OOTA Ep. 15—Candyman was a Candyman: People of Cabrini-Green
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This episode of Out of the Archives, "Candyman was a Candyman: People of Cabrini Green," was co-curated by the Chicago History Museum and is set in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green community. Narrators from the community share their experiences of life in Cabrini Green, with stories including residents’ creative aspirations, an uneasy gang truce after the murder of 7-year old Dantrell Davis, the ins and outs of socializing in school, as well as insight to who the infamous Candyman really was.
A special thanks to the storytellers from this episode, all of whom have lived or still live in the Cabrini-Green Homes, including Walter Burnett Jr, Tenika Chew, Katherine Davis, Betty Howard, JR Fleming, Raymond McDonald, Roger Prosise, and Delores Van Pelt, this episode’s co-curators at the Chicago History Museum, as well as the members of the museum’s oral history corps and other oral historians who helped to gather these stories including Hannah Barg, Francesco De Salvatore, Ashley Jefferson and Shakira Johnson.
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