SHORE LAND | 31st Street Beach

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CREDITS

Interview:

  • Monica Rickert-Bolter (Prairie Band Potawatomi/Black/German)

Readers:

  • Teri Carson, Nia Easley, Mark Diaz, JeeYeun Lee, Heather Miller (Wyandotte Nation), Zachary Nicol, Shelby Stone

Songs:

  • Special permission for use of Nibi Water Song by Zoongi Gabowi Ozawa Kinew Ikwe (Strong Standing Golden Eagle Woman), Anishnabe Nation, Crane Clan (Ojijak)

  • Ieodo Sana folk song, by Juok Kim (Living National Treasure) and group, Traditional Folk Songs, Cheju Island of Korea (1982)

Texts: 

  • Eve Ewing, “Jump/Rope” and “The Pearl Diver,” 1919 (2019). Used with permission.

  • Treaty of St. Louis (August 24, 1816)

  • Constitution of Illinois (August 26, 1818)

  • Illinois State Statutes, Chapter 74, “Negroes and Mulattoes” (March 3, 1845)

  • John Jones, Black Laws of Illinois, and A Few Reasons Why They Should Be Repealed, Tribune Book and Job Office (1864)

  • “An Act to repeal section sixteen (16) of division III, chapter XXX of the Revised Statutes, all of chapter LXXIV of said Revised Statutes, and an act entitled “An act to prevent the immigration of free Negroes into this state,” commonly known as the “Black Laws,” Public Laws of the State of Illinois Passed by the Twenty-Fourth General Assembly, 105 (February 7, 1865)

  • “Civil Rights: Protection to Citizens,” House Bill 45-1885, Illinois General Assembly (June 10, 1885)

  • Coroner’s Official Report of Race Riot, July and August 1919 (November 3, 1919)

  • Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, Plan of Chicago, The Commercial Club of Chicago (1909)

  • Chicago Can Get Fifty Million Dollars for Nothing, Chicago Plan Commission (December 1916)

  • An Ordinance Recommended for Passage by the Committee on Railway Terminals, Reported to the City Council, Pamphlet No. 996 (July 7, 1919)

  • Burnham Park Framework Plan, Chicago Park District (1999)

  • Kellogg Fairbank et al. v. William G. Stratton, Governor, et al., Illinois Supreme Court (August 1, 1958)

Sound:

  • Audio editing by JeeYeun Lee

  • Sound engineering by Troy Cruz

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