- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- FORTY BLOCKS: Steve Braxton
- Creator:
- Braxton, Steve
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:
- Dr. King Legacy Apartments (Lawndale, Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history
Interviews
Social services
Neighborhoods
Community development
Urban renewal
Low-income housing - Location:
- United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
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. Steve Braxton was born in the 1950s in Louisiana. He came from a ten child family of tenant farmers who eventually moved to Chicago as part of the Great Migration. He was drafted into the military as a young man after college and acquired a certain level of discipline that impacted how he worked as an executive for three major companies. Mr. Braxton became active in Lawndale sometime in the late 1990s. He started working in social service organizations as a mentor and counselor. When he moved to Lawndale, he also became active as a board member of some local organizations. In this role he helped fundraise and develop plans for the community.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/136
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:136/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: 34:21 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
FORTY BLOCKS: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
-
FORTY BLOCKS: Steve Braxton
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