Black Metropolis Research Consortium Survey

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Names

Washington‚ Harold‚ 1922-1987 (30)
Northwestern University (Evanston‚ Ill.) (17)
Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education (16)
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor (15)
University of Illinois at Chicago (15)
Chicago Public Schools (14)

Chicago State University (14)
Illinois Institute of Technology (14)
Chicago defender (13)
Chicago Housing Authority (13)
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Subjects

Music by African American composers (43)
African Americans--Civil rights (38)
African American composers (33)
Community organization--Illinois--Chicago (33)
African Americans--Illinois--Chicago (32)
Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago (28)

Neighborhoods--Illinois--Chicago (28)
African Americans--History (27)
African American authors (25)
African American educators (24)
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Locations

Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government (77)
Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations (67)
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions (52)
Chicago (Ill.)--Church history (25)
Chicago (Ill.)--Economic conditions (25)
Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs (24)

Bronzeville (Chicago‚ Ill.) (23)
Woodlawn (Chicago‚ Ill.) (18)
Near West Side (Chicago‚ Ill.) (17)
United States--History--Civil War‚ 1861-1865 (17)
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Genres

Photographs (163)
Scrapbooks (47)
Negatives (photographic) (36)
Scores (35)
Slides (photographs) (21)
Interviews (19)

Oral histories (17)
Correspondence (13)
Newspapers (10)
Playbills (9)
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Institutions

Chicago History Museum (260)
Chicago Public Library - Carter G. Woodson Regional Library (152)
University of Illinois at Chicago - Special Collections and University Archives (140)
Columbia College Chicago - Center for Black Music Research (88)
University of Chicago Library - Special Collections Research Center (73)
Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center (50)

DuSable Museum of African American History (50)
Newberry Library (39)
Loyola University Chicago - University Archives and Special Collections (29)
Chicago State University - Archives and Special Collections (28)
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