Press Releases
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
K8/2/3. International Festival Records, 1979-2014
Collection — Poster
Identifier: K-08-02/03
Scope and Contents
The International Festival is an annual program that highlights the cultural diversity at Sangamon State University/University of Illinois at Springfield. Organized by the International Student Organization, the festival features exhibits, food, and entertainment provided by international students and featuring their home countries. Each yearly festival is centered on a theme that explores the unique differences between the featured countries. Examples of themes include wedding...
Dates:
Created: 1979 - 2014; Other: Date acquired: 09/16/2008
M8/1. CONVOCOM Records, 1972-1988
Collection
Identifier: M-08/01
Scope and Contents
CONVOCOM was chartered on Feb 9, 1976 as a not-for-profit corporation under the title "West Central Illinois Educational Telecommunications Corporation" (WCIETC). Its main goal is to expand and extend educational, cultural and informational services to people living in the Mid-West. The WCIETC records include: background information, reports and proposals, Governor's Advisory Task Force, personnel and business policies, By-laws, grant information and grant agreements, board minutes,...
Dates:
Created: 1972 - 1988; Other: Date acquired: 08/23/1988
MC15. Springfield World Federalist Association Records, 1948-2001
Collection
Identifier: MC-15
Scope and Contents
The Springfield World Federalist Association Records, 1948-73, consist of 3.85 cubic feet of minutes, correspondence, newsletters, annual reports, topical files, and collected publications. The collection documents the Federalist philosophy and goals, and the organizational structure, activities, and concerns of the local chapter, particularly fund-raising, membership, and educational efforts, and its relations with the national and regional Federalist organizations.Collection...
Dates:
Created: 1948 - 2001
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
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
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
MC101. W. Russell Arrington Papers
Collection — Scrapbooks
Identifier: MC-101
Scope and Contents
The W. Russell Arrington gift consists of 21 scrapbooks dating from 1946 to 1979, including original newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, programs, and other documents and memorabilia relating to the career of W. Russell Arrington in the Illinois House of Representatives (1945-1954) and Senate (1955-1972). Scrapbooks are digitized.
Dates:
Created: 1946-1979; Other: Date acquired: 05/17/2012
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
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