Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Scope and Content
- Conditions for Access
- Conditions Governing Use
- Preferred Citation
- Acquisition Information
- Biography or History
- Related Material
- Indexed Terms
Collection Access
Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project papers
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project papers
- Dates
- 2016
- Identifier
- 2017.0004.1
- Creator
- Chicago History Museum
- Creator
- Breakthrough Urban Ministries, Chicago History Museum. Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project
- Size
- .5 linear feet (1 box)
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Scope and Content
Project documents and 27 oral history transcripts from Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project conducted by the Chicago History Museum in 2016.
Conditions for Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
No known copyright restrictions.
Preferred Citation
Please cite collection as Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project Papers (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.
Acquisition Information
CHM Collecting - Studs Terkel Center for Oral History20172017.0004.1CHM Collecting.Biography or History
In 2016 Breakthrough Urban Ministries, a community-based organization that provides social services on Chicago's West Side, and the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History collaborated on this oral history project. The oral history center 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. All narrators had strong connections to the West Side, mainly East Garfield Park and North Lawndale. A transcription company, interns, and a volunteer created the transcriptions comprising this collection, known as Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project.