Reports
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:
MC40. Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, Springfield Branch, Records, 1954-1989
Collection
Identifier: MC-40
Scope and Contents
Founded by Jane Addams in 1915, the WILPF is dedicated to working by non-violent means for international peace and freedom. The Springfield chapter was founded in 1947 by Francis Blane Hurie. Members have comprised black and white Springfield women, including Mary and Emma Kreider, Docia Ashurst, Martha Tranquilli, Isabel Patrick, Agnes Howarth, Alice Kaige and Mary Johnston. Minutes, constitutions, by-laws, correspondence, newsletters, bulletins, committee records, membership...
Dates:
Created: 1954 - 1989
MC41. Women's Alliance Records, 1978-1983 RESTRICTED
Collection
Identifier: MC-41
Scope and Contents
Minutes, articles of incorporation, by-laws, correspondence, grant proposals, reports, newsletters, news clippings, brochures, printed material, photographs, and administrative, personnel, financial and programmatic records documenting the structure, goals, fundraising, publicity and feminist educational, cultural, athletic, and research activities of the Alliance. The controversy surrounding its participation in the Coal Employment Project, and its annual sponsorship of a women's art show...
Dates:
Created: 1978 - 1983; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1984
MC47. Springfield, Illinois, Citizens Advisory Committee Records, 1973-1976
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-47
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
Created: 1973 - 1976; Other: Date acquired: 04/00/1980
MC58. Sangamon County Conservation District Committee Records, 1972-1974
Collection
Identifier: MC-58
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,...
Dates:
Created: 1972 - 1974; Other: Date acquired: 04/00/1986
MC62. School Enrollment Composition Study Committee, Records, 1970-1971
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-62
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...
Dates:
Created: 1970 - 1971
MC63. Springfield Desegregation Monitoring Commisson, Records, 1977-1978
Collection
Identifier: MC-63
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,...
Dates:
Created: 1977 - 1978; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1981
MC65. Springfield National Organization of Women, Inc. Records, 1971-1991
Collection
Identifier: MC-65
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...
Dates:
Created: 1971 - 1991
MC68. Sojourn House Records, 1975, 1979-1980
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-68
Scope and Contents
Shelter for women and children who are abused, abandoned, or undergoing personal or family crises. Founded in Springfield in 1975.
List of original members and letter explaining goals and needs to SSU faculty, 1975; newsletters, clippings, brochure, position paper and manuscript draft by Pat Langley regarding the formation of the Sojourn House and its activities, 1979-80.
Dates:
Created: 1975 - 1980
MC69. Sangamon Alliance for Equality (SAFE), Records, 1985-1986
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-69
Scope and Contents
Local anti-apartheid organization founded by Rich Miller and Brian Monahan as a project for the SSU class "Organizing for Peace," 1985.
Constitution, leaflets, flyers, agendas, journal articles, receipts, and notes documenting SAFE's fund raising, educational and protest activities. Of note are materials concerning a demonstration to protest the appearance of Kurt von Schirding, South African Ambassador to the United Nations, at Lincoln Land Community College in 1986.
Dates:
Created: 1985 - 1986; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1986
MC70. Illinois Department of Corrections, Juvenile Division Records, 1934-1976
Collection
Identifier: MC-70
Scope and Contents
When the Illinois Department of Corrections was created in 1970, its Juvenile Division assumed the duties of the Illinois Youth Commission: the annual Governor's Conference on Youth, publications on substance abuse, child abuse and delinquency prevention, the Illinois Junior Sports Jamboree, surveying the detention of juveniles in county jails, and the Chicago Area Project. Series I: includes planning records, programs, meeting minutes, correspondence, memos, clippings, press...
Dates:
Created: 1934 - 1976; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1976