Collection Number:	2000/04
Provenance:	Deed of gift from Leonard Wash, May 5, 2000. Subsequent donations were made by Leonard Wash several times each year from 2001 through 2011.
Size:	67 linear feet (85 archival boxes)
Repository:	Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library (Chicago Public Library), 9525 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60628
Access:	No restrictions
Citation:	When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Wash, Leonard Papers [Box #, Folder #], Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Chicago Public Library
Processed by:	Jeanie Child, Harsh Archival Processing Project, 2012
Supervised by:	Michael Flug, Senior Archivist, Harsh Archival Processing Project

Biographical Note

Leonard Wash (1940-) was a student, activist and teacher, as well as lifelong participant in Chicago’s Black Arts, Black Power and Black Consciousness movements from the 1960s forward. His professional career spanned four decades of teaching social studies and adult education programs at the City Colleges of Chicago. In 1978, he was a founding member of the annual Black Studies Conference at Olive-Harvey College. Throughout his adult life he recorded and collected the records of these activities, which comprise the Leonard Wash Papers.

Leonard Wash was born in 1940 to Perry Leon Wash and Dorothy Martha Perkins Wash, both Kansas natives. The couple’s children also included Delores Wash (King) (b. 1937 in Topeka, Kan.) and Stanley Gene Wash (b. 1943 in Columbus, Ohio). Leonard’s father, a World War II army veteran, was trained in auto mechanics. His mother worked at Provident Hospital after she moved to Chicago. Both parents served in evangelical church congregations wherever they lived. The parents and grandparents of Leonard’s mother were gospel singers and preachers, and Dorothy Wash studied singing with the Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey.

During the 1940s and 1950s the Washes lived in several Midwestern communities in Kansas, Nebraska and Ohio. In 1953 Leonard Wash moved to Chicago. He remembers 1951-1953 as his “Columbus years,” during which he was introduced to many aspects of black culture in that Ohio city, especially the gospel and jazz music he heard. He was blessed with two godfathers, Russell Pace, Sr., and Leonard Nelson Napper, both involved with local Columbus community arts funding and organization. In Columbus Wash listened to local radio host Eddie Saunders’ gospel program, “Sermons and Song,” along with other broadcasts that introduced him to the black music scene beyond Columbus.

By 1953 the Washes had settled in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. Their home with Wash’s uncle and aunt was across the street from Woodlawn A.M.E. Church, Bishop Archibald J. Carey’s former pastorate. Wash’s mother and sister, Delores, joined in the church’s activities. Wash went to Dumas Elementary School, graduating in 1954, and then attended Englewood High School from which he graduated in 1958. While at Englewood, Wash took an active part in sports and achieved major success in cross-country and track, a lifelong interest in which he would excel. At Englewood he studied literature with Charles Evans. A decade later, Evans would play a key role in the founding of Olive-Harvey College’s African American Studies Department and also the annual Black Studies Conference. Wash’s Englewood classmates included Roscoe Mitchell and Donald Myrick, experimental jazz musicians and later annual Black Studies Conference participants.

In fall 1958 Leonard Wash matriculated at Wilson Junior College, one of several Chicago City College campuses. Like nearly all U.S. higher education institutions of that time, Wilson had few black faculty members, and the college offered almost no course content on black history and culture. Wash arrived already well aware of the civil rights movement, especially after the murder of Emmett Till. However, he left school in 1961 to join the U.S. Army for a tour of duty in the medical corps.

In 1965 Leonard Wash returned to Wilson College and found “major changes in students’ attitudes”—along with a greatly increased enrollment of African American students and even a few new African American faculty members. He enrolled in a new Negro history class taught by Professor William Gnatz, the first offered by the City Colleges. He and fellow students were inspired through the course work to organize the Negro History Club, sponsored by faculty advisor Nathaniel “Nate” Willis, long a civil rights activist. Besides their intensive study of relevant texts, these students participated in the growing freedom movement throughout the community, including Operation Breadbasket, Nation of Islam, CORE, NAACP, Black Panther Party, SCLC and SNCC. Discarding the name “Negro History Club,” the newly titled Afro-American History Club pressured the Wilson College administration to add more African American instructors, counselors and administrators, ultimately leading to Wilson’s first African American president. The organization reached out beyond the Wilson campus to join student protests at other campuses such as Northwestern University. It also participated in the regional Black Student Alliance Conference and took note of the 1967 Black Power Conference in Newark, N.J.

Wash graduated from Wilson’s two-year program in 1968 and enrolled in Roosevelt University for his bachelor of arts in history. There he joined a group of fellow Wilson graduates to help form the Black Students’ Association. He also was employed at Wilson College to supervise a grant-funded “New Images” summer work-study program. Wilson then installed Wash as a tutor in another new program for at-risk students, the Academic Skills Center. Leonard Wash would continue this type of outreach and teaching of underserved and older students throughout his professional life. During 1968-1969, Wash remained involved with student activists, who took over administrative offices and continued protesting until City Colleges agreed to the creation of Kennedy-King College in summer 1969.

Leonard Wash married Hattie Mae Collins in 1968. Hattie Wash was also involved in the black student movement, the annual Black Studies Conference at Olive-Harvey College and her own professional career in psychology. They had one daughter, Nzinga. The couple later separated and divorced. Hattie and Leonard Wash were part of the Wilson College cohort of student activists who would move on to found Black Arts and Black Power organizations with national impact, such as the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), the American Association of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the Black Studies Conference at Olive-Harvey College. These students included Armstead Allen, Walter Bradford, John Bradley, Alicia Loy Johnson, Roscoe Mitchell, Albert Diggs, Johari Amini (Jewel C. Latimore) and Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee). Their activism also helped create another Chicago City College, Olive-Harvey, established in 1970 in response to strong student and community protest.

By 1971 Leonard Wash had completed his master of arts in history at Northwestern University. Wash joined the staff at the new Olive-Harvey College and hailed a number of colleagues from his student days who had also accepted teaching positions. Some joined the faculty of the African American Studies Department, established in 1970 by Charles Evans. One colleague, Armstead Allen, encouraged Wash and others to help him promote the African American Studies Association, a serious venue for students seeking scholarly input from the fast-growing field. Allen conceived the idea of the annual Black Studies Conference at Olive-Harvey, where the arts, humanities, social sciences and current events would be discussed and debated by scholars, community activists and arts practitioners. The conference was open to students, faculty and the community. Wash worked on the official organizing committee that Allen put together, starting with the first conference in 1978. He also attended each year throughout the conference’s 30-year history, recording most of the sessions on audiotape.

During those 30 years, the annual Black Studies Conference at Olive-Harvey College nurtured the growth of African American studies programs nationwide by bringing together hundreds of outstanding scholars who often labored in quite isolated situations within all-white academic departments. Community college faculty were accorded equal respect as those at Ivy League institutions. The Black Studies Conference directly involved students as well as teachers and practitioners; and it threw open its doors to the community at large. Leonard Wash not only co-created and attended these events, but he recorded (on tape) many hundreds of hours’ worth of talks, panel discussions and performances in danger of being lost.

Leonard Wash helped shape and document Chicago’s Black Arts Movement. Most important was his support of the Organization of Black American Culture and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Wash’s employment during the 1960s by notable African American booksellers A.J. Williams and Curtis Ellis had provided him an opportunity at readings and book signings to meet many authors on an intimate basis, such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright. Some of Wash’s friends and fellow students wrote, published or taught literature, music or art. In 1967 Johari Amini (Jewel C. Latimore), Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) and Carolyn Rodgers launched OBAC, and the group soon established workshops for literary, theater and visual arts venues. The OBAC Writer’s Workshop, which enjoyed the support of Gwendolyn Brooks, survives today. OBAC alumni include Abdul Alkalimat (Gerald McWhorter), Abena Joan Brown, Oscar Brown, Jr., Jeff Donaldson, Sam Greenlee, Angela Jackson, Calvin Jones, Useni Eugene Perkins, Sterling Plump and Philip Royster. OBAC cross-fertilized the growth of African American theater (Kuumba Workshop/Theatre Company and eta Creative Arts Foundation), dance (Muntu Dance Theatre) and art (DuSable Museum and the Wall of Respect). As an ardent jazz lover, Wash supported the AACM from its first days in 1965. Many were the performers and composers with whom he was familiar: Phil Cohran and Muhal Richard Abrams; Adegoke “Steve” Colson, Ernest Dawkins, Doug Ewart, Malachi Favors, Roscoe Mitchell, Don Moyer, Donald Myrick and Kahil El’Zabar. Throughout this process Wash not only supported but also documented the course of the Black Arts Movement by taping and photographing performances and other events, and by carefully preserving the paper records.

Leonard Wash also understood political organizing and often took a leadership role, not only in African American student organizations at Wilson, Roosevelt and Northwestern, but also through his participation in black faculty organizations. Wash supported a number of organizations that used political action to pursue political goals: the National Black United Front and the Task Force for Political Empowerment, for example. When the Rev. Martin Luther King led protest marchers to City Hall in 1966, Leonard Wash was among them.

In the 1980s Wash also supported other political, media and educational initiatives. He worked on Harold Washington’s Chicago mayoral campaigns in 1983 and 1987. He provided programming for WNUR-FM (Northwestern University) and WYCC-TV (Chicago City Colleges). He was a visiting lecturer at Northeastern Illinois University’s Center for Inner City Studies and on the teaching staff at Governor’s State University. Leonard Wash recently retired from the City Colleges of Chicago, and he has continued to pursue and document his interests in music, theater, literature and art.

Sources

• Lewis, George. A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
• Neal, Larry. “The Black Arts Movement,” in Annemarie Bean, ed., A Sourcebook of African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements. New York: Routledge, 1999.
• Nommo 2, Remembering Ourselves Whole: An OBAC Anthology of Contemporary Black Writing. Chicago: OBAhouse, 1990.
• Parks, Carole A., ed. Nommo: A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago, 1967-1987. Chicago: OBAhouse, 1987.
• Prigoff, James and Robin Dunitz. Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride: African American Murals. San Francisco: Pomegranate Press, 2000.
• Rojas, Fabio. From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2007.
• Smith, David L. “Chicago Poets, OBAC and the Black Arts Movement,” in Werner Sellors and Maria Diedrich, eds., The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Scope and Content Note

The Leonard Wash papers are a voluminous and varied assemblage of materials collected or recorded by Wash as he witnessed and documented the birth and growth of Chicago’s Black Arts, Black Power and Black Consciousness movements from the early 1960s forward into the 21st century. The items in this collection reflect the racially transformed academic world of Chicago’s City Colleges in the 1970s as well as the literature and music created by the Black Arts Movement through the Organization of Black American Culture and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. A significant component of this documentation is the 30 years of programs and recordings generated by the annual Black Studies Conference at Olive-Harvey College (1978-2007).

The collection was accessioned over an 11-year period in more than 50 donations that provided item inventories but no internal arrangement. The Wash Papers have been arranged into 15 series:

Series 1	Biography and Family History	1958-2011	Box 1
Series 2	Manuscripts	1965-2010	Boxes 1-2
Series 3	Correspondence	1965-2010	Boxes 2-4
Series 4	Organizations	1966-2010	Boxes 4-17
Series 5	Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College	1977-2008	Boxes 18-20
Series 6	City Colleges of Chicago	1965-2011	Boxes 21-22
Series 7	Programs	1965-2010	Box 23
Series 8	Funeral Programs	1968-2011	Box 24
Series 9	Audiovisual Materials	1976-2011	Boxes 25-48
Series 10	Subject Research Files	1959-2011	Boxes 49-51
Series 11	Pamphlets	1959-1997	Boxes 52-55
Series 12	Serial Publications	1945-2011	Boxes 56-73
Series 13	Clippings	1965-2010	Boxes 74-78
Series 14	Photographs	1959-2008	Boxes 79-81
Series 15	Memorabilia	1963-2011	Boxes 82-84

Throughout the collection, the Wash Papers furnish strong documentation of the Black Arts and Black Power movements. Manuscripts, Correspondence, Organizations, Black Studies Conferences, Pamphlets, Serial Publications and Audiovisual Materials series offer perhaps the most significant and rare material. The researcher should examine each topic across all series in the collection. For example, a search for the history of the Organization of Black American Culture may be rewarded not just in the Organizations Series but also in Manuscripts, Correspondence, Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College, Audiovisual Materials, Subject Research Files, Pamphlets, Serial Publications and Clippings, as well as Programs and Photographs. Records of student organizing during the movements’ early years may be found in the City Colleges of Chicago Series as well as in Correspondence, Organizations and Serial Publications.

Leonard Wash amplified and glossed many items in each series with explanatory notes that yield both context and interpretation. Where correspondence and clippings were found with other material during processing, such as organizational flyers or academic announcements, the former are arranged with the latter instead of in the separate Correspondence or Clippings series.

Series 1: Biography and Family History
The Wash Papers taken as a whole furnish little personal information about Leonard Wash and his family. Data on close family members is limited mostly to funeral programs and related clippings. This series does offer a brief curriculum vitae (ca. 1983) for Leonard Wash. Also included are items from Leonard Wash’s lifelong participation in the sport of cross-country racing, with further material in Photographs and Memorabilia series. Wash’s own more expansive narrative of his student and early faculty days in the City Colleges of Chicago may be found in the Manuscripts Series.

Series 2: Manuscripts

1. Sub-series 1: Manuscripts by Leonard Wash
   • This sub-series houses some of the longest essays and notes handwritten by Wash about various people, places, organizations and events represented in the collection that relate to the Black Arts and Black Power movements. These items are in addition to the other notations by Leonard Wash that are filed with the material with which they were found. Researchers should note the Wash manuscript item titled “Forward,” which contains more Leonard Wash autobiographical information.
2. Sub-series 2: Manuscripts by Others
   • The varied works in this sub-series include original poetry and essays as well as academic papers on a number of subjects primarily relating to the Black Arts and Black Power movements. Authors include Johari Amini (Jewel C. Latimore), Jacob H. Carruthers, Philip Cohran, Alicia Loy Johnson, Floyd W. Hayes III, Maulana (Ron) Karenga, Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Useni Eugene Perkins and Carolyn Rodgers.
   • For further material by or about these writers, the researcher should examine the Correspondence, Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College, Pamphlets, Subject Research Files, Serial Publications and Clippings series. The manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by author, or by title if author is unknown. Please note that some manuscripts are marked “not for publication” by the author.

Series 3: Correspondence
A significant number of the correspondents in this series worked in both the Black Arts and Black Power movements as well as in academia. Members of OBAC and AACM, as well as other academically affiliated scholars include Adegoke “Steve” Colson, Afi Ufura, Alicia Loy Johnson, Patricia Travis, Doris Turner, Armstead Allen, John Bradley, Floyd W. Hayes III, Maulana (Ron) Karenga and James Turner. Topics covered in the correspondence include literature and music; the Third World Press; academic analysis of the Black Arts Movement and its participants; various student organizational activities; political discussions of the Cold War and CIA surveillance; and black nationalism. Further information relating to these correspondents may be found in the following series: Manuscripts, Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College, Pamphlets, Serial Publications, Organizations, City Colleges of Chicago, Audiovisual Materials and Photographs.

This series is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Items that do not involve Leonard Wash as a correspondent are arranged at the end of the series as (Correspondence -- Others).

Series 4: Organizations
Over 200 organizations listed here represent Black Arts, Black Power and black studies movement groups, ranging from local Chicago neighborhood groups to nationwide organizations. In addition, a small number of organizations relate to Leonard Wash’s family, education and employment. Materials date from the 1960s to the present.

Local organizations affiliated with the Black Arts Movement include the Art Ensemble of Chicago, eta Creative Arts Foundation, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Great Black Music Series, Third World Press and the OBAC Writer’s Workshop. Other organizations that supported community arts endeavors, such as the Coalition to Save the South Shore Country Club, the Jazz Institute of Chicago and the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc., are represented.

This series also features materials from a number of political action or Black Power organizations whose work overlapped that of contemporary Black Arts Movement groups. Examples include the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, Forum for the Evolution of Progressive Arts (FEPA), National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’Cobra), National Black United Front, Task Force for Political Empowerment and the Harold Washington Party. Many educational or scholarly institutions are represented. Examples range from Northeastern Illinois University’s Center for Inner City Studies, to the Postal Street Academies, Shule Ya Watoto and the Lumumba-Jackson Community Learning Center (People’s Community School Program).

Materials in this series are limited mostly to event programs, flyers, announcements, and brochures. However, a few organizational records—in particular, OBAC material from the 1970s—do include working papers, agendas, correspondence, names of members or financial information.

OBAC members who appear in this series include Johari Amini (Jewel C. Latimore), Randson C. Boykin, Hoyt Fuller, Sam Greenlee, Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Sterling Plumpp, Ann Smith and Val Gray Ward. OBAC members also may be found in records of other organizations, particularly those dedicated to the arts, as well as those in higher education, such as Northeastern Illinois University’s Center for Inne City Studies, or student organizations at local colleges and universities. This series also includes many new groups that were formed by OBAC activists, such as the Institute of Positive Education, the Third World Press and the Black Peoples Topographical Research Center. Files of the AACM present a similar web of related organizations, particularly jazz groups led by notable jazz artists such as Phil Cohran, Doug Ewart and Kahil El’Zabar during the years Leonard Wash was an AACM board member.

Organizations for whom Leonard Wash was an employee include St. Leonard’s House, People’s Foundation for Community Development (University Without Walls) and the bookstores of Curtis Ellis and A.J. Williams. The researcher should see also the City Colleges of Chicago Series for records of the bulk of Leonard Wash’s professional teaching career, as well as for material on student and faculty activism.

Researchers should see also the Audiovisual Materials Series for recordings made of specific events held by the organizations in this series, especially jazz performances and conferences/colloquiae.

The Organizations Series is arranged alphabetically by name of organization, with two exceptions. First, those groups with which Leonard Wash was associated in Columbus, Ohio, are arranged at the end of the alphabetical list of organizations, under the Columbus, Ohio descriptor, and then in alphabetical order. Second, because of their bulk, eta Creative Arts Foundation records are housed after all other Organizations Series material.

Series 5: Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College
The Wash Papers offer two separate series of materials from the Black Studies Conferences at Olive Harvey College: Series 5, comprising the program books and related paper materials; and Series 9 (Audiovisual), where audio recordings of the conferences made by Leonard Wash are found.

Olive-Harvey College’s African American Studies Department and the African American Studies Association established the annual Black Studies Conference in 1978. It was held continually at Olive-Harvey for 30 years, through 2007. The annual Black Studies Conference ceased when Olive-Harvey College refused to sponsor it again.

The founder and impetus behind the Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College was Dr. Armstead Allen, head of the African American Studies Department. About 1977 he assembled a committee of faculty and students, including the African American Studies Association, to engineer the logistics, fundraising and publicity. Allen and his colleagues cast a wide net to bring in speakers and panelists from across the nation as well as from many local institutions. The conference was open to the community, which provided some of the presenters.

The Black Studies Conference mission was to provide a setting where educators and learners could through dialogue foster awareness of black culture and history and also nurture new leadership to continue the process. Accordingly, each conference programmed about a dozen sequential speaker/panelist sessions around particular themes. After each panelist had spoken, the session would be thrown open to questions and comments from the floor. Special performances were given by groups active in the Black Arts Movement, which included experimental jazz, African ethnic music and dance, and poetry reading. The list of frequent conference presenters includes Jacob Carruthers, Harold Cruse, Floyd W. Hayes III, Ricky Hill, Maulani Karenga, James Mack, Jabulani Makalani (Clovis E. Semmes), Harold Rogers, Carl Spight, Robert Starks and James Turner.

Materials in this series include the program books for each year’s conference from 1978 to 2007, except 1981 and 2004, and also materials from the Black Studies Brunch and Forum held in 2008. The conference format changed little over 30 years, and programs generally provide the full schedule of events. This includes the scheduled lectures and panel discussions, with names of participants and their representative institutions, employment or organizations; the title of each event, based on a theme; and the banquets and awards ceremonies with names of speakers and participants. Also listed are the various musical, dance and other arts performers that often were scheduled between academic events. Supplemental conference materials are available for most years except 2004 and may include planning, publicity, fundraising and papers submitted by presenters. Researchers may note Margaret Dorsey’s “Legacy of the Olive-Harvey Conference,” in the 1997 supplemental program material.

Newspaper coverage of some annual conferences may be found in the clippings file at the end of the Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College Series. See also Olive-Harvey College and other City Colleges of Chicago newspapers in the Serial Publications Series for conference coverage.

See also the City Colleges of Chicago Series for a list of keynote speakers, found in the Olive-Harvey College African American Studies Association folder. Information relative to some presenters may be found throughout Leonard Wash’s papers, including the following series: Correspondence, Manuscripts, Organizations, City Colleges of Chicago, Subject Research Files and Photographs.

For the most complete record of all but a few annual conferences, the researcher should see also the Audiovisual Materials Series, Black Studies Conferences Sub-series for audiotapes recorded by Leonard Wash at the conference sessions. These recordings usually include at least part of the discussion period held after the panel speeches. Please note that occasional changes in panel speakers that occurred during the conferences might not be noted in the program book, yet could be verified by listening to the relevant audiotape.

The Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College Series is arranged chronologically by conference, 1978-2007, followed by the Black Studies Brunch and Forum held in 2008. Each year provides the conference program book and supplemental material, when available. Following the 2008 material is the conference clippings file.

Series 6: City Colleges of Chicago
Materials in the City Colleges of Chicago Series include a wide range of items generated primarily through Leonard Wash’s activities there, first as student at Wilson Junior College (1960s), and then as instructor at Wilson (1969), followed by some four decades teaching at Kennedy-King and Olive-Harvey colleges (1970 to mid-2000s). The City Colleges of Chicago Series provides primary sources from the pivotal 1960s-1970s period in its history, when for the first time African American students and faculty demanded and were given much more autonomy in determining the content of the education offered there.

Records from Wash’s student days (1965-1969) consist mostly of the working papers for several student organizations in which he was heavily involved, such as strategic plans, membership lists and publicity efforts. These groups included the Afro-American History Club, the Black Cultural Committee, the Black Student Committee, the Committee for a Better Wilson and the Concerned Black Students. The papers document Wash’s role in actions taken, with protests eventually leading to the establishment of the new Kennedy-King and Olive-Harvey colleges in 1970.

Records of Wash’s long teaching career at Wilson, Kennedy-King and Olive-Harvey colleges provide a representative sampling of the various teaching positions he held there. The files contain documents from several adult education programs Wash taught or administered. Files from Kennedy-King College’s Adult Learning Skills Program and its Chicago Urban Skills Institute provide correspondence created during Wash’s advocacy with the City Colleges administration. Olive-Harvey College materials show that Wash served as instructor for a number of adult education and outreach programs including the Developmental Skills Center. Other records relating to Olive-Harvey were generated by the United Black Staff and African American Studies Department, while others show how Wash joined the African American Studies Association at Olive-Harvey and helped to organize, promote and run the annual Black Studies Conferences (1978-2007).

The City Colleges of Chicago Series provides little material about other City College campuses except for Crane Junior College and Malcolm X College. However, Black Faculty in Higher Education files show that Leonard Wash as faculty member participated in actions to achieve academic integrity and faculty autonomy where he taught. Other materials found in this series include college event programs, some of which provide names and positions of current faculty and students. Leonard Wash’s clippings files at the end of the series give context and detail to the City Colleges Series.

Researchers seeking information about the City Colleges of Chicago should see also the Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College Series. A related organization, Chicago Coalition on Black Education, may be found in the Organizations Series. For publications and activities of various City Colleges faculty and students, see also Manuscripts, Correspondence, Serial Publications and Clippings Series. For tape recordings of conferences, lectures, music performances and other events held at various City Colleges, see also the Audiovisual Materials Series. See also the Serial Publications Series for newspapers published by various colleges or students in the City Colleges of Chicago. These publications include the Wilson College Press (1966-1969) and Evening Press (1968-69); the Crane College Clarion (1968); Kennedy-King’s Etu Shaun “Our Opinion” (1970) and Kennedy-King Press (1969-1972); Olive-Harvey’s Hampton-Clark News (1977-1982) and SGA Student (1980s); and Malcolm X College Newsletter (1969-1970).

Series 7: Programs
The Programs Series includes those programs, announcements and invitations to ad hoc events that were not created by a particular organization or institution already represented in the Leonard Wash Papers. Please note that those programs, announcements and invitations created by organizations already represented in the Wash Papers are filed with that organization’s records in its respective series. Also found in the Programs Series are programs for events that were co-sponsored by several entities. A significant number of cultural events programs in this series describe jazz performances and feature Fred Anderson, Steve Cobb, Vandy Harris, Joseph Jarman, Eddie Moore and Edward Wilkerson among others. Other programs from academic conferences focus on the African holocaust, national reparations and similar issues. Special memorial programs honor Oscar Brown, Jr., Hoyt Fuller, the Rev. A.R. Leak, Sr., Margaret Walker and Theodore Ward. Local community festivals and park dedications are also included. Of particular interest are a benefit held for author Sam Greenlee, a protest against the Vietnam War and the Willa Saunders Passion Play, all dating from the 1960s.

Researchers should see also the Audiovisual Materials Series for recordings of particular program events.

Programs, announcements and invitations in the Programs Series are filed in alphabetical order by title.

Series 8: Funeral Programs
The three dozen funeral programs in this series represent a broad range of persons known to Leonard Wash. Family members, musicians and other artists, and community leaders are included. A number of programs are photocopies. They are arranged alphabetically by last name.

Series 9: Audiovisual Materials
The most extensive series in the Wash Papers, the Audiovisual Materials Series contains 531 recordings. They are arranged in five sub-series:

• Sub-series 1: Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College
• Sub-series 2: Event recordings (live)
• Sub-series 3: Event recordings (broadcasts)
• Sub-series 4: Commercially produced recordings
• Sub-series 5: Other recordings

Sub-series 1-4 consist of audiocassette tapes, while Sub-series 5 contains other media. Researchers should note that most of the audiocassette tape recordings are between 20 and 40 years old, and therefore in fragile condition with serious sound quality issues. Many audiocassette tapes retain material recorded earlier.

1. Sub-series 1: Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College
   • The Black Studies Conferences Sub-series comprises 289 audiocassette tapes recorded at the conferences from 1978 through 2007 by Leonard Wash. The recordings include welcoming remarks, presentations by session panelists, various banquets or award events, and in earlier years, various performances of music, dance and poetry. Most session recordings include questions and statements from the audience.
   • Listeners should see also the relevant program books in the Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College (Series 5) to verify the original session topics and speakers. Please note that audiocassette tapes are missing for the years 1982, 1984 and 2001. There are a few conferences in which double recording of particular sessions occurred, noted wherever possible. The tapes are labeled variously by Leonard Wash; some give session numbers and others provide partial wording of the sessions or the names of speakers. The note “cont’d” in a description indicates that a session or event on an audiocassette tape either continues from the previous tape or continues on the next tape.
   • The audiocassette tapes in this sub-series are arranged chronologically, in conference order, and then by session number. Unless an introduction is included in the session that was recorded, none is available; the recordings proceed without any introduction cues by the person who recorded the session. Many audiocassette tape recordings also open in mid-session, again without cues, continuing a session in a previous recording.
2. Sub-series 2: Event Recordings (live)
   
   • This sub-series comprises a variety of performances, conferences, lectures and other events relating to the Black Arts and Black Power movements. These 119 recordings were made by Leonard Wash, mostly in the years 1970-1999.
   • Audio recordings of mostly jazz music events include the AACM, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and Jazz Unites, as well as individual artists such as Oscar Brown, Jr., Phil Cohran, Kahil El’Zabar and Vandy Harris. Academic lectures and conferences include the African Heritage Studies Association and the Association for the Study of African American History and Life and the Harold Cruse lectures, as well as a Kwanzaa celebration with Maulana (Ron) Karenga. Individual speakers include Lerone Bennett, Frances Cress-Welsing, John Hope Franklin, Charles V. Hamilton, Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) and James Turner. Events with political content include the Black Independent Political Party Convention of 1985, a “Dump Daley” Rally in 1989 and the National Black United Front Convention in 1984 along with a NBUF Ensemble concert in 1989. Lectures given by Stokely Carmichael, Lu Palmer and Eugene Pincham also are recorded, as well as a sermon by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright and Harold Washington’s 1983 talk at Roosevelt University.
   • On a more personal level are the recordings made by Leonard Wash at the annual University of Chicago Track Club banquet (2004-2011), as well as a recording of Wash family members playing and singing gospel music at home in 1976.
   • Audiocassette tapes in this sub-series are arranged alphabetically, by first given title or name written on the cassette, allowing for a few back-to-front recordings. Identifying cues made by the recorder are not used, and some recordings open in mid-session without explanation. Events recorded on a single tape may represent different years.
3. Sub-series 3: Event Recordings (broadcasts)
   • Although not always so identified, recordings in this sub-series represent taped broadcasts, mostly radio programming. They include jazz and gospel shows, interviews and live events from a variety of radio stations. Included here is the FESTAC festival in Nigeria, with programs of African music, dance and drama. A series of interviews by Afi Ufuru (Joan Richards) during the 1980s at WNUR-FM introduces a number of AACM members and their work, including Phil Cohran, Soji Adbayo, Oscar Brown, Jr., and Adegoke “Steve” Colson. Leonard Wash’s childhood radio gospel idol, Ed Saunders, plays gospel during his long-running “Sermons in Song” from WVKO in Columbus, Ohio (1981-1992).
   • The 92 audiocassette tapes in the sub-series Event Recordings (broadcasts) are arranged alphabetically, by first given title or name written on the cassette, allowing for a few back-to-front recordings. Events recorded on a single audiotape may represent different years.
4. Sub-series 4: Commercially Produced Recordings
   • The 24 mostly rare audiotapes in this subseries were produced by the same company, Carnaby Corporation (aka Radiant Cassette and Cartridge Corporation). They appear to be remastered, and they are not dated. Performers include Al Hirt and Pete Fountain, Little Richard, Jimmie McPartland, the Platters and Frank Yankovic, “Polka King.” The audiocassette tapes are arranged alphabetically by title.
5. Sub-series 5: Other Recordings
   • Of special interest is “El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz,” a 33 1/3 rpm recording by Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble made under his Zulu Records Label.

Series 10: Subject Research Files
General informational materials, on subjects such as black history, were collected by Leonard Wash and comprise this series. A number of scholarly articles (photocopies) are included. Items are filed alphabetically under type of material (articles, curriculum items, guides and brochures, political items and reports).

Series 11: Pamphlets
The Pamphlets Series includes over 120 imprints collected by Leonard Wash during his study of and involvement in the Black Arts and Black Power movements. Most of the authors represented in this series worked within those movements and were his colleagues. A number of the pamphlets, booklets, chapbooks and offprints in this series date from the 1960s and 1970s and are relatively rare. A few representative authors are Johari Amini (Jewel C. Latimore), Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Gladys Croom, Alfred Diggs, Hoyt W. Fuller, Joseph Jarman, Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Useni Eugene Perkins, Lucius T. Outlaw, Carolyn Rodgers, Hannibal Barcar Shabazz (Robert C. Butler), Jabulani Makalani (Clovis E. Semmes), Tony Thomas and Francis Ward.

Series 12: Serial Publications
The 275 serial publications included in this series nearly all relate to the Black Arts and Black Power movements, to black studies or to current events that impacted the African American community. Dozens of the titles do not appear in major bibliographies of African American works, and therefore must be considered relatively rare. More than 45 items date from the 1960s, and over 80 more from the 1970s, reflecting and documenting the Black Arts, Black Power and black studies movements. Often just one or two issues of a publication will be found, rather than a full run.

Serials are arranged in alphabetical order by title, in three A-Z sections. Black X-Press and N’Digo holdings are found at the end of the series.

Series 13: Clippings
Many of the clippings that were received with the materials in the Leonard Wash Papers have been placed in this series. More than 50 news publications are represented, from the local neighborhoods in Chicago to New York City. The topics covered reflect those represented in the Leonard Wash Papers. The obituary clippings in addition include Leonard Wash’s friends, relatives and colleagues in Chicago and elsewhere.

Most items from publications readily accessible online or available in full at the Harsh Research Collection (such as the Chicago Defender, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Ebony, Life) have been removed.

The Clippings Series is arranged into two sub-series:

• Sub-series 1: Clippings, relating to general subjects
• Sub-series 2: Obituaries

The general clippings are arranged chronologically. The obituaries are arranged alphabetically by last name of the deceased.

Series 14: Photographs
The more than 150 photographs in this series were almost all taken by Leonard Wash during activities involving his teaching career, his embrace of the Black Arts and Black Power movements, and his lifelong participation in the sport of cross-country running.

The earliest photos date from Wash’s high school and early college years, where he is shown running in track events. Other photos show Wash with Black Arts Movement colleagues Johari Amini (Jewel C. Latimore) and Alicia Loy Johnson. Also found here is a photograph taken in the late 1960s of the Organization for Black American Culture Young People’s Workshop. Also included are photos of jazz musicians Joseph Jarman and Douglas Ewart, and Maulana (Ron) Karenga at the Institute of Positive Education, and Julia and Nathan Hare, with Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee). A collection of photos taken in Columbus, Ohio, includes “Jazz ’n’ Eggs” with Earl Love and Gene Walker, as well as the Hank Marr Sextet and sculptor Omar Shaheed. A significant number of photographs taken from 2001 to 2006 show the annual Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College. The remaining photographs were taken after 2000 and include various arts venues throughout the city: eta Creative Arts Foundation, Kwanzaa celebrations, DuSable Museum Art Fair and Jazz Fest at the South Shore Cultural Center.

Series 15: Memorabilia
Memorabilia items include the collected medals and plaques won by Leonard Wash during 40 years of amateur cross-country racing, along with medals he won in college and the armed services.

The series also includes several posters illustrating AACM and other jazz themes and events. There is a small collection of Harold Washington campaign materials from Leonard’s work in the mayoral elections of 1983 and 1987.

Oversized items from the Organizations and Subject Research series are also stored in Memorabilia Series Box 84.

Addendum
A box of 16 additional photographs from the Leonard Wash Papers was received in 2012. They have been added to the end of this collection, after Memorabilia. Researchers should see Box 85, Photographs 160-175.

Related Collections

At the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Woodson Regional Library (Chicago Public Library):

• Alkalimat, Abdul Papers. 1981-2005
• Black, Timuel D. Papers, 1918-2010
• Browning, Alice Papers, 1942-1985
• Coalition to Save the South Shore Country Club Archives, 1978-1997
• Evans, Charles Papers, 1955-1989.
• Heritage Press Archives, 1944-2002
• Johnson, Bennett Papers, 1968-1995
• Path Press Archives, 1961-1996

At other locations:

• Braxton, Anthony Collection, 1973-1992. University of Chicago Library Special Collections
• Brooks, Gwendolyn Papers, 1917-2000. The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
• Chicago Jazz Archive. University of Chicago Library, Special Collections
• Fuller, Hoyt William Collection, 1940-1981. Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta University Center, Archives and Special Collections

Container List

Series 1: Biography and Family History, 1958-2011
Box 1	Folder 1	Leonard Wash curriculum vitae, ca. 1953-2011
Box 1	Folder 2	Leonard Wash cross-country and track (running) materials and certificates, 1964-1995
Box 1	Folder 3	Family – Anderson, Dorothy Martha Perkins (mother), 1993
Box 1	Folder 4	Family – Godfathers (Leonard Napper and Russell Pace, Sr.), 1980-2005
Box 1	Folder 5	Family – Godmother (Vivian Marie Barron), 1989
Box 1	Folder 6	Family – King, Delores (sister), 1996-2010
Box 1	Folder 7	Family – Perkins, “Mother” Myrtle (grandmother), 2008
Box 1	Folder 8	Family – Wash, Martha (sister), ca. 1981-1993
Box 1	Folder 9	Family – Wash, Nzinga (daughter), [n.d.]
Box 1	Folder 10	Family – Wash, Perry Leon (father), 1989-2005
Box 1	Folder 11	Family – Wash, Ralph W. (brother), 1995
Box 1	Folder 12	Family – Wash, Stanley Gene (brother), 2010
Series 2: Manuscripts, 1965-2010
Sub-series 1: Mss. by Leonard Wash
Box 1	Folder 13	Untitled [about Eddie Saunders], 2006
Box 1	Folder 14	“Forward” to Kennedy-King College 1969-2007: An Amazing Moment in Political and Cultural Time of Day, by Robert L. Cruthird and Jeanette M. Williams, [n.d.]
Box 1	Folder 15	“Memories of Emmett Till,” 2006
Box 1	Folder 16	“The Fred Anderson Celebration,” 2010 (See also Funeral Programs)
Box 1	Folder 17	“Washington Park Cross-Country and Charles ‘Deacon’ Jones,” 2006
Box 1	Folder 18	Descriptive text notes for events, persons, organizations, various dates
Sub-series 2: Mss. by Other Authors
Box 1	Folder 19	Amini, Johari (Jewel C. Latimore). “Folk Fable (for My People),” other poems, 1967-1969.
Box 1	Folder 20	Boyd, Herb and Tommy Glover. “The Role of Black Culture in the Struggle for Black Liberation,” 1977
Box 1	Folder 21	Carew, Jan. “Fulcrums of Change,” [n.d.]
Box 1	Folder 22	Carew, Jan [?] “Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable: Chicago’s First Permanent Resident,” [n.d.]
Box 1	Folder 23	Carruthers, Jacob H. “Maat: The African Universe,” 1979
Box 1	Folder 24	Carruthers, Jacob H. “Orientation and Problems in the Redemption of Ancient Egypt,” 1972
Box 1	Folder 25	Carruthers, Jacob H. “Tawi: The United Two Lands,” [n.d.]
Box 1	Folder 26	Clark, Terry. “Black Jazz/Miles I, II, III, IV, V,” 2003
Box 1	Folder 27	Clark, Terry. “Dear One Heart,” 2008
Box 1	Folder 28	Clark, Terry. “Homeboy,” 2010
Box 1	Folder 29	Clark, Terry. “Nothing But the Hand of God (The Preacher’s Wife),” 2000
Box 1	Folder 30	Clark, Terry. “Popped (Observation on a Bus Ride Home),” 2006
Box 1	Folder 31	Clark, Terry. “Summer Redemption,” 2004
Box 1	Folder 32	Clark, Terry. “Summer 2000,” 2009
Box 1	Folder 33	Cohran, Philip T. “The Spiritual Musician,” 1965
Box 2	Folder 1	G’Ra. “Chicago: the Holy Nest (Ode to Mayor Harold Washington),” 1983
Box 2	Folder 2	G’Ra. “The Fantastic Plastic Bag,” 1985
Box 2	Folder 3	Hayes, Floyd W., III. “The Concept of Double Vision in Richard Wright’s The Outsider: Fragmented Blackness in the Age of Nihilism,” ca. 1995
Box 2	Folder 4	Hayes, Floyd W., III. “Cultural Confrontation in the New Age of Nihilism: The Resentment of the Dispossessed,” 1996
Box 2	Folder 5	Hayes, Floyd W., III. “Fanon, Oppression and Resentment,” ca. 1990s
Box 2	Folder 6	Hayes, Floyd W. III. “Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age,” [2004]
Box 2	Folder 7	Johnson, Alicia Loy. Realities and Spirits (original manuscript), 1969
Box 2	Folder 8	Karenga, Maulana (Ron). [no title] Presentation to University of Dayton, Seminar on Community Organization, 1968
Box 2	Folder 9	Karenga, Maulana (Ron). “Race, Reason and the Sniper Case,” 2002
Box 2	Folder 10	Khaaladan, Brother Aum-A’Dia and family. “New Western Sunrise: A Non-Traditional Approach,” [n.d.]
Box 2	Folder 11	Kimmons, Willie J. “Black Administrators in Public Community Colleges (Self-Perceived Roles and Status),” 1997 (presented at American Heritage Studies Association)
Box 2	Folder 12	Kulubally, Mansong. “Some Positive People,” 1994-2008
Box 2	Folder 13	Kulubally, Mansong. “The Stories, the Studies and Strides of the Man,” [n.d.]
Box 2	Folder 14	Landry, Lawrence A. “There Is No Such Thing As a Bad Boy – Unless He Happens to Be Black,” 1996 (working paper/speech) Restricted from publication
Box 2	Folder 15	Madhubuti, Haki R. (Don L. Lee). “The Wall,” ca. 1967
Box 2	Folder 16	Marshall, Henry Louis. “One Hundred Lines to Johnson C. Smith University,” [n.d.]
Box 2	Folder 17	McGraw, Lori. “The Black House” [at Northwestern University], ca. 1982
Box 2	Folder 18	Perkins, Useni Eugene. “Shift in Cultural Orientation,” 1993
Box 2	Folder 19	Rogers, Caroline. “A Train Called Judah,” [n.d.]
Box 2	Folder 20	Sargent, Maureen. [Biography of Fredrick Allen Hampton], 1973
Box 2	Folder 21	Smart, Winston I. “Racism in Public Higher Education in Illinois (‘Land of Lincoln’),” ca. 1992
Box 2	Folder 22	Stewart, Joffre. “Rap Sessions: Is America Really Post-Racial?” (audience survey form), 2009
Box 2	Folder 23	Wilhite, Hortense E. “Trip to the Moon” and “Take Me Please.” (with photocopied artwork), 1999
Box 2	Folder 24	Williams, Robert L. “The Bitch Test (Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity),” 1972
Series 3: Correspondence, 1965-2010
Box 2	Folder 25	Abatso, George and Yvonne, ca. 1970
Box 2	Folder 26	Allen, Armstead, 1985-1987
Box 2	Folder 27	Alson, Nada, 1968
Box 2	Folder 28	Brady, John, 1969
Box 2	Folder 29	Carpenter, Addo (with Maya Brooks interview), 2006
Box 2	Folder 30	Clinton, President William J., 1996, 2000
Box 2	Folder 31	Colson, Adegoke Steve (Coal Sun Productions), 1984
Box 3	Folder 1	Conyers, Hon. John, Jr., 1979-1981
Box 3	Folder 2	Cornell University, 1971-1972
Box 3	Folder 3	Daniel Hale Williams University, 1975
Box 3	Folder 4	Efuru, Afi (Richards, Joan), 2009
Box 3	Folder 5	Funbanks, Caroline, 1965
Box 3	Folder 6	Hayes, Floyd W., III, 1992-1993, 2001
Box 3	Folder 7	Johnson, Alicia Loy, 1965-1967
Box 3	Folder 8	Johnson, Alicia Loy, 1968
Box 3	Folder 9	Johnson, Alicia Loy, 1969
Box 3	Folder 10	Johnson, Alicia Loy, 1970-1971
Box 3	Folder 11	Johnson, Alicia Loy (photocopies only, of original fragile correspondence in folders 7-10)
Box 3	Folder 12	Johnson, Dr. Paul, 2002
Box 3	Folder 13	Karenga, Maulana (Ron), 2006
Box 3	Folder 14	Lawson, Pauline H. (Janus Antiques), 1984
Box 3	Folder 15	Lewis, John, 2010
Box 3	Folder 16	Makalani, Jabulani (Clovis E. Semmes),] 2006-2007
Box 3	Folder 17	McLendon, Art, 1984
Box 3	Folder 18	[Moore], Odessa, 1967
Box 3	Folder 19	Napper, Leonard N., Sr., 1977-1978, [n.d.]
Box 3	Folder 20	Nealé 1984, [n.d.]
Box 3	Folder 21	Obama, Senator Barack, 2007
Box 3	Folder 22	Palmer, Pat, 2008
Box 3	Folder 23	Partee, Honorable Cecil A., 1974
Box 3	Folder 24	Schaden, Chuck, ca. 2005
Box 3	Folder 25	Simmons, Adam, 1974
Box 3	Folder 26	Slaughter, Dr. Diana T., 1983
Box 3	Folder 27	Smiley, Nathaniel, 1996-1998
Box 3	Folder 28	Smith, Joseph R., 1974
Box 3	Folder 29	Travis, Patricia, 2000
Box 3	Folder 30	Turner Ford, Doris, 1968-1971
Box 3	Folder 31	Turner, James, 1970-1985
Box 4	Folder 1	University of Illinois at Chicago, 1974
Box 4	Folder 2	[unknown], George, 1967-1968
Box 4	Folder 3	WBEZ-FM Radio, ca. 1977
Box 4	Folder 4	Willoughby, Ada, 1971
Box 4	Folder 5	WTTW-TV (Edward Morris), 1967
Box 4	Folder 6	Correspondence (other) Amini, Johari (Jewel C. Latimore) (from Zelda V. Oppenheimer), 1968
Box 4	Folder 7	Correspondence (other) “Kenyatta” from “Samuel,” 1970, [n.d.]
Box 4	Folder 8	Correspondence (other) King, Delores (from Senator Christopher J. Dodd), 2007
Box 4	Folder 9	Correspondence (other) Pincham, Honorable R. Eugene (to Professor Claude Mathis), 1982
Box 4	Folder 10	Correspondence (other) Terrell, Ernie (from Mayor Harold Washington), 1986
Box 4	Folder 11	Correspondence (other) Wash, Hattie (to Lu Palmer), 1971
Series 4: Organizations, 1966-2010
Box 4	Folder 12	Abbott Historical Society Gallery and Archives, 2001
Box 4	Folder 13	Academic Association Academy, [n.d.]
Box 4	Folder 14	Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc., 2003
Box 4	Folder 15	Affro-Arts Theater, 1969
Box 4	Folder 16	Africa International House – African Festival, 2005-2009
Box 4	Folder 17	African American Arts Alliance of Chicago, 1993, 2002
Box 4	Folder 18	African American Heritage Study Program, 1984
Box 4	Folder 19	African-American Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal & Aaron Patterson, 2000
Box 4	Folder 20	African-American Griot Society, 1990-1992
Box 4	Folder 21	African Association for Black Studies, 1975
Box 4	Folder 22	African Community of Chicago, 1981
Box 4	Folder 23	African Heritage Studies Association, 1973-1994
Box 4	Folder 24	Afrikan Information Center “Numba Ya Wote,” ca. 1972
Box 4	Folder 25	Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago, Inc., 1994
Box 4	Folder 26	Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, 1976
Box 4	Folder 27	Afro-American Student Association of Chicago, late 1960s
Box 4	Folder 27a	AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO), 1990, 2009-2011 See Oversize Box 84
Box 4	Folder 28	All-African Peoples’ Revolutionary Party, 1977, 1999, [n.d.]
Box 4	Folder 29	Allen Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, 2003
Box 4	Folder 30	American Association for Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC), [n.d.]
Box 4	Folder 31	American Forum for International Study, 1980
Box 4	Folder 32	Amistad Research Center (Tulane University), 2005
Box 4	Folder 33	Apostolic Church of God, ca. 2011
Box 4	Folder 34	Archdiocese of Chicago “From Boyhood to Manhood” Conference, 1992
Box 4	Folder 35	Art Ensemble of Chicago, 1975, ca. 1982
Box 4	Folder 36	Arts Midwest, 1986-1996
Box 4	Folder 37	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Article, “The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians,” by Muhal Richard Abrams and John Shenoy Jackson (Black World. November 1973)
Box 4	Folder 38	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Board of Directors materials, 1986-1987
Box 4	Folder 39	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Membership correspondence, 1980-1990
Box 5	Folder 1	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Publicity materials,1967-1977
Box 5	Folder 2	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Publicity materials, 1978-1979
Box 5	Folder 3	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Publicity materials, 1980-1982
Box 5	Folder 4	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Publicity materials, 1983-1989
Box 5	Folder 5	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Publicity materials, 1990-1999
Box 5	Folder 6	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Publicity materials, 2000-2010
Box 5	Folder 7	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Publicity materials, [n.d.]
Box 5	Folder 8	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) – Publicity (articles, book reviews), 2005-2008
Box 5	Folder 9	Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc. (ASALH) – national and Chicago materials, 1973-2009
Box 5	Folder 10	Association of African Historians, 1984
Box 5	Folder 11	Association for Black Culture Centers, ca. 2000
Box 5	Folder 12	Babatunde, [n.d.]
Box 5	Folder 13	Beacon of Joy S.D.A. Church, 1985
Box 6	Folder 1	Black Action Movement (BAM), 1968
Box 6	Folder 2	Black Body, 1972-1974
Box 6	Folder 3	Black Communiversity (at Northeastern Illinois University Center for Inner City Studies), 1969
Box 6	Folder 4	Black Ensemble Theater, 1995, [n.d.]
Box 6	Folder 5	Black FolkUs, 1968-1981
Box 6	Folder 6	Black Independent Political Organization (BIPO), 1989
Box 6	Folder 7	Black Music Workshop, 1976
Box 6	Folder 8	Black Network in Children’s Emotional Health (BNICEH), 1993
Box 6	Folder 9	Black Peoples Topographical Research Center, 1966-1981, [n.d.]
Box 6	Folder 10	Black Star Project (Chicago), 2009-2010
Box 6	Folder 11	Black Theatre Alliance of Chicago, 1982-1986
Box 6	Folder 12	Black United Front of Chicago (BUF/CHI), 1981-1987
Box 6	Folder 13	Black Women’s Committee (for the Protection and Care of Our Children), 1968-1972
Box 6	Folder 14	Black X-Press, 1973
Box 6	Folder 15	Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center, 1983
Box 6	Folder 16	Campaign for a New Tomorrow, [n.d.]
Box 6	Folder 17	Cathedral of Love Missionary Baptist Church, [n.d.]
Box 6	Folder 18	Center for Constitutional Rights, [1995]
Box 6	Folder 19	Centers for New Horizons, [n.d.]
Box 6	Folder 20	Chicago Black United Communities, 1983-1991
Box 6	Folder 21	Chicago Coalition on Black Education, 1974
Box 6	Folder 22	Chicago Historical Society, 1983
Box 6	Folder 23	Chicago Humanities Festival (Black Arts Movement), 1960s-1970s
Box 6	Folder 24	Chicago Public Library, 1978-2009
Box 6	Folder 25	Chicago State University, 1968-2006
Box 6	Folder 26	Chicago Symphony Orchestra – ComEd Classical Tapestry Series, 2010-2011
Box 6	Folder 27	Chicago Theatre Company, 2000
Box 6	Folder 28	Church of God in Christ (Memphis, TN), 1976, [n.d.]
Box 6	Folder 29	City of Chicago – Music and Arts Program, 1980-2010
Box 6	Folder 30	Coalition to Save the South Shore Country Club, 1981-1982
Box 6	Folder 31	Community Adult School of Education, Inc., 1979, [n.d.]
Box 6	Folder 32	Community Youth Achievers (Chicago), ca. 1977
Box 6	Folder 33	Confederation of Afrikan Organizations, ca. 1975
Box 7	Folder 1	Congo Square Artistic Ensemble, ca. 1981
Box 7	Folder 2	Congress of African Peoples (Midwest Region), 1970
Box 7	Folder 3	Cook County (Illinois) Physicians’ Association, ca. 1971
Box 7	Folder 4	Cornell University – Black Studies Program, ca. 1970
Box 7	Folder 5	Council of Black Independent Institutions, 1974-1995
Box 7	Folder 6	Daniel Hale Williams University (Chicago), 1975-1977
Box 7	Folder 7	DePaul University – Black Metropolis Project, ca. 2000
Box 7	Folder 8	Divine Institute of Understanding, 1986
Box 7	Folder 9	DuSable Museum of African American History (orig. Ebony Museum of African American History), 1961-2009
Box 7	Folder 10	Education for Liberation Network, 2007
Box 7	Folder 11	Edward Wilmot Blyden Center for Creative Development, [n.d.]
Box 7	Folder 12	El-Rukn – Circle Seven, Moorish Science Mosque of America, 1983
Box 7	Folder 13	Ellis’ Book Store, 1961-1970
Box 7	Folder 14	Englewood High School – 1958 graduation, 2006 50th reunion
Box 7	Folder 15	Esoteric Arte Ensemble, 1984
Box 7	Folder 16	Esoteric Saxophone Ensemble, 1984
Box 7	Folder 17	Ethnic Heritage Ensemble 1978-1984, [n.d.]
Box 7	Folder 18	Faith United Methodist Church, 1996-2003
Box 8	Folder 1	Federal City College (District of Columbia), 1968-1969
Box 8	Folder 2	Festival of the Arts (FOTA), 1975
Box 8	Folder 3	FirstWorld, 1977-1981
Box 8	Folder 4	Forum for the Evolution of Progressive Arts (FEPA), 1980-1988
Box 8	Folder 5	Gene Siskel Film Center, 2000, 2005
Box 8	Folder 6	George Williams College, ca. 1975
Box 8	Folder 7	Goodman Theatre, 1983, 2008
Box 8	Folder 8	Great Black Music Series (Chicago Front), 1977
Box 8	Folder 9	Harold Washington Cultural Center, 2007-2010
Box 8	Folder 10	Harold Washington Party, 1990s
Box 8	Folder 11	Howard University, 1968
Box 8	Folder 12	Hunger Project, 1987
Box 8	Folder 13	Hurston/Wright Foundation – Writers’ Week Workshop, 2007
Box 8	Folder 14	Hyde Park High School – Reunion, 1987
Box 8	Folder 15	Hyde Park Jazz Festival, 2008, 2010
Box 8	Folder 16	Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life & Culture, Inc., 1987
Box 8	Folder 17	Institute of Positive Education, 1978- ca. 1985
Box 8	Folder 18	Institute of the Black World, 1970s
Box 8	Folder 18a	International Black Workers Congress See Oversize Box 84
Box 8	Folder 19	International Black Writers Conference, Inc., 1980
Box 8	Folder 20	Israel of God Bible Study Class, 2009
Box 8	Folder 21	Jazz Institute of Chicago, 1979-2009
Box 8	Folder 22	Jazz Unites – Jazz Fest, 1983-1995
Box 8	Folder 23	Jazz Unites – Jazz Fest, 1997-2005
Box 9	Folder 1	Kemetic Institute, 1989, 2004, [n.d.]
Box 9	Folder 2	Kuumba Workshop/Theatre Company, 1973-1982, [n.d.]
Box 9	Folder 3	League to Improve the Community, 1977
Box 9	Folder 4	Lilydale Historical Society, 2004
Box 9	Folder 5	Little Black Pearl, [n.d.]
Box 9	Folder 6	Lu Palmer Foundation, 1974
Box 9	Folder 7	M.A.D.D. Rhythms Tap Dance Collective, 2009
Box 9	Folder 8	Malcolm X Black Hand Society of the World, Inc., [n.d.]
Box 9	Folder 9	Malcolm X Conference (Borough of Manhattan Community College), 1990
Box 9	Folder 10	Meharry Medical College, 2003
Box 9	Folder 11	Midwest Afrikan American Theatre Alliance, 1991
Box 9	Folder 12	Midwest Regional Coalition – Black Unity Conference, 1972-1973
Box 9	Folder 13	Million Man March, 1995
Box 9	Folder 14	Moorish Science Temple of America, 1984
Box 9	Folder 15	Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, 2002
Box 9	Folder 16	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), ca. 2009
Box 9	Folder 17	National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO), [n.d.]
Box 9	Folder 18	National Black Independent Political Party (NBIPP), 1981
Box 9	Folder 19	National Black United Front (NBUF), 1972-1994
Box 9	Folder 20	National Black United Front (NBUF), 1995-2001
Box 9	Folder 21	National Black United Fund, Inc., 1995
Box 9	Folder 22	National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’Cobra), 2001-2006
Box 9	Folder 23	National Conference of Black Lawyers, 1979
Box 9	Folder 24	National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc., 1983-2008
Box 9	Folder 25	National Council for Black Studies, 1982
Box 9	Folder 26	National Forum for Black Unity, 1980
Box 9	Folder 27	National Urban Coalition (NUC) – Political Reform Commission, ca. 1994
Box 9	Folder 28	Negro Ensemble Company, ca. 1974
Box 9	Folder 29	New Concept Development Center, 1991
Box 9	Folder 30	New Images, [n.d.]
Box 10	Folder 1	North Carolina Central University – Institute of Jazz Studies, 1975
Box 10	Folder 2	Northeastern Illinois University (with Center for Inner City Studies), 1979-2002
Box 10	Folder 3	Northwestern University, 1970-1999
Box 10	Folder 4	Northwestern University, 2000-2009
Box 10	Folder 5	Ohio State University – African American Studies, Hale Black Cultural Center, ca. 1990-2002
Box 10	Folder 6	Operation PUSH /Breadbasket, 1970-2007
Box 10	Folder 7	Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) General file, 1972-2005, [n.d.]
Box 10	Folder 8	Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) file, 1971, [n.d.]
Box 10	Folder 9	Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Ebon Dooley file, 1969-1971
Box 10	Folder 10	Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Pat Washington file, 1975
Box 10	Folder 11	Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Sam Greenlee file, 1970-1971
Box 10	Folder 12	Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Sterling Plumpp file, 1971-1984
Box 10	Folder 13	Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Young People’s Workshop, 1968-1971
Box 10	Folder 14	Organization of Relevant Development, 1979
Box 10	Folder 15	OSUN Center for the Arts, ca. 1968-1980
Box 10	Folder 16	People’s College (Chicago), 1970s
Box 10	Folder 17	People’s Community School Program – Lumumba-Jackson Community Learning Center, 1978
Box 10	Folder 18	People’s Foundation for Community Development (University Without Walls), 1974
Box 11	Folder 1	Pilgrim Baptist Church – Annual Musical Tributes to Thomas A. Dorsey, 2001-2002
Box 11	Folder 2	Postal Street Academy, 1970-1972
Box 11	Folder 3	Poverty and Race Research Action Council, 2007
Box 11	Folder 4	Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, 1997
Box 11	Folder 5	Real Art Work Fine Art Alliance (R.A.W), [n.d.]
Box 11	Folder 6	Representative Government of the Immigrants (R.G.O. I.), 1971
Box 11	Folder 7	Republic of New Africa, 1960s
Box 11	Folder 8	Richardson Memorial Spiritual Church, Inc., 2002
Box 11	Folder 9	Roosevelt University, 1966-ca. 2008
Box 11	Folder 10	St. Charles Lwanga Church, 1986
Box 11	Folder 11	St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 211 E. 115th Street, Chicago, 2009
Box 11	Folder 12	St. Leonard’s House (Episcopal Diocese of Chicago), 1983 February-April
Box 11	Folder 13	St. Leonard’s House (Episcopal Diocese of Chicago), 1983 May
Box 11	Folder 14	St. Leonard’s House (Episcopal Diocese of Chicago), 1983 June
Box 11	Folder 15	St. Leonard’s House (Episcopal Diocese of Chicago), 1983 July-September
Box 11	Folder 16	Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), 2001-2003
Box 11	Folder 17	School Tech Services, 1991-1997
Box 11	Folder 18	Shule Ya Watoto “School for Children,” 1978-1998
Box 12	Folder 1	Society for the Preservation and Promotion of African American Culture (The Organization, US), 1995
Box 12	Folder 2	Soul Slate, 2006
Box 12	Folder 3	South Side Community Art Center, ca. 1970-1983
Box 12	Folder 4	South Side Community Credit Union, 2001
Box 12	Folder 5	Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), ca. 1971
Box 12	Folder 6	State of the Race Conference, 1994
Box 12	Folder 7	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1967-1968
Box 12	Folder 8	Sutherland Community Arts Initiative, 1995, 2003
Box 12	Folder 9	Task Force for Political Empowerment, ca. 1985-1994
Box 12	Folder 10	Third World Press, 1975-2009
Box 12	Folder 11	TransAfrica, ca. 1977-2003
Box 12	Folder 12	Trinity United Church of Christ, 2002
Box 12	Folder 13	Tuskegee Airmen (Chicago and National), 1994, 2010
Box 12	Folder 14	Umoja Party (Washington, D.C.), [n.d.]
Box 12	Folder 15	Union of Black Artists, [n.d.]
Box 12	Folder 16	United American Progress Association (UAPA), 2006
Box 12	Folder 17	United Black Students Coalition, 1981
Box 12	Folder 18	United Church of Christ – Board for Homeland Ministries, [n.d.]
Box 12	Folder 19	United Congress of Community & Religious Organizations, 2010
Box 12	Folder 20	United Negro College Fund, [n.d.]
Box 12	Folder 21	Universal Meditation Center, 1970
Box 12	Folder 22	University of Chicago – Organization of Black Students, 1982
Box 12	Folder 23	[University of Chicago] Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 1967
Box 12	Folder 24	University of Chicago Track Club, 1990s-2011, [n.d.]
Box 12	Folder 25	University of Chicago, 1980-2004
Box 13	Folder 1	University of Illinois at Chicago, 1970s-2005
Box 13	Folder 2	Urban Studies Chicago (Associated Colleges of the Midwest), 1983
Box 13	Folder 3	Vivian G. Harsh Society, 2000-2007, [n.d.]
Box 13	Folder 4	WBEZ Radio – Windy City Jazz, 1982-1984
Box 13	Folder 5	Western Illinois University – African American Studies, 2005
Box 13	Folder 6	Wilberforce University, 1973-1975
Box 13	Folder 7	A.J. Williams Bookstore, 1969-1975, 2002
Box 13	Folder 8	Woodlawn Development Associates, 2002
Box 13	Folder 9	Woodlawn Organization, The, 1972
Box 13	Folder 10	YMCA (Chicago), 1970s-2000s
Box 13	Folder 11	YMCA (Evanston), 2008
Sub-series 1: Columbus, Ohio, Organizations
Box 13	Folder 12	African Village, 1996
Box 13	Folder 13	Africentric Personal Development Shop, Inc., 1998
Box 13	Folder 14	Art for Community Expression, Inc., 1998
Box 13	Folder 15	Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH), 1976
Box 13	Folder 16	Columbus Urban League, 1998
Box 13	Folder 17	Inaugural Conference on the Pedagogy of Malcolm X, 2000
Box 13	Folder 18	Martin Luther King Arts Complex – Exhibits, 1990-2000
Box 13	Folder 19	Martin Luther King Arts Complex – Institute for the Arts, [n.d.]
Box 13	Folder 20	Martin Luther King Arts Complex – Music programs, 1994-2003, [n.d.]
Box 13	Folder 21	Martin Luther King Arts Complex – Program, “Celebrating a Decade of Achievement,” 1997
Box 13	Folder 22	Martin Luther King Arts Complex – Programs, misc., 1987-2002, [n.d.]
Box 13	Folder 23	Martin Luther King Arts Complex – Season brochures and flyers, 1994-2008
Box 13	Folder 24	Martin Luther King Library Branch (Columbus Metropolitan Library), [1979]
Box 13	Folder 25	National Conference on African American Males and Gang Violence, 1994
Box 13	Folder 26	Dunbar Afro-American Cultural Arts Center, Inc., [1970s]
Box 13	Folder 27	Simba, [n.d.]
Box 13	Folder 28	Student Theatre Arts Repertory (S.T.A.R.) Program, 1996-1997
Box 13	Folder 29	Urban Cultural Arts Foundation, 1996, 2009, [n.d.]
Sub-series 2: eta Creative Arts Foundation
Box 14	Folder 1	eta Annual reports, 1999-2002
Box 14	Folder 2	eta Art exhibition and postcards, 2004-2009
Box 14	Folder 3	eta Class and program schedules, 1990-2011
Box 14	Folder 4	eta Exhibit reception invitations (with ad cards), 1993-2004
Box 14	Folder 5	eta Gala programs, 1988-2011
Box 14	Folder 6	eta Membership correspondence, 1989-2011, [n.d.]
Box 14	Folder 7	eta Programs (various), 1983-ca. 2000
Box 14	Folder 8	eta Theater production advertising handbills and cards, 1990-2009
Box 14	Folder 9	eta Theater programs, 1989
Box 14	Folder 10	eta Theater programs, 1990
Box 15	Folder 1	eta Theater programs, 1991
Box 15	Folder 2	eta Theater programs, 1992
Box 15	Folder 3	eta Theater programs, 1993
Box 15	Folder 4	eta Theater programs, 1994
Box 15	Folder 5	eta Theater programs, 1995
Box 15	Folder 6	eta Theater programs, 1996
Box 15	Folder 7	eta Theater programs, 1997
Box 15	Folder 8	eta Theater programs, 1998
Box 15	Folder 9	eta Theater programs, 1999
Box 16	Folder 1	eta Theater programs, 2000
Box 16	Folder 2	eta Theater programs, 2001
Box 16	Folder 3	eta Theater programs, 2002
Box 16	Folder 4	eta Theater programs, 2003
Box 16	Folder 5	eta Theater programs, 2004
Box 16	Folder 6	eta Theater programs, 2005
Box 16	Folder 7	eta Theater programs, 2006
Box 16	Folder 8	eta Theater programs, 2008
Box 16	Folder 9	eta Theater programs, 2009
Box 16	Folder 10	eta Theater programs, ca. 2010
Box 16	Folder 11	eta Theater schedules, 1989-2011
Box 17	Folder 1	eta Calendars, 1990-1996
Box 17	Folder 2	eta Calendars, 2000-2009
Series 5: Black Studies Conferences at Olive-Harvey College, 1977-2008
Box 18	Folder 1	1st Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1978
Box 18	Folder 2	1st Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and presentation, material 1978
Box 18	Folder 3	2nd Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1979
Box 18	Folder 4	2nd Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and presentation material, 1979
Box 18	Folder 5	3rd Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1980
Box 18	Folder 6	3rd Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning material, 1980
Box 18	Folder 7	4th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation material, speaker, 1981
Box 18	Folder 8	5th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1982
Box 18	Folder 9	6th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1983
Box 18	Folder 10	6th Annual Black Studies Conference – Publicity and fundraising material, 1983
Box 18	Folder 11	7th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1984
Box 18	Folder 12	7th Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and publicity material, 1984
Box 18	Folder 13	8th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1985
Box 18	Folder 14	9th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1986
Box 18	Folder 15	9th Annual Black Studies Conference – Publicity and fundraising material, 1986
Box 18	Folder 16	10th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1987
Box 18	Folder 17	10th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicity material, 1987
Box 18	Folder 18	11th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1988
Box 18	Folder 19	11th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation materials, 1988
Box 18	Folder 20	12th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1989
Box 18	Folder 21	13th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1990
Box 18	Folder 22	14th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1991
Box 18	Folder 23	14th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicity material, 1991
Box 18	Folder 24	15th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1992
Box 18	Folder 25	15th Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and presentation material, 1992
Box 19	Folder 1	16th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1993
Box 19	Folder 2	16th Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and presentation material, 1993
Box 19	Folder 3	17th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1994
Box 19	Folder 4	17th Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and presentation material, 1994
Box 19	Folder 5	18th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1995
Box 19	Folder 6	18th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicity material, 1995
Box 19	Folder 7	19th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1996
Box 19	Folder 8	19th Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and presentation material, 1996
Box 19	Folder 9	20th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1997
Box 19	Folder 10	20th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicity material, 1997
Box 19	Folder 11	21st Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1998
Box 19	Folder 12	21st Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and planning material, 1998
Box 20	Folder 1	22nd Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 1999
Box 20	Folder 2	22nd Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation material, 1999
Box 20	Folder 3	23rd Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 2000
Box 20	Folder 4	23rd Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and publicity materials, 2000
Box 20	Folder 5	24th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 2001
Box 20	Folder 6	24th Annual Black Studies Conference – Publicity materials, 2001
Box 20	Folder 7	25th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 2002
Box 20	Folder 8	25th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicitiy materials, 2002
Box 20	Folder 9	26th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 2003
Box 20	Folder 10	26th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicity material, 2003
Box 20	Folder 11	27th Annual Black Studies Conference – Planning and publicity material, 2004
Box 20	Folder 12	28th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 2005
Box 20	Folder 13	28th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicity material, 2005
Box 20	Folder 14	29th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 2006
Box 20	Folder 15	29th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicity material, 2006
Box 20	Folder 16	30th Annual Black Studies Conference – Program, 2007
Box 20	Folder 17	30th Annual Black Studies Conference – Presentation and publicity material, 2007
Box 20	Folder 18	Black Studies Conference Brunch and Forum – Publicity material, 2008
Box 20	Folder 19	Black Studies Conference – Clippings, 1977-2004
Series 6: City Colleges of Chicago, 1965-2011
Box 21	Folder 1	Black Faculty on Higher Education (var. Black Faculty in Higher Education) City Colleges of Chicago, 1977-1978
Box 21	Folder 2	Chancellor’s Office, 1991-2003
Box 21	Folder 3	Crane [Technical] Junior College – [Student manifesto, n.d.]
Box 21	Folder 4	Kennedy-King College – Adult Learning Skills Program, including Wash memos and correspondence, 1990s
Box 21	Folder 5	Kennedy-King College – Adult Education Department, 2000s
Box 21	Folder 6	Kennedy-King College – Chicago Urban Skills Institute, with L. Wash correspondence to chancellor, 1979
Box 21	Folder 7	Kennedy-King College – Course catalog and schedules, 1970-1990
Box 21	Folder 8	Kennedy-King College – Dawson Technical Institute and Washburn Trade School, 1997
Box 21	Folder 9	Kennedy-King College – Event programs and schedules, 1980s
Box 21	Folder 10	Kennedy-King College – Event programs and schedules, 1990s
Box 21	Folder 11	Kennedy-King College – Event programs, schedules, brochures, 2000s
Box 21	Folder 12	Kennedy-King College – Mini-campus, 1971
Box 21	Folder 13	Kennedy-King College – Office of Special Services, 1971
Box 21	Folder 14	Kennedy-King College – Oral History Interview Guide by Robert Cruthird, 2008
Box 21	Folder 15	Kennedy-King College – Program, first student convocation, 1972
Box 21	Folder 16	Kennedy-King College – Student handbook, 1974-1975
Box 21	Folder 17	Kennedy-King College – Woodlawn Prep School (with correspondence), 1974-1975
Box 22	Folder 1	Malcolm X College – Event programs, schedules, brochures, 1971-2000
Box 22	Folder 2	Olive-Harvey College – Advanced Institutional Development Program (AIDP), 1980
Box 22	Folder 3	Olive-Harvey College – African-American Studies Association, 1977-2006
Box 22	Folder 4	Olive-Harvey College – African-American Studies Association Subliminal Message newsletter, 2001-2006
Box 22	Folder 5	Olive-Harvey College – Brochure fragment with logo, 2000s
Box 22	Folder 6	Olive-Harvey College – Campus directory, 1980
Box 22	Folder 7	Olive-Harvey College – Department of African American Studies, 1970-2010
Box 22	Folder 8	Olive-Harvey College – Developmental Skills Center, 1970s
Box 22	Folder 9	Olive-Harvey College – Student Development (Robert S. Hoover retirement), 1979
Box 22	Folder 10	Olive-Harvey College – Student Government Association, 1970s-1980s
Box 22	Folder 11	Olive-Harvey College – United Black Staff, 1978
Box 22	Folder 12	Wilson City College – Black Student Movement groups, 1967
Box 22	Folder 13	Wilson City College – Black Student Movement groups, 1968
Box 22	Folder 14	Wilson City College – Black Student Movement groups, 1969, [n.d.]
Box 22	Folder 15	Wilson City College – Firman House benefit (with performance by Phil Cohran), 1965
Box 22	Folder 16	WYCC-TV, 2004
Box 22	Folder 17	City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) clippings, 1960s
Box 22	Folder 18	CCC clippings, 1970-1979
Box 22	Folder 19	CCC clippings, 1980-1989
Box 22	Folder 20	CCC clippings, 1990-1999
Box 22	Folder 21	CCC clippings, 2000-2011
Series 7: Programs, 1968-2011
Box 23	Folder 1	Abbott Park Senior Satellite Center – Mother’s Day Banquet, 2005
Box 23	Folder 2	The African Holocaust: Revisited and Reconsidered (Conference), 1995
Box 23	Folder 3	Alyo – Memorial Service, 1983
Box 23	Folder 4	Ari Brown in Concert, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 5	Benjamin E. Mays Academy Graduation, [2002]
Box 23	Folder 6	Betty Frank Lomax, “The Afro-American Woman in White America” address at Wabash Avenue YMCA,1967
Box 23	Folder 7	Black Creativity (Museum of Science and Industry), 1985
Box 23	Folder 8	Black Esthetics (Museum of Science and Industry), 1981
Box 23	Folder 9	Black Future Month Jazz Festival (First Annual), 2003
Box 23	Folder 10	Black Independent Cinema USA, 1981
Box 23	Folder 11	Blacklight Festival of International Black Cinema (10th annual), 1991
Box 23	Folder 12	Bo Fest ’96 – Celebration of the Lifeworks of Oscar Brown III, 1996
Box 23	Folder 13	“Cab Calloway’s Cotton Club Revisited” at Auditorium Theater, 1985
Box 23	Folder 14	CAPS Beat 314 Coalition Back to school Fest, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 15	Chicago A.M.E. Church Conference Choir Songfest, 1980
Box 23	Folder 16	The Color Purple Forum and Debate at Progressive Community Church, 1986
Box 23	Folder 17	“Come Home to Woodlawn” Neighborhood Festival (fifth annual), [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 18	Committee Honoring Our Heroes (Josef Ben-Jochannan), [1970s]
Box 23	Folder 19	Community Reception for Nelson Mandela, 1993
Box 23	Folder 20	Dr. Jam’s First Year Anniversary – Community Arts and Crafts [Festival], 1992
Box 23	Folder 21	“Double-Up” with Roscoe Mitchell and Horace Tapscott (Oakland, CA), [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 22	Dusty Record Convention (St. Elizabeth Church), [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 23	Eddie Moore Fourth Annual Festival (Berkeley, CA), 1993
Box 23	Folder 24	Edward L. Wilkerson, et al., at Parkway Community Center, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 25	“1811 Slave Revolt” [Louisiana] Commemoration, 1995
Box 23	Folder 26	Eighth Annual Infusion Conference – Indianapolis Public Schools, 1995
Box 23	Folder 27	“Faces of Art” to benefit NAACP (Chicago South Side Branch), 1983
Box 23	Folder 28	Fred Anderson at Velvet Lounge, 1985
Box 23	Folder 29	“Harlem Suite” at Regal Theater, ca. 1986
Box 23	Folder 30	Heritage Station Garden and Mural (Junction Grove) – Dedication, 2010
Box 23	Folder 31	“Heroes of Fire” – African American TV and Filmmakers (AATF) documentary fundraiser, 2001
Box 23	Folder 32	HotHouse (Chicago), 2005, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 33	Hoyt Fuller – In Commemoration… Celebration, 1981
Box 23	Folder 34	“It’s Wake Up Time” Bilal Family Productions, 1996
Box 23	Folder 35	Jazz at the Royal, 2010
Box 23	Folder 36	Jazz in the Courtyard (Hyde Park Shopping Center), [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 37	Jazz in the Alley, 1983, 2005-2008
Box 23	Folder 38	Jazz Series, The – Original artwork by André Guichard, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 39	Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase – at the Blackstone Hotel, 1983
Box 23	Folder 40	“A Kaleidoscope of Black Music” tribute to Dr. Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. – Vivian G. Harsh Society and Columbia College Center for Black Music Research, 2006
Box 23	Folder 41	Kangaroo Club – Outrageous Music Festival, other venues, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 42	Kansas City Jazz [bus tour] programs – “Big Joe” Turner and Euday Louis Bowman, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 43	Karamu Ya Imani (Kwanzaa) at Charles Hayes Community Center, 1983
Box 23	Folder 44	Leak, Rev. A.R., Sr. – Citywide Testimonial Dinner, 1978
Box 23	Folder 45	Margaret Walker Alexander Memorial Tribute, 1998
Box 23	Folder 46	Mattie Viola Harper – Centennial Celebration, 2003
Box 23	Folder 47	Moonglow and Other Stuff (X-Bag) at Parkway Community Center, 1979
Box 23	Folder 48	National Reparations Convention (Chicago), 2001
Box 23	Folder 49	“No Place to Be Somebody” at the Studebaker Theater, 1971
Box 23	Folder 50	Norfleet Brothers 45th Annual Musical, Hartzell United Methodist Church, 1991
Box 23	Folder 51	Nguzo Saba Conference and Celebration (Los Angeles), 2005
Box 23	Folder 52	Oliver Lake and Joseph Jarman at the Birdhouse, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 53	Oscar Worrill and Friends presents “Smorgasbord and Jazz” at Geri’s Palm Tavern, 1981
Box 23	Folder 54	Parade and Rally Against the War in Viet Nam, 1965
Box 23	Folder 55	The Public Houses of Kwanzaa (San Francisco Bay Area), [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 56	“Racism and Black Mental Health” workshop with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 57	Ralph Metcalfe, Jr. announcing event at Silver Shadow Lounge, 1978
Box 23	Folder 58	“The River Niger” at Blackstone and Studebaker Theatres, 1973-1974
Box 23	Folder 59	Roots Festival “Bring It Home to Me” at Lou Rawls Theatre and Cultural Center, 1993
Box 23	Folder 60	Sam G. Greenlee Benefit “Spook Who Stood By the Door” showing and party, 1973
Box 23	Folder 61	Saviour’s Day Convention, 2010
Box 23	Folder 62	“Sculpture by Omar [Shaheed]: A World of Jazz, Stone and Bronze” at American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, MO, 2002
Box 23	Folder 63	Sojourner in Concert at Jones Commercial High School, 1982
Box 23	Folder 64	“Song for Drum/Flute” – Chicago Filmmakers, 1983
Box 23	Folder 65	Steve Cobb and Chavunduka in Concert, [n.d.]
Box 23	Folder 66	Tecora Rodgers – Chicagoland Jazz Newsletter jazz venues, 2007
Box 23	Folder 67	Temple of the Ankh (The) – [World Religions], 1984
Box 23	Folder 68	Theodore Ward Memorial Program, 1983
Box 23	Folder 69	29th Annual Christian Education Conference “Ujammaa,” 1993
Box 23	Folder 70	Universal Alley Jazz Jam, 2008-2010
Box 23	Folder 71	Vandy Harris, Jr., and the Front Burners, [1996]
Box 23	Folder 72	Velvet Lounge [Fred Anderson] jazz calendars, 2001-2004
Box 23	Folder 73	“Vision ’83” Scholarship Benefit Jazz Concert, 1983
Box 23	Folder 74	“War on Terror from Birmingham to bin Laden” discussion by black journalists, 2001
Box 23	Folder 75	Weekly Jazz Wednesdays at Park 52, [2009]
Box 23	Folder 76	“What Really Happened to Harold” presented by Steve Coakley at Northeastern Illinois University’s Center for Inner City Studies, 1989
Box 23	Folder 77	Willa Saunders Jones Passion Play at Arie Crown Theater, 1966
Box 23	Folder 78	William Kwamena-Poh – One Man Show, Osibisa Fine Arts, Inc., 1991
Box 23	Folder 79	WoodlawnNow.com 2nd Annual 1000-Family March, 2011
Box 23	Folder 80	Yoshi’s Nightspot [jazz calendar], 1993
Box 23	Folder 81	“Your Arms Too Short to Box with God” at Schubert Theatre, 1983
Series 8: Funeral Programs, 1968-2011
Box 24	Folder 1	Afrik, Baba Hannibal (Harold E. Charles III), 2011
Box 24	Folder 2	Anderson, Dorothy Martha Perkins, 1993
Box 24	Folder 3	Anderson, Fred Jr., 2010 (See also Mss. by Leonard Wash)
Box 24	Folder 4	Barren, Vivian Marie, 1989
Box 24	Folder 5	Bishop, Anna S., 2004
Box 24	Folder 6	Blackburn, Gwendolyn, 2005
Box 24	Folder 7	Bramletta, Mr. Mineral, 2003
Box 24	Folder 8	Brown, Oscar, Jr., 2005
Box 24	Folder 9	Campbell, Wilbur L.C. (fragment), [n.d.]
Box 24	Folder 10	Cochran, Johnnie L., Jr., 2005
Box 24	Folder 11	Hannah, Dr. Clayton Laverne, 1983
Box 24	Folder 12	Howard, Pauline F., 2006
Box 24	Folder 13	Hurd, Harold, 2002
Box 24	Folder 14	Jenkins, Dr. Ulysses “Duke,” 1996
Box 24	Folder 15	Johnson, John H., 2005
Box 24	Folder 16	King, Delores Wash, 2010
Box 24	Folder 17	King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1968
Box 24	Folder 18	Marr, Henry L. “Hank,” 2004
Box 24	Folder 19	Martin, Sallie, 1988
Box 24	Folder 20	McBride, Ronald Joseph, 2004
Box 24	Folder 21	McLendon, Arthur G., 2005
Box 24	Folder 22	Morris, Kenneth S., Sr., 1989
Box 24	Folder 23	Napper, Leonard Nelson, 2005
Box 24	Folder 24	Newton, Huey P., 1989
Box 24	Folder 25	Owens, Jesse, 1980
Box 24	Folder 26	Perkins, “Mother” Myrtle, 2008
Box 24	Folder 27	Pincham, R. Eugene, 2008
Box 24	Folder 28	Radcliffe, Theodore “Double Duty,” 2005
Box 24	Folder 29	Rawls, Rev. Dr. Louis, 2002
Box 24	Folder 30	Riddick, Rev. George Edgar, 1994
Box 24	Folder 31	Rogers, Melvin, 2009
Box 24	Folder 32	Saunders, James Edward “Eddie,” 1999
Box 24	Folder 33	Wash, Perry Leon (“Deacon”), 2005
Box 24	Folder 34	Wash, Ralph W., 1995
Box 24	Folder 35	Wash, Stanley Gene, 2010
Box 24	Folder 36	Williams, Elton, 1992
Box 24	Folder 37	Wright, Bobby E., 1982

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