Initatives + Partnerships

The people of Evanston have been historically marginalized both geographically and demographically. The neighborhood lives with the consequences of urban renewal in the 1970s, which destroyed the business district, numerous single family homes, split the neighborhood in two, and has led to decades of disinvestment. As an extremely underrepresented community, their history is in danger of being lost. It is by working with the Evanston Employment Resource Center (EERC) to establish the "Celebrating Evanston" initiative that we will begin to remove the systematic barriers to creating and maintaining a publicly accessible community archive in Evanston.

The neighborhood of Evanston has been historically marginalized both geographically and demographically by urban renewal, which has led to decades of disinvestment. By working with King Records DX to establish "Celebrating Evanston", a community archive, this project seeks to capture voices of Evanston residents through oral histories so their stories can be better preserved.

When men were at war, women stepped up to the workforce, running factories and farms. Learn more about three local women, WAVES codebreaker Elizabeth Bigelow Stewart, nurse Lillian Feldman Schwartz, and computer Antoinette Kettenacker who navigated, and thrived, in the over-masculine world of STEM.