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Bridges of memory : Chicago's first wave of Black migration
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- Creator
- Timuel D. Black Jr. ; with forewords by John Hope Franklin and Studs Terkel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First paperback printing
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2005
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- x, 616 pages, [16] unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810123151, 0810123150
- OCLC
- ocm60328442
- Includes index.
- [Conversations (35)]. Willis Thomas : civil rights and labor leader -- Warren Kirkland (and Mr. Rhodes) : street-savvy Chicagoan -- Thomas Ellis and Edith Ellis : Woodlawn residents -- Fred Smith : form Texas to Chicago -- Representative Corneal Davis : former Illinois State Representative -- Lillie Lodge Brantley : Phillips/DuSable Alumni Council founder -- Robert Colin : policeman and civil servant -- Ida Mae Cress : schoolteacher and activist -- Ernest Griffin : funeral director and Civil War historian -- Etta Moten Barnett : vocalist on stage and screen -- Alonzo Parham : pioneer and true unsung hero -- Gwendolyn Davis : musician -- Irma Clark : librarian, teacher, inspiration -- Wayman Hancock : Herbie Hancock's father -- Jimmy Ellis : saxophonist and teacher -- Morris Ellis : musician and businessman -- John Levy : jazz businessman/jazz musician -- Eddie Johnson : Chicago jazz icon -- Juanita Tucker : teacher and principal -- Mildred Bowden and Hermene Hartman : mother and daughter- two generations -- Louis Caldwell : activist and former State Representative -- Alvin "Al" Boutte : businessman and baker -- James "Jack" Isbell : Bronzeville insurance businessman -- Dorsey Day : union leader and activist -- Jacoby Dickens : banker and entrepreneur -- Dorothy McConner : chief managing officer -- George Johnson : from rags to riches -- Walter "Buddy" Brown : well-traveled hustler -- Commander Milton Deas Jr. : former Chicago police captain -- Dr. Rudy Nimocks : law enforcement and security officer -- LeRoy Martin : former superintendent of police -- Judge Earl Strayhorn : Illinois county court judge -- Justice William Cousins : Illinois appellate court justice -- Marjorie Echols and Harvey Echols : social worker and her husband -- Bishop Arthur Brazier : church founder -- Dr. Barbara Bowman and Dr. James Bowman : academic administrator and medical school professor
Subjects
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews.
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
- Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations.