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BASE Oral History documents Chicago’s civil-rights stories
An independent oral-history project pairing conversations about Black activism and life in Chicago with historical context and archival photographs.
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- The five featured 1973 photographs link to individual DOCUMERICA records, with National Archives identifiers shown alongside their captions.
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The two conversations focus on family history, growing up in Chicago, church relationships with neighbors, housing, and learning from people involved in the civil-rights movement. A timeline is offered as background for references that may be unfamiliar to listeners. The five image captions identify John H. White and provide individual DOCUMERICA record numbers; the project also credits Shorefront Legacy Center.
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