Frank petta series#
Series 2: Pamphlets and Clipping FilesĪmong the most important documents in this series is an unedited copy of the Advisory Panel on Integration of the Public Schools report, completed in March 1964. They have been placed in Boxes 2 and 3, and are also arranged alphabetically by the title of the serial. Oversize serials are mostly “keepsake” special issues. The serials are arranged alphabetically in Box 1 by the title of the serial. This series reflects her 1960s work on housing and education issues in Chicago, and ongoing support for the civil rights movement in the South. 11, July 1958Īnn Stull’s collection of serials is largely focused on race relations in the United States and the role of the Catholic Church in helping to eliminate racism. Stull, Ann, “Housing Speculators,” Community 17, no.Schorsch III, Albert, "Uncommon Women and Others: Memoirs and Lessons from Radical Catholics at Friendship House,” U.S.Russell and Phillip Sintiere, Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion after Divided by Faith. Obituary, Shirley Ann Petta, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois), March 11, 2009.Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature. In 1999 she donated her collection of periodicals, pamphlets and clippings on race relations to the Chicago Public Library’s Vivian G. In 2002 she married Frank Petta, and moved to Elgin, Illinois. For much of her life she lived in the Hyde Park-Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. Friendship House closed its doors in 2000. While volunteering at Friendship House, she became an English teacher at Kelly High School, where she taught for some thirty years.įrom 1980 through 2000 it also operated a day shelter for the homeless. She was especially involved in the fight against housing segregation. and Stull continued to be active in its work. In the years that followed, Chicago’s Friendship House became a volunteer organization.
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Friendship House established its second center in Chicago in 1942, located at 4233 South Indiana Avenue in Bronzeville.Īnn Stull served as director of Chicago Friendship House from 1951 through 1955.
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Though its original Toronto center was forced to close, it was soon adopted by Catholic Interracial Council and set up operations in New York City’s Harlem in 1938. She became active in Catholic interracial activities and moved to Chicago to work at Friendship House, an organization dedicated to improving race relations.įriendship House was a Catholic interracial missionary organization founded in the early 1930s by Catholic social justice activist Catherine de Hueck Doherty. She graduated from Webster College, then a Catholic women’s school in a St.
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Her parents were Wilfred and Irene (Taylor) Stull. Michael Flug, Senior Archivist, Harsh Archival Processing ProjectĪnn Stull, as she was known most of her life, was a lay Catholic activist for racial and social justice.
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Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Ann Stull Papers, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, 9525 S. 4 linear feet (4 archival boxes, including one oversize case)Ĭhicago Public Library, Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G.