Here is an alphabetical list of the people who have been identified in our stills. If you can help us get in touch with them to share their story in our project, please contact us.
Name: Gwen, Anderson
Status: Already Contacted
Gwen Anderson was a student protestor from Medill School. She was interviewed for our project. She now lives in New Jersey and is married. Her name is now Gwen Jones.

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Name: Brown, Bob
Status: Need Contact Information
Contact us if you know how to get in touch with Bob so that we can involve him in our project.

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Name: Brown, Marvin
Status: Need Contact Information
An anonymous user tagged this man. If you know how we can get in touch with him, please contact us.

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Name: Chapelle, Evelyn
Status: Need Contact Information
Evelyn Chapelle was a student at Medill Elementary. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Cook, Ann
Status: Already Contacted
Boycott organizer, went on to found Student Woodlawn Area Project (SWAP) in Chicago that same year and later moved to New York City to found Urban Academy Laboratory High School with fellow boycott organizer Herb Mack.

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Name: Davis, Ralph
Status: Interviewed for Film
Ralph Davis was 14 at the time of the boycott. See his interview from 1963 and read our blog post about his 2013 interview for our upcoming documentary. He currently lives on the South Side of Chicago.

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Name: Fischer, Sylvia
Status: Interviewed for Film
A former 3rd grade CPS teacher, Sylvia helped organize the 1963 Boycott. Many of the planning meetings were held at her home. Read our blog post about her interview for our film.

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Name: Foreman, James
Status: Passed Away
James Foreman, one of the key organizers of the 1963 Boycott, was Executive Secretary of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) during the early years of the Civil Rights Movement. Learn more about his life and work..

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Name: Fuqua, Rev. Carl
Status: Passed Away
Executive director of NAACP from 1959 to 1966. Passed away in 1986.

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Name: Galler, Roberta
Status: Need Contact Information
A Civil Rights activist and SNCC organizer who worked for a number of years in New York City as a psychoanalyst. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Gregory, Dick
Status: Need Contact Information
Legendary comedian and Civil Rights activist. Read more about him and contact us if you know how we can reach him.

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Name: Gregory, Lillian
Status: Need Contact Information
Activist and wife of comedian Dick Gregory. Contact us if you know how we can reach her.

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Name: Hale, Elaine
Status: Passed Away
Elaine Hale was a student at Medill School on the upper west side. Her brother was Frankie Ray, who has also been identified. Elaine was killed in a car accident in Gulf Port, Mississippi in the early 80s.

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Name: Hale, Frankie Ray
Status: Passed Away
Student protestor from Medill Elementary on the Near West Side. Sadly, in the late 70s, Frankie was killed while working as a cab driver on the South Side. He was robbed and murdered in his cab near 47th and Calumet.

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Name: Hatchett, Bernice
Status: Need Contact Information
Bernice Matchett was a student at Medill High School on the near west side. Her sister Ceola, was also identified. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Hatchett, Ceola
Status: Need Contact Information
Ceola Hatchett was a student at Medill Elementary on the near west side. She lived in the row homes on 1500 W block of Hastings and used to work at the I-94 tollbooth. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Jackson, Teresa
Status: Already Contacted
Student boycotter who attended a Freedom School on October 22, 1963. Youngest daughter of Rev. Leon Jackson, one of the organizers of the Boycott. Also bussed to Selma with her mother to fight for Civil Rights.

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Name: Kamatsu, David
Status: Need Contact Information
Organizer for the Student Peace Union in 1963. Both he and his wife Kit were active in Civil Rights and Anti-War struggles. If you know how we can get in touch with him, please contact us.

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Name: Kamatsu, Kit
Status: Need Contact Information
Organizer for the Student Peace Union in 1963. Both she and her husband David were active in Civil Rights and Anti-War struggles. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Kemp, Zena
Status: Need Contact Information
Zena Kemp, a Civil Rights activist from the West Side. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Landry, Lawrence
Status: Passed Away
Lawrence Landry was an Civil Rights activist and leader of Chicago Area Friends of SNCC. Landry was one of the primary organizers of the 1963 Chicago Public School Boycott. He went on to found the community-based civil rights group ACT! and ended his career as a social science researcher focusing on poverty and community empowerment. He died in 1997. Read more about his life and legacy.

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Name: Lecey, “Load of Bread”
Status: Need Contact Information
“Loaf of Bread” Lecey was a student at Medill Elementary on the near west side. We do not know his actual first name but his older brother’s name was Arnold. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Lecey, Arnold
Status: Need Contact Information
Arnold Lecey was a student at Medill Elementary on the near west side. Arnold’s younger brother, whose name we do not know, has also been identified in the same photo. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Lenhoff, Nora
Status: Need Contact Information
A student protestor from Hyde Park High School, now living in Oregon. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Lucas, Bob
Status: Interviewed for Film
An organizer of the ’63 Boycott and pillar of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago, Bob Lucas went on to run the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization for many years. We interviewed him for this film before his death in 2012. Read more about his life and legacy..

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Name: Mack, Herb
Status: Already Contacted
Herb Mack, a Hyde Park High School teacher and “unsung hero” of the Boycott, went on to found the Urban Academy Laboratory High School in Manhattan with fellow Boycott organizer Ann Cook.

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Name: McCord, Carla
Status: Need Contact Information
Carla McCord, member of an activist family from the Cabrini Green neighborhood, appears in our footage with her sister Karen. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: McCord, Karen
Status: Need Contact Information
Karen McCord, member of an activist family from the Cabrini Green neighborhood, appears in our footage with her sister Carla. One comment tags her as now practicing medicine in San Francisco. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Morgan, Curtis
Status: Need Contact Information
Student protestor from Medill Elementary on the Near West Side. His brother Maurice has also been identified. If you are in touch with him, please contact us.

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Name: Morgan, Maurice
Status: Need Contact Information
Maurice Morgan was a student at Medill Elementary on the near west side. His brother, Curtis Morgan, appears in the same photo. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Perlstein, Linda
Status: Need Contact Information
We were able to identify Linda through a photo at the Chicago SNCC archive. She was filmed working at the Boycott organizational headquarters. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Rappaport, Ralph
Status: Passed Away
Ralph Rappaport was an organizer of the 1963 Boycott and a member of Chicago Area Friends of SNCC. He has since passed away.

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Name: Rist, Seward
Status: Passed Away
Seward Rist, an organizer for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). Passed away.

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Name: Robinson, Toni
Status: Already Contacted
Toni was part of the film crew and a student at the University of Chicago. She was a member of the band Anonymous Artists of America. She now lives in Oregon.

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Name: Rose, Don
Status: Interviewed for Film
Don is a political consultant and Civil Rights activist who was a key organizer of the 1963 Boycott. Learn more about his life and work in this highly entertaining Nation article.

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Name: Shea, Mike
Status: Passed Away
Mike was part of the film crew. He was a still photographer who worked for Ebony and a documentary filmmaker who made …And This is Free, a film about Chicago’s Maxwell St. Market. He moved to LA to work in Hollywood and passed away in 1995.

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Name: Shufro, Libbie
Status: Already Contacted
A sophomore at Hyde Park High School at the time of the boycott, Libbie now lives in Boston. She shared her story on our blog.

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Name: Stein, Nikki
Status: Already Contacted
Nikki was a student protestor from Hyde Park who went on to work for the Polk Brothers Foundation in Chicago.

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Name: Stewart, Carolyn
Status: Need Contact Information
Carolyn Stewart was a student at Medill Elementary on the near west side. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Temaner, Gerald
Status: Already Contacted
Gerry Temaner was part of the film crew and student of University of Chicago. He cofounded Kartemquin Films with Gordon Quinn. He can be reached at (312)929-2550.

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Name: Townsend, Linda
Status: Need Contact Information
Linda Townsend was a student at Medill Elementary. If you know how we can get in touch with her, please contact us.

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Name: Wessel, Sophie
Status: Passed Away
Sophie Wessel, mother of Elaine Wessel..

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Name: Whitefield Idaka, Nancy
Status: Need Contact Information
Senior at Hyde Park High School at the time of the ’63 boycott. Contact us if you know how we can reach her.

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Name: Wise, Robin
Status: Need Contact Information
Protestor from the northern suburbs, reportedly a part of the Bay Area music scene. If you know how we can get in touch, please contact us.

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Name: Wright, M. Frank
Status: Need Contact Information
M. Frank Wright, identified in a photo at the Chicago SNCC archive. If you know how we can get in touch with him, please contact us.

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