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  Angel of Fear

  Black, Chicago, Communities

  Documentary about Jeff Fort, leader of the Blackstone Rangers and El Rukn gangs in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood.

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  [Boxing at Fuller Park]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Sports

  Ben Hollis interviews boxers training at Fuller Park in Chicago at 46th and Princeton.

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  [Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, reel 84; Ray Price]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Kartemquin Films

  Kartemquin Films interviews Raymon Price, Curator at the DuSable Museum of African American History, about the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1992 exhibition “Bridges and Boundaries,” which was originally intended to be a joint exhibition with DuSable. In this tape, Price talks about why DuSable ultimately didn’t take part in the project.

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  [People for Community Recovery #8: Election]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Judy Hoffman, Outside Agitators

  Continuation of 16506. This is a video of Cheryl Johnson, of the People for Community Recovery, on election day as she runs for the Local Advisory Council in Altgeld Gardens.

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  [People for Community Recovery #7: Election]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Judy Hoffman, Outside Agitators

  This video follows Cheryl Johnson, a candidate for the Local Advisory Committee, as she walks around Altgeld Gardens on her election day.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: Havis Family – David Tkac]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. On this tape, members of the Havis Family comment on their 1997 move out of Cabrini Green to the South Side.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: CHA photos]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. This video features a number of early still photographs of the building of CHA housing and its first residents.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: Mark Pratt & family]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Video for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the City of Chicago. This tape includes two interviews with Mark Pratt outside on the common grounds of Cabrini and inside his home on December 17, 1995. He talks about resident protests against the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Cabrini Green’s community, the 1992 gang truce, growing up in Cabrini, the Robert E. Byrd Academy, his family, and the effects of the demolition project on residents.