it wasn't microfilmed at all. this is a microfilm from chicago library.because it was so big, it was just in shreds and sadly not copied here. riis used -- riis' use of mass media including the lecture circuit made riis the nation's face and voice of urban reform. so here's the great story about this image. the "chicago tribune," for example, ran a series of seven full-page articles "the story of the slum" which in seven weeks in a row the entire first page of their editorial section. and so this is the first -- this is the first one and it's called "the story of the slum part one," and it shows some of riis' pictures and his portrait all in wood engravings after the photographs. so for this, riis was paid $1,000, which was about $29,000 today. so it gives you some sense of his national reputation. let's get rid of that terrible picture. in 1901, riis published his autobiography "the making of an american, a confessional text" built around two characters, his wife elizabeth and his friend teddy roosevelt. the book was published on riis' 25th wedding anniv

the chicago defender on microfilm we even have some from a magazine collection that didn't last but we still have a few additions. >> host: i know we will look at defender items today is is still published? >> yes it is. it is now weekly it started off as a weekly 1840 it went daily and then recently how it has gone back weakly but it is still very popular and influential and heavily read in the black community. >> host: who uses of vivian harsh collection or who can't? >> we are open seven days a week but it is wonderful because our constituents are from cradle to grave and i truly mean that. doesn't matter if you are black or white because people from all races and genders come some even come international from france or japan or great britain to use the collection and this case the we're standing in front of the that they use of collection they use the manuscript collection then they write their books i love this title but he talks about the lives of gospel music in chicago from early church figures and one who is a professor right now northwestern doing a book on the black chicago

this is a microfilm from chicago library.because it was so big it was in shreds and sadly not copied here. riis used -- riis' use of mass media including the lecture circuit made riis the nation's face and voice of urban reform. so here's the great story about this image. the "chicago tribune," for example, ran a series of seven full-page articles "the story of the slum" which in seven weeks in a row the entire first page of their editorial section. soopd this is the first -- this is the first one, called the story of the slum part one and it shows some of riis' pictures and his portrait all in wood engravings after the photographs so for this riis was paid a thousand dollars dollars, which about $29,000 today which gives you some sense of his national reputation. in 1901, riis published his autobiography "the making of an american, a confessional text" built around two characters, his wife elizabeth and his friend teddy roosevelt. the book was published on riis' 25th wedding an vary air is and months after roosevelt became p

it wasn't microfilmed. this was from a microfilm from a chicago library. because it was so big, sadly not copied here. riis's use of the mass media made riis the nation's face and voice of urban reform. here's the great story about this image. the chicago tribune, for example, ran a series of seven full page articles the story of the slums. which in seven weeks in a row, the entire first page of their editorial section. this the first one. it's called the story of the slum part one. it shows some riis's pictures and his portrait wall with engravings after the photograph. for this riis was paid $1000 which was about $29,000 today. it gives you a sense of his national reputation. in 1901, riis published his autobiography. the book was published on riis's 25th wedding anniversary and just months after roosevelt became president. the story of a poor young boy who became a happily married father of five and visitor to the white house irresistible to the public. we're best sellers. this is a silver wedding anniversary, photographs of riis and his wife actually t

we have them on microfilm and abbott's monthly a magazine that abbotts started. it didn't last but we have some of the few editions that are just left. >> we'll look at some defender items on our tour. the defender still published. >> it is weekly now. it started off 1905 as weekly. 1940 it went daily after abbott died. here recentally gone back to a weekly newspaper but still very, very popular. still very, very influential.y still very, very heavily read in the black community. >> who uses the vivian harsh collection and who can use it? >> we're open seven day as week. so everybody can use it. but the wonderful thing i would say our constituents are from the cradle to the grave and i truly mean that it doesn't matter if you're black or white because we have people from both all races colling here.tr we have people coming internationally from france, from japan, from great britain. they come here to use theen come collection and this case that we're standing in front of right now is the output of a lot of researchers coming here using our collection. they use ou

it wasn't microfilmed at all. this is from the chicago library. because it was so big, it was just in shreds and not copied here. riis used -- riis' use of the mass media made riis the nation's face and voice of urban reform. so here's a great story about this photograph, this image. the chicago trib bub, for example, ran a series of seven full-page articles, which in seven weeks in a row -- this is the first one, and it's called the story of the slum, part one. and it shows some of riis' pictures and his portrait all in wooden engravings after the photographs. so for this, riis was paid $1,000, which was about $29,000 today. so it gives you some sense of his national reputation. in 1901, he published his autobiography. his wif book was published on riis' 25th wedding anniversary. the story of a poor young foreigner who became a happily married father of five and a visitor to the white house proved irresistible to the public. he published a dozen books. this is the silver wedding anniversary photograph of riis and his wife taken by a well-known po

it wasn't microfilmed at all. this is from a microfilm from chicago library. because it was so big it was just in shreds and, sad laly, n copied. reese's use of the mass media including the lecture circuit made reese the nation's face and voice of urban reform. here's a great story about this image. the "chicago tribune," for example, ran a series of seven full page articles, the story of the slum, which in seven weeks in a row, the entire first page of their editorial section. and so this is the first -- this is the first one. it is called "the story of the slum, part one." and it shows some of reese's pictures and his portrait all in wood engravings after the photographs. so for this, reese was paid $1,000, which was about $29,000 today. so it gives you some sense of his national reputation. get rid of that terrible picture. in 1901, reese published his autobiography, the making of an american, a professional text build around two karths. his wife elizabeth and his friend, teddy roosevelt. the book was published on reese's 25th wedding anniversary and just m

we have said chicago defender on microfilm. in the exhibit we also have a magazine collection that she started. it didn't last but we still have some of the additions. >> i know we will look at some defender items on our tour. is that still publish? >> yes it is. it is weekly now because it started off in 1905.it 1940, it s went daily and here recently it's gone back to ay an weekly newspaper, but is still very popular and very influential and very heavily red in the black community. >> who uses the vivian collection and who can use it? >> we are open seven days a weec so everybody who can use it but the wonderful thing is that i would say our constituents are from the cradle to the grave and i truly mean that. it doesn't matter if you'ret m black or white because we havehi people from all races coming here. we have people from international from france and japan, from great britain, they come come here to use the collection and this case that were standing in front of righte now, it's an output of act lot f research researcher

>> microfilm or online because everyone loves to look at them. we've been talking about the the chicago defender's early history with civil rights and publishing and the local and national writers. here's something recent in terms of historical context we have barack obama in 2008 as it appears hthecompany was he was d of illinois -- senator of illinois before he went there. he talks about the defender and the important work they do so we have the transcript. >> why do you have excerpts from dreams from my father in the display case? >> people come to an archive and think it is all dusty old mix real. a big collection is reference books you can read here and this is a few of them from the collection that it speaks not only to the chicago defender and what he did as a senator that his lifelong work. >> how did you get here? >> it was a long trip. i'm from minnesota but i came down from chicago because it is the second largest city museums and historical centers. then my background and monitors the civil rights of african-americans and couldn't fal

have every issue of ebony and jet and negros digest of negro publications the chicago defender on microfilm and also a magazine collection that didn't last but we do have a few additions several left. >> and now we're going to look at defender items is is still published? >> it is a weekly now started weekly in 1905 as a weekly 1940 it went daily after abbott died then now racing goes back to weekly but it is still very popular in very influential and heavily read in the black community. >> who uses the harsh collection? period we're all been seven days a week celebrity can use it but our constituents are from cradle to the grave i truly mean that it doesn't matter if you are black-white if because all races come we have international from france, japan, great britain, they come to use the collection in this case researchers come to use the collection the use the manuscript collection then write their books talking about the rise of gospel music in chicago from the early church figures you have a professor right now at northwestern doing a book on the black chicago renaissance which i am ha

>> microfilm or you can search of mine because everybody loves to look at them. with her the history, a civil rights, publishing with local or national writers here is something very recent in terms of historical context. barack obama becoming president in 2008 they were the senator of illinois first so he actually gave him an interview on behalf of the chicago defender talking about the importance of the chicago defender to chicago. >> so also dreams of my father? giving people come to read archive they want to see all the old materials. is adjusted to the reference books from the collection not only dates the chicago defender but also his lifelong work in the community. >> how did you start here? director started in minnesota by cave to chicago and has the second-largest city of museums and historical centers then i got into irish history that models of similarities of african-americans and who couldn't fall of love with south side of chicago history? >> show us other parts of the collection. >> absolutely. arcus have the number of projects they are working on

and that is not only accessible in russia, it's also -- it was microfilmed in total. and the microfilms are readily available at many university libraries, also new york public library and others. so, if you're interested in looking at those, you can find the records. many kgb records. they are including important things pertaining to covert operations, among other things, kgb covert operations. there are also important kgb foreign intelligence documents stored in other parts of rigani, that same archive. that would include now files of various departments of the communist party's central committee. those were off limits for quite a while, but they were opened last august. and so, the irony of the situation in russia is that archival access, fortunately, has not corresponded to the degree of political liberalization in russia, that for reasons that i can get into later on, if anyone's interested. it hasn't been that way. it's operated quite independently of that. there are also other archives where you can find important records from soviet foreign intelligence appara

it was microfilmed in total. the microfilms are readily available at many university libraries. also, new york public library and others. if you're interested in looking at those, you can find the records, many k.g.b. records, including important things pertaining to covert operations, among other things, k.g.b. covert operations. k.g.b.re also important foreign intelligence documents stored in other parts of the same archives. that would include now files of various departments of the communist party central committee. those were off-limits for quite a while. but they were opened last august. the irony of the situation in russia is that archival access fortunately has not corresponded to the degree of political liberalization in russia. for reasons we can get into later if anyone is interested, it has not been that way. it has operated quite independently. there are also other archives where you can find important records from soviet foreign intelligence apparatuses. this wouldclude -- include the russian state archive of social-political history. it is the former central party

still go to the library of congress and actually touch the manuscripts rather than read them on microfilmi had a doctoral dissertation on wilson so i went to the wilson papers and i got out to full manuscript boxes of letters that he had received during nomination commenting on him naming louis brandeis. it was very, very interesting. 90% of course were praising him. the ones who were opposed to it, i think i found one letter that mentioned he was jewish. the rest was saying exactly what he said. he's a radical and should not be on the court. i think we both agree that there was some anti-semitism and there's some letters that say if you wasn't a jew he would've been voted down, but there wasn't that much. on the court, you have to be careful, he did of course vote to strike down the nra during the new deal but he voted to support every other new deal measure even if he didn't like them. they once said he would vote against the widow, the orphan and, there was a third 11 but i don't remember what it was, depending on the law. in his majority opinions, he like everybody else has to speak f

and on microfilm. there is a tennessee genealogical society, african american genealogical society, that meets in nashville in the downtown public library. the annual meeting of the african-american genealogical where more african-americans are been able to trace their roots back to this time that we are talking about. professor professor rosen, very interesting report on african-american women and the brutalities they suffered after the civil war. sometimes in studying history, we forget that 49.7%, according to my calculations, but the slaves were women and children. were women ands children. we have this erroneous perception that most of the slaves were men/ most of the abuse that she talks about was going on before 1866. black women were still continuing after the 1865 emancipation to suffer these brutalities. we still need some of you to do studies on african-american children because they have made up a tremendous percentage of those we call slaves. enslaved, 280,000 people in tennessee. 4 millio

work on policy impacting youth and have a seat on a couple of seats in the community i'm here for microfilmecause the cal hallow association is opposing the apothecarium they're trying to protect the youth some years ago they stopped the demonstration and a second for seven years i want to let you alumni know we're supposed to be edward the second the development was stopped i ended up having a full-time working graveyard and going to city college of full-time it was dangerous none wanted to rent i have of color and no credit history during this fight against edward the second dozens of my counterparts feel into addiction and with holes in their arms because of no other way to survive; right? and actually having to choose between buying a book or bag it it using easy to coming come up here and use 5 or of or 7 hours to do things like this because you've not dloifrdz things like this the cal hallow you have judgment around the apothecarium will do in the community and feel that will cause more harm and the people that cannabis about cause here to say i port of apothecarium understanding the