Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration - Hardcover

Black, Timuel D.

 
9780810113626: Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration

Synopsis

This text lets us hear the voices of those African Americans who left social, political and economic oppression in the South for political freedom and opportunity such as they had never known in Chicago - and for new forms of prejudice and segregation - during World War I.

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About the Authors

TIMUEL D. BLACK, JR. is a prominent civil rights activist, noted jazz historian, and professor emeritus of social sciences at the City Colleges of Chicago. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he moved to Chicago as a baby, and has lived here since. He holds a B.A. from Roosevelt University and a master's degree from the University of Chicago.


Timuel D. Black, Jr. is a prominent civil rights activist and a professor emeritus of social sciences at the City Colleges of Chicago.

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9780810123151: Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration - An Oral History (Chicago Lives)

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ISBN 10:  0810123150 ISBN 13:  9780810123151
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2005
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