by Voices
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Narrator: Vandell Cobb
Interviewer: Morris (Dino) Robinson
Transcriptionist: Audio Transcription Center
Subject-LOC: African Americans — United States — Evanston — Illinois — History 1960-2000 — Housing — Music — Recreation — Segregation — Social Conditions 1964-1975, 1975- —Suburban African Americans — Civil Rights —
Subject-IDA: African Americans Local History Oral History Domestic/Community/Social Life
Description: Vandell Cobb is an American photographer. He worked for Johnson Publishing beginning in 1977 and was one of the photographers for Ebony Magazine and worked the Fashion Fair events. He was also the photographer for the short lived South African version of Ebony Magazine. He also shares his early childhood in Georgia, his military service and his later migration to Chicago and Evanston.
Date Original: June 25, 2016
Coverage Geographic: 408101|Evanston|Populated Place|IL|17|Cook|031|420228N|0874124W|42.0411414|-87.6900587|||||187|614|
Evanston|01/15/1980|03/20/2008
Coverage Temporal: 1950s - 1990s
Type: Sound
Collection Publisher: Shorefront Legacy Center
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