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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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Public access
Coretta Scott King speaking
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Coretta Scott King speaks outdoors at a podium with many microphones.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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James Compton and two others
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James W. Compton (center) seated at a dining table with two unidentified men.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Fred Hampton
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Fred Hampton speaking.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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James Compton and James Wright at a banquet
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Seated with others at a banquet are James Wright (left) and James W. Compton (right).
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Dr. Kenneth B. Clark
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Dr. Kenneth B. Clark speaking at a podium.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Bill Berry speaking at an event
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Bill Berry speaks at a podium during an event. Seated at the head table are Doris M. Zollar (third from right) and Louis Martin (second from right).
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Eugene Sawyer, Johnathan Rodgers, James Compton, and Larry Bloom
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Pictured on a on a television news set are, left to right: Eugene Sawyer, Johnathan Rodgers, James Compton, and Larry Bloom.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
James Compton and another man
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James W. Compton (left) shakes hands with an unidentified man.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry at a conference table with others
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Seated at a conference table are, left to right: Dr. Frank McAllister, Director of the Labor Education Division of Roosevelt University; Etta Moten Barnett; Tom Mboya; Ralph D. Robinson, Assistant Director of United Auto Workers; Fletcher Martin, Chicago Sun-Times; and Bill Berry, Executive Director of the Chicago Urban League.
Date:
1959-04-29 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
James Compton, Ben Bekoe, and two others
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James Compton (second from left) shakes hands with an unidentified man. Ben Bekoe is on the far left.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry and Monty Faye
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Bill Berry (left) shakes hands with Monty Faye (right).
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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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
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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
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James Compton
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James W. Compton speaking.
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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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
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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
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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
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Public access
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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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
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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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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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Ed McClellen with Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Jenkins
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Ed McClellen, NAACP Executive Director (center) with Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins was the Chicago Urban League's OIT Director.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Career Day at Arthur Dixon Elementary School
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Bill Berry is welcomed to Arthur Dixon Elementary School by eighth grade president Marcus Lyles, as others look on.
Date:
1969-04-15 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
The Reverend Calvin Morris speaking
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The Reverend Calvin Morris speaking. Morris served as Jesse Jackson's lieutenant in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)'s Operation Breadbasket.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Poverty speech by Marion Henley
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Marion Henley (left), director of the Community Services Dept., speaks at the 28th Biennial convention of the National Council of Jewish Women at the Park-Congress Hotel.
Date:
1969-04-23 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Robert T. Strube receives a Beautiful People Award
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Robert T. Strube (center) receives the Chicago Urban League's Beautiful People Award. James W. Compton is at the left. Dr. James Buckner (right) speaks at a podium.
Date:
1975
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
Access:
Public access
Al Raby speaks at a dinner event
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Al Raby speaks at a podium at a dinner held at the Sheraton-Blackstone hotel. Pictured at the head table, left to right, are: Andrew J. Young, Warren Bacon, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bill Berry, Albert A. Raby (speaking), and the Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
James Compton and another man
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James W. Compton (left) shaking hands with an unidentified man.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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The Reverend Joseph Evans
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Among other distinctions, The Reverend Joseph H. Evans served as President of the Chicago Urban League.
Date:
1960
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Addie Wyatt, Bill Berry, James Compton, and the Reverend Kenneth B. Smith
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James W. Compton, Addie Wyatt, Edwin C. "Bill" Berry and Rev. Kenneth B. Smith, president of the Chicago Urban League, greet members of the League's Symposium Advisory Committee.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Head table guests, Chicago Urban League Annual Luncheon
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Among the head table guests at the Chicago Urban League's Annual Luncheon are, from the left: Edwin C. Berry, former League director; Robert M. Drevs, chairman, Peoples Gas Company; and H. B. Law, League Board Member.
Date:
1976-02-06 00:00:00
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
Bill Berry speaking at CCCO meeting
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Bill Berry speaks from a church pulpit at the CCCO's (Coordinating Council of Community Organizations) initial meeting on direct action. The Reverend Arthur M. Brazier is seated behind him.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Dempsey J. Travis
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Portrait of real estate entrepreneur and civil rights activist Dempsey J. Travis.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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James Compton at a desk
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James W. Compton is seated at a desk. A woman sits across from him and takes notes.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access
James Compton, H. B. Law, Dorothy Rivers, and others
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James Compton (third from left) with Dorothy Rivers (far left), H. B. Law (far right) and three others.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Bill Berry with others
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Bill Berry (second from left) with a priest (left) and three other men.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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C. T. Vivian speaking
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Civil rights leader and educator Reverend Dr. C. T. Vivian speaks at a microphone.
Date:
ca. 1970
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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James Compton with Chicago Urban League Membership Campaign volunteers
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James Compton poses with volunteer workers for the Chicago Urban League's membership campaign, who display their worker's kits. Pictured left to right are: Howard Hirsch, James W. Compton, Betty Edwards, Dorothy Rivers, Lucky Cordell, Ida Cross, Clara Day, Ann Cook, and the Reverend John Clinkscales.
Collection:
Chicago Urban League records
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Public access

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