An interview with Timuel Black / Timuel Black ; Mark DePue, interviewer. 2009.

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An interview with Timuel Black / Timuel Black ; Mark DePue, interviewer. 2009.

An interview of Timuel Black conducted by Mark DePue for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Topics discussed include the Chicago race riots of 1919; Chicago's Black Belt; Bronzeville, Chicago; Chicago Defender; Ft. Lee, Va.; 308th Quartermaster Railhead Company; Southampton, England; liberation of Paris in 1944; Battle of the Bulge; and Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

1 data discs (215 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

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Buchenwald concentration camp, one of the largest in Germany with its 130 satellite camps and units, was situated 5 miles north of Weimar in Thüringen. It was established in July 1937 when the first group of 149 mostly political prisoners and criminals was received. Some 238,980 prisoners passed through Buchenwald from 30 countries. 43,005 were killed or perished there....

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Timuel Black was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 7, 1918, but was raised in Chicago – a place he loves to call home. He is a revered and highly respected educator, political activist, community leader, oral historian and philosopher.After matriculating from Burke Elementary School and DuSable High School in Chicago, Black enrolled at Roosevelt University. There, he received his bachelor's degree. Black also later earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago. One of his first ...

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