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    Reading Room Office Hours: The Robert Taylor Homes

    Installation view of resource room with books on a rail shelf, seating, and a digital screen

    with Ron Carter

    • National Public Housing Museum, 919 S. Ada Street, Chicago, IL 60607

    • Free

    Drop by and join in a series of civic conversations about the history of the Robert Taylor Homes.

    Throughout the summer, join us in the reading and resource room within the exhibition Nathaniel Mary Quinn: A Love Letter to My Mother for conversations, oral history listening sessions, and other programming with residents, scholars, and housing activists.

    On May 31, the office hours feature Ron Carter, a former Robert Taylor Homes resident and community organizer. Ron published TRUTH News—Taylor Residents United Towards Harmony—and established the South Street Journal. He served as the Executive Director for The Greater Roseland Organization, the lead organizer for Chicago Area Project, and an organizer for the education advocacy organization, Designs for Change. Ron is working on a new book about Da Hole, a cluster of buildings in the Robert Taylor Homes.

    FREE, drop-in.

    Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Nathaniel Mary Quinn: A Love Letter to My Mother.

    This Robert Taylor Home reading room is made possible by the Department of History at Loyola University Chicago in honor of Professor Brad Hunt.

    Office Hours Schedule

    Ron Carter
    Sunday, May 31, 1–3 pm
    Office hours and conversation with Ron Carter, a former Robert Taylor Homes resident and community organizer.

    Dr. Brad Hunt
    Sunday, June 14, 1–3 pm
    Office hours and conversation with Brad Hunt, Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago.

    Larry Turner
    Saturday, July 11, 1–3 pm
    Listening session and conversation with Larry Turner around the legacy of Beauty Turner (1957–2008), a Robert Taylor Homes resident, public housing advocate, mother, journalist, poet, and the namesake of our oral history training program.

    Additional dates to be announced.

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