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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
MC95. Donner Family Collection, 1835-2010
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-95
Scope and Contents
The Donner Family Collection consists of newspaper articles, artifacts, books, correspondence, photographs, articles, journals, newsletters, brochures, notes, photocopies, posters, land grants and deeds, videocassettes, cassette tapes and CD-ROMs. The material pertains to the family of George Donner, who left Sangamon County, Illinois in 1846 to emigrate to California. After a series of mishaps and delays, they and their emigrant party were trapped by heavy snow and faced starvation in the...
Dates:
Created: 1835 - 2010; Other: Date acquired: 09/03/2008
MC99. Capitol Fax Newsletter Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-99
Scope and Contents
This collection, donated by UIS alumnus Brian Hendricks, is comprised of a partially complete run of "Capitol Fax," a daily newsletter devoted to Illinois politics. The collection includes issues of "Capitol Fax" spanning the years 1998-2003, although it is incomplete. "Capitol Fax" is transmitted to paid subscribers via fax machine and the internet and is written by Rich Miller. Additional Issues of Capitol fax, dating from October 2004 to the present, are located at the publication's...
Dates:
Created: 1998-2003; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/2008
MC42/6. James Jones Literary Society Papers, 1978-2008
Collection — Scrapbook
Identifier: MC-42/6
Scope and Contents
James Jones Literary Society, founded in 1991, became a national organization devoted to promoting the general and academic interests in the literary works and life of Robinson, Illinois native - James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity,The Thin Red Line, and others.This collection consists of the James Jones Literary Society records including board meeting minutes, membership rolls, event programs, newspaper articles, photographs of members and events, and copies of the...
Dates:
Created: 1978 - 2008; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2009
N1. SSU/UIS Student Newspapers and Publications
Digital Record
Identifier: N1
Dates:
Digitized: 1969-
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
P/Adams. Nina Adams, Personal Papers (1976-1990) RESTRICTED
Collection — Box 2
Identifier: P-Adams
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers from the faculty files of Nina Adams, now retired faculty member, who taught Women's Studies and History in the Liberal Arts and Sciences program from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. Materials include journals, newsletters, bulletins, and papers concerning Vietnam and Southeast Asia; classroom materials such as syllabus and lists of research resources; pamphlets and flyers advertising feminist guest speakers (Charlotte Bunch), faculty meeting minutes; and...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 11/05/2005
P/Dickerman. Barbara Dickerman, Personal Papers
Collection — Item 1
Identifier: P-Dickerman
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...
Dates:
Created: 1968-2009; Other: Date acquired: 06/25/2009