Shorefront Legacy Center

CTL-E-0775 · Archive · collection · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

A ~30-year community archive in a church basement in Evanston, Illinois, documenting 100+ years of Black suburban North Shore life (NAACP minutes, segregation correspondence); its records underpinned Evanston's first-in-the-nation cash reparations program.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-024; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

NPR Illinois, 2026-09-19

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