his film is the result of a community-based research project that explores people's memories of childhood in four St. Louis-area African American neighborhoods. Through research and oral history interviews, the film looks at the institutions, both formal and informal, that nurtured the lives of children during the period from the 1940s to the 1980s. The neighborhoods include Kinloch, in St. Louis County, Carr Square and The Ville in St. Louis City, and the south end of East St. Louis, in Illinois. These neighborhoods were diverse economically, socially, and structurally. Each experienced an increase in its African American population during the Great Migration in the early 1900s.

Through the Eyes of a Child

McClendon,W. Stinson, and Rodney M. Thompson (producers)

Missouri Historical Society

1999

2003.500.3440