Newspaper Clippings
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
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
MC72. Springfield Voting Rights Lawsuit, Records & Clippings, 1984-1987
Collection
Identifier: MC-72
Scope and Contents
Records and newspaper clippings related to the case Frank McNeil et al vs. the City of Springfield et al, known as the Springfield Voting Rights Lawsuit, heard in U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois in 1984-1987. The plaintiffs argued that Springfield's commission form of government was racially exclusive and violated the voting rights of minority residents in the city.
The court ruled for the plaintiffs, resulting in the reorganization of the city's government in the...
Dates:
Created: 1984 - 1987; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1987
MC74. Polly (Silver) Myers, Newspaper Clippings & Scrapbook, 1945-1976
Collection
Identifier: MC-74
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of newspapers dealing with the assassination of John K. Kennedy (1963), Martin Luther King (1968) and Robert F. Kennedy (1968), the death of Winston Churchill (1965), the first lunar landing (1969), the reconstruction of the Old State Capitol in Springfield (1968) and the U.S. Bicentennial (1976). Newspapers include the Illinois State Register, the Illinois State Journal-Register, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and others. ...
Dates:
Created: 1945 - 1976
MC75. Mother Jones Foundation Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-75
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...
Dates:
Created: 1976-2010; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1991
MC80. Eugene B. Redmond Papers, 1977-1994
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-80
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,...
Dates:
Created: 1977 - 1994; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1995
MC81. Robert Guymon Collection, 1831-1968
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-81
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,...
Dates:
Created: 1831 - 1942; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1995
MC89. Illinois National Organization for Women, 1974-2000
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-89
Scope and Contents
The Illinois chapter of the National Organization for Women was founded in 1971. The first organizational meeting was held in the Chicago area and Irene Bennet was elected State Coordinator; the chapter's by-laws were passed in 1974. The purpose of NOW is "to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." This collection was compiled by Luellen...
Dates:
Created: 1974 - 2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/16/2001
MC93. Illinois Central Blues Club Records, 1986-2006
Collection
Identifier: MC-93
Scope and Contents
The Illinois Central Blues Club was founded in 1986 by Vicki Biddle to promote public education and appreciation of Blues music as a cultural art form, to sponsor live Blues performances, to publicize the significant cultural contributions of Blues musicians, songwriters, and performers, and to promote and participate in Blues festivals in central Illinois. The ICBC collection contains organizational documents such as Articles of Incorporation, lists of founding members, board...
Dates:
Created: 1986 - 2006; Other: Date acquired: 05/00/2006
MC94. William Howarth Papers, 1963-1987
Collection
Identifier: MC-94
Scope and Contents
William Howarth is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He earned a B.A. at the University of Illinois and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. This collection contains research, notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, and drafts pertaining to travel writings he composed for the National Geographic Society from 1981-1987.Series I (Folders 1-22) St. Lawrence River Research: Research pertaining to Howarth's article, "The St. Lawrence" that...
Dates:
Created: 1963 - 1987; Other: Date acquired: 07/07/2008