Descriptive inventory for the Coalition for New Priorities records, 1958-1999, bulk 1988-1996

Provenance statement:

Gift of the Committee for New Priorities (accession # 2010.0048).

Terms governing use:

Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.

Restriction(s):

This collection is open for research use. Advance appointment is required to view color photographs, videotapes, and audiotapes.

For listening and viewing purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening or viewing copy made if one is not available).

Please cite this collection as:

Coalition for New Priorities records (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and series/box number of a specific item.

Correspondence, research files, newsletters, meeting agendas and minutes, questionnaires, reports, mailing lists, flyers, pamphlets, clippings, and other records of the Coalition for New Priorities (CNP), also known as the Committee for New Priorities. Includes files belonging to Nancy Mayer and Berenice Bild and limited materials from two antinuclear groups active in Chicago, 1959-1961.

The Coalition for New Priorities (CNP) was an outgrowth of the Illinois Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy/Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, an organization created in the early 1980s. In 1989, the SANE/Freeze group formed the CNP, under the leadership of Bernice Bild. The CNP's mission was securing significant reductions in the federal government's military budget. The Coalition for New Priorities later became known as the Committee for New Priorities. Records from the SANE/Freeze group; the Peace Conversion Commission, an official Chicago city agency created in 1992 to convert nuclear weapons facilities to peacetime use; and two antinuclear groups active in Chicago 1959-1961 are included in the collection.