African American families -- Illinois -- Chicago

Content Description This collection includes a small amount of correspondence, newsletters, clippings from the Chicago press mainly, church bulletins (especially for the Church of the Good Shepherd (Chicago, IL), and obituaries. An item of interest is the 1956 commencement program for the Poro College in Chicago that was founded by Annie M. Malone. She was president of the institution that trained beauticians with a primary focus on the Black client. The letters include the first official letter written by the...

Scope and Contents The papers of Chicago civic and social worker and club woman Philiminia Mehelenna Phillips document her paternal family history's connection to the Zulu people of South Africa. The collection dates from 1883-1970, and includes correspondence, photographs, news clippings, family records, legal papers, certificates, programs, and collected materials. Much of the correspondence documents Phillips' efforts to document her family history and her collection of family materials....