TwHP is sponsored, in part, by the Cultural Resources Training Initiative and Parks as Classrooms programs of the National Park Service.
Adrian Capehart, Dee Woodtor and Harold Lucas kindly provided personal insight into Chicago's Black Metropolis. Danzer, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file " Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination" and several other primary and secondary sources. The search for the history in these places leads to questions about the essence of history itself: What happened here? Why did the place change? What has transformed the site into a historically important place? How am I connected to this place? Other nearby structures, such as a newspaper building, an office and manufacturing building, and a YMCA, also testify to the presence of thousands of African Americans who came to Chicago's South Side in the early 20th century to fashion a better life for themselves and their families. There is a Victory Monument here, celebrating African American contributions to the Allied victory in World War I. But between them there is a gap where old buildings survive, all that remains of an area that was called Black Metropolis. Large housing projects and institutions take up much of the land in this area of the South Side of Chicago. Some workmen repair, restore, and build anew, while others demolish old structures and haul away the debris. Ringing rhythms of hammers and the screeching of power saws dominate the sounds of the city. Activity fills the streets as people come and go, school buses fill up and pull away, trucks and cars line up behind traffic lights and then move on. Imagine an early spring day in the city of Chicago-cold and rainy, windy with overcast skies. This lesson is part of the National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program.
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