Sisi Donald Mosby Papers

 

Dates: 1951-1964, undated
Size: 2.75 linear feet
Repository: Chicago Public Library, Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, 9525 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois 60628

Collection

Number:

 1997/02
Provenance: Donated by Sisi Donald Mosby in June 1997 and April 2003
Access: No restrictions
Citation:

When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is:

Sisi Donald Mosby Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Chicago Public Library, Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
Processed by: Elizabeth Loch, Archival Specialist, April 2021

Biographical Note

Sisi Donald Mosby is a Chicago author and publisher. He attended Wendell Phillips High School and graduated in 1949. Mosby received his M.A. in Inner City Education at Northeastern Illinois in 1987. In 1990 he received his M.A. at Chicago State University in Library Science and Communications Media.

Mosby founded a publishing company called Sisi Donald Mosby, Ltd.. In the 1950s, Sisi Donald Mosby and Helen Buckler wrote a book on Chicago surgeon Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey. The manuscript was never published. Mosby was also the editor of The Struggle magazine and was active in the civil rights movement.

Scope and Content

This collection includes speeches and articles written by Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, biographical information on Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, and draft chapters of a manuscript (biography) about Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey. Also included are incomplete issues of The Struggle, a Chicago magazine on the struggle for civil rights.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into two series by material subject. Series 1: Materials on Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, 1951-1955, undated is organized alphabetically by title. Series 2: The Struggle Magazines, 1963-1964 is organized chronologically.

Related Materials

Related materials at the Chicago Public Library include:

Container List

Series 1: Materials on Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, 1951-1955, undated

Box 1 Folder 1 “Adventures in Brotherhood” speech by Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, 1955 March 4
Box 1 Folder 2 “Albert Schweitzer and Medical Science“ by Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, undated
Box 1 Folder 3 “Brotherhood” by Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey [speech transcript], 1955 February 20
Box 1 Folder 4 Biographical notes on the life of Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, 1951-1955, undated
Box 1 Folder 5 Dedicatory address by Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey at the opening of the new community hospital in Evanston, Illinois, 1952 October 5
Box 1 Folder 6 Letters seeking information on Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey’s life, 1955, undated
Box 1 Folder 7 Journey to Pakistan: The Life Story of Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, Humanity’s Surgeon draft [“Draft I”] chapters by Helen Buckler, undated
Box 1 Folder 8 Journey to Pakistan: The Life Story of Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, Humanity’s Surgeon draft pages with notes by Helen Buckler, undated
Box 1 Folder 9 Journey to Pakistan: The Life Story of Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, Humanity’s Surgeon early drafts with edits [no author given], undated
Box 1 Folder 10 Journey to Pakistan: The Life Story of Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, Humanity’s Surgeon later drafts with edits [no author given], undated
Box 1 Folder 11 Journey to Pakistan: The Life Story of Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, Humanity’s Surgeon prologue, undated
Box 1 Folder 12 Notes on poets and poetry, undated
Box 1 Folder 13 “Partial List of Medical Writings” by Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, undated

Series 2: The Struggle Magazines, 1963-1964

Box 2 Folder 1 The Struggle magazine, 1963 November
Box 2 Folder 2 The Struggle magazine, 1964 March 1
Box 2 Folder 3 The Struggle magazine, 1964 April 1
Box 2 Folder 4 The Struggle magazine, 1964 April 16
Box 2 Folder 5 The Struggle magazines [volume 2, numbers 4 and 5], 1964 June
Box 2 Folder 6 The Struggle magazine, 1964 July
Box 2 Folder 7 The Struggle magazine, 1964 August
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