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Article: Timuel D. Black, Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration, an Oral History.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- September 22, 2004
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Timuel D. Black, Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration, an Oral History. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2003. Pp. 600. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $29.95.
In Bridges of Memory, the first of three planned volumes, historian and civil rights activist Timuel D. Black, Jr., introduces us to Chicago's first wave of black migrants, who welcome us into their homes to tell their individual stories of loss, triumph, and especially perseverance. This is neither a scholarly work nor a comprehensive account of black Chicago and should be supplemented with James R. Grossman's Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and ...