Ann Stull Papers

  View full finding aid (PDF)
  • Collection ID ARCHIVES 199904
  • Creator Names Stull, Ann, 1926-2009.
  • Title Papers, 1942-1971.
  • Physical description 4 linear feet.
  • Collection arrangement Materials are arranged into three series, Serials, Pamphlets and Clipping Files and Phonograph Records.
  • Access and usage restrictions Available for research in the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library.
  • Collection summary Ann Stull was director of Friendship House in Chicago from 1951 to 1955. Friendship House was a Roman Catholic mission that preached and practiced racial tolerance in the pre-civil rights era. Her collection of rare serials and newspaper clippings documents racism, Catholicism's involvement in interracial justice, labor relations, housing and educational discrimination on Chicago's West Side.
  • Biographical or Historical Note Ann Stull (1926-2009) was born Shirley Ann Stull in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents were Wilfred and Irene (Taylor) Stull. She graduated from Webster College, then a Catholic women's school in a St. Louis suburb. She became active in Catholic interracial activities and moved to Chicago to work at Friendship House, an organization dedicated to improving race relations. Stull served as director of Chicago Friendship House from 1951 through 1955. In the years that followed, Chicago's Friendship House became a volunteer organization. and Stull continued to be active in its work. She was especially involved in the fight against housing segregation. While volunteering at Friendship House, she became an English teacher at Kelly High School, where she taught for some thirty years. From 1980 through 2000 it also operated a day shelter for the homeless. Friendship House closed its doors in 2000. For much of her life she lived in the Hyde Park-Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. In 2002 she married Frank Petta, and moved to Elgin, Illinois.
  • Finding Aids Note Finding aid available in the Harsh Research Collection, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library and on the library's web site.
  • Acquisition information Donation of Ann Stull, June 21, 1999.
  • Names
    • Stull, Ann, 1926-2009 Archives.
    • Friendship House (Chicago, Ill.) Archives.
  • Subjects African American Catholics Illinois Chicago.
  • Geographic coverage
    • Chicago (Ill.) Religious aspects.
    • Chicago (Ill.) Race relations.
  • Finding aid URL http://www.chipublib.org/fa-ann-stull-papers/