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Chicago Black Lives Matter Protest Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-ChicagoBLM
Abstract
Announcements, flyers, artwork, buttons, newsletters, photographs, posters, t-shirts, and other materials collected by various individuals at Chicago protests, 2015-2016, responding to recurring police violence and civil rights violations against black citizens. This documentation was solicited as part of a 2016 Newberry Library exhibition, From Civil War to Civil Rights, and also includes responses to events posted by visitors to the exhibition.
Dates:
2014-ongoing
Ernest A. Griffin family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffin Family
Abstract
Papers of family historian Ernest A. Griffin, proprietor of the Griffin Funeral Home on Chicago's south side, including family documents, photographs, audio/visual material, genealogical notes, and materials relating to the history of Camp Douglas (on which the funeral home stood) and Charles H. Griffin who served in a colored regiment during the Civil War. Also includes documentation of the funerals of prominent African Americans.
Dates:
1862-2007; Majority of material found within 1910-1995
Griffin Funeral Home records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffin
Abstract
Records of the Griffin Funeral Home, and its predecessor, the Bell Auto & Undertaking Company, which served the African American community in Chicago,1929-2007. Entries contain the decedent's name, address, occupation, physical characteristics, next of kin, date/place of birth, date/place of death, minister's name, and place of burial. Limited information of plot purchasers is also included.
Dates:
1929-2007
The Negro in the City
Collection
Identifier: VAULT Case folio-E185.6-.M48-1922
Abstract
Set of 44 lantern slides produced by the Committee on Conservation and Advance of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) that document the daily life of African Americans during the early years of the Great Migration from the rural American South, as well as outreach activities conducted by the MEC to assist them with finding work and social services. A majority of the slides show African American Methodist Episcopal church buildings in cities, such as Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, New York,...
Dates:
1922?
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- African Americans 1
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- History 1
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Religion 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century 1
- Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Camp Douglas (Ill.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Commerce -- 20th century 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Church buildings -- United States 1
- Digital images 1
- Discrimination in law enforcement -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Embalming 1
- Family records 1
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 1
- Fliers (printed matter) 1
- Funeral homes 1
- Funeral homes -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 1
- Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
- Genealogy 1
- Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970 1
- Lantern slides 1
- Methodist church buildings -- United States 1
- Moving images 1
- Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
- Photograph albums -- 1951-2000 1
- Police-community relations 1
- Protest movements 1
- Protest posters 1
- Racism 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Social movements 1
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- Undertakers and undertaking -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans 1
- Works of art 1 ∧ less
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- Spanish; Castilian 1
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- Griffin Funeral Home (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Griffin-O'Neal, E. Dawn 2
- Alvarez, Anita 1
- Black Lives Matter 1
- Black Lives Matter (Chicago) 1
- Civil War Round Table (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Dawson, William L. (William Levi) 1
- Elijah Muhammad 1
- Emanuel, Rahm, 1959- 1
- Gass, Catherine 1
- Griffin family 1
- Griffin, Ernest A. 1
- Lawrence, Robert H. 1
- McDonald, Laquan 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. Board of Foreign Missions 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. Board of Home Missions and Church Extension 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. Committee on Conservation and Advance 1
- Owens, Jesse 1
- Reid, William Watkins, 1890-1983 1
- Trump, Donald, 1946- 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 28th (1861-1866) 1 ∧ less
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