Bridges of Memory
An Oral History
by Timuel D. Black Jr.

From the back cover:

Oral history of the first order, Bridges of Memory captures the voices of those who lived through the first great migration of African-Americans from the South seeking a better life in Chicago. These are the stories of the children and grandchildren of ex-slaves who found work in Chicago's stockyards and steel mills, started small businesses, and brought to maturity the jazz, blues, and gospel music that became one of the city's international exports. Historian Timuel D. Black Jr., himself the son of first-generation migrants to Chicago, interviews a wide cross section of African-Americans who reflect on issues ranging from racism to segregation to the origin of the blues. Their recollections are a vivid record of a neighborhood, a city, a society, and a people undergoing dramatic and unprecedented changes.

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

Bridges of Memory
An Oral History
by Timuel D. Black Jr.

ISBN: 0810123150
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication Date: 2005
Format: Paperback, 616 pages
Book Type: New

Now available, Bridges of Memory, Volume 2