Audio Tapes
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
K9/45. Black Awareness Week, Papers & Tapes (Spring), 1973
Collection
Identifier: K-09-45
Scope and Contents
Papers and tapes including schedules, programs, posters and other materials of Black Awareness Week (Spring 1973) which was held March 24-31, 1973.
Sponsored by the Black Student Union, the week was subtitled, "A Journey Into the Black Culture." Speakers and groups included the Tony Zamora Combo, Alex Haley, Dick Gregory, and Aliza Thnadeka Ngono. Other group participants were: a panel discussion on affirmative action with Arnold Jones, Lowell Turley, John Flamer, William Jacobs and...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 05/11/1973
LHC. Local History Collection
Collection — Some Items
Identifier: LHC-##fje
Scope and Contents
The Local History Collection (LHC) consists of small groups of papers and items relating to local history and the Central Illinois Region. Each item or group is assigned an LHC number based on accession and cataloged by title, name, and subject. A full listing of the items in this collection is available in the box list under LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION.
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 04/14/1978
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
MC61. Springfield Mobilization for Peace & Freedom, Records, 1982-1984
Collection
Identifier: MC-61
Scope and Contents
Founded in 1982 as the Springfield Peace Coalition by Ed Haber, Phil Salisbury, Alice Kaige, Jarl Tremail, Tom Kinzie, and John Williams. Aligned with the Illinois Nuclear Weapons FREEZE, its purpose was to educate the public about the threat of nuclear war and to secure public support for actions which would reduce the chance of nuclear confrontation between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. In 1985, the Coalition affiliated with the national Mobilization for Survival and changed its name to...
Dates:
Created: 1982 - 1984; 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
MC86. Michael Townsend, Micro-Radio Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-86
Scope and Contents
Records, collected literature, and audio and videotapes concerning the unlicensed, low-power radio station of Mbanna Kantako of Springfield, Illinois, and the micro-radio movement in general. The efforts of the FCC to shut down Kantako's radio station attracted international press attention. This material was largely collected or created by Michael Townsend, an associate professor of Child, Family and Community Services at UIS. Its primary focus is Mbanna Kantako (originally...
Dates:
Created: 1989 - 2002; Other: Date acquired: 10/26/1998
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
P/Schweighauser. Charles Schweighauser, Personal Papers, 1985-2008 Series IV
Collection — Box 4
Identifier: P-Schweighauser Series IV
Scope and Contents
Papers of Charles Schweighauser:Box 1 includes correspondence, memos, course proposals, lecture notes, syllabuses and examinations.Box 2 includes correspondence, memos, course proposals, lecture notes, syllabuses and examinations. It also contains information regarding the UIS Observatory. Of particular interest are press releases, articles, and photographs pertaining to the University's telescope specifically designed to accommodate people in wheelchairs (the...
Dates:
Created: 1985 - 2008; Other: Date acquired: 05/28/2009
P/Stone. Ralph Stone, Personal Papers, 1990- Series II
Collection
Identifier: P-Stone Series II
Scope and Contents
The Ralph Stone papers, Series II contain research index cards, copies of primary & secondary materials, dealing with the Pana-Virden mine riot and Illinois labor and national labor movements including radical and communist groups, cooperatives, and John H. Walker and Dunca McDonald, who were both linked to the labor movements in Illinois. A minor portion of the file is devoted to subjects of personal interest to Mr. Stone. These subjects include various individuals, race relations in...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 06/00/1990
P/Townsend. Mike Townsend, Personal Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-Townsend
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;...
Dates:
Created: 1955-2013; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1995; Other: Date acquired: 05/15/2009