Ron Sable, M.D. Papers

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Ron Sable was an openly gay physician in the Department of Medicine of Cook County Hospital in the mid-1970s and co-founder of the Sable-Sherer AIDS Clinic, the first comprehensive HIV/AIDS clinic at the hospital. He was the founder of IMPACT, a charter member of the Illinois Democratic Party Altgeld Institute, a member of Independent Voters of Illinois Independent Precinct Organization (IVI-IPO). Sable was a member, director, or officer of: Vietnam Veterans of America, Lakeview Community Planning Committee, The Crossroads Fund, Chicago Health Project, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Network 44, and Illinois Public Action. His papers include questionnaires, polls, correspondence, budgets, financial records, fundraising information, subject files, framed photographs, awards, pamphlets, brochures, press clippings, buttons, matchbooks, flyers, posters, and a banner.

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Gift

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