- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- FORTY BLOCKS: Louise Coleman
- Creator:
- Coleman, Louise
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:
- Marillac House Social Center. Senior Service (Chicago, Ill.)
Marillac House (Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history
Interviews
Neighborhoods
Community development
Social services
Riots
Crime
Adult education
Urban renewal - Location:
- United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin, 41.88753, -87.76478
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park, 41.88087, -87.70283 - 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. Louise Coleman was born in McGehee, Arkansas in 1937. Her family moved to Tennessee and then to Chicago. She went to high school on the city's West Side. She was a resident of Chicago's Austin community area. She recalled growing up in a friendly neighborhood and playing outside with friends. In 1955, she became involved in Mariallc House, a social service organization in East Garfield Park. Later, she became a part of a program called Seniors Take Charge, which encouraged senior citizens to continue to be social and active.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/140
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:140/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: 30:21 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: Louise Coleman
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