Growing Up in 1950s White Chicago

Jack Macnamara, born in Chicago in 1937, tells stories about racial identity growing up in Edgebrook, a far north west neighborhood. Macnamara was born white in the white-racist Chicago of the 1950s. In the 1960s, he became a Catholic seminarian and an anti-racist fighter in the Jesuit community of Chicago.

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jack macnamara is my grandpa

I wish Chicago had more African-Americans in the Edgebrook neighborhood
in the ‘50s as the whole city does now! Mayor Daley didn’t do his job well,
did he?

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F**king realist

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A lot of white street gangs that would come up years later(K/P 712 SCR N/S IP)