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Rally (man on stairs)
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View of a large crowd gathered outdoors for a rally. A raised platform is partially visible at the left.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Chicago Freedom Movement Rally, Soldier Field (CCCO sign)
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View of the crowd in the stands at the Chicago Freedom Movement Rally (Freedom Sunday) at Soldier Field. A CCCO (Coordinating Council of Community Organizations) sign is on the stage at the right.
Date:
1966-07-10 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Martin Luther King, Jr. at Chicago Freedom Movement Rally, Soldier Field (Freedom Sunday)
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Martin Luther King, Jr. waves to a large crowd from an open car at the Chicago Freedom Movement Rally at Soldier Field. Bill Berry is seated on his left.
Date:
1966-07-10 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry with a group of students
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Bill Berry (standing at right) with a group of students.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Alice Treaga and Al Raby
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Alice Treaga speaks at a podium at the Raby Dinner, held in the Palmer House Hotel. Treaga was a Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) volunteer. Al Raby is at the left.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Whitney M. Young, Jr. and another man
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Whitney Young (left) seated beside an unidentified man.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Crispus Attucks Day commemoration
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Group of people bow their heads next to a wreath placed at the base of the Victory monument at E. 35th Street and S. Martin Luther King Drive during a Crispus Attucks Day commemoration.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Harry H. C. Gibson, Kathryn Dickerson, Louis Alexander, Mrs. Louis Alexander, and Mrs. Robert Taylor
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Group of people at an event. Pictured left to right are: Mr. Louis Alexander, Kathryn Dickerson, Harry H. C. Gibson, Mrs. Louis Alexander, and Mrs. Robert Taylor.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Three men having a discussion
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Three men in conversation.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Group of women
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Chicago Urban League records
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James Compton
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James W. Compton speaking.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Police arrest a man
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Three police officers handcuff a young African American man.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public Housing
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Young man looking out an open window of an apartment building. The head of a boy is just visible at the lower right.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry, Connie Seals, George E. Johnson, and Harold Baron
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Seated at a dining event are, left to right: Bill Berry, Executive Director, Chicago Urban League; George E. Johnson, President, Johnson Products Co.; Connie Seals, Specialist, Com. Ed. Department, Chicago Urban League; and Harold Baron, Director of Research, Chicago Urban League. H. B. Law is in the background at the right.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Harold Meidell and Theodore Jones
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Harold Meidell (left) and Theodore Jones (right) at a dining event.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Women with foodstuffs
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A group of three unidentified women in an office. The woman at the left is packing canned and packaged goods into large cardboard boxes. Three boxes containing turkeys are sitting on a chair in the foreground.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Freda Payne and James Compton with a group of women
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Posing on a staircase in evening dress are, left to right: unidentified, Mary McDowell, Delores Truss, Grace Allen, unidentified, Rose Johnson, Cheribelle Byrd, Barbara Bacon, James W. Compton, Freda Payne, Elsie Briggs, Jo Dunbar, Kathryn Aiken, Ida Cross, Alice Sirus (?), Betty Bussell, Mary Thomas, and Gladys Davis.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Ashbee Smith
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Ashbee Smith was the Chicago Urban League's Director of Employment.
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Chicago Urban League records
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The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson
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The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson speaking at a microphone.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Ribbon cutting at the new Chicago Urban League headquarters
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Ribbon cutting ceremony in front of the new Chicago Urban League Headquarters at 4510 S. Michigan Avenue. This new headquarters opened in 1984.
Date:
circa 1984
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Women's Division 1953
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Group photo of the West Side Women's Division. Whitney M. Young is the man standing at the back center.
Date:
1953
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Join Your Urban League
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View inside a room with people waiting and filling out forms. A sign hanging above the entrance to the room bears the message "Join Your Urban League".
Date:
June, 1954
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Fashions
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Group of fashionable women.
Date:
1953-04-01 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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School principals luncheon 1951
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School principals seated at dining tables at a luncheon.
Date:
1951
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Addie Wyatt
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Portrait of civil rights activist Addie L. Wyatt.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry, Lindsley F. Kimball, and Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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Pictured together at an event are, left to right: unidentified man, Whitney M. Young, Jr., Lindsley F. Kimball (seated), and Bill Berry.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Shoe maker at work
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View of a man making shoes in a factory.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry and others
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Bill Berry (right) with two unidentified others at an event.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Dizzy Gillespie with members of the Chicago Urban League Junior Volunteer Services Bureau
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Dizzy Gillespie (right) with three members of the League's Junior Volunteer Services Bureau. The volunteers are, left to right: Patricia Davis, Bessie Muldrew, and Elaine Wilson.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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H. B. Law speaks at a Board meeting, 1963
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H. B. Law (standing at right) speaks during a Board meeting held in the home of Mrs. Kathryn Dickerson. Also visible seated, left to right, are: A. W. Williams, Frank Cassell,and James Worthy.
Date:
1963-08-20 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Chicago Urban League North Side office
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View of the Chicago Urban League's North Side office.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. greeting people from the back of a truck, ca. 1966.
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Date:
ca. 1966
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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George Johnson, Laplois Ashford, Betsy Berry, and others
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Pictured at a dining event are, left to right: George Johnson, Laplois Ashford, Betsy Berry and two unidentified men.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry speaks to the Jewish Labor Committee
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Bill Berry (standing, center) addresses the Jewish Labor Committee from a podium at the Sherman House Hotel.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Union workers at civil rights rally
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View of a crowd at a civil rights rally. A number of signs with UAW in large letters are visible.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry and Bill Veeck with others
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Bill Berry (left) and Bill Veeck (second from left) with an unidentified couple.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Woman with four men in an office
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An unidentified woman speaks with four unidentified men in an office.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry and Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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Bill Berry (right) speaks with Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Dr. Charles Williams, Flossie Allen, Mrs. Fred Walker
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Left to right: Allen (1st President of the Women's Division), Walker, Williams
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Alderman Leon Despres
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Portrait of 5th Ward Democratic Alderman and civil rights activist Leon Despres.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry at Crispus Attucks Day commemoration
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Bill Berry (right) with others at a Crispus Attucks Day commemoration. The Victory Monument is visible behind him.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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People kneeling at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s grave
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Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson with Connie Seals
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Jesse Jackson (center) with Costello O. "Connie" Seals (left) and an unidentified man (right).
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Jim Tilmon interviewing the Reverend A. I. Dunlap and two others
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Seated together for a television interview are, left to right: The Reverend A. I. Dunlap, unidentified woman, unidentified man, and host Jim Tilmon.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking
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Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking outside at a podium.
Date:
ca. 1966
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry speaking
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Bill Berry speaking at a microphone.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Thelma Hill
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Thelma Hill (center) clasps hands with two unidentified men. A poster on the wall behind her reads "Support Your Urban League - 1971 Membership Campaign".
Date:
1971
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Model of an educational park
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Bill Berry (right) listens as an unidentified man describes an educational park with primary, middle and high school facilities.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Employment Rally
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A crowd of people rally outside on a plaza, holding signs calling for jobs and equal rights.
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Chicago Urban League records
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Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., James Compton, and others
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Pictured left to right are: George E. Johnson, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Mrs. Clarence Woods, Clarence Woods, and James Compton.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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34 Berry, Edwin C., 1910-1987 26 Compton, James, 1938- 11 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 7 Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 7 Young, Whitney M. 4 Wyatt, Addie L., 1924-2012 3 Brazier, Arthur M. 3 Jarrett, Vernon, 1921-2004 3 Veeck, Bill 2 Epps, Edgar G., 1929- 2 Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 2 International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) 2 Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935- 2 Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975 2 Metcalfe, Ralph H. 1 AFL-CIO 1 Altgeld Gardens (Chicago, Ill.) 1 Banks, Ernie, 1931-2015 1 Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 1 Barnett, Etta Moten, 1901-2004 1 Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008 1 Black Panther Party 1 Boy Scouts of America 1 Brock, Lou, 1939- 1 Burrell, Curtis 1 Carroll, Diahann 1 Chicago Sun-Times 1 Citizens of Greater Chicago 1 Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005 1 Council for Community Services in Metropolitan Chicago 1 Daylie, Daddio 1 Despres, Leon Mathis, 1908-2009 1 Dickerson, Earl B., 1891-1986 1 Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 1 Edgar, Jim 1 Egan, Edward M., 1932-2015 1 Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975 1 Evans, Joseph H. B. (Joseph Henry B.), 1915- 1 Forman, James, 1928-2005 1 Gordon, Robert Philip 1 Hampton, Fred, 1948-1969 1 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1 Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 1 Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. 1 Kim Sisters (Musical group) 1 King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1 Kitt, Eartha 1 LaFayette, Bernard, Jr. 1 Lane, Frayser T. (Frayser Titus), b. 1892 1 Lane, Richard, 1928- 1 Mboya, Tom 1 McCormick, Brooks, 1917-2006 1 McNair, Barbara 1 Morris, Calvin S. (Calvin Sylvester), 1941- 1 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1 National Council of Jewish Women 1 National Urban League (NUL) 1 Operation PUSH (U.S.) 1 Partee, Cecil A., 1921- 1 Payne, Freda 1 Proctor, Barbara 1 Robinson, Renault 1 Roosevelt University 1 Ross, Diana, 1944- 1 Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1 Saunders, Warner 1 Sawyer, Eugene 1 Smith, Abby 1 Smith, Kenneth B. 1 Strayhorn, Earl 1 Supremes (Musical group) 1 Tilmon, Jim 1 Travis, Dempsey J. (Dempsey Jerome), 1920-2009 1 Vivian, C. T. 1 Washington, Harold, 1922-1987 1 Western Electric Company 1 Wick, John W., 1935- 1 Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981