Lincoln Park

CTL-E-2290 · Neighborhood · 1970s–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Chicago lakefront neighborhood; Melida Harris Barrow held the first Chicago Caribbean Carnival downtown at Lincoln Park in the late 1970s after refusing the city's push to stage it on the South Side.

The record

Also known as: Lincoln Park, Chicago

Notes

RELP55 new supporting entity: thin record, enables held_at edge for CTL-E-0434.

Referenced by

B.L.U.E.S. — located in → this record
First Chicago Caribbean Carnival — held at → this record
Gramaphone Records — located in → this record
MPAACT (Ma'at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre) — located in → this record
Rainbow Coalition formed (Chicago, 1969) — held at → this record
Wild Hare — located in → this record
Young Lords Organization — located in → this record

Sources

summarize.tech — Barrow oral history (Lincoln Park siting)

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