- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- FORTY BLOCKS: Barbara Long
- Creator:
- Long, Barbara
Egbert, Catrien
Mitchel, Yasmin - 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:
- 2016-05-12
- Subject:
- Oral history
Interviews
Neighborhoods
Demography
Gentrification
Civil rights
Discrimination in housing - 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. Barbara Long was born and raised in Chicago, first in the Pilsen neighborhood then in the Austin community area. In the mid-1960s racial tensions were peaking as the neighborhood turned from majority white to majority African American. Ms. Long recalled the unrest that destroyed parts of Chicago's West Side after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/180
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:180/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: 70:23 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: Barbara Long
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