The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Chicago radical Jewish elders oral history project

Repository: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Chicago Jewish Archives

Collection Description (CRHP): This project, directed by Professor Stanley Rosen, includes interviews with a number of Chicago's Jewish residents. They speak about their roles in civil rights activities and other forms of activism, including women's rights and labor organizing.

Access Copy Note: Collection access by appointment only.

Date(s): 1991-2002

Digital Status: No

Existing IDs: CRJE-OH

Extent: 16 interviews (32 hours) Hi8 video, VHS, photographs

Language: English

Physical Location: Chicago, Illinois

Interviewees: Burton Bledstein, Nathan Davis, Herbert Hazelkorn, Bobbie Hazelkorn, Helen Helfgott, Milton Lieberthal, Abigail Friedman, Harold Katz, Herb Krause, Stanley Rosen, Geraldyne Revzin, Morrie Davidson, Judith Klausner, Sondra Patrinos, Milton Cohen, Allan Kaplan, Carl Shier

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations
Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois
Civil rights workers
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism
Communist Party of the United States of America
Feminism
Jews--Civil rights
Labor--History
School integration
Segregation
Voter registration

Genres:

Interviews
Photographs
Videorecordings