- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- FORTY BLOCKS: Diane McGee-Lewis
- Creator:
- McGee-Lewis, Diane
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:
- Oral history
Interviews
Neighborhoods
Community development
Urbanization - Location:
- United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park, 41.88087, -87.70283
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, West Side, 41.8542, -87.66561 - 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. Diane McGee-Lewis was born in 1950 in Chicago. She spent most of her youth living at South Pulaski Road and West Monroe Street, on the West Side, where her family was the first African American family on the block. She attended Marshall High School, witnessing the unrest after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/196
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:196/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: 18:38 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
FORTY BLOCKS: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
-
