P/Townsend. Mike Townsend, Personal Papers
Scope and Contents
This series contains personal correspondence, memos, course materials, lecture notes, syllabuses, student papers and examinations, press releases, sociology articles, photographs, videotape and audiocassette recordings. This collection also contains material from the Chicago Area Project, the nation's first community-based delinquency prevention program; Ron Sakolsky's Free Speech Case; United Students for Africa; Citizens Against Prostitution, a Springfield-based community organization; and The Alternative, a student newspaper. Of special interest are the collected articles, early publications and correspondence composed by Dr. Sidney M. Willhelm, a Political Science Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York, Buffalo, regarding racism.
Dates
- Created: 1955-2013
- Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1995
- Other: Date acquired: 05/15/2009
Creator
Extent
1.16 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
A number of additions (box 2) were collected piecemeal and added to the collection at one time. Chris Schnell 7/24/2017.
Source of Acquisition
Mike Townsend
Accruals and Additions
05/27/2009, 06/09/2010, 10/3/2013.
Creator
- Title
- Archon Finding Aid Title
- Author
- Rochelle M. Joseph; Chris Schnell
- 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
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