Post-War
Workers and Conditions -- The Return of the Soldier
-
Report from First Lieutenant W. M. Penick (ASMA),
Bureau for Returning Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, Chicago,
May 19, 1919; Chicago Women's Club, Box B, Folder Minutes
(1919-1920), The Chicago Historical Society, Chicago,
Illinois.
- (songsheet)
"When
You Get Back to Illinois," words
and music by Coleman Goetz, Frank Fay, and Dave Dreyer
(New York: Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., 1918).
- "Old
8th Back Home; Warriors March to Thunderous Cheers,"
The Chicago Daily News, (Chicago, Illinois), February
17, 1919.
- Letter
from John
B. Conners to his mother, March 4, 1919; Anges Nestor
Papers, The Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois.
- (song parody) "Silver Threads Among the Gold," as sung
by the Army of Occupation, transcribed from a letter from
France, March 5, 1919; Fitzpatrick Papers, The Chicago
Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois.
- Mayoral
Proclamation of Armistice Day, Office of the Mayor
of Chicago, November 7, 1919; City Council Collection,
Illinois State Archive, Northeastern Illinois University,
Chicago, Illinois.
- "Nearly
Half of American Army is Demobilized; Mustering Out Faster
than in Any Other War," The Chicago Sunday Tribune,
(Chicago, Illinois), April 13, 1919.
- (song) Noble Sissle, "How Ya Gonna Keep `Em Down on the
Farm"; Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College,
Chicago, Illinois.
-
(poem) Booth, Edna Perry,"Uncle Sam, What Will You Do?"
The Chicago Defender, (Chicago, Illinois), April
12,1919.
- "School
for Wounded Opens Today," The Chicago Daily News,
(Chicago, Illinois), February 11, 1919.
- Letter
from Marolta
C. Pease (Haven School) to Mrs.
W. H. Winslow, Sept. 5, 1919; Agnes Nestor Papers,
The Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois.
- Sandburg,
Carl, "Demand For Negro Labor," chapt. 5, in, The Chicago Race
Riots, July, 1919, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919, pp. 22-25.
- McGill,
Ralph,"Preface (1969)," and Walter
Lippmann, "Introductory Note (1919)," in Carl Sandburg,
The Chicago Race Riots, July, 1919, New York: Harcourt,
Brace and Howe, 1919.
- Evans,
Arthur M., "`Social Justice' Becomes New Religion of Big
Employers of Chicago: Give Workers Share in the Profits,"
The Chicago Daily Tribune, (Chicago, Illinois),
15th April, 1919.
- Letter
from the Commanders Association of Cook County, United
Spanish War Veterans, to the Mayor and City Council of
Chicago, May 1918; City Council Collection, State of Illinois
Archives, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois.
- (photo)
"Illinois Eighth Regiment, a Black Regiment, 1919"; The Chicago Historical
Society photo archive, Chicago, Illinois.