I WAS THERE: Sue Levins
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- Created Date
- 2008-08-27
- Description
Sue Levins grew up in a middle-class family in Skokie and was home on summer vacation from her studies at the University of Miami during the 1968 convention. She went to Lincoln Park on the first day of the convention with close friends from her high school just to check out what was going on. Though eager to go home at 11pm when the police requested the protesters to leave, her friends; who also happened to be her ride home, wished to stay and s...
- Creator
Levins, Sue
Long, Tim
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Blackstone Hotel (Chicago, Ill.)
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Riots
Elections
Politics - Location
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Type
- sound
- Format
- Audio file: 27:50 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
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- Chicago citation style
- Levins, Sue, Long, Tim. I WAS THERE: Sue Levins. 2008-08-27. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/77. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Levins, Sue, Long, Tim, (2008-08-27) I WAS THERE: Sue Levins. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/77
- MLA citation style
- Levins, Sue, Long, Tim. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/77>.