Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Rev. Martin L. Deppe Papers
Collection
Identifier: spe-c00075
Abstract
Rev. Martin L. Deppe created and collected the materials in this collection during his time working with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s (SCLC) Operation Breadbasket program, Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), the Alliance to End Repression (AER) and the United Farm Workers (UFW). The collection is comprised of meeting materials, memos, flyers, photographs, posters, publications, reports, speeches, buttons and artifacts that reflect the activities of Chicago’s Civil Rights,...
Dates:
1932 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1966 - 2010
Rev. Clay Evans Archive
Collection
Identifier: spe-c00036
Abstract
The Rev. Clay Evans Archive spans his 50 years of pastoral leadership at Chicago’s Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church that he founded in 1950, and beyond his retirement in 2000. His ministry reached into the larger community with the What a Fellowship Hour broadcasts, Gospel choir performances and an engagement with the Civil Rights Movement along with numerous religious and community organizations such as the African American Religious Connection (AARC),...
Dates:
1944 - 2017
Eugene Sawyer Mayoral Records
Collection
Identifier: spe-h00078
Abstract
Eugene Sawyer worked in Chicago's Water Department before being elected 6th Ward Alderman in 1971. Following Harold Washington's death in November 1987, Sawyer was elected by his fellow City Council members to serve as mayor. Sawyer lost the special election in 1989 to Richard J. Daley, and after that, he left public office to pursue private business. Events that are most substantively represented in this collection include the construction of International Terminal 5 at O’Hare Airport, the...
Dates:
1980 - 1989; Majority of material found within Bulk dates: 1987-1989
Harold Washington Archives and Collections. Mayoral Records. Press Office Photographs
Collection
Identifier: spe-h00066
Abstract
Harold Washington was the first African American mayor of Chicago, elected in 1983. The Press Office was part of the Office of the Mayor, and was responsible for the mayor’s scheduling and for ensuring he was prepared for each event by producing briefing notes with detailed background information. The photographs, contact sheets and negatives in this collection were mostly taken by Press Office photographers, Michelle V. Agins, Antonio B. Dickey and Peter J. Schulz, between 1983 and 1987....
Dates:
1983 - 1987
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- Gay rights 2
- African American Baptists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Sources 1
- African American Religious Connection. 1
- African American gospel singers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago. 1
- African Americans--Employment 1
- Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa 1
- Asian Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Sources 1
- Baptist Ministers Conference of Chicago and Vicinity 1
- Blacks--Employment 1
- Broadcast Ministers' Alliance. 1
- Business enterprises, Black 1
- Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th Century -- Sources 1
- Clay Evans Scholarship Fund (CE$F) 1
- Cook County (Ill.). Department of Corrections 1
- Discrimination in employment -- Legislation 1
- Draft resisters 1
- Educational change -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Ethnic groups -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Evans, Clay, Rev. -- Archives 1 ∧ less
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