P/Dickerman. Barbara Dickerman, Personal Papers
Scope and Contents
Papers of Barbara Dickerman, SSU/UIS student, UIS admissions councilor, and Springfield housing and equal rights activist.
Collection contains correspondence, reports, notes, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia from Dickerman's work with such organizations as the League of Women Voters, YWCA, Springfield Housing Authority, NAACP, United Way, MOVE, Inc. and various other groups. Of note is Dickerman's work to desegregate Springfield School District #186, achieve fair housing for low-income families, and a voting rights lawsuit that eventually led to Springfield changing its form of city government from council to aldermanic. Some files contain written notations from Dickerman regarding their contents.
Dates
- Created: 1968-2009
- Other: Date acquired: 06/25/2009
Creator
- Dickerman, Barbara (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None.
Extent
3.00 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
Topical
Source of Acquisition
Donated by Barbara Dickerman
- Agendas
- Awards
- Contact Sheets
- Correspondence
- Course Materials
- Flyers/Brochures
- Journal Articles
- Letters
- Maps
- Memorabilia
- Minutes
- Newsletters
- Newspaper Clippings
- Papers
- Photocopies
- Photographs
- Posters
- Press Releases
- Programs
- Records
- Reports
- Resolutions
- Sheet Music
- Speeches
- Statistics
- Surveys
- Transcripts
Creator
- Dickerman, Barbara (Person)
- Title
- Archon Finding Aid Title
- Author
- Nicole L. Louis
- Description rules
- Other Unmapped
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- und
Repository Details
Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520
archives@uis.libanswers.com