- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- CHICAGO MUSLIM ORAL HISTORY PROJECT : Selenica, Hysni
- Creator:
- Selenica, Hysni
Alter, Peter - Publisher:
- Chicago, Ill. : Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum - Date of Original:
- 2018-06-04
- Subject:
- Communism
Albanian American Moslem Society
Learning disabilities
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Chaplains
Theological seminaries
Police administration - Location:
- Republic of Albania, 41.0, 20.0
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Berkeley, 41.88892, -87.9034
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, South Side, 41.74855, -87.64417
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Franklin Park, 41.93531, -87.86562
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Northbrook, 42.12753, -87.82895
United States, Illinois, DuPage County, Elmhurst, 41.89947, -87.94034
Yugoslavia, 44.0, 19.75 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Hysni Selenica was born in 1975 in Chicago and grew up in the Gage Park community. His family fled communist Albania in the 1950s to come to the United States. Selenica went to Gage Park High School and then graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a photojournalism degree. After college, he became a Chicago Police officer and since then became the first Muslim chaplin for the department.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/360
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:360/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- © 2019 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
- Additional Rights Information:
- For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please visit https://images.chicagohistory.org or contact rightsrepro@chicagohistory.org.
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
AMERICAN MEDINA:STORIES OF MUSLIM CHICAGO ORAL HISTORY PROJECT - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
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