Sisi Donald Mosby Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes speeches and articles written by Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, biographical information on Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, and draft chapters of a manuscript (biography) about Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey. Also included are incomplete issues of The Struggle, a Chicago magazine on the struggle for civil rights.
Dates
- 1951-1964, undated
Creator
- Mosby, Donald Sisi (donor., Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restriction
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Sisi Donald Mosby is a Chicago author and publisher. He attended Wendell Phillips High School and graduated in 1949. Mosby received his M.A. in Inner City Education at Northeastern Illinois in 1987. In 1990 he received his M.A. at Chicago State University in Library Science and Communications Media.
Mosby founded a publishing company called Sisi Donald Mosby, Ltd.. In the 1950s, Sisi Donald Mosby and Helen Buckler wrote a book on Chicago surgeon Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey. The manuscript was never published. Mosby was also the editor of The Struggle magazine and was active in the civil rights movement.
Extent
2.75 Linear Feet (in 2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Civil rights activist, journalist and historian Donald Mosby published The Struggle, a 1960s civil rights newspaper, and did most of the writing on a biography of physcian Ulysses Grant Dailey. Papers include rare newspapers, original manuscripts and speeches, and page proofs.
Arrangement
Alphabetically by title, then chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Sisi Donald Mosby in June 1997 and April 2003
- African American physicians. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dailey, Ulysses Grant, 1885-1961.
- Manuscripts. Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Mosby, Donald Sisi -- : Archives.
- Periodicals. Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
- Speeches. Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Creator
- Mosby, Donald Sisi (donor., Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Sisi Donald Mosby Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Elizabeth Loch, Archival Specialist
- Date
- April 2021
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
Repository Details
Part of the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection Repository
Woodson Regional Library
Chicago Public Library
9525 S. Halsted Street
Chicago IL 60628 United States
(312) 745-2080
harshcollection@chipublib.org