How did your family end up in Chicago?

How did your family end up in Chicago?



Here Are Some Heritage Questions from one of my teenagers summer school class.



Who migrated to Chicago? When were they born? How did they live in the South?

Why did they migrate to Chicago?

When did they migrate to Chicago?

How long was the preparation to move North?

What caused them to move North? Racism, low employment, poor agriculture, etc.

What was their motivation for moving?

How long did it take for them to arrive in Chicago?

How did they get to Chicago? By train, bus, plane, walked, etc.

Did they sell their house before moving North?

What was the settlement process like in Chicago like?

What was going on socially, politically, and economically during these times?


Marc Sims
Chicago


PS

Black metropolis; a study of Negro life in a northern city [by] St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton. Introd. by Richard Wright. Introd. to Torchbook ed. by Everett C. Hughes. http://www.chipublib.org/search/details/cn/58871


The Warmth of Other Suns
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Why the USA is a gun crazy country.

Why the USA is a gun crazy country.

American History
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2010 Mid-Term Elections In A Post-Racial USA

2010 Mid-Term Elections In A Post-Racial USA

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. "
James Baldwin

GENOCIDE of AFRIKANS

THE GOAL OF WHITE SUPREMACY IN RELATION TO AFRIKANS IS GENOCIDE - According to the United Nations Convention on Genocide Of 1946 genocide is defined as follows: it says "In the present convention genocide means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial, or religious group such as:





A. Killing members of the group;




B. Causing bodily or mental harm to members of the group;




C. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;






D. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;





E. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

African American Children Need Better Parents.

African American Children Need Better Parents.

I have spoken to thousands of Chicago Public School students via The Black Star Project. My experience has lead me to believe African American children need better parents.

The main reason why the African American schools are so bad is because there are not enough good parents. However, can you blame the parents?

Most African American parents are working class and the rest of us would be considered poor.

There are a disproportionate number of African American children living with their grandparents.

There are African American children who are wards of the state, who are foster children, or who are homeless.

We all know that most African American children in cities like Chicago do not live with their father.

There is so much destabilization in low-income African American neighborhoods, no one should be surprised education is far down on the list of values.
Then you have our urban culture that promotes consumerism and debauchery.

We could vastly improve these African American neighborhoods, but our leaders are so passive, or so self-serving, or so corrupt.

Most African American students need quality academic tutoring and life skills that will instill discipline.

We know what African American children need, but our children need African Americans not to be so passive, not to be self-serving, and not to be corrupt.

Marc Sims

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