Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of Alice Kaige relating to her involvement in pacifist and women’s rights movements and the West Side Neighborhood Association in Springfield, Illinois. It is divided into five series: American Friends Service Committee, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace Movements, Other Activism, and West Side Neighborhood Association.Series I: American Friends Service Committee, 1969-1978, contains materials relating to the...

Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of Barbara Dickerman relating to her time as community and political activist in Springfield, Illinois. It includes correspondence, notes, reports, meeting minutes, financial records, newsletters, brochures, event fliers, and court records relating to her work on fair housing, civil rights, and gender equality. Records document her work with organizations such as Access to Housing, the League of Women Voters, the National Association for the...

Scope and Contents Harold A. Katz was elected Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Glencoe in 1964. He served for nine terms from 1965-1983 and was active in many areas. His special interests included civil liberties, public health and safety, criminal law, regional transportation, licensure legislation, "sunset" legislation, legislative rules and procedures, and the convention for a new state constitution. Perhaps, though, his greatest contribution to the legislature was...

Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of Ralph Stone relating to his time as a professor of history at Sangamon State University. It includes newsletters, brochures, correspondence, notes, and other publications relating to activist and cooperative organizations, and notes, scholarly articles, correspondence, and reproductions of original sources relating to Stone’s research in labor history. It is divided into three series: Activist Groups and Publications, Cooperative...