Langston Hughes: The Long Tradition Of Dark Poets

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4mCBqhPdNgzSRpxNzrKQUPRteZD9ZHFVEO8CRJdA_ryQCfbFi4xsMfoUdPost9bcJbCKkhb9N9FHJZ4tXw34x_G38XAjStc80t8YMku36LP-bdI-DZXAm5L_Gg9e7etdJO1v9SGdbms/s1600/hughes+langston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4mCBqhPdNgzSRpxNzrKQUPRteZD9ZHFVEO8CRJdA_ryQCfbFi4xsMfoUdPost9bcJbCKkhb9N9FHJZ4tXw34x_G38XAjStc80t8YMku36LP-bdI-DZXAm5L_Gg9e7etdJO1v9SGdbms/s320/hughes+langston.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> Langston Hughes (James Mercer Langston Hughes) was born Feb 1, 1902 inwards Joplin, Missouri to James Nathaniel Hughes together with his married adult woman Caroline Mercer Langston, a schoolhouse teacher. Hughes became a swell African American poet, brusque flush writer, novelist, together with columnist. Along alongside such scribes every bit Claude McKay together with W.E.B. Du Bois, Hughes' industrial plant had a swell influence on the Harlem Renaissance inwards the USA together with the Négritude crusade inwards French Republic together with francophone Africa together with the Caribbeans. Brother Hughes died May 22, 1967. <br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQO482qgSPU6dVapAqGSRLcLKCHyBUYT3hR5L4Q8dzPKminE0dFL2YEMEG1D-j-_dPxcYYPtFdnxB-roz1Qc1muvlGXfcvae4pePlETqtktpwMTe5tVD_MjvIraHFWuBMbwijJeRWlVvU/s1600/hughes+Meschrabpam%27s_American_Negro_Film_Group.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQO482qgSPU6dVapAqGSRLcLKCHyBUYT3hR5L4Q8dzPKminE0dFL2YEMEG1D-j-_dPxcYYPtFdnxB-roz1Qc1muvlGXfcvae4pePlETqtktpwMTe5tVD_MjvIraHFWuBMbwijJeRWlVvU/s1600/hughes+Meschrabpam's_American_Negro_Film_Group.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><blockquote> <span style="font-size: x-small;">In this picture, standing pump right, is Hughes as fellow member of the Meschrabpam's American Negro Film Group, includes writer Dorothy West (seated right), </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">on board the Europa on June 17, 1932.</span></blockquote> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <blockquote> <b><span style="font-size: large;">The Negro Mother, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a poesy form past times Langston Hughes</i></span></b></blockquote> <blockquote> <span style="font-size: small;">Children, I come upwards dorsum today </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">To tell yous a flush of the long black agency </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">That I had to climb, that I had to know </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">In guild that the race mightiness alive together with grow. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Look at my appear upwards -- black every bit the nighttime -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Yet shining similar the Sun alongside love's truthful light. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I am the black daughter who crossed the cherry bounding main </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Carrying inwards my trunk the seed of the free. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I am the adult woman who worked inwards the plain </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Bringing the cotton fiber together with the corn to yield. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I am the 1 who labored every bit a slave, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Beaten together with mistreated for the run that I gave -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Children sold away from me, I'm hubby sold, too. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">No safety, no love, no honour was I due.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Three hundred years inwards the deepest South: </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">But God topographic point a vocal together with a prayer inwards my mouth. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">God topographic point a dream similar steel inwards my soul. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Now, through my children, I'm reaching the goal. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Now, through my children, immature together with free, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I realized the approbation human activity to me. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I couldn't read then. I couldn't write. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I had nothing, dorsum in that place inwards the night. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes, the valley was filled alongside tears, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">But I kept trudging on through the lonely years. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes, the route was hot alongside the sun, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">But I had to proceed on till my run was done: </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I had to proceed on! No stopping for me -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I was the seed of the coming Free.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I nourished the dream that cypher could smother </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Deep inwards my thorax -- the Negro mother. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">I had solely hope together with thence , merely immediately through you, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Dark ones of today, my dreams must come upwards true: </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">All yous black children inwards the Blue Planet out there, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Remember my sweat, my pain, my despair. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Remember my years, heavy alongside sorrow -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">And brand of those years a torch for tomorrow. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Make of my top a route to the calorie-free </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Out of the darkness, the ignorance, the night. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Lift high my banner out of the dust. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Stand similar complimentary men supporting my trust. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Believe inwards the right, permit none force yous back. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Remember the whip together with the slaver's track. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Remember how the potent inwards care together with strife </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Still bar yous the way, together with deny yous life -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">But march ever forward, breaking downwardly bars. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Look ever upward at the Sun together with the stars. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Oh, my black children, may my dreams together with my prayers </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Impel yous forever upwards the swell stairs -- </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">For I volition last alongside yous till no white blood brother </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Dares proceed downwardly the children of the Negro Mother.</span></blockquote> <br /> <b><span style="font-size: large;">DEMOCRACY</span></b><br /> <br /> Democracy volition non come<br /> Today, this year<br />         Nor ever<br /> Through compromise together with fear.<br /> <br /> I create got every bit much right<br /> As the other beau has<br />        To stand<br /> On my 2 feet<br /> And ain the land.<br /> <br /> I tire thence of hearing people say,<br /> Let things accept their course.<br /> Tomorrow is roughly other day.<br /> I produce non require my freedom<br />        When I'm dead.<br /> I cannot alive on tomorrow's <br /> bread.<br />           Freedom<br />           Is a potent seed<br />           Planted<br />           In a swell need.<br />           I alive here, too.<br />           I desire freedom<br />           Just every bit you.<br /> <br /> - Langston Hughes<br /> <br /> <br /></div> <object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/hnpItYHdP8Q?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/hnpItYHdP8Q?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>

Langston Hughes: The Long Tradition Of Dark Poets

Langston Hughes (James Mercer Langston Hughes) was born Feb 1, 1902 inwards Joplin, Missouri to James Nathaniel Hughes together with h...

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African Americans Inwards Paris

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDm71ADGq4159CmWrgQ5i6wESQkkrpwk2MruQ2HAd6eF1V6viGaQf1o5ykg7HfDN5BBBO7e5peCO8BZg8iZwGOAEsIWH_6IZzU-c6gonq-RO5TaESjBcV7XPrJ_EZmkUzJhB9XedZbhVM/s1600-h/blacks+in+paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDm71ADGq4159CmWrgQ5i6wESQkkrpwk2MruQ2HAd6eF1V6viGaQf1o5ykg7HfDN5BBBO7e5peCO8BZg8iZwGOAEsIWH_6IZzU-c6gonq-RO5TaESjBcV7XPrJ_EZmkUzJhB9XedZbhVM/s200/blacks+in+paris.jpg" width="258" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>African American Entertainers inwards Paris</b></div> <br /> Since the early on 1800s, the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage. The City of Lights has also obtained a particular house inwards the hearts of the African American expatriate inwards search of artistic together with intellectual liberty inwards Europe. <br /> <br /> <b>BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS, WRITERS AND MUSICIANS</b><br /> <br /> <b><i>The Literati</i></b><br /> <br /> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="320" src="http://i34.tinypic.com/1124qq9.gif" width="237" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: African American author James Baldwin sits inwards a Paris window.</span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In Black literature, James Baldwin is good known for his love of Paris together with would arrive at the destination of his life on French soil. Baldwin said that it took him going to Paris to larn what it meant to endure an American.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The author Richard Wright is known to convey frequented the Latin Quarter together with Saint-German-des-Prés of Paris together with may convey best described what the Black expats searched for most: "[a]ll of my life I had been sum of a hunger for a novel agency to live." (from <i>Black Boy</i>).</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Paris inwards 1924 industrial plant life the poet Langston Hughes scraping yesteryear from meager payoff from working inwards ane of Montmartre's most pop nighttime clubs. Notwithstanding, Hughes described his fourth dimension inwards Paris every bit "a dream come upwards true". Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Chester Himes are with the other historical Black literati of Paris.</div> <br /> <b><i>The Entertainers</i></b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="265" src="http://i36.tinypic.com/fofww4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Ada "Bricktop" Smith (1894–1984)</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(cir. 1934, photographer Carl Van Vechten)</span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The singing together with dancing saloon-owner Ada "Bricktop" Smith operated Chez Bricktop at 66 rue Pigalle that became a beacon of Parisian night-life from 1924 to 1961. Chez Bricktop's broad appeal is noted from its presence inwards the writings of Ernest Hemingway together with T.S. Eliot. The poet Gwendolyn Bennett describes a 1925 eve at Chez Bricktop inwards his diary every bit follows:</div> <br /> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>"Then at 4:15 A.M. to beloved quondam ‘Bricktop’s’ ... extremely crowded this nighttime with our folk. Lottie Gee at that topographic point on her starting fourth dimension nighttime inwards town together with sings for ‘Brick’ her hitting from ‘Shuffle Along’—‘I’m Just Wild About Harry.’ Her phonation is non what it powerfulness convey been together with she had every bit good much champaign [sic] but soundless at that topographic point was something rattling personal together with beloved nigh her singing it together with nosotros colored folks only applauded similar mad." (Diary of Gwendolyn Bennett, entry of 8 Aug. 1925, <a href="http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg/about/history">Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture</a>, New York.)</i></div> </blockquote> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Also of banking concern complaint with the entertainers, Josephine Baker is in all probability best known. New-Orleans born Sidney Bechet, called the founding manlike somebody nurture of Jazz, also made a postage stamp on the metropolis when he opened the "Chez Sidney" cabaret inwards 1951. </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-jxLxz2AgZZ1B9rIneaYVcAQvj-01tZjP1LlTEKRTGVyeegCeYU6Nyd046SvHnm4W1-ke8_1lkJCEPoKsQfjVRrMZphP3S1GPmqRtOXfQI4p8Pi5M2ZHSSMns2Izd5DkLMUI1ILDlX-8/s1600-h/sidney+1950s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-jxLxz2AgZZ1B9rIneaYVcAQvj-01tZjP1LlTEKRTGVyeegCeYU6Nyd046SvHnm4W1-ke8_1lkJCEPoKsQfjVRrMZphP3S1GPmqRtOXfQI4p8Pi5M2ZHSSMns2Izd5DkLMUI1ILDlX-8/s320/sidney+1950s.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Sidney Bechet with Christian Azzi at the pianoforte (cir. 1950s, Paris)</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFZk9QslbhrRn8qvi80M4lLDEsASMMZv4I87a1AeM8VVDLeTmys2B4RH2Ix6AZlX-d58mzxO1VZCK46DbO2OA3zbMIiK4TMofwTtvke27pyirRiif1oYf8vVt3hhSDuED85lR73opufk/s1600-h/sidney+bechet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFZk9QslbhrRn8qvi80M4lLDEsASMMZv4I87a1AeM8VVDLeTmys2B4RH2Ix6AZlX-d58mzxO1VZCK46DbO2OA3zbMIiK4TMofwTtvke27pyirRiif1oYf8vVt3hhSDuED85lR73opufk/s320/sidney+bechet.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Sidney Bechet (1897–1959)</span></b></div> <br /> <i><b>The Fine Artists</b></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Montparnasse has historically been of cardinal import inwards the fine arts world, together with a release of African-American creative somebody worked together with lived along its sixth together with 14th arrondissements.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Fine artists Palmer Hayen, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, Albert Alexander Smith, together with Hale Woodruff convey all lived together with produced works inwards Paris. In 1996, the paintings of Lois Mailou Jones were featured inwards an fine art exhibition entitled "Paris, the City of Light".</div> <br /> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><i><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="320" src="http://i36.tinypic.com/5bwlrk.gif" width="315" /></i></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Lois Mailou Jones  (b. 11/3/1905 - d. 6/9/1998) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(picture cir. 1936)</span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizbFbiMO-CByK65pVVbWRgfCVQYrbhvCzoXSgPYZ52DGdstpMfkt4eRduGxJtsTlAZS9o2FlSEdM73zaNiRK6cEzyziE85NSQSNvLb1AecKyrzE53fOdfqIDhzw7fV_vAZEQ7irJFnNMg/s1600-h/lois+mailou+jones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizbFbiMO-CByK65pVVbWRgfCVQYrbhvCzoXSgPYZ52DGdstpMfkt4eRduGxJtsTlAZS9o2FlSEdM73zaNiRK6cEzyziE85NSQSNvLb1AecKyrzE53fOdfqIDhzw7fV_vAZEQ7irJFnNMg/s320/lois+mailou+jones.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Lois Mailous Jones inwards her studio.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> </div> <i><b>Black Paris' Historic Haunts</b></i><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NJ4zK6daoJzwxdfMIe-JbnLJpbjYDDglXiI5Y7jbMDqWAJloR9-Pe8Rm8YlWCq4Syg4D5WztJ4qDlLxIrSrkJ0KU3Rys87ccu7Xhe6BIQo7KNhG3XHgOD1wS0aVNv_pMsdF3g_QLfUs/s1600-h/hell+fighters.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NJ4zK6daoJzwxdfMIe-JbnLJpbjYDDglXiI5Y7jbMDqWAJloR9-Pe8Rm8YlWCq4Syg4D5WztJ4qDlLxIrSrkJ0KU3Rys87ccu7Xhe6BIQo7KNhG3XHgOD1wS0aVNv_pMsdF3g_QLfUs/s200/hell+fighters.bmp" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: The 369th Infantry Regiment ("Harlem Hellfighters") </b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(cir. Dec 27, 1917)</b></span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For the historical buffs, the Champs Elysees volition resound every bit the house where the "Harlem Hellfighters" received a hero's welcome later World War I (WWI). The Harlem Hellfighters were the starting fourth dimension all-black U.S. combat unit of measurement to endure shipped overseas during WWI.<br /> <br /> On a to a greater extent than controversial note, a Paris street marking volition right away the traveler to the residence where the 1787 rendezvous betwixt the U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is reported to convey occurred. This Paris rendezvous resulted inwards the nascency of a tiddler betwixt Jefferson together with Hemings that would add together African-lineage to the Jefferson household unit of measurement tree.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There are a growing release of Black Paris tours. H5N1 lilliputian reading, however, volition brand move to Paris a to a greater extent than memorable experience. In perusing the ample literature you lot may endure inspired to search out the bistros together with cafes where your favorite Black author sipped coffee, or to study the landscape that inspired ane of the many Lois Mailou Jones' Paris landscapes. </div> <div> </div> <br /> <i>For Further Reading:</i><br /> <ul> <li><i>Giovanni's Room, yesteryear James Baldwin (Delta)</i></li> <li><i>Black Girl inwards Paris, yesteryear Shay Youngblood (Riverhead)</i></li> <li><i>Harlem inwards Montmartre: H5N1 Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars, yesteryear William A. Shack (George Gund Foundation Book inwards African American Studies)</i></li> <li><i>New Negro Artists inwards Paris: African American Painters together with Sculptors inwards the City of Light, 1922-1934, yesteryear Teresa Leininger-Miller (Rutgers University Press)</i></li> </ul> </div>

African Americans Inwards Paris

African American Entertainers inwards Paris Since the early on 1800s, the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris ...

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Dr. Carter G. Woodson: The Manlike Individual Raise Of Dark History

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHIMFHSNRxcfoO3tlj5bk2keLuQbAXMnmnytzq1_rPJqQKRnjiZpGvkEN5-uKLQelm37PXVHZx2_rQDHLFggm6nOn7HxrytXl06SoG1J5QA5mY8uF5gNK__APwXFdlBibQLfW8SFdq5I/s1600-h/Carter_Woodson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHIMFHSNRxcfoO3tlj5bk2keLuQbAXMnmnytzq1_rPJqQKRnjiZpGvkEN5-uKLQelm37PXVHZx2_rQDHLFggm6nOn7HxrytXl06SoG1J5QA5mY8uF5gNK__APwXFdlBibQLfW8SFdq5I/s200/Carter_Woodson.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Carter G. Woodson (b. 12/19/1875 - d. 4/3/1950)</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> doc Carter G. Woodson was i of the founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life too History, which promoted what was unremarkably known every bit Negro history (now commonly known every bit Black history) through school, church, too fraternal grouping activities. After diligent written report and writing on Black history, inwards 1926 Woodson inaugurated Negro History Week inwards Chicago at the Wabash YMCA. Negro History Week led to the celebration of Black History Month inwards the United States. In 1976, the calendar month long observation was recognition past times too then U.S. President Gerald Ford. Woodson became known alongside his people every bit the Father of Black History. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jkBEjJH1j5U" width="420"></iframe> <br />  </div> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhck1oHm23t31PwDvb4Z-H4QnWE0lyByiCgC-JYSJhW-swwdWwu1ua-0U7OVIQtQS_OcIuEfUvUpNPYt3QtD0qIn9tRG_KDjquTWt_ZmOaBUzDgod8uBySThhIIY3WKwsywvDDO40firn0/s1600-h/History_of_the_Negro_Church.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhck1oHm23t31PwDvb4Z-H4QnWE0lyByiCgC-JYSJhW-swwdWwu1ua-0U7OVIQtQS_OcIuEfUvUpNPYt3QtD0qIn9tRG_KDjquTWt_ZmOaBUzDgod8uBySThhIIY3WKwsywvDDO40firn0/s320/History_of_the_Negro_Church.jpg" width="129" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The History of the Negro Church, past times </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Carter G. Woodson (Second Edition, 1921)</span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> The Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, named later the dandy historian, holds i of the nation's largest collections of Black history too literature material. More than 70,000 books (many rare), 500 periodical titles, 5,000 reels of microfilm research, master manuscripts, too newspapers make upward a treasure breast of data called the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History too Literature. The Harsh Collection includes papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Freeman's Bureau papers, too a broad alternative of fine art industrial plant on paper, such every bit posters too other literary artifacts such every bit menstruum flyers. <br /> <br /> The collection was started past times Chicago librarian Vivian G. Harsh, an avid collector of historical works. She was the first African American librarian inwards the Chicago Public Library system. Her collection became a pregnant resources for the dynamic Black thinkers inwards Chicago inwards the 1930s too 1940s, such as Arna Bontemps, Richard Wright, too Langston Hughes, alongside others. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLp9_igrPps5P6PGio_Olj6j-7PA9dB0ByyjzvTcDyy5AyBNN6UzcHeLK6xhgTlothGAOCtGplMZ7VSnXxGvm3muTlQZ-ryfA9pgP-QRDbVHLSpYK51uIyutQo-EvZAT74AfLYVvWXHo/s1600-h/vivian+harsh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLp9_igrPps5P6PGio_Olj6j-7PA9dB0ByyjzvTcDyy5AyBNN6UzcHeLK6xhgTlothGAOCtGplMZ7VSnXxGvm3muTlQZ-ryfA9pgP-QRDbVHLSpYK51uIyutQo-EvZAT74AfLYVvWXHo/s320/vivian+harsh.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Librarian Vivian G. Harsh </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(b. May 27, 1890 - Aug. 17, 1960)</span></b></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Woodson Library is located at 9525 S. Halsted Street too is a dandy source for researching African American history. If you lot catch the <a href="http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicart.html" target="_blank">Woodson Library</a>, accept time out to relish the large bronze sculpture entitled "Jacob's Ladder", created past times the renown creative mortal Richard Hunt, hosted  at the library's central atrium. </div> </div>

Dr. Carter G. Woodson: The Manlike Individual Raise Of Dark History

  Dr. Carter G. Woodson (b. 12/19/1875 - d. 4/3/1950)   doc Carter G. Woodson was i of the founders of the Association for the Stu...

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Margaret Walker: A Author As Well As Poet Of The Dark Chicago Renaissance

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvoHHhrBYf2b1HblRZXvSZ3PJ294MWVFduiWVp4UQ_iY3slbVt-Aj3ddSeFKOF3YIan5o1ASsT8XtF9BPdbuId2Ib0DqV7K8_4-MGgmALaHKfINFQoFendVdsPN39b4ivOTt_Z4JHUW4/s1600/Photo+Image+of+Margaret+Walker+an+African+American+Poet+and+Writer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvoHHhrBYf2b1HblRZXvSZ3PJ294MWVFduiWVp4UQ_iY3slbVt-Aj3ddSeFKOF3YIan5o1ASsT8XtF9BPdbuId2Ib0DqV7K8_4-MGgmALaHKfINFQoFendVdsPN39b4ivOTt_Z4JHUW4/s1600/Photo+Image+of+Margaret+Walker+an+African+American+Poet+and+Writer.jpg" width="268" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="st"><strong>Margaret Walker</strong> (b. July 7, 1915 – d. Nov 30, 1998). </span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span class="st"></span><br /> <span class="st">Margaret Walker was a poet together with author of African descent born inward Birmingham, Alabama. The eldest of v children, her manlike mortal bring upward was Sigismund C. Walker, a Methodist minister, linguist and professor. Her woman bring upward was Marion Dozier Walker, a musicologist together with professor. In 1925, W</span><span class="st">alker's family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. She underwent her early on instruction inward New Orleans, including two years of college at New Orleans University (now Dillard University). Encouraged yesteryear Langston Hughes, Walker moved to Chicago together with attend Northwestern University. In 1934, she would earn her B.A. inward English, amongst a focus on Romantic poets, at the historic catamenia of nineteen years. </span><br /> <span class="st"></span><br /> <span class="st">The habitation of Walker's kickoff published poesy form was <em>The Crisis</em> magazine, published yesteryear W. E. B. Du Bois. By 1935, she was active in the South Side Writers’ Group of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her award-winning poesy form For My People was kickoff published inward 1937. </span><span class="st">Walker soon became part of the thriving <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252078586/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0252078586&linkCode=as2&tag=crosswriting-20&linkId=UBXIU5WF3BJQHXQF" target="_blank">Black Chicago Renaissance</a>, a cultural arts campaign amid African Americans that began inward the 1930s. <span class="st">Her almost well-known operate is her classic novel <em>Jubilee</em>, published in 1966.</span></span><br /> <span class="st"></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcjAJhoagTpnune7QkBNrANXev6wN8wXpGpxWNJONfhJYl_7Ws84gfNTg7G55vnaaehz8QmrhsgkWh08siDdCc2LV5Wj5RZNGd_kgSz5aizAFTQdtbhioXGnOl4Foi95XiOj4XwYufAz4/s1600/Bronzeville.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcjAJhoagTpnune7QkBNrANXev6wN8wXpGpxWNJONfhJYl_7Ws84gfNTg7G55vnaaehz8QmrhsgkWh08siDdCc2LV5Wj5RZNGd_kgSz5aizAFTQdtbhioXGnOl4Foi95XiOj4XwYufAz4/s1600/Bronzeville.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <span class="st">For Walker, Chicago was a cultural blast city.  The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Chicago's neighborhoods brought the promise of a people to the city. While non equally good known equally its sis renaissance inward Harlem, the campaign included such famous African American writers equally Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Margaret Walker together with Richard Wright. Musicians active during the Black Chicago Renaissance were such luminaries equally Louis Armstrong, Thomas A. Dorsey together with Earl Hines. Live Jazz together with Blues clubs, such as the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=chicago-palm-tavern" target="_blank">Palm Tavern</a>, were many inward Chicago's predominantly African-American Bronzeville community.</span><br /> <div class="tab-content active" id="poem-top"> <h1> For My People</h1> </div> <span class="author">by Margaret Walker</span><br />       <br /> <div class="tab-content active" id="poem"> <div class="poem"> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> For my people everywhere singing their slave songs </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      repeatedly: their dirges together with their ditties together with their blues </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      together with jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      unknown god, bending their knees humbly to an </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      unseen power;<br />  </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> For my people lending their strength to the years, to the </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     gone years together with the forthwith years together with the mayhap years, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     hoeing plowing earthworks planting pruning patching</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     dragging along never gaining never reaping never </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     knowing together with never understanding;</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> <br /> For my playmates inward the clay together with dust together with sand of Alabama</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     backyards playing baptizing together with preaching together with physician </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     together with jail together with soldier together with schoolhouse together with mama together with cooking </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     together with playhouse together with concert together with shop together with pilus and</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     Miss Choomby together with company;</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> <br /> For the cramped bewildered years nosotros went to schoolhouse to larn </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     to know the reasons why together with the answers to together with the </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     people who together with the places where together with the days when, inward </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     retentivity of the bitter hours when nosotros discovered nosotros </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     were dark together with miserable together with minor together with dissimilar together with nobody </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     cared together with nobody wondered together with nobody understood;</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> <br /> For the boys together with girls who grew inward spite of these things to </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     live human being together with woman, to express joy together with trip the low-cal fantastic together with sing together with </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     play together with sip their vino together with religious belief together with success, to </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     espouse their playmates together with acquit children together with and then die</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     of consumption together with anemia together with lynching;</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> <br /> For my people thronging 47th Street inward Chicago together with Lenox </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     Avenue inward New York together with Rampart Street inward New </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     Orleans, lost disinherited dispossessed together with happy </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     people filling the cabarets together with taverns together with other </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     people’s pockets together with needing staff of life together with shoes together with milk and</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     Blue Planet together with coin together with something—something all our own;</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> <br /> For my people walking blindly spreading joy, losing fourth dimension </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      beingness lazy, sleeping when hungry, shouting when </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      burdened, drinking when hopeless, tied, together with shackled </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      together with tangled amid ourselves yesteryear the unseen creatures </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      who tower over us omnisciently together with laugh;</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> <br /> For my people blundering together with groping together with floundering inward </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      the dark of churches together with schools together with clubs </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      together with societies, associations together with councils together with committees together with </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      conventions, distressed together with disturbed together with deceived together with </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      devoured yesteryear money-hungry glory-craving leeches, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      preyed on yesteryear facile forcefulness of acre together with fad together with novelty, yesteryear </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">      fake prophet together with holy believer;</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> <br /> For my people standing staring trying to fashion a ameliorate way</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     from confusion, from hypocrisy together with misunderstanding, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     trying to fashion a public that volition represent all the people, </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     all the faces, all the adams together with eves together with their countless generations;</div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> <br /> Let a novel globe rise. Let unopen to other public live born. Let a </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     bloody peace live written inward the sky. Let a instant </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     generation total of courage resultant forth; allow a people </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     loving liberty come upward to growth. Let a beauty total of </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     healing together with a strength of lastly clenching live the pulsing </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     inward our spirits together with our blood. Let the martial songs </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     live written, allow the dirges disappear. Let a race of men forthwith </div> <div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">     rising together with accept control.</div> </div> </div> </div>

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Black Entertainment: Chicago's Historic Palm Tavern Eating Seat Together With Music Club

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVt1oB2pVMG94Ulvr60-W6PRwG1tiGe-UDlEL-KgaI9Yrm19ZkDUB2ACqfN2GuXZ8fteAEhWqCgqURur9AFArw6wGFrwApo616BLNdoEAIQSHlwXcmMcCuKADRryotcWh0US1NETTf9k/s1600-h/palmtavern.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVt1oB2pVMG94Ulvr60-W6PRwG1tiGe-UDlEL-KgaI9Yrm19ZkDUB2ACqfN2GuXZ8fteAEhWqCgqURur9AFArw6wGFrwApo616BLNdoEAIQSHlwXcmMcCuKADRryotcWh0US1NETTf9k/s320/palmtavern.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Palm Tavern inwards Chicago's Black metropolis-Bronzeville, cir. 1941</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>The Palm Tavern was a "must do" functioning halt for the Who's Who of Jazz performers. It was located inwards Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District at 446 East 47th Street inwards Chicago, Illinois from 1931 to 2006.</i>  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>THE HISTORY OF THE PALM TAVERN</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Established inwards either 1931 or 1933, the master possessor of Palm Tavern was James Knight. Gerri Oliver purchased the Palm Tavern from the master owners inwards either 1951 or 1956, the later on appointment is reported yesteryear the Chicago Sun-Times. Nearby the Palm Tavern was the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Regal Theater</a>, the mid-south mecca for Black music performers who passed the give-and-take that when playing a Chicago gig at the Regal Theater, Oliver's cherry beans together with rice were non to survive missed. <br /> <br /> An unbelievable number of musicians performed at this Bronzeville community institution for to a greater extent than than 75 years. The many names together with stories of which are inwards someone photograph together with memorabilia collections, such equally the Gerri Oliver Collection, Abbott Sengstacke Collection, together with Getty Images Collection.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>THE BLACK CHICAGO RENAISSANCE AND THE PALM TAVERN </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Historians volition oftentimes disagree on when a Renaissance begins together with ends. The Black Chicago Renaissance occurred roughly the same times equally the Harlem Renaissance, namely inwards the 1920s together with 1930s. Most commentators grade the beginning of the Black Chicago Renaissance equally the early 1930s, fueled yesteryear the Great Migration of African American Americans from the South.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Palm Tavern attracted artists from music to writers. The Palm Tavern was abode away from abode for the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, the Ink Spots, Josephine Baker, together with other notable musicians. It was frequented yesteryear Richard Wright together with <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Langston Hughes</a>. The famous belatedly poet together with author Gwendolyn Brooks resided inwards this South Side community.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQvTr-C3ZuKxOH0XhV6yd1tmTtmR3L0W5XA7MTXjZAxEdh6K9UChWq_pVhrzlWsTye2-Jl6QtSaI49PLe6BxB6QluRUvAYhMeAlMeFaE7TOTaR3thylSN7yxNfOuwc6xqi_lk9jHuuBg/s1600-h/palm+tavern+postcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQvTr-C3ZuKxOH0XhV6yd1tmTtmR3L0W5XA7MTXjZAxEdh6K9UChWq_pVhrzlWsTye2-Jl6QtSaI49PLe6BxB6QluRUvAYhMeAlMeFaE7TOTaR3thylSN7yxNfOuwc6xqi_lk9jHuuBg/s320/palm+tavern+postcard.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Early Palm Tavern postcard </span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Palm Tavern was likewise remainder together with rest house of selection for Chicago's Black middle class. Its era during the Chicago Renaissance is preserved inwards the priceless collection of sepia photographs together with memorabilia enshrined along the walls, equally a will to the history of its service to the community. Gerri Oliver volition cheerfully indulge curious customers amongst aging chip books. Before purchasing the establishment she served equally a waitress for many years at the Palm Tavern.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTKIYWJ5Fxhfx7v9fOF982ug8kSHgu4wYWAKzFHN5QPWqXeqsJEp6sqsRczj04ne3cMsjWBE18Wg0exyCr3tuiTtNdMP2NOv6BB_SCuzJeG_e0VVQL46pWCXb-0TcdlFlzoEU60tk3s4/s1600-h/palm+tavern+chicago.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTKIYWJ5Fxhfx7v9fOF982ug8kSHgu4wYWAKzFHN5QPWqXeqsJEp6sqsRczj04ne3cMsjWBE18Wg0exyCr3tuiTtNdMP2NOv6BB_SCuzJeG_e0VVQL46pWCXb-0TcdlFlzoEU60tk3s4/s320/palm+tavern+chicago.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern patrons put for the camera</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> This historic photograph notes the patrons are at the Palm Tavern on Apr 12, 1939. The nighttime of the inauguration of members of the City Council of Chicago. Beginning left to right: Alderman Earl B. Dickerson, sec Ward; Alderman Benjamin A. Grant, tertiary Ward; Kathryn Dickerson together with Erma Grant.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <b>THE PALM TAVERN IN RECENT HISTORY</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> In 1983, Chicago's Palm Tavern hosted the grassroots fundraiser that would termination inwards the election of Chicago's firstly Black Mayor, <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Harold Washington</a>. The history of the Palm Tavern did non alive on equally this blogger notes that the legendary institution was demolished. According to some other blogger, the film below was the country of the Palm Tavern inwards the jump of 2006.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLgV0PQwQvkX1qtCMddkihyphenhyphendfO8Zlznp0VTwi4-rYxpbF6GoEVBGtMIZ-b37d6_LOHAkZNchg827ZtVlYmsv-4eHHPs53fvZvZvspmQ0ZN_Iq2R80Md3-eyl5je7ZUMRUv56gkL7L4iY/s1600-h/palm+tavern+closed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLgV0PQwQvkX1qtCMddkihyphenhyphendfO8Zlznp0VTwi4-rYxpbF6GoEVBGtMIZ-b37d6_LOHAkZNchg827ZtVlYmsv-4eHHPs53fvZvZvspmQ0ZN_Iq2R80Md3-eyl5je7ZUMRUv56gkL7L4iY/s320/palm+tavern+closed.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern, cir. jump 2006 amongst blogger noting that </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gerri Oliver was withal operating the concern a few years</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">before this film was taken. </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt_wHWQQJ-r02gBkZHc3_nec5cTMiDKHwCJ6rLgYJqtYQCP-7xsYK4q0dD72IXrJMgIkiICeiP8OobDY5EpU4EpAt4MtpOsZcRFvl960oQldcg8LBpjkasq64x2dSxy36xGoiz7Zb0kTs/s1600-h/palm+tavern+demolished.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt_wHWQQJ-r02gBkZHc3_nec5cTMiDKHwCJ6rLgYJqtYQCP-7xsYK4q0dD72IXrJMgIkiICeiP8OobDY5EpU4EpAt4MtpOsZcRFvl960oQldcg8LBpjkasq64x2dSxy36xGoiz7Zb0kTs/s320/palm+tavern+demolished.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern grounds photograph cir. Oct 2006</span></b></div> </div>

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