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Attendees at the Lilac Ball sponsored by Hull-House sitting on chairs while some couples dance. Director Charlotte Carr insisted that African Americans be invited to the Ball
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Date:
1941-05-24
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Other unidentified community activities, 1974 (Folder 609)
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Description: Community Activities bring the city's government into the neighborhood. Mayor Richard J. Daley's campaign for a cleaner Chicago reached out to students in Chicago's schools and made them part of the Junior Citizen's Committee for a Cleaner Chicago.
Date:
1974
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Valentine's Day event at City Hall
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Four children at a Valentine's Day event at City Hall. Part of a giant valentine which was presented to Mayor Richard J. Daley is visible in the lower left corner.
Date:
circa 1972-1976
Collection:
László Kondor photograph collection
Access:
Public access
Award presented to Mattie Smith Colin at a "We Care" campaign event
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William (Bill) Daley presents a Certificate of Appreciation to Mattie Smith Colin for her dedication to the "We Care" campaign, as a group standing behind them look on.
Date:
1971
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
William Daley shaking hands with a man at a "We Care" event
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William Daley shaking hands with an African American man, observed by several others at a "We Care" campaign event.
Date:
circa 1970s
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Eleanor Daley on a stage with others at a "We Care" event
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Eleanor "Sis" Daley standing on a stage by a podium with a group of others at a "We Care" campaign event.
Date:
circa 1970s
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Richard J. and Eleanor Daley with Roland Burris
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Mayor Richard J. Daley and Eleanor "Sis" Daley with Roland Burris.
Date:
circa 1970s
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Mayor Daley's Physical Fitness Award event, Richard J. Daley and awardee Mamie Rallins
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Mayor Richard J. Daley with awardee Mamie Rallins on the podium at a Mayor Richard J. Daley's Youth Foundation Physical Fitness Award event.
Date:
1966
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Richard J. Daley meeting a group of African American people
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Mayor Richard J. Daley meeting a group of African American people.
Date:
circa 1963
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Richard J. Daley swearing in an African American man
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Mayor Richard J. Daley swearing in an African American man in Daley's City Hall office.
Date:
circa 1963
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
Bill Berry with a group of students
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Bill Berry (standing at right) with a group of students.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
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.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
Whitney M. Young, Jr. and another man
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Whitney Young (left) seated beside an unidentified man.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
Three men having a discussion
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Three men in conversation.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
Group of women
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Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
James Compton
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James W. Compton speaking.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
Police arrest a man
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Three police officers handcuff a young African American man.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
Harold Meidell and Theodore Jones
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Harold Meidell (left) and Theodore Jones (right) at a dining event.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
Ashbee Smith
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Ashbee Smith was the Chicago Urban League's Director of Employment.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson
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The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson speaking at a microphone.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
Fashions
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Group of fashionable women.
Date:
1953-04-01 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
Addie Wyatt
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Portrait of civil rights activist Addie L. Wyatt.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
Bill Berry and others
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Bill Berry (right) with two unidentified others at an event.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
Lead contamination inspection and testing, 1611 S. Ridgeway
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Two men testing the interior of a home at 1611 S. Ridgeway Avenue for lead poison contaminants.
Date:
1971
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Paul Simon speaking with a couple at a "We Care" campaign event
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Illinois politician Paul Simon speaking with an African American couple seated at a table at a "We Care" campaign event. The men are shaking hands.
Date:
circa 1970s
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Raymond W. Ewell
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Portrait of Raymond W. Ewell.
Date:
1964
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Friendship Banquet photo album, head table guests
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View of guests seated at the head table at the Friendship Banquet.
Date:
July 24, 1963
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Otto Kerner, Richard J. Daley, and an African American man in an open car
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Illinois governor Otto Kerner, Mayor Richard J. Daley, and an unidentified African American man riding in an open car.
Date:
circa 1963
Collection:
Richard J. Daley collection
Access:
Public access
Boys eating in camp dining hall
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Two African American boys eating in a dining hall, likely at summer camp. Other children and a man are visible behind them.
Date:
c. 1960
Collection:
Bethlehem Howell Neighborhood Center collection
Access:
Public access
Richard J. Daley swearing in Joseph Bertrand as Treasurer of the City of Chicago
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Mayor Richard J. Daley swearing in Joseph Bertrand as Treasurer of the City of Chicago, during Daley's sixth mayoral inauguration ceremonies. Bertrand was the first African American elected to a major local office in the City of Chicago. Eleanor "Sis" Daley is seated at the left.
Date:
1975
Collection:
László Kondor photograph collection
Access:
Public access
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
Access:
Public access
Woman with four men in an office
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An unidentified woman speaks with four unidentified men in an office.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
Bill Berry and Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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Bill Berry (right) speaks with Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access

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216 Chicago Urban League 57 Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 33 Berry, Edwin C., 1910-1987 26 Compton, James, 1938- 8 Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1899-1990 7 Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 7 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 6 Daley, William M., 1948- 6 Young, Whitney M. 5 Daley, Eleanor, 1907-2003 4 Wyatt, Addie L., 1924-2012 3 Brazier, Arthur M. 3 Jarrett, Vernon, 1921-2004 3 Veeck, Bill 2 Bertrand, Joseph 2 Bilandic, Michael A. (Michael Anthony), 1923-2002 2 Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 2 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 2 Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935- 2 Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975 2 Kelly, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1876-1950 2 Metcalfe, Ralph H. 1 AFL-CIO 1 Arvey, Jacob M. (Jacob Meyer), 1895-1977 1 Barnett, Etta Moten, 1901-2004 1 Barrett, Edward J., 1900-1977 1 Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008 1 Black Panther Party 1 Boy Scouts of America 1 Burris, Roland W. 1 Carroll, Diahann 1 Chicago Sun-Times 1 Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005 1 Cobbs, Clarence H. 1 Daylie, Daddio 1 Dickerson, Earl B., 1891-1986 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 Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1 Hamilton, Norah 1 Hampton, Fred, 1948-1969 1 Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1 International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) 1 Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972 1 Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 1 Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. 1 Kennelly, Martin H., 1887-1961 1 Kerner, Otto, 1908-1976 1 Kim Sisters (Musical group) 1 King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1 Kitt, Eartha 1 Lane, Frayser T. (Frayser Titus), b. 1892 1 Lane, Richard, 1928- 1 Marcin, John C. 1 Mboya, Tom 1 McCormick, Brooks, 1917-2006 1 McNair, Barbara 1 Mitchell, Arthur Wergs, 1883-1968 1 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1 National Council of Jewish Women 1 Operation PUSH (U.S.) 1 Payne, Freda 1 Proctor, Barbara 1 Robinson, Renault 1 Roosevelt University 1 Ross, Diana, 1944- 1 Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1 Sampson, Edith S. (Edith Spurlock), 1901?-1979 1 Saunders, Warner 1 Sawyer, Eugene 1 Simon, Paul, 1928-2003 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 Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 1 Vivian, C. T. 1 Washington, Harold, 1922-1987 1 Western Electric Company 1 Wick, John W., 1935- 1 Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

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