QUICK GUIDE
Race and Politics in Chicago
in the Newberry Collection
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General Resources
Dyja, Tom. Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Holli, Melvin G. and Peter d’A. Jones, eds. Ethnic Dream. 2013. Call #: Chicago Browsing F548.52 D95 Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait. c. 1995. Call #: Chicago 2013 Browsing F548.9.A1 .E85 1995b
Grossman, James R., et. al., eds. Encyclopedia of Chicago. Simpson, Dick, et. al., eds. Twenty-First Century Chicago. 2004. Call #: Chicago Browsing F548.3 .E53 2004. 2016. Call #: F548.52 .T84 2016 Also available online: www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org
Race Relations
Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Reed, Christopher Robert. Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Ssoutherners, and the Great Migration. 1989. Call #: Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966. 1997. Call #: F548.9.N4 G76 1989 F548.9.N4 R44 1977
Harden, Jacalyn D. Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Reed, Christopher Robert. Rise of Chicago’s Black Black and White Chicago. 2003. Call #: F548.9.J3 H37 Metropolis, 1920-1929. c. 2011. Call #:F548.9.N4 R445 2003 2011
Hirsch, Arnold R. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Rosen, Louis. South Side: Racial Transformation of an Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. c. 1998. Call #: American Neighborhood. 1999. Call #: Baskes F548.9.N4 HD7288.72.U52 H57 1998 R67 1999
Politics and Government
Allswang, John M. A House for All Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Black Lives Matter Protest Collection, 2014-ongoing. Chicago, 1890-1936. 1971. Call #: 4A 20497 Announcements, flyers, artwork, buttons, newsletters, photographs, posters, t-shirts, and other materials collected by various individuals at Chicago protests, 2015-2016. Call #: Midwest MS Chicago BLM
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Chicago (Ill.) City Council. Proceedings of the City Council…. Kogan, Herman. Herman Kogan Papers, ca. 1869-1985, 1876-1963. Call #: J 7896 .162 and folio J 7896 .162. bulk 1970-1985. Journalist, columnist, and editor at the Also available at archive.org. Chicago Daily News. Call #: Midwest MS Kogan
City News Bureau of Chicago. City News Bureau Records, Reed, Christopher Robert. Depression Comes to the South 1944-2005. From Federal Court, Cook County Civil and Side: Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933. Criminal Courts, and Chicago City Hall. Call #: 2011. Call #: F548.9.N4 R444 2011 Midwest MS City News Bureau Royko, Mike. Mike Royko Papers, 1934-1997. Columns, Harrison, Carter H., (Carter Henry), 1860-1953. Carter drafts, and research material from Pulitzer-Prize winner’s H. Harrison IV Papers. 1637-1953. Papers of Chicago’s long career. Call #: Midwest MS Royko mayor 1897-1905 and 1911-1915. Call #: Midwest MS Harrison Williams, Jakobi. From the Bullet to the Ballot: the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics Helgeson, Jeffrey. Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago’s in Chicago. 2013. Call #: F548.9.N4 W54 2013 Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington. 2014. Call #: F548.9.N4 H45 2014
Neighborhood History
Chicago Real Estate Board. Chicago Neighborhood Maps. Shadows in Bronze Town.: Story of the Southside Community 1950. Call #: map6C G4104.C6 1950.C6 Committee. c. 1949. Call #: HV9106.C4 S6 1949
Samors, Neal and Michael Williams, eds. Chicago in the Spear, Allen. Making of a Negro Ghetto. 1967. Call #: Fifties: Remembering Life in the Loop and the Neighborhoods. F548.9 .N3 S65 2005. Call #: folio F548.52 .C47 2005 Strange, Maren. Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941- Southside Community Committee (Chicago, Ill.). Bright 1943. 2003. Call #: E548.9.N4 B74 2003
Newspapers
Chicago Daily News. Newberry has 1879-1935. Call #: leading African American newspaper. A6.1638. Available on microfilm in the General Reading Chicago Tribune (1849-1993). ProQuest Historical Room. Newspapers.
Chicago Defender (1909-1975): ProQuest Historical Reader (Chicago, Ill.). Newberry has 1971-2010. Call #: Newspapers. Full-text of Chicago’s and the nation’s Microfilm 1398.
Subject Headings
The Newberry holds a wealth of material related to the history of race and politics in Chicago. Try the following search terms in the Newberry’s online catalog:
Chicago (Ill.) – Economic conditions Chicago (Ill.) – Ethnic relations Chicago (Ill.) – History Chicago (Ill.) – Newspapers Chicago (Ill.) – Politics and government Chicago (Ill.) – Race relations
This Quick Guide was created for a Meet the Author event for Andrew Diamond’s book, Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, held at the Newberry on Wednesday, November 8, 2017.
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