StoryCorps

The mission of StoryCorps is to provide a forum for everyone to share their story. When the mobile booth stopped in the Windy City, Chicagoans came out to tell the moving, funny and uniquely Chicago stories of their lives. One of the largest oral history projects of its kind, StoryCorps can be heard on NPR's Morning Edition.

Judy Jackson Thomas

Equality in the workplace is the subject of today's StoryCorps installment. The StoryCorps Griot Initiative aims to capture the oral history of everyday African Americans with an emphasis on the stories of World War Two veterans and men and women involved in the Civil Rights struggle.

Marcus Johnson

Today, we begin a weekly series of installments from Chicago's Storycorps mobile booth.

Web Exclusive: Riots in Chicago

Frank Beidler brought his mother, Prue Beidler, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to reflect on the experiences she's had in her life. One year that Frank was particularly curious about was 1968. Frank asked his mother what she remembers about living in Chicago during that tumultuous year.

Compassion of the People

Joel Farran brought his father, Ramzi Farran, to the StoryCorps MobleBooth in order to document his father's unique life.  Born in Jerusalem in 1946, Ramzi relocated to Northern Indiana in the late sixties to attend college amidst intense political turmoil back home.

Web Exclusive: Riots in Chicago

Frank Beidler brought his mother, Prue Beidler, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to reflect on the experiences she's had in her life. One year that Frank was particularly curious about was 1968. Frank asked his mother what she remembers about living in Chicago during that tumultuous year.

Web Exclusive: A Father's Love

Ina Pinkney contracted polio in 1944 as she approached her second birthday. Now more than sixty years later, she asked her friend, Edith Taber, to join her in the StoryCorps MobileBooth to talk about how her life has been shaped by the disease.

Sharkskin Suit

Tom Brenner left home in the fall of 1963 to attend North Texas State University and study jazz. It was there that he met his future wife, Texan Karen Brenner, who brought him to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to talk about the things they've learned so far in life.

Web Exclusive: Day You Were Born

Tim Goligoski didn't think much about having children, until the day his daughter was born. Today he is the proud father of two beautiful girls. His oldest, Emily, is now twenty-one years old and she brought him to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to talk about life.

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