Coordinating Council of Community Organizations collection, 1965

  • IdentificationMSCCCO84
  • TitleCoordinating Council of Community Organizations collection MSCCCO84
  • PublisherSpecial Collections
  • LanguageEnglish
  • RepositorySpecial Collections
  • Physical Description0.5 Linear feet
  • Date1965
  • AbstractThe CCCO Collection contains a flyer and a press release related to a 1965 school boycott and march protesting Chicago Superintendent of School, Ben Willis.
  • OriginationCoordinating Council of Community Organizations.

Old Resource ID was CCCO

Founded in Chicago in the early 1960s, the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) was a civil rights organization dedicated to the reform of public school policy. While inspired by the poor educational opportunities offered to the city's African-American communities, the organization was a broad, bi-racial coalition. The organization' leadership included figures such as Al Raby, who went on to work with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Chicago Freedom Movement, and among its volunteers was Jesse Jackson, future presidential candidate and founder of Operation PUSH.

The CCCO Collection contains a flyer and a press release related to a 1965 school boycott and march protesting Chicago Superintendent of School, Ben Willis.

The organizational records for the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations are available at the King Center in Atlanta, GA.

Coordinating Council of Community Organizations collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Names
    • Chicago Public Schools.
    • Coordinating Council of Community Organizations. -- Archives
    • Willis, Benjamin C.
  • Subject
    • Chicago African American History.
    • Chicago Community Organizations.