Labor Activist Boris Ross on the Memorial Day Massacre

827 views · Published 27 May 2016 · 2:52 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Media Burn Archive · 2016 · News & Politics

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From the "Documenting Social History: Chicago's Elderly Speak" oral history series, which was project of Communications for Change, an early Chicago video group focused on providing a forum to people who ordinarily didn't have one. Media Burn recently preserved and transferred fourteen half-inch reels by Communications for Change with a grant from BAVC Preservation Access Program, including this one.

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