Dinners at Sangamon State University. The collection includes financial records, membership lists, minutes, correspondence, posters, flyers, and newsletters; also records of arrangements, donations, ticket sales, entertainment, and speakers for the annual Mother Jones Dinner and lecture...

Scope and Contents The Guild is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1968, dedicated to promote interest in the arts, crafts and culture of early Illinois. It sponsors Folk Life Festivals at the Clayville Tavern near Pleasant Plains, Illinois and operated a crafts shop and other activities there. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, statement of purpose, master plans, interpretive guidelines, membership lists and list on contributors to the tavern restoration. Also included are agreements...

Scope and Contents Papers of Nelson Howarth, Assistant State's Attorney for Sangamon County, Illinois 1948-1949, Mayor of Springfield 1955-1959 and 1963-1971. Born in Green County, Indiana and raised on farms in Illinois, he received a law degree from the University of Illinois in 1934 and was an attorney in private practice when not in public office. Correspondence, transcripts of speeches and radio broadcasts, court records, clippings, photographs, brochures, programs and memorabilia documenting...

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Bi-monthly, alternative newspaper, edited by Ken McNeil, Virgil Rhodes and William Washington, featuring coverage of the black community in Springfield, Illinois, including politics, black organizations, churches, and businesses. The collection also contains two issues of The National Black Monitor (1977), five issues of The Voice of the Black Community (Springfield, 1977-80), and The Voice, History Supplement, 1979.

Scope and Contents Records of approximately 1400 cases handled by Springfield attorney Duane L. Traynor, a labor arbitrator active in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, and other states. Files include names of employers/companies and of employees/unions involved in grievances over contracts, working conditions, hours, job classifications, firings, etc.; listings of persons appearing to represent the parties involved; statements of the facts of the case; statements of contract provisions; the positions of the...

Scope and Contents Poet laureate of East Saint Louis, Illinois and professor of English and Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Redmond is the author or editor of 18 volumes, founding editor of Drumvoices Revue, and and associate publisher of Literati Internationale and The Original Blues Annual. In 1993 he won the American Book Award for The Eye in the Ceiling and he serves as the literary executor of the Henry Dumas estate. Programs, bulletins, memoranda,...

Scope and Contents Collection of documents and postcards related to the history of Springfield, Illinois, including letters written by Springfield founding father Elijah Iles (1831), Illinois Governor and Senator Shelby Cullom (1880), Illinois Congressman William Springer (1883), Springfield businessman Jabez Capps (1874), and Logan Hay (1942);  documents related to the Post #1 of the Grand Army of the Republic in Decatur and the Freemasons of Springfield; sixteen historic postcards of Springfield scenes,...

Scope and Contents Letters of the Chandler family of Chandlerville, Illinois, largely between Louisa Chandler Frackleton and members of her family. Correspondents include Louisa's father, Dr. Charles Chandler (1806-1879); her mother Clarysa Chandler; her brothers Charles E. and Harrison T. Chandler; and her cousin Calvin E. Child. Also included is one page from an account ledger, a newspaper article, a photograph of Dr. Chandler, and a "Historical Vignette" on Dr. Chandler, the founder of Chandlerville, Cass...

Scope and Contents Letters, petitions, flyers, brochures, collected newspaper and magazine articles, meeting minutes, attendance sheets, and memoranda generated by the Springfield affiliate of Amnesty International. Includes letters (some in French) written by Richard Kaige and other members of Adoption Group #218 on behalf of prisoners of conscience to foreign dignitaries and heads of state. The subjects of these letters include the treatment of political prisoners in Zaire, human rights abuses in El...

Scope and Contents Chief Sanitary Engineer for the State of Illinois, 1935-1970, first director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and environmental consultant. Served as an expert witness at a trial, 1979-1994, regarding the dumping of toxic wastes at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. Love Canal was dug in the 1890s, used as a chemical dump, and later filled in and developed for housing. The area was declared unsafe and 239 families were evacuated in 1978. The Federal Government, State of...