- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- FORTY BLOCKS: Fred McGee
- Creator:
- McGee, Fred
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:
- 2016-03-18
- Subject:
- Oral history
Interviews
Neighborhoods
Parks
Community development
Gentrification
Social services
Voluntarism - 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. Fred McGee was born in Chicago in the late 1950s. He grew up in East Garfield Park and attended Beidler Elementary and Westinghouse High School. He volunteered for the U.S. Navy. When he returned, he met and later settled with his wife on the West Side.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/192
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:192/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: 60:32 Minutes
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
FORTY BLOCKS: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
-
