The Chicago Defender played an important role in the Great Migration of African Americans
fleeing the violence of the Jim Crow South. Beginning in the 1970s, digital technology like VDTs had a big impact on newspaper production, including at places like the Defender.
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That Really Doesn’t Sound Like You (Ben 12)
In 1979, Methuen Press published Subculture: the meaning of style by Dick Hebdige, the first academic book to address Punk culture. In 1984, the University of Chicago Press published Paths of Neighborhood Change whose lead author was Richard Taub, a section of which discusses Hyde Park’s urban renewal.
I F’d Up (Julia 4)
The mix of orange juice and rice can be used in a wide range of savory and sweet recipes. Before college students had cell phones, dormitories hired receptionists to direct calls to a phone in each resident hall.
A Very Important Question (Ben 11)
Pure Hype began on WHPK in 1986 as a way to promote upcoming indie rock shows with free
tickets and interviews with musicians. By 1988, the show also began hosting live performances in the middle of the radio station’s record library.
This is Julia (Julia 3)
The Indian Termination Policy from the 1940s to 1960s encouraged Native Americans migration to cities like Chicago, where they often settled in the Uptown neighborhood. In the 1970s, a movement for self determination inspired public school programs meant to reintroduce native children to their heritage.
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