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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
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- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century 1
- Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Camp Douglas (Ill.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Commerce -- 20th century 1
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- Digital images 1
- Discrimination in law enforcement -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Embalming 1
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- Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
- Genealogy 1
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- Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
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- Griffin-O'Neal, E. Dawn 2
- Alvarez, Anita 1
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- Dawson, William L. (William Levi) 1
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- Griffin, Ernest A. 1
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- McDonald, Laquan 1
- Owens, Jesse 1
- Trump, Donald, 1946- 1
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