4.4 linear feet.
3 linear inches of photographs.
Folder list with index.
Teacher, librarian, lay apostolate pioneer, and Catholic civil rights activist; a founder of the interracial Friendship House, Chicago, and its director 1942-1948. Correspondence (1930s-1983) with Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Paul Hanley Furfey, Reynold Hillenbrand, Bernard J. Sheil, and Leo R. Ward, and a letter from Dorothy Day; diaries, 1930s-1980s; her writings, including articles and lectures; original notes and multiple drafts of the manuscript of her unpublished memoirs; scrapbooks and clippings about both Makletzoff and Friendship House, with a folder concerning the court-martial case of Bernard James; minutes of directors' meetings and other documents relating to Friendship House, 1942-1948; photographs; and printed material including pamphlets and newsletters.