Summary Information

Title: United Citizens' Committee for Freedom of Residence in Illinois Records
Inclusive Dates: 1951-1966

Creator:

• United Citizens' Committee for Freedom of Reisdence in Illinois

Call Number: Mss 11; Tape 434A

Quantity: 8.5 c.f. (20 archives boxes) and 2 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the United Citizens' Committee for Freedom of Residence in Illinois founded in 1960 to promote fair housing, which led to the formation in 1964 of a national research and public education organization, the Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Community Life, with which the Illinois committee affiliated. These are the files of Donald S. Frey, executive secretary of the national organization and chairman of the Illinois FOR. The collection contains administrative correspondence and proceedings of the board of directors and various committees; correspondence and transactions of conferences sponsored by FOR and other groups; communications from related organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; records of its vigorous but unsuccessful Illinois fair housing law campaign; and fund-raising and publicity materials.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00011

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