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Please join us for an evening of research & refreshments. 2017 BMRC Summer Short-term FellowsShannon Missick,Amani Morrison, andEric Petersonwill speak on the following topics (in order of name): "The Evolution of a Desert: A History of Food Access in Chicago, 1945-1999," "Domestic Architecture and Spatial Performance in Great Migration Chicago," "Black Design and Housing Activism in 1960s Chicago," respectively.

Through an international competition, the BMRC offers 1-month residential fellowships in the City of Chicago for its Summer Short-Term Fellowship Program. Generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2009, the Summer Short-Term Fellowship Program has engaged scholars, artists, writers, and public historians from all around the world to better formulate new historical narratives of Chicago's past. The new, original research and art developed through this program is significant as it illuminates the national and international importance of Chicago's African American community.