Jack Hart video interview and transcript
Young Lords (Organization)
Puerto Ricans--United States
Civil Rights--United States--History
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Personal narratives
Social justice
Community activists--Illinois--Chicago
Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--1951-
Chicago (Ill.). Mayor (1983-1987 : Washington)
Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago
Housing--Illinois--Chicago
Jack Hart was a primary assistant to Walter “Slim” Coleman during the Jiménez for Alderman Campaign of 1975. He continues to live and work in Chicago’s 46th Ward, primarily in the Uptown Community. In the 1970s, Hart was a member of the Intercommunal Survival Committee, a white group that supported the Black Panther Party. He worked closely with the Young Lords. Mr. Hart joined Mayor Harold Washington’s Administration as Assistant Commissioner and was responsible for administering all of the City of Chicago’s rehabilitation loan programs.
Hart, Jack
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
In Copyright
Iberia Hampton video interview and transcript
African Americans--Personal narratives
Hampton, Fred, 1948-1969
Black Panther Party. Illinois Chapter
Iberia Hampton is the mother of murdered Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, as well as Dee and Bill Hampton. Throughout her life she has been active within her church and the community. Along with Bill Hampton and the board, Mrs. Iberia Hampton is the primary organizer of the annual celebration of the Fred Hampton Scholarship Fund.
Hampton, Iberia
Bill Hampton video interview and transcript
Race relations
Bill Hampton is a former Chicago public school teacher and the brother of Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party who was murdered by a special police squad in an early morning raid on December 4, 1969. Bill Hampton grew up in Maywood, Illinois, where he organizes an annual commemoration event for his brother.
Hampton, Bill
Dennis Cunningham video interview and transcript
Oral history of Dennis Cunningham, interviewed by Jose 'Cha-Cha' Jimenez on 10/23/2016 about the Young Lords in Lincoln Park.
Cunningham, Dennis
Gregorio Gómez video interview and transcript
Gregorio Gómez is known as the “G Man” at one of Chicago’s longest running underground poetry venues, “Weeds,” at 1515 North Dayton Street. Opened in 1964, “Weeds” still serves the Lincoln Park neighborhood; the building has existed there since 1928. Today “Weeds” is known as “the neighborhood bar without a neighborhood.” In the 1980s, prior to the Harold Washington campaign, José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez organized a reorganizing event at “Weeds.” It was a small party reunion and the place was packed. The purpose was to remember the Young Lords’ work and the Puerto Ricans who were displaced from Lincoln Park. Mr. Jiménez was assisted by Iris (Martha) Ramos, who, before the Young Lords were political, was one of three different presidents of the Young Lordettes. Ms. Ramos had previously been married to Benny Pérez, one of the original Young Lords club founders, who also turned political when the Young Lords became a human rights movement on September 23, 1968. She was also the sister of Manuel Ramos who was a Young Lord killed by off duty policeman James Lamb on May 3, 1969. Mr. Gómez emigrated from Vera Cruz, Mexico to Chicago in 1963. And he has been in the poetry community for nearly three decades. He has been the Managing Director of the Latino Chicago Theatre Company, which has been in the forefront of theatre and arts in Wicker Park. Mr. Gómez’s work has been published and recorded in numerous venues, including Stray Bullets: A Celebration of Chicago Saloon Poetry (1991) and Poetry for Peace Anthology, published by the Peace Museum of Chicago. In 1986, White Panther Party Minister of Information, Bob “Righteous” Rudnick, now deceased, approached the owner of “Weeds,” Sergio Mayora, about staging “Poetry Slams.”. Soon after that Mr. Gómez started to MC. Some of the patrons are a mix of newcomers and old timers, a few white pacifists and anarchists, some revolutionaries, primarily Blacks and Latinos. Early poets who presented their work at “Weeds” includes Chris “Man Defender” Chandler, “Sultry” Sue McDonald, and Susie “Mellow” Greenspan. Poet and Young Lord Alfredo Matias is a regular at “Weeds,” along with Sergio Mayora who always recites his two poems, and Mr. Gómez himself. As Mr. Gómez reiterates, “I stand for hundreds of Poets who will never be famous.”
Gómez, Gregorio
Laura Garcia video interview and transcript
Laura Garcia was raised in an immigrant farmworker family. She was a member of MECha, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, in the struggle to build the United Farmworkers Union, and joined the Teatro de las Chicanas, a theatre troupe started by Felicitas Nuñez and Delia Ravelo, in the 1970s. She recently co-edited, with Sandra M. Gutierrez and Ms. Nuñez a collection of memoirs by members of Teatro Chicanas called Teatro Chicana (2008). Their most recent play is “Madres por Justicia,” which was first performed at the MALCS Conference in Los Angeles, August 2011.
Garcia, Laura
Carmen Garcia video interview and biography
Mexican Americans--Personal narratives
Mexican Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions
Social conflict
Cultural identity
Oral history of Carmen Garcia, interviewed by Jose 'Cha-Cha' Jimenez, on 11/16/2012 about the Young Lords in Lincoln Park.
Garcia, Carmen
Hilda E. Frontany video interview and transcript
Puerto Ricans--Personal narratives
Urban renewal--Illinois--Chicago
Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions
Hilda Frontany is a long-time community activist whose family first lived in the Water Hotel in Chicago’s La Clark neighborhood when they arrived in Chicago from Puerto Rico. In the late 1960s and 1970s she devoted her work to addressing the housing crisis that was displacing Latinos and the poor from Chicago’s Lakeview Neighborhood, a community located just north of Lincoln Park. As a member of the Lakeview Citizens Council, Ms. Frontany provided a public voice for Latinos and helped support homeowners.
Frontany, Hilda
Dimas Rodríguez Flores video interview and biography
Spanish language--Personal narratives
Puerto Rico--Autonomy and independence movements
Puerto Ricans--Social life and customs
Dimas Rodríguez Flores grew up since the 1930s in Barrio San Salvador of Caguas, Puerto Rico and continues to live there in the Lao Frío side of the barrio. He is a twin brother with Encarnación Rodríguez Flores. They have another eleven siblings, including their youngest sister, Eugenia Rodríguez Flores. Although Mr. Rodríguez has always lived in Puerto Rico, like many Puerto Ricans his life is connected to cities across the United States mainland through family; many of his children live in the United States. A veteran of World War II, Mr. Rodríguez is now retired. He enjoys his parakeets, cooking his vegetables, and eating the fruits of his land.
Flores, Dimas
Carlos Flores video interview and transcript
Arts, Puerto Rican--Illinois--Chicago
Carlos Flores is a cultural activist who lived at La Salle and Superior in the La Clark barrio, growing up on Armitage Avenue. He takes pride in relating that his family was “the last of the Puerto Ricans to leave Lincoln Park” and recalls life in Lincoln Park which included his share of minor street battles as a teen member of the Continentals Social Club. Mr. Flores also fought for Puerto Ricans as a full fledged member of the Young Lords. Mr. Flores served on the Chicago Mayor’s Advisory Council on Latino Affairs, under Harold Washington. This council was first set up in 1983 by the Young Lords and four other Latino representative organizations city-wide soon after Harold Washington was elected the first African American mayor in Chicago history.
Flores, Carlos
Diego Figuearoa, Sr. video interview and biography
Oral history of Diego Figuearoa, Sr., interviewed by Jose 'Cha-Cha' Jimenez, on 8/25/2012 about the Young Lords in Lincoln Park.
Figueroa, Sr, Diego
Diego Figuearoa, Jr. video interview and transcript
Oral history of Diego Figuearoa, Jr., interviewed by Jose 'Cha-Cha' Jimenez, on 8/25/2012 about the Young Lords in Lincoln Park.
Figueroa, Jr, Diego
Russell Mawby testimony on the bill to amend Internal Revenue Code of 1954
Philanthropy and society
Family foundations--Michigan
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Charities
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Legislation
Testimony given for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation on the effects of modifying the charitable distribution requirements imposed upon private foundations, April 8, 1976.
Mawby, Russell
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
Russell Mawby testimony on Senate bill 464.
Testimony given before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance for the Legislation and Regulations Committee of the Council on Foundations on S. 464, March 30, 1981.
Russell Mawby testimony on the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Testimony given before the Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee on Foundations hearings on the minimum distribution rule (Section 4942 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954), October, 2, 1973.
Russell Mawby testimony on the proposed regulations on private foundations, Excess Business Holdings of Private Foundations
Testimony given before the Internal Revenue Service for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation concerning the proposed regulations on private foundations, 1979.
Russell Mawby testimony before the House Taxation Committee
Testimony given April 3, 1995 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the State of Montana House Taxation Committee.
Russell Mawby speech, The Role of the Community College in the Decade of Community
Education
Speech given September, 1992 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation on the importance of community colleges in the community.
Russell Mawby speech, Youth in the Universe of Education
Youth
Speech given September 9, 1977 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the National 4-H Leader's Conference.
Russell Mawby speech, The Greatest Opportunity
Speech given September 7, 1988 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the University of Nebraska during the Town and Gown breakfast.
Russell Mawby speech, Education in Philanthropy and Volunteerism
Speech given September 28, 1989 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the Statewide Educator's Conference to discuss the importance of education in philanthropy and volunteerism.
Russell Mawby speech at the Wildlife Education Center Dedication Ceremony
Speech given September 28, 1982 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the dedication ceremony for the Wildlife Education Center.
Russell Mawby speech, The Michigan Biotechnology Institute
Speech given September 27, 1984 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation on the Michigan Biotechnology Institute.
Russell Mawby speech at the Family Community Leadership Workshop
Speech given September 26, 1986 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the Family Community Leadership Workshop.