- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- FORTY BLOCKS: Dorothy Gaters
- Creator:
- Gaters, Dorothy
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:
- John Marshall High School (Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history
Interviews
Women
Sports
Basketball
Coaches (Athletics) - Location:
- United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
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. Dorothy Gaters was born in Buehler, Mississippi in 1946, and her family moved to Chicago soon after. She went to Marshall High School in East Garfield Park. She later became a teacher and basketball coach at Marshall High School. Her first season, in 1974, marked the beginning of her successful coaching career. Through this leadership position. Coach Gaters won eight state championships, finished second place three times, and had been in nineteen semi-final appearances during her time coaching girls basketball at Marshall. In 2000, she was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. She had also won the lifetime achievement award for high school coaches from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/164
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:164/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: 25:06 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
FORTY BLOCKS: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
-
