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Correspondence, certificates, muster rolls, military reports, and other documents, including many fragmentary items, relating to Andrew Jackson and various phases of his life and times. Most Jackson correspondence is composed of incoming letters to him. About 34 items in the collection are handwritten or signed by Jackson. Topics in the collection include Jackson's military career, his business affairs, real estate

Dates: 1786-1853   |   Extent: 13 folders.; 8 oversize folders.
Archives: Chicago History Museum

Correspondence, speeches, newsclippings, and other papers of Mitchell, who served as U.S. Congressman from the First Congressional District, Chicago (Ill.), 1935-1943. Mitchell was the first African American Democrat to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, and his papers contain many incoming letters from throughout the country on racial issues. Additional topics include Mitchell's election campaigns against Oscar DePriest and

Dates: 1898-1968,   |   Extent: 31 linear ft.; 3 oversize folders.; 1 microfilm reel. (Copy of scrapbook)
Archives: Chicago History Museum

Correspondence, speeches, awards, and aldermanic campaign disclosure material of Stewart, Alderman of Chicago's 21st Ward from 1971 to 1978 and U.S. Congressman (Democrat) from the 1st Congressional District of Illinois from 1979 to 1980.

Dates: 1971-1988   |   Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Archives: Chicago History Museum

Carol Moseley Braun was born and educated in Chicago. She became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

Dates: ca 1992-1998   |   Extent: 371 linear feet (888 boxes)
Archives: Chicago History Museum

Sundry mailings, underground press announcements and brochures, a few letters, and other office files of Seed Publishing Company, publishers of the Chicago Seed, an alternative newspaper. Topics include the 1968 Democratic Convention demonstrations in Chicago, the civil rights movement, rights of high school students, the war in Vietnam, and other national social and political issues.

Dates: ca 1965-1972   |   Extent: 3 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Archives: Chicago History Museum

Chiefly research files and constituent correspondence, recordings, scrapbooks, and other papers, from Douglas' career as U.S. Senator (Democrat, Illinois, 1949-1967), relating to Douglas' election campaigns, labor and unemployment issues, social security, the civil rights movement, preservation of natural resources and preservation of the Indiana Dunes, irrigation subsidies and the family farm, congressional ethics, government contracts, Truth in Lending bill, investigation

Dates: 1932-1971   |   Extent: 757 linear ft.; 1 oversize folder.; 330 sound recordings.
Archives: Chicago History Museum

Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, press releases, testimonials, and other papers relating to the career of William L. Dawson, a Chicago (Ill.) lawyer, alderman of the 2nd Ward, and U.S. Congressman (Democrat from the 1st District of Illinois; 1943-1970). He succeeded Arthur W. Mitchell as the second African American Democrat to represent the 1st District. Collection includes some material on the

Dates: 1943-1970   |   Extent: 0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Archives: Chicago History Museum