• Collection ID 2006.0168.1-6
  • Creator Names Spitz, Jeff, interviewer.
  • Title Interviews about Mayor Harold Washington [videorecording].
  • Dates 2003 Sept.
  • Physical description
    • 6 videocassettes (VHS) : col. ; 1 in. and smaller.
    • 1 folder of transcripts.
  • Access and usage restrictions Typed transcripts are available. However, for viewing purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a copy made if one is not available).
  • Collection summary Collection of video recordings and accompanying transcripts of interviews about Chicago Mayor Harold Washington that were conducted by Jeff Spitz at ABC Studios for the Chicago Historical Society. Provides some insiders' views of Mayor Washington and his administrations on the twentieth anniversary of his first successful bid for the mayor's office. Includes interviews with Tim Black, Rev. B. Herbert Martin, Studs Terkel, Wesley South, Alton Miller, Brenetta Howell Barrett, David Orr, Jesus Garcia, Nena Torres, Mary Ella Smith, Lu Palmer, Bob Starks, Rebecca Sive, Bennett Johnson, Dorothea Washington, Eugene Sawyer, Fred Fine, Dempsey Travis, Sharon Gist Gilliam, Tim Evans, Tim Wright, and Veronica Jarrett. Transcripts of the interviews are stored with the video cassettes.
  • Acquisition information These interviews were conducted so that video excerpts could be shown in Chicago Historical Society's 2003 exhibition: Harold Washington: The Man and the Movement.
  • Names
    • Washington, Harold, 1922-1987 Interviews.
    • Chicago Historical Society. Harold Washington (Exhibition).
    • Black, Timuel D., interviewee.
    • Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, Interviewee.
    • Martin, B. Herbert, Interviewee.
    • South, Wesley W., Interviewee.
    • Miller, Alton, Interviewee.
    • Barrett, Brenetta Howell, Interviewee.
    • Orr, David, Interviewee.
    • Garcia, Jesus, Interviewee.
    • Torres, Nena, Interviewee.
    • Smith, Mary Ella, Interviewee.
    • Palmer, Lu, Interviewee.
    • Starks, Bob, Interviewee.
    • Sive, Rebecca, Interviewee.
    • Johnson, Bennett, Interviewee.
    • Washington, Dorothea, Interviewee.
    • Sawyer, Eugene, Interviewee.
    • Spitz, Jeff, interviewer.
    • Fine, Fred M., 1914-2004, Interviewee.
    • Travis, Dempsey, 1920-2009, interviewee.
    • Gilliam, Sharon Gist, Interviewee.
    • Evans, Tim, Interviewee.
    • Wright, Timothy C., Interviewee.
    • Jarrett, Veronica, Interviewee.
    • Chicago Historical Society. Harold Washington (Exhibition).
  • Subjects
    • African Americans Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • African American mayors Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Mayors Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Politicians Illinois Chicago 20th century Interviews.
  • Geographic coverage Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government 1951-
  • Genre
    • Interviews. aat
    • Oral histories. aat
    • Transcripts. aat
    • Videocassettes. aat