- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- FORTY BLOCKS: Kimberly Allison
- Creator:
- Allison, Kimberly
Breakthrough Film Crew - Contributor to Resource:
- Breakthrough Urban Ministries (Chicago, Ill.)
- Publisher:
- Chicago, Ill. : Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum - Date of Original:
- 2016-03-26
- Subject:
- Breakthrough Urban Ministries (Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history
Interviews
Neighborhoods
Parks
Community development
Crime
Education - Location:
- United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park, 41.88087, -87.70283
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, North Lawndale, 41.86003, -87.71839 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
Text
StillImage - Format:
- audio/mpeg
image/jpeg
application/pdf - Description:
- Breakthrough Urban Ministries, a community based organization that provides social services on Chicago's West Side, and the Chicago History Museum collaborated on this oral history project. The Museum worked with Breakthrough's Film Crew, a group of nine young people from East Garfield Park and other West Side communities, to conduct these interviews. Breakthrough and the East Garfield Park Youth Collaborative recruited most of the narrators. Called "preacher's wife" by local residents, Kimberly Allison was known for her work with Breakthrough, a social services provider on the West Side, and her compassion for neighborhood children. She was born in Chicago in 1972. The youngest of five siblings, she grew up on the West Side, in Lawndale and attended Westinghouse High School. In her twenties, Ms. Allison moved to East Garfield Park. She described the difficulties of raising children in East Garfield Park, amongst drug activity, gang violence, and other issues. Through her work at Breakthrough, she saw positive changes in the area.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/128
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:128/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- © 2016 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please visit https://images.chicagohistory.org or contact rightsrepro@chicagohistory.org. - Extent:
- Audio file: 14:10 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
FORTY BLOCKS: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
-
