{"id":8164,"date":"2019-05-08T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:12:18","slug":"commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-chicago-15-peace-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2019\/05\/08\/commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-chicago-15-peace-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Chicago 15 Peace Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Burned files, Associated Press<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 25, 2019, marks the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the Chicago 15 peace action.\u00a0 On that weekend in 1969, fifteen peace activists from the Midwest, East Coast, and Canada entered the Selective Service Headquarters located at 2355 West 63rd Street, removing \u201c50 sacks of files\u201d and burning more than 40,000 draft records behind the building (Plain Rapper<\/em>, July 1969).\u00a0 The group aimed to confront American militarism and racism by destroying Selective Service records from Chicago\u2019s South Side, therefore disrupting the disproportionate flow of African Americans to the Vietnam War effort.\u00a0 After burning draft records, the activists remained on site awaiting arrest.\u00a0 Subsequently, those involved received prison sentences ranging from five to ten years \u2013 more for those who became fugitives after the initial arrest.\u00a0 The Chicago 15 peace action follows numerous similar actions around the country beginning in 1967, but the scope of the disruption\/destruction is potentially unparalleled (Hit & Stay<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

DePaul Special Collections and Archives is honored to preserve and provide access to materials from two members of the Chicago 15 action: Bill Durkin and Nick Riddell.\u00a0 Items related to the Chicago 15 action are not easily found at the institutional level, so we\u2019re thrilled to make them available and share this important piece of local history!\u00a0 Durkin\u2019s collection features correspondence he received while in jail and prison following his arrest.\u00a0 The letters include messages of support, commentary on radical politics, and information about legal aspects of the Chicago 15 action.\u00a0 Riddell\u2019s papers include biographical items such as photographs, documents, prison writings, and other ephemera from different points in his life.\u00a0 Significantly, Riddell\u2019s photos provide a unique glimpse at his life before peace activism \u2013 from childhood, to military service, and then priesthood.\u00a0 Durkin and Riddell\u2019s collections can be found in the Collection on Peace Activism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Members of Chicago 15, National Catholic Reporter<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Commemorating the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the Chicago 15 peace action, there will be an exhibit of materials on the 3rd<\/sup> floor of the John T. Richardson Library in a case outside of Room 314.\u00a0 All are welcome to view the exhibit during library open hours.\u00a0 To learn more about DePaul Special Collections and Archives, visit our\u00a0webpage<\/a>\u00a0or contact us at\u00a0archives@depaul.edu<\/a>.\u00a0 For instruction sessions with these or other Special Collections and Archives materials, please contact\u00a0Morgen MacIntosh Hodgetts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 25, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the Chicago 15 peace action.\u00a0 On that weekend in 1969, fifteen peace activists from the Midwest, East Coast, and Canada entered the Selective Service Headquarters located at 2355 West 63rd Street, removing \u201c50 sacks of files\u201d and burning more than 40,000 draft records behind the building (Plain <\/p>\n

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