Contents
Collection Access
Neighborhoods, Keepers of Culture Project video archives
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Neighborhoods, Keepers of Culture Project video archives
- Identifier
- BMRC.CHM.KEEPERS
- Repository
- Chicago History Museum
- Language
- English
- Size
- 2.0 Linear feet
- Dates
- 1958-1998
- Creator
- Alshaibi, Usama, 1969-
- Creator
- Chicago Video Project
- Creator
- Street Level Youth Media
Scope and Contents note
Items collected as part of the ""Neighborhoods, Keepers of Culture Project"" of the Chicago Historical Society, which focused on the following community areas: Near West Side, East Garfield Park, Lower West Side (Pilsen), South Lawndale (Little Village), Rogers Park, West Ridge, and Douglas and Grand Boulevard on the South Side. Items in this collection include video footage used in an exhibition; oral histories and edited documentaries relating to various areas in Chicago that were used as research for the exhibition; recordings of neighborhood meetings; and recordings of CHS staff project meetings.
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2010 October 4 by Lisa Calahan.
Indexed Terms
- Black, Timuel D.
- Chicago Historical Society
- African American neighborhoods
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago
- Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.)
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations
- Douglas (Chicago, Ill.)
- East Garfield Park (Chicago, Ill.)
- Immigrants--United States
- Lower West Side (Chicago, Ill.)
- Maxwell Street (Chicago, Ill.)
- Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)
- Public housing--Illinois--Chicago
- Race relations