- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- FORTY BLOCKS: Willie Morris Jr.
- Creator:
- Morris, Willie, Jr.
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 (Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history
Interviews
Neighborhoods
Race discrimination
Riots
Community development
Social services - 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, Hyde Park, 41.7942, -87.59394 - 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. Reverend Willie Morris Jr. was born in Chicago in 1945 and lived part of his childhood in Arkansas. His family later moved back to Chicago before his high school years. Reverend Morris Jr. worked at Marillac House, a social services provider for families in East Garfield Park. There he worked during the unrest after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. He also started a well-known basketball tournament at Marillac House.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/200
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:200/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: 16:54 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
FORTY BLOCKS: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
-
