FORTY BLOCKS: Ruby Taylor

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Collection:: Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
Title:: FORTY BLOCKS: Ruby Taylor
Creator:: Taylor, Ruby
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:: Taproots, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history
Interviews
Neighborhoods
Urban renewal
Social services
Community development
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. Ruby Taylor lived in East Garfield Park her entire life. Born in 1958, Ms. Taylor remembered a neighborhood with businesses along Madison Street, including theaters, car dealerships, grocery stores, restaurants, and Black-owned businesses. She described the unrest of 1968 and the neighborhood abandonment that followed. Ms. Taylor worked as the director of TAPROOTS, a social service provider focusing on youth and family programming.
Metadata URL:: http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/224
IIIF manifest:: https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:224/manifest.json
Language:: eng
Additional Rights Information:: © 2016 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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Extent:: Audio file: 19:31 minutes
Original Collection:: Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
FORTY BLOCKS: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum
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