Dorothy Tillman: Welcome to Bronzeville. I am Alderman Dorothy Tillman. This is the third block and we are standing in the front of Harold Washington Cultural Center. The Harold Washington Cultural Center was named after the first African-American Mayor in the City of Chicago.
Dave Hoekstra: It is build on the side of the original Regal Theater in 1930s and 1940s artist like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Sammy Davis Jr. Today there is a new song in Bronzeville one of independence and opportunity and nationally known solo singer Otis Clay has been evolved to the rebirth since the jump and rightly so he grew up and cut his chops here in Bronzeville.
Otis Clay: Hi! I am Otis Clay. Howlin Wolf, one of his friends was my teacher. He would come by with his guitar and they sat around and they would start talking and I will just sit there and listen as they trade lyrics and discuss different things.
Female Speaker: Harold's is like after the club you need a spot where you can get some cheap affordable food that is good.
Gracie Bumpers: In the community Harold's chicken is like home cooking, is like a Sunday meal. What makes the chicken so unique is we have a special recipe that we are not allowed to give out and we also have a mole sauce which we makeup ourselves and we put a lot of extra ingredients in it.
Female Speaker: Harold's is the bomb to Bronzeville.
Male Speaker: We are here at the Negro League Café and like the great Negro teams in 1930s and 1940s that play down the street in Comiskey Park, the café is build on the pride of black ownership. Over the years it has become a popular meeting place for people all across Chicago.
Speaker: We are at church gate, people sense of being, a well being, he was a mystery and he was miserable, and you were somebody because you were God's Child and nobody could take that away from you. Bronzeville is everything you could think off to bring out folks from home.
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