Chicago Public Library/Woodson Regional/Harsh Research Collection
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Chicago, Illinois, 60628
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Image: Provident school of nursing students Myrtis Minor and Betty Jean Harris at the Cotton Ball at Parkway Ballroom, courtesy of Chicago Public Library, Harsh Research Collection, Myrtis Minor Papers, series 2, box 2, photo 004
Title:
Myrtis Minor Papers
Content:
As a high school student in Jackson, Mississippi, Minor was one of the leaders of a 1948/1949 bus boycott for civil rights. Her papers document the Lanier High School bus boycott and her career as a nurse at various Chicago hospitals and private practices. Minor moved to Chicago to train at Provident Hospital School of Nursing in 1952. Minor’s professional experience began at Provident Hospital where she began work as an operating room staff nurse in 1955.
Myrtis Minor’s career as a nurse practitioner in Chicago spanned thirty years. She worked at Cook County Hospital, the University of Chicago, West Side Veterans Administration Hospital, and at several private practices. Minor specialized in operating room nursing and diabetes education/outreach.
Dates:
1946-2007, undated
Size:
2.5 linear feet
Access:
Unrestricted
Language:
English
Inventory:
Series 1: Manuscripts, 1947-2007, undated
| Box # | Folder # | Title Identifier |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 | Backbone newsletter [article on Myrtis Minor on page 2], 1990 December |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | Chicago Daily Times article on Joe Louis fight, 1947 December 6 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 | “Hate objects or History? New role for stereotypes” by Minette McGhee [article mentions Minor], Chicago Sun-Times, 1992 February 27 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Lanier High School Class of 1949, Reunion 1982 program, 1982 July |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Medic Alert newsletter [Myrtis Minor mentioned on pages 1-2], 1988 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Myrtis Minor’s resume, 1973 August |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 | Primary Documents on Race and Nineteenth Century United States History, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 | The Story of Elport Chess boycott documentation, 2007, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 | Twenty-fourth Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Symposium Lecture Series program, 2007 October |
| Box # | Item # | Title Identifier |
| Box 2 | 001 | Audiocassette, interview of Myrtis Minor and Joseph Johnson [on the 1948/1949 Jackson, Mississippi bus boycott] by Chicago Public Library archivist Michael Flug, tape 1, sides 1 and 2, undated |
| Box 2 | 002 | Audiocassette, interview of Myrtis Minor and Joseph Johnson [on the 1948/1949 Jackson, Mississippi bus boycott] by Chicago Public Library archivist Michael Flug, tape 2, side 3, undated |
| Box 2 | 003 | CD, StoryCorps interview of Myrtis Minor [on the 1948 Jackson, Mississippi bus boycott and her nursing career] by Dolores Madlever [?], 2007 July 12 |
| Box 2 | 004 | Photograph, Cotton Ball at Parkway Ballroom, Myrtis Boler Minor [pictured left] and Betty Jean Harris [pictured right], 1954 |
| Box 2 | 005 | Photograph, Dr. Whitfield at the Provident outpatient clinic, undated |
| Box 2 | 006 | Photograph, Myrtis Minor at the Provident Prom, 1954 April |
| Box 2 | 007 | Photograph, Provident Hospital Nursing School capping exercises program, 1946 |
| Box 2 | 008 | Photograph, Provident Prom graduating class, 1955 |