... Woodlawn neighborhood Chicago Illinois African American community Freeney family Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s childhood ...

... Describes Rosemarie’s childhood in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Southside Chicago, an economically diverse African American community where dozens of her relatives lived and where many of the inhabitants were recent immigrants from the South. The chapter discusses Rosemarie’s experiences...

...North Describes Rosemarie’s childhood in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Southside Chicago, an economically diverse African American community where dozens of her relatives lived and where many of the inhabitants were recent immigrants from the South. The chapter discusses Rosemarie’s...

... Here Rosemarie discusses Altgeld Gardens, the housing project her family moved to from Woodlawn, and what her life was like there. It was there that Rosemarie, with the encouragement of a teacher, Miss Radcliff, first began to think about going to college. In Altgeld, Rosemarie also learns...