Discover the Democracy of Roosevelt University
Historian and Archivist team up to share university's history in vintage images.
- Chicago, IL (1888PressRelease) September 04, 2014 - The newest addition to Arcadia Publishing's popular Campus History series is Roosevelt University from local authors Laura Mills and Lynn Y. Weiner. The book boasts more than 180 timeless images and memories from the university's impressive beginning to its present day.
Roosevelt University was founded in 1945, when faculty and students at Chicago's Central YMCA College walked out to protest admission quotas and founded a new college open to any qualified students, whatever race, religion or gender. Despite having no endowment, library, or campus, Roosevelt College attracted more than 1,000 students in its first year. In 1946, it purchased Chicago's famed Auditorium Building. By 1949, enrollment topped 6,000, and the Roosevelt story captured the nation's imagination.
In the 1950s and 1960s the university began restoring the Auditorium Building and responded to competition from growing state campuses with expanded programs in adult education and performing arts, and established classes in Hawaii, Tokyo and Chicago's suburbs. During the later 1960s the campus was rocked by protests focused on the draft, African-American studies, and other political issues.
As it nears its 70th anniversary, Roosevelt University has expanded to six colleges, two campuses, and over 85,000 alumni, including former Chicago mayor Harold Washington. This book celebrates an institution, founded on principles of social justice and civil rights, that helped shape the history of American higher education.
Highlights of Roosevelt University include:
• A brief architectural history through photographs of the historic Auditorium Building and Theater
• Vintage photographs of many honorees and friends of the university, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Oprah Winfrey, and Marshall Field III
• Photographs of remarkable professors and students, including Sociologist St Clair Drake, Education professor Frances Horwich and hundreds more professors, staff and students from 1945 through the present.
Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.
Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States. Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America's people and places. Have we done a book on your town? Visit http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/.
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