I WAS THERE: John Fitzgerald
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- Created Date
- 2008-08-27
- Description
John Fitzgerald was a lifelong resident of the Rogers Park community area. He described a typical middle class upbringing in a household that was not political. Mr. Fitzgerald recounts extensive involvement in the Civil Rights Movement; he registered voters in Alabama and participated in the Selma March. In 1968, he was newly married and preparing for the bar or legal examination. He described his interaction with the convention and events surro...
- Creator
Fitzgerald, John
Bivins, Joy
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Riots
Elections
Politics
African Americans
Nonviolence - Location
- Chicago (Ill.)
Rogers Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Grant Park (Chicago, Ill.) - Type
- sound
- Format
- Audio file: 45:17 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Fitzgerald, John, Bivins, Joy. I WAS THERE: John Fitzgerald. 2008-08-27. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/31. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Fitzgerald, John, Bivins, Joy, (2008-08-27) I WAS THERE: John Fitzgerald. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/31
- MLA citation style
- Fitzgerald, John, Bivins, Joy. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/31>.