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Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Anne Siewers Coyne papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Coyne
Abstract Papers (correspondence, photographs, poems, clippings, programs, and other materials) of Anne Siewers Coyne, who began working at 14 at Ralph G. Newman's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. There she met, became friends with, and corresponded with Nelson Algren. In 1957 and 1958 she initiated Loyola University Chicago's David B. Steinman Visiting Poets series, corresponding with poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, and Dame Edith Sitwell. The papers also include materials related to her...
Dates: 1943-1999; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1969

Richard Schaller papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Schaller
Abstract Government reports, photographs, protest newspapers, speech transcripts, posters, and newspaper clippings assembled by Richard Schaller, Head of the Sabotage, Espionage, and Countersubversion Department of the Naval Investigative Service Office in Chicago, related to his surveillance of individuals and organizations demonstrating at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Schaller’s transcribed organizer speeches were used as evidence in the Chicago Seven trial, where he also...
Dates: 1967-1973

Students for a Democratic Society and 1968 Democratic Convention publications collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-SDS
Abstract

Compiled by Chicago-based Franklin Rosemont and donated by his wife, Penelope Rosemont, this collection consists of pamphlets, wall posters, and periodicals focusing on the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the 1968 Democratic convention.

Dates: 1967-1988; Majority of material found within 1968

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Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Bookstores -- United States 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago Seven Trial, Chicago, Ill., 1969-1970 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1