NORTHWESTERN PRESS

BRIDGES OF MEMORY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THREE

GENERATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN CHICAGO

By Timuel D. Black, Jr. 

Three generations of African-Americans have lived in the city of Chicago and have, to a large degree, made the city what it is today. Timuel Black came with his parents early in the first wave of migration, from 1919-45.  Another migration wave came in the years after World War II, and a third generation, born and bred in Chicago, faces a difficult and challenging future here. 

Tim Black, former Professor of Social Sciences at the City Colleges of Chicago, and a proud social activist and civil rights activist in the city for the last forty years, has conducted over the past decade an oral history project of extraordinary significance and importance.  He has interviewed hundreds of representatives from each of the three generations, and is putting together a book based on these interviews as the first book in a new series of books on African-American history in Chicago to be published jointly by Northwestern University Press and DuSable Museum of African American History. 

BRIDGES OF MEMORY is scheduled for publication during 2000. If you would like to be informed of the publication date and details of this book, please return the form at the bottom of this note to:

Susan Harris, Editor-in-Chief
Northwestern University Press
625 Colfax Street
Evanston, IL 60208-4210 

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