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Marion Nzinga Stamps (born M. Marion Adams; May 28, 1945 – August 28, 1996) was an African-American community activist who fought for equal rights of public housing residents in the Cabrini-Green housing project on the Near-North Side of Chicago, Illinois. She helped to elect Chicago's first African-American mayor, Harold Washington, by ...
The National Space Society (NSS) is an American international nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy.It is a member of the Independent Charities of America and an annual participant in the Combined Federal Campaign.
The Heart of America United Way Volunteer Center sponsors the YVC of Greater Kansas City and gives Battey a desk, phone, secretarial support and credibility. The first 68 diverse Youth Volunteers serve on one of 12 teams doing four week-long projects in the Kansas City area. A Youth Advisory Council is formed and school year service projects begin.
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
Today the Cultural Center houses the South Shore Cultural Center School of the Arts (youth and teen programs, community art classes, the Paul Robeson Theatre, a Fine Art Gallery, two dance studios, music practice rooms, and a visual arts studio with a kiln). In addition, there are banquet facilities for rent for weddings, receptions, and meetings.
The Rogers Park Manor Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the West Ridge neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 329 buildings, 247 of which are Chicago bungalows built in the 1920s. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2005. [7]
Roughly bounded by N. Lemont Avenue, N. Keating Avenue, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and the alley to the east of N. Kilbourn Avenue 41°59′24″N 87°44′32″W / 41.990028°N 87.742283°W / 41.990028; -87.742283 ( Sauganash Historic
New World Resource Center was a not-for-profit, volunteer-run bookstore and meeting space located in Chicago. It was Chicago's "oldest independent left-wing and labor bookstore and meeting center, providing books, periodicals, t-shirts, etc. to progressives and activists." [This quote needs a citation]