The Collection
Our immediate goal is to complete processing, including arrangement, cataloging and digitization to facilitate the appropriate placement of about 400 boxes of materials. To accomplish this, we need funds for a work site, small staff including a professional archivist, equipment, supplies and various professional services. Our most pressing priority is to raise $22,219 to enable preservation and digitization of critically fragile media including sound recordings, slides and film.
Prestigious institutions expressing interest in our holdings include the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, Brookings Institution, Chicago History Museum, Chicago State University, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection in African American History and Literature at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace, Illinois National Guard Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee Public Museum, Moorland-Spingarn Research Institute at Howard University, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and eight Halls of Fame of which Ralph Metcalfe is a member.
Our immediate goal is to complete processing, including arrangement, cataloging and digitization to facilitate the appropriate placement of about 400 boxes of materials. To accomplish this, we need funds for a work site, small staff including a professional archivist, equipment, supplies and various professional services. Our most pressing priority is to raise $22,219 to enable preservation and digitization of critically fragile media including sound recordings, slides and film.
Prestigious institutions expressing interest in our holdings include the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, Brookings Institution, Chicago History Museum, Chicago State University, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection in African American History and Literature at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace, Illinois National Guard Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee Public Museum, Moorland-Spingarn Research Institute at Howard University, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and eight Halls of Fame of which Ralph Metcalfe is a member.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. shook up Chicago in 1966. Well before events spiraled into violence, Alderman Ralph Metcalfe reached out to Dr. King. Correspondence from our files presented below sheds new light on that momentous history, Dr. King intended to meet but the diplomatic initiative was sandbagged by the "Negro elected officials" of the Machine. We are left to wonder how the King movement might have fared in Chicago had the meeting taken place.
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