Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Fearless Dark Journalist Too Anti-Lynching Crusader

<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/AVvXsEgk02wGS6c2xteesEt9n1v0LJ1dgkuxK9jUMz3ZfGjD8x9ynn4NURJZ3DnrZvLWsbmbPD5FUutWG_jULz2kClPEy2dJLHZaLujSwo5C-K0iJklaWZWd_7xjREX2ZS55YMXKaJ8153KRwA0/s1600-h/Ida_B__Wells_Barnett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk02wGS6c2xteesEt9n1v0LJ1dgkuxK9jUMz3ZfGjD8x9ynn4NURJZ3DnrZvLWsbmbPD5FUutWG_jULz2kClPEy2dJLHZaLujSwo5C-K0iJklaWZWd_7xjREX2ZS55YMXKaJ8153KRwA0/s400/Ida_B__Wells_Barnett.jpg" width="325" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photo: Ida B. Wells Barnett </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(b. July 16, 1862 – d. March 25, 1931)</span></span></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Ida B. Wells was born inward Holly Springs, Mississippi on born July 16, 1862 together with would cash inward one's chips a fearless anti-lynching crusader together with renowned African American journalist inward the Americas.</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>IDA B. WELLS IN MEMPHIS</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells attended Rust College together with Fisk University earlier coming to learn inward the Memphis world schoolhouse system. While inward Memphis, Wells wrote for the Free Speech weekly newspaper. She was besides an avid diarist inward her early on years together with Miriam DeCosta-Willis edited some of her diary writings every bit The Memphis Diaries of Ida B. Wells (Beacon Press, 1995). In 1891, Wells was banned from educational activity amongst the Memphis world schools because her articles spoke out against racial injustices together with to a greater extent than peculiarly the lynching epidemic.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells became editor of the Free Speech paper inward Memphis together with began her anti-lynching activism, specifically challenging the notion that Black men were beingness lynched because they raped white women. Reacting against an unwrap she wrote nearly the activities of a lynch mob, the Memphis printing offices of the Free Speech were torched together with Ida was threatened amongst lynching. Wells fled Memphis for New York together with worked on the staff of the New York Age paper edited yesteryear T. Thomas Fortune. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>IDA B. WELLS BARNETT IN CHICAGO</b></div> <br /> <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/AVvXsEhtolvQSYq6AUAeMmKr3Y5-i2qhYCbUbl2g91Swd2FAj5-PSMNF9eETJu0BKf5homtIk7cz0ymit1DckiwRV_o2q0nFe6_DenmbeHjL-JxQ4c9Zc9TNc04luPWd4LKlMj9nPe9RS3ghb2c/s1600-h/Ida_B_Wells_House+in+Bronzeville.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtolvQSYq6AUAeMmKr3Y5-i2qhYCbUbl2g91Swd2FAj5-PSMNF9eETJu0BKf5homtIk7cz0ymit1DckiwRV_o2q0nFe6_DenmbeHjL-JxQ4c9Zc9TNc04luPWd4LKlMj9nPe9RS3ghb2c/s400/Ida_B_Wells_House+in+Bronzeville.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Ida B. Wells Barnett's dwelling inward Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois; <br /> Address: 3624 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.; Year Built: 1889</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> In 1895, Wells married attorney together with Chicago paper possessor Ferdinard Barnett. Her political together with social activism continued inward Chicago. At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, she together with Frederick Douglass campaigned for the institution of a pavilion to honour the accomplishments of Black Americans. She wrote together with distributed a pamphlet entitled "Why the Colored American is Not inward the World's Columbia Exposition" at the pes of the Statute of Columbia at the Corner of Cornell together with Hayes Drives inward Chicago. That same twelvemonth Wells began writing for the Conservator, Chicago's kickoff African American newspaper. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells is noted every bit i of the 25 outstanding women inward Chicago's history. One of Chicago's housing projects was named inward her honor. Ida B. Wells Barnett's old dwelling inward Chicago is located at 3624 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive together with yet stands inward this famed Bronzeville community. Her Chicago dwelling was designated a National Historic Landmark inward 1974.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SCsQz0He5Mg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SCsQz0He5Mg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> </div>

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Fearless Dark Journalist Too Anti-Lynching Crusader

Photo: Ida B. Wells Barnett  (b. July 16, 1862 – d. March 25, 1931) Ida B. Wells was born inward Holly Springs, Mississippi on born ...

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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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Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs: Chicago's Cultural Maverick Too The Dusable Museum Of African American History

<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/AVvXsEiw5kD23agnA33izD6XLGFGw9Q9QPCLiGSpbZ2Zl4OsgiRpAgmn5k0jYAPOd84K4dze2ZmcNO-nOr_vxhhUsM3F6wZD92_xY6-ZnKW96fXHDfmz4eoP8xVkLtUVN42P86Uy_egEYPczOCo/s1600-h/margaret+burroughs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5kD23agnA33izD6XLGFGw9Q9QPCLiGSpbZ2Zl4OsgiRpAgmn5k0jYAPOd84K4dze2ZmcNO-nOr_vxhhUsM3F6wZD92_xY6-ZnKW96fXHDfmz4eoP8xVkLtUVN42P86Uy_egEYPczOCo/s200/margaret+burroughs.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs (b. </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Nov. 1, 1917 - d. Nov. 21, 2010)</b></span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1961, the Ebony Museum of Negro History was founded yesteryear physician Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs as well as other civic leaders inwards iii rooms of her South Side domicile inwards Chicago, Illinois. The museum collection would eventually motion into larger quarters inwards a fine rock construction on the grounds of Washington Park inwards Chicago. It would too last renamed every bit its electrical flow name: The DuSable Museum of African American History.</div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgammrouQs_oL06FitpkTdWI8IN1lvgrM0IZgoRJpBHADYbKrsiJ49kC-TNYf8Zn-Y4_H7Khet5_ixaQoS5Jj3UQmdwO1z12uzEL5m-_1SrHnNOYyDMf4j2NLnbpGWRYFXmYuPvnSCXD3I/s1600-h/dusable+museum+of+african+american+history.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgammrouQs_oL06FitpkTdWI8IN1lvgrM0IZgoRJpBHADYbKrsiJ49kC-TNYf8Zn-Y4_H7Khet5_ixaQoS5Jj3UQmdwO1z12uzEL5m-_1SrHnNOYyDMf4j2NLnbpGWRYFXmYuPvnSCXD3I/s320/dusable+museum+of+african+american+history.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dusable Museum of African American History</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA)</span></div> <br /> <b>THE EBONY MUSEUM OF NEGRO HISTORY IN CHICAGO</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wwuO_n3ga9JeBhLvwh-Q6_uweuklWdqunmaE1aCbolmLyHOPwgVgRZJ0-AahUZLHbVrqA3dXni2uki6291BxvVHlyrRYQn_J5tJv2veVIP-QR3bg59hNzT4JHaTsMHCjLfbgtJdj2to/s1600-h/Black+Museum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wwuO_n3ga9JeBhLvwh-Q6_uweuklWdqunmaE1aCbolmLyHOPwgVgRZJ0-AahUZLHbVrqA3dXni2uki6291BxvVHlyrRYQn_J5tJv2veVIP-QR3bg59hNzT4JHaTsMHCjLfbgtJdj2to/s320/Black+Museum.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Original Home of the Ebony Museum of Negro History</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(3806 S. Michigan, Chicago)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Originally built inwards 1903, this Chateau-style mansion was the master copy domicile of the Chicago's South Side museum collection of Black fine art as well as memorabilia. The historic domicile located at 3806 S. Michigan avenue inwards Chicago went through a issue of incarnations inside the community. It was the Quincy Club inwards the belatedly 1930s, operated yesteryear an association of Black railroad workers who ran a boarding house, a pub as well as a soul social guild on the site. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Quincy Club accommodated Black railroad workers operating on the City of New Orleans railroad route along the Mississippi River. Their exclusion from "white only" Chicago hotels encouraged their creating their ain community facilities. The historic domicile is located at 3806 S. Michigan Avenue inwards Chicago, Illinois.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>MARGARET BURROUGHS AS ARTIST, WRITER, AND LECTURER</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For several decades physician Burroughs taught fine art to Chicago students from uncomplicated to academy level. In improver to founding the DuSable Museum of African American History, Burroughs is too with the founders of the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=south-side-community-art-center-of" target="_blank">Chicago South Side Community Art Center</a>. She has been an Active Chicago Park District board member.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqZz7RJXNtmEcib9WILrHXGWot2KZSqi_yBZJuUE4Fsf43PW4ONYFUOh7cb29J3eeyc1WvoKq6GhyphenhyphenFyd1LvfjEYQjLtl1NhNB9XepKHQopWiag8UUdOLWZYO1kIT3O53_80MTP_xoYU8/s320/Margaret+Burroughs+Black+Venus.jpg" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Black Venus, Margaret Burroughs (Woodcut, 1957)</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span>  </div> In her root book of published poetry, physician Burroughs penned what would go her near renowned verse form "What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?"<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelv0BkS2nkdVDFmpJxy2AN-PWcMWVABsWOyRIYUL9H3dLS8k4xYuebIua9uagcB1sHuHnnCkGyAY_qxE26hhoYy8RCkuAYK9VkmDVw66WKql6zMpm1BvUVkkMVSnt2Qyt4zjup_zfMHQ/s1600-h/Margaret+Burroughs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelv0BkS2nkdVDFmpJxy2AN-PWcMWVABsWOyRIYUL9H3dLS8k4xYuebIua9uagcB1sHuHnnCkGyAY_qxE26hhoYy8RCkuAYK9VkmDVw66WKql6zMpm1BvUVkkMVSnt2Qyt4zjup_zfMHQ/s320/Margaret+Burroughs.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0VM977IJYeeYsPjCKCBKPuDw7btnw3dsEUI_gEWgEPxSqmBOBT2cYF4yY0c81zRRNj0x2gjjGFWPay8jOkeLH602d8QUmn9xmhVpcFTbbmGhHYy2V8C4RGtELZ_O4B6sLh4TW7AJ2I8/s1600-h/dr+margaret+burroughs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0VM977IJYeeYsPjCKCBKPuDw7btnw3dsEUI_gEWgEPxSqmBOBT2cYF4yY0c81zRRNj0x2gjjGFWPay8jOkeLH602d8QUmn9xmhVpcFTbbmGhHYy2V8C4RGtELZ_O4B6sLh4TW7AJ2I8/s320/dr+margaret+burroughs.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Dr. Margaret Burroughs</b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> physician Burroughs was a cultural warrior inwards Chicago. Long earlier U.S. President Barack Obama popularized the community activist role, physician Burroughs was known inwards Chicago every bit a community organizer, educator, artist, writer, social activist, as well as footing traveler. She has been seen to induce got to the street with scout inwards paw on the side of justice. Burroughs has been a frequent Black History lecturer. As a footing traveler she has visited many countries inwards Africa, the Caribbean Area as well as South America. Burroughs is a Black History Hero.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <div align="center"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GU3Ca32htmI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GU3Ca32htmI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> <br /> Blog Update 11/23/10: physician Margaret Burroughs died Nov 21, 2010. RIP</div> </div>

Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs: Chicago's Cultural Maverick Too The Dusable Museum Of African American History

Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs (b.  Nov. 1, 1917 - d. Nov. 21, 2010) In 1961, the Ebony Museum of Negro History was founded yest...

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott Too The Increment Of Dark Intelligence Publishing

<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/AVvXsEiAIf40NS7cIkITF1GPxwug9pl2oHNPLEQApLVTqI7ZXrBu-I4UC-NvaXIRt1fAZ2jbPSoeGCBO7LaztyusWq0sr80Q_bGCCsTfSoTiDPCXMy8TX0wR5XPwUHIAWH7l99bsOUboTbEE__Y/s1600-h/Robert_s_abbott.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/AVvXsEiAIf40NS7cIkITF1GPxwug9pl2oHNPLEQApLVTqI7ZXrBu-I4UC-NvaXIRt1fAZ2jbPSoeGCBO7LaztyusWq0sr80Q_bGCCsTfSoTiDPCXMy8TX0wR5XPwUHIAWH7l99bsOUboTbEE__Y/s200/Robert_s_abbott.jpg" width="264" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Robert Sengstacke Abbott </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(b. Nov. 24, 1870 - d. Feb. 29, 1940)</span></span></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born inward Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia. Thomas Abbott, his father, was born into slavery inward the US, but died when his boy was however a baby. In 1869, Robert's mother, Flora Abbott, married John Sengstacke from a wealthy High German merchant immigrant family. Robert retained his belatedly father's get upwards in addition to took his pace father's get upwards every bit his middle name.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> From 1892 to 1896, Robert studied the printing merchandise at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University). By 1898, Robert earned a constabulary grade from Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He skillful constabulary inward Gary, Indiana, Topeka, Kansas, in addition to Chicago, Illinois. Ultimately, he decided that he could amend battle the arrangement of white supremacy racial injustice through the majority media instead of the courtroom. Robert pose downwards his constabulary books in addition to picked upwards his printing press. He would study the challenges in addition to successes of African Americans, tidings that was of import to their lives.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <b>THE CHICAGO DEFENDER NEWSPAPER</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> With reportedly every bit niggling every bit 25 cents capital, Robert began the most widely-circulated Black paper inward the United States. The Chicago Defender paper became the medium to vocalism the concerns of African Americans inward Chicago. The paper made many outstanding contributions to journalism in addition to ultimately to Black history. </div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></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/AVvXsEixKcao0QyVQ5tcKLbYpXAvUBX2RPTFfwIcKJxCFKXxXvVPFb-MAyaJ_P265VUCod1-1ie_Eizm4M4R0wpEVNaxz8n_LNMcjQcExHd_seFLFDQHIAJywYY9EKQMWE28bT1fpqyNRxZ82sM/s1600-h/Chicago+Defender+July+31+1948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKcao0QyVQ5tcKLbYpXAvUBX2RPTFfwIcKJxCFKXxXvVPFb-MAyaJ_P265VUCod1-1ie_Eizm4M4R0wpEVNaxz8n_LNMcjQcExHd_seFLFDQHIAJywYY9EKQMWE28bT1fpqyNRxZ82sM/s400/Chicago+Defender+July+31+1948.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of Chicago Defender headline.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Established inward Nov 29, 1905, the Chicago Defender would operate the longest running African American paper publication inward Chicago. The telephone substitution of data from North to South -- through both the Chicago Defender in addition to correspondence betwixt relatives -- accelerated the Great Migration of African Americans to Chicago, resulting inward an growth of 150% inward the population of Black Chicago betwixt 1910-1920.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></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/AVvXsEjELtKwHsET3j0jMy3gNzkbks9-8295Fx1C7DKJ-DxnLUTl5s4ezpTxU4R9BkGX0BY9QKJJzc6gJKUSR_hOl4sSyP-pgKD785C3V4eRy7xJishCpP9XS-dwyLvY4zO8p_Sek3en2gWnP8g/s1600/Chicago+Defender+Banned.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELtKwHsET3j0jMy3gNzkbks9-8295Fx1C7DKJ-DxnLUTl5s4ezpTxU4R9BkGX0BY9QKJJzc6gJKUSR_hOl4sSyP-pgKD785C3V4eRy7xJishCpP9XS-dwyLvY4zO8p_Sek3en2gWnP8g/s320/Chicago+Defender+Banned.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">City officials inward Arkansas town seek ban on Chicago Defender newspaper.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> The Great Migration of African Americans from U.S. southern states to Chicago was inward utilisation fueled yesteryear the Chicago Defender's vocalism against injustice in addition to grand accounts of northern living at the attack of the U.S. industrial revolution. Originally housed inward a converted synagogue from 1920 to 1960, the Chicago Defender quickly developed into both the country's premier root for tidings of the northern migration of African Americans.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></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/AVvXsEg5re3DdD9n5IdvWLS28G3XMcz8XkDP-MgF-oXEKBjqqZQJG2pwQZ6Hx8fsyj5FB7uei7bJ1fU-KVuPBAuw6ps-Q1RdKxu86hvb4rtUmWDtF79qRC01tgh9ou-nvw0vdDm0E28xFeutXAI/s1600/Chicago+Defender+operations.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5re3DdD9n5IdvWLS28G3XMcz8XkDP-MgF-oXEKBjqqZQJG2pwQZ6Hx8fsyj5FB7uei7bJ1fU-KVuPBAuw6ps-Q1RdKxu86hvb4rtUmWDtF79qRC01tgh9ou-nvw0vdDm0E28xFeutXAI/s400/Chicago+Defender+operations.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chicago Defender typesetters reach community tidings for majority distribution.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Black Pullman Porters, who were prosperous in addition to good respected inward the African American communities, became the Defender's national "delivery  men," distributing the newspapers to many southern towns. The paper became an of import communication tool betwixt Black Chicagoans in addition to their relatives inward the southern states. </div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> "My friends made fun of me," Robert is reported to convey said most the tremendous opposition to his establishing the Chicago Defender. "They idea it was foolish of me to anticipate success inward a plain inward which then many men earlier me had failed...but I went on fighting the opposition of my adversaries in addition to the indifferences of my friends. I emerged victorious but battle-scarred."</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ocS-4lSOfa9GQCdbOI5RQD2i6Y0I96D9LqIQGkW_U6ZN046Uf8y4U0ct973AmUeU9KIBLjgk8cbRsfMyp_tfO5v8L7j-0aNC_ZBrFZ9Qs4Pn10NMA4r7ZxMy8cTkNcFH_f1mWSd8DHc/s1600-h/Robert_S__Abbott_House%252C_4742_Martin_Luther_King_Drive%252C_Chicago_%2528Cook_County%252C_Illinois%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ocS-4lSOfa9GQCdbOI5RQD2i6Y0I96D9LqIQGkW_U6ZN046Uf8y4U0ct973AmUeU9KIBLjgk8cbRsfMyp_tfO5v8L7j-0aNC_ZBrFZ9Qs4Pn10NMA4r7ZxMy8cTkNcFH_f1mWSd8DHc/s320/Robert_S__Abbott_House%252C_4742_Martin_Luther_King_Drive%252C_Chicago_%2528Cook_County%252C_Illinois%2529.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The historic dwelling trouble solid of Robert S. Abbott</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(4742 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inward Chicago)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> In 1929, Robert established the Bud Billiken Club and with David Kellum established Chicago's Bud <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=black-chicago-commemorates-85th-annual" target="_blank">Billiken Parade in addition to Picnic</a>. He resided inward Chicago until his decease from Bright's Disease inward 1940. His home, established every bit a National Historical Landmark inward 1976, was located at 4742 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inward the Bronzeville community of Chicago. He left the Chicago Defender paper to his nephew John Henry Sengstacke. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></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/AVvXsEiAklwLhTxIL2O-ndIesvy6HUa_3gb5SP54RwbTWeh7Z8Ma8cJny7pXmMs1_juQ9nqDWaW-EHtnnDrqHfJMxQp3hyphenhyphen3TXit3SHVB5EeYUJMlr-Kj0m_M_iW4IgxIYER2ich-9dPokjXHQ-4/s1600-h/Chicago+Defender+Cover+January+5+2007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAklwLhTxIL2O-ndIesvy6HUa_3gb5SP54RwbTWeh7Z8Ma8cJny7pXmMs1_juQ9nqDWaW-EHtnnDrqHfJMxQp3hyphenhyphen3TXit3SHVB5EeYUJMlr-Kj0m_M_iW4IgxIYER2ich-9dPokjXHQ-4/s400/Chicago+Defender+Cover+January+5+2007.jpg" width="350" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After to a greater extent than than 100 years of Black publishing history, Chicago Defender's 2007 number headlines local politics.</span></span><br /> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

Robert Sengstacke Abbott Too The Increment Of Dark Intelligence Publishing

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The Harold Washington Library: A Library Inwards Observe Of Chicago's Starting Fourth Dimension Dark Mayor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGv8vEg7hIceCSI0x5Zrd7sQtdnp5IPdZF573z6s-32laLxQYnxbU2eZiNgUB07xtsfd9fKJVIO2_tplyhJPEv1Ip4p0Dk4L_xHiuDflZ6I8pZPiZl0tulkg3-lQ7CxfGThYCiqGke5IQ/s1600-h/Harold_Washington_at_the_commissioning_of_USS_Chicago_%2528SSN-721%2529_cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGv8vEg7hIceCSI0x5Zrd7sQtdnp5IPdZF573z6s-32laLxQYnxbU2eZiNgUB07xtsfd9fKJVIO2_tplyhJPEv1Ip4p0Dk4L_xHiuDflZ6I8pZPiZl0tulkg3-lQ7CxfGThYCiqGke5IQ/s200/Harold_Washington_at_the_commissioning_of_USS_Chicago_%2528SSN-721%2529_cropped.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: Chicago Mayor Harold Lee Washington </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><b>(b. Apr 15, 1922 – d. Nov. 25, 1987)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Born inward Chicago on Apr 15, 1922, Harold Lee Washington would graduate from Roosevelt University in addition to afterward Northwestern University Law School, both inward Chicago. His political career included serving equally a Illinois State Representative in addition to a fellow member of the U.S. House of Representative. Washington served the City of Chicago from 1983 until his larn out inward 1987. He was among the earliest of Chicago's political advocates for the revitalization of the historic Bronzeville community on the South Side of Chicago.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY CENTER IN CHICAGO</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 10-story Harold Washington Library Center is the largest populace library inward the U.S. of A. of America inward collection volume. It opened Oct 1991 in addition to was named inward laurels of the belatedly mayor Harold Washington, the city's showtime Black mayor. </div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8H8c3opVsXfS7X0BtDjHbqwXLGfPbiXAYVu9rSywHS20I-cxPV42j7JzFslBJqdW6l-xIeyIEmmg9XETbBHE8VDbYkmZM5XeMfZke-UakNLkhNNJMLM70VgGhPxd4-0xrczque7XPhTA/s1600-h/Harold+Washington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8H8c3opVsXfS7X0BtDjHbqwXLGfPbiXAYVu9rSywHS20I-cxPV42j7JzFslBJqdW6l-xIeyIEmmg9XETbBHE8VDbYkmZM5XeMfZke-UakNLkhNNJMLM70VgGhPxd4-0xrczque7XPhTA/s320/Harold+Washington.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">The Harold Washington Library Center provides amount library services, exhibitions in addition to lectures, a fully equipped video theatre in addition to tv studio, a wintertime garden in addition to java shop. It hosts the Harold Washington Archives in addition to Collections, a "Chicago Blues" archive, in addition to an fine art collection alongside representation dozens of Black artists.</div><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ndezp31p-zf2xaUaSQx3VRtC6dxVAoyK06vlvC0ugpVZvFB8jJLSs3n617vp7jx6ppPS6B-xLouo-bCBIYFdPzPnFPPe9nZ0lCltI2sxGohFEi3cI-_OXXo2qPi1EUMHS31RnOQ1hSI/s1600-h/harold+washington+Events_in_the_Life_of_Harold_Washington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ndezp31p-zf2xaUaSQx3VRtC6dxVAoyK06vlvC0ugpVZvFB8jJLSs3n617vp7jx6ppPS6B-xLouo-bCBIYFdPzPnFPPe9nZ0lCltI2sxGohFEi3cI-_OXXo2qPi1EUMHS31RnOQ1hSI/s320/harold+washington+Events_in_the_Life_of_Harold_Washington.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: "Events inward the Life of Harold Washington," </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>mosaic mural past times Jacob Lawrence (Chicago, 1991)</b></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">In the Harold Washington Archives in addition to Collection at that spot is a permanent exhibition that documents Washington's political career. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mural-size mosaic past times the late Black creative someone Jacob Lawrence titled "Events inward the Life of Harold Washington" is located on the primal lobby's northward wall. </div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OejKASOf6ZaVQ1R5QdYu_3FIrBnAKnZ3TsuVT48vTRm8kI-toWi0hgOJxeZL3-geXKk1bfLY8chYzpKhOIdBqT0pers8lB03PA2F0hKj2kgWsQw_mfjwTuFmOYWefbX1xlkS4ky2TbA/s1600-h/Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OejKASOf6ZaVQ1R5QdYu_3FIrBnAKnZ3TsuVT48vTRm8kI-toWi0hgOJxeZL3-geXKk1bfLY8chYzpKhOIdBqT0pers8lB03PA2F0hKj2kgWsQw_mfjwTuFmOYWefbX1xlkS4ky2TbA/s320/Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: ninth Floor of The Harold Washington Library</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/AVvXsEidoECS5NqihS81fFXMUwdsbL03ZWL1TLWkptmCzbksBPZjHosy0LEUJUM30ybxM15qahWTY3De_rKD99ZitTvIQpLM-zOjfYt6Gw9XUstkdC1RJooDbR41tBNNL4hXon1ZKFQikEISigg/s1600-h/Harold+Washington+4th_Level_Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidoECS5NqihS81fFXMUwdsbL03ZWL1TLWkptmCzbksBPZjHosy0LEUJUM30ybxM15qahWTY3De_rKD99ZitTvIQpLM-zOjfYt6Gw9XUstkdC1RJooDbR41tBNNL4hXon1ZKFQikEISigg/s320/Harold+Washington+4th_Level_Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Image: quaternary Floor of The Harold Washington Library</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/AVvXsEgZAvYZVrZNzW-M4FtkTKnfi9kNVirPgPe5vIMTDmEAgn5Q6JOFFdoWS5BOqiNYJ6BVJZqzEubCBLK9E5kdbKSbGqsz9ASv9yumX2rm_WQYcLK9YvqBk8oXMJXfy6eHZaJqsAHUTyNdGzw/s1600-h/Harold+Washington+Lobby_Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZAvYZVrZNzW-M4FtkTKnfi9kNVirPgPe5vIMTDmEAgn5Q6JOFFdoWS5BOqiNYJ6BVJZqzEubCBLK9E5kdbKSbGqsz9ASv9yumX2rm_WQYcLK9YvqBk8oXMJXfy6eHZaJqsAHUTyNdGzw/s320/Harold+Washington+Lobby_Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: Lobby of The Harold Washington Library</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Across from the Jacob Lawrence work is "DuSable's Journey," a "cakewalk cosmogram" that traces the H2O routes taken past times Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable from his native Republic of Haiti to to his novel habitation inward what is similar a shot known equally Chicago. 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Joe Louis: The Chocolate-Brown Bomber Basis Heavyweight Boxing Champion

<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/AVvXsEhNLehONUntwxK-EbU9BVAi-Mof04VzLeie5w0IB8_O9AVPzFnqNlh3hiGUxLFdszTy3p9Gi-FaPglfzQi4N4lBOEI-QLH8pqVE0mMMVSraSHLuTYYK98VYQbIN1ezTS-0v19cM3qODkM4/s1600-h/Joe_Louis_by_van_Vechten.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNLehONUntwxK-EbU9BVAi-Mof04VzLeie5w0IB8_O9AVPzFnqNlh3hiGUxLFdszTy3p9Gi-FaPglfzQi4N4lBOEI-QLH8pqVE0mMMVSraSHLuTYYK98VYQbIN1ezTS-0v19cM3qODkM4/s200/Joe_Louis_by_van_Vechten.jpg" width="314" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Joseph Louis Barrow (b. May 13, 1914 – d. Apr 12, 1981)</span></span></span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(P</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hoto past times Carl Van Vechten)</span></span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Joe Louis Barrow volition ever overstep the listing of really peachy boxers. Better known every bit Joe Louis or the Brown Bomber, Louis was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1937-1949. </i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>THE CHILDHOOD OF JOE LOUIS</b><br /> <b><br /> </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Born within a sharecropper's shack inwards 1914 inwards Lexington, Alabama, the immature Louis later on moved to Detroit alongside his family. Hauling blocks of H2O ice for a living every bit a immature man, Louis developed a muscular cook from hauling blocks of H2O ice for a living every bit a immature man. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Louis' teachers told his parents that he would bring to brand a living alongside his hands because he developed a stammer as well as became withdrawn inwards his youth. This turned out to live on a prophetic contestation since Louis would defend his heavyweight championship 25 times, knocking out his opponents inwards 21 of those fighting matches. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>JOE LOUIS FIGHTS MAX SCHMELING</b> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Of his 68 victories inwards professional person boxing, Louis solely lost iii times. He became the almost famous Black homo inwards the the world after winning a grapple alongside High German boxer Max Schmeling inwards 1938. This was a major victory for Louis' career. For Black people, his was was a mighty blow struck at racial injustice. </div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Louis died inwards 1981 at the historic menstruation of 66. His belatedly married adult woman renovated the edifice where they resided at 4326 S. Michigan inwards Chicago. The edifice has become a historical landmark inwards African American history.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uAsOZpj1d4EQOXyOVWK8Bc-PNAEAfBIzkPdbgrMiNoBa2q4y92OMZ9hDdjbng1awzF1YHalIEUPcdK2kvQh8z__xzP28_Ac2JMXokTw-NJUdoOR9nOwjnSgbhPLWzPg0Pm0lpUbvLRQ/s1600-h/Joe_Louis_Congressional_Gold_Medal_reverse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uAsOZpj1d4EQOXyOVWK8Bc-PNAEAfBIzkPdbgrMiNoBa2q4y92OMZ9hDdjbng1awzF1YHalIEUPcdK2kvQh8z__xzP28_Ac2JMXokTw-NJUdoOR9nOwjnSgbhPLWzPg0Pm0lpUbvLRQ/s320/Joe_Louis_Congressional_Gold_Medal_reverse.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>1982 the U.S. Congressional Gold Medals Honor Joe Louis</b></div> </div>

Joe Louis: The Chocolate-Brown Bomber Basis Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Photo: Joseph Louis Barrow (b. May 13, 1914 – d. Apr 12, 1981) (P hoto past times Carl Van Vechten) Joe Louis Barrow volition ever...

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Black Chicago Together With The Majestic Theater

<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/AVvXsEgRIPc5WG0RjmJFBxrlKdiMcONoKCRQLNV46f7tZvOUJaOKHDyAsZovUO7YJKkLwPq5Yla0Nfs7PXOv7zDcUd-gKEGb17-2VLTphZ_oBxSp14dQnzlQNr44u0hrtWZMQ0NaXQGPmXaCKGo/s1600-h/regal+theater+night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIPc5WG0RjmJFBxrlKdiMcONoKCRQLNV46f7tZvOUJaOKHDyAsZovUO7YJKkLwPq5Yla0Nfs7PXOv7zDcUd-gKEGb17-2VLTphZ_oBxSp14dQnzlQNr44u0hrtWZMQ0NaXQGPmXaCKGo/s200/regal+theater+night.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Regal Theater: "Movie theater, Southside, Chicago, Illinois"</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1941, Library of Congress)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> It is difficult for many immature people to imagine the variety of vibrant too bustling community life that surrounded the onetime site of the Regal Theater. The Savoy Ballroom complex, which would included the Regal Theater, opened on Thanksgiving nighttime inwards 1927 at 4719 S. South Parkway (later known every bit 4719 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive). The Regal Theater opened on Feb 24, 1928, giving nativity to a novel Black Chicago nightlife.</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/AVvXsEjExn7A6Dztw0ususHbyPp-ktzWGDoAet6j-4MO7waxknobreourJjSwIM9NNYxxrsbvB8wBOqdGZkL6Xp-1SeMZYz1914DNaEu7R3GdjAHAZDQY1dGJKEtJk91HvoVxfOVAyRw5qhXTVs/s1600-h/regal+theater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExn7A6Dztw0ususHbyPp-ktzWGDoAet6j-4MO7waxknobreourJjSwIM9NNYxxrsbvB8wBOqdGZkL6Xp-1SeMZYz1914DNaEu7R3GdjAHAZDQY1dGJKEtJk91HvoVxfOVAyRw5qhXTVs/s320/regal+theater.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: The Regal Theater: "In front end of the film theater, Chicago, Illinois"</b> </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1941, Library of Congress)</span> </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/AVvXsEihWxxKW9vWKZ-nCiu4yemNZ38Ei1Au3jJBplxsUGHXnykub9JOGmy7pME44vMIQINOqQYdiQBhB1QNlnacrsU0iBhYL9BvCtjpXE-EQvm0BZmk5aA0QvMEmDKVyTw-ynP9T-Q7ORfY9aY/s1600-h/regal+theater+exterior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWxxKW9vWKZ-nCiu4yemNZ38Ei1Au3jJBplxsUGHXnykub9JOGmy7pME44vMIQINOqQYdiQBhB1QNlnacrsU0iBhYL9BvCtjpXE-EQvm0BZmk5aA0QvMEmDKVyTw-ynP9T-Q7ORfY9aY/s320/regal+theater+exterior.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: An Exterior View of Chicago's Regal Theater</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(ca. 1941, Library of Congress)</span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Built yesteryear the National Theater Corporation, the Regal Theater was 1 of the get-go home halls that was built specifically for the African American community's entertainment. From 1928-1971, the Regal Theater offered patrons alive performances too films. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Regal Theater acts included Louis Armstrong, County Baise, Cab Calloway, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lena Horne, the Ink Spots, Moms Mabley, the Mills Brothers, too Bessie Smith. The keen historical acts of the home is commemorated yesteryear the community alongside a mural at the northeast corner of the intersection of 47th Street too Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.<br /> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYaLVP6Jsq5SPOvuFglw-zSYzyqydvi2UxLYtUQSeuIJJR7BmYBPfsuvNKb5dj3J14cWfRcMxJU4azk0LEgmrPNLcIXBf7nXdf8AjW1-Rd-shpcm-bGETaNVj6NIaYMzDsHCiqs6x5qg/s1600-h/regal+theater+interior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYaLVP6Jsq5SPOvuFglw-zSYzyqydvi2UxLYtUQSeuIJJR7BmYBPfsuvNKb5dj3J14cWfRcMxJU4azk0LEgmrPNLcIXBf7nXdf8AjW1-Rd-shpcm-bGETaNVj6NIaYMzDsHCiqs6x5qg/s320/regal+theater+interior.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: "Crowd coming out of Regal film theater, Southside of Chicago, Illinois"</b> </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1941, Library of Congress)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Built inwards 1926-27, the Regal Theater architect was John Eberson. Its architecture was the utter of the town. Its Castilian Baroque-revival facade too interior was based on the Moorish designs of North Africa too Spain. The auditorium ceiling was designed to deport upon the underside of an Arabian tent. The heaven too distant castles were painted into the interior facade.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The home featured deed was typically a 22-piece jazz band, the "Regalettes" chorus line, too a Barton House organist. Chicago's Bronzeville community is fond of noting that the history of its community theater predated New York's Apollo Theater too held twice its capacity.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlts72S4mDGAnXDFxymdJJitzQmYFQjmHSDSJG5H7j-yXu3AKa7HP83qkBeZ_q1mm1x2bY9Oejg-m214aCiXwdl2vV5jXXyBEs2Z8y29G9bmu7ekovNU3bZLXbeqMsl9gmOuuMUxsevFc/s1600-h/regal+theater+art+exhibit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlts72S4mDGAnXDFxymdJJitzQmYFQjmHSDSJG5H7j-yXu3AKa7HP83qkBeZ_q1mm1x2bY9Oejg-m214aCiXwdl2vV5jXXyBEs2Z8y29G9bmu7ekovNU3bZLXbeqMsl9gmOuuMUxsevFc/s320/regal+theater+art+exhibit.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Art exhibit inwards the foyer of the Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois" </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Library of Congress, 1941)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <b>THE NEW REGAL THEATER</b><br /> <br /> In 1973, the Regal Theater, located at 4719 S. King Dr. Street, was demolished. the New Regal Theater, originally named the Avalon, was opened yesteryear a grouping of community investors inwards 1985. The projection was spearheaded yesteryear Edward too Bettiann Gardner, founders of the Soft Sheen Products Company inwards Chicago. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOV038ubOtGS9x2J0Nbx3UcoELdcTz602HS6UIlg1R-c9bPnibvjmp9JNOOBhd4kEoB9rERutUdsqWpQJLk5BMfMM2heDAWJgEzJYk8h2OKTBObGRGYd5zsr4kridA-PorIHTj9NLiEnM/s1600-h/New+Regal+Theater1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOV038ubOtGS9x2J0Nbx3UcoELdcTz602HS6UIlg1R-c9bPnibvjmp9JNOOBhd4kEoB9rERutUdsqWpQJLk5BMfMM2heDAWJgEzJYk8h2OKTBObGRGYd5zsr4kridA-PorIHTj9NLiEnM/s320/New+Regal+Theater1.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The New Regal Theater Building</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/AVvXsEgPZk5IrfrcVz8hRd4cKZ7WbsYNGQPRXJI1h5nxCckIp9bpEJ78IgwN5UmaqBuu-_oflO8huTlYiaM4PCSzL4yht9YPBB9jI3u7rX4tl0_IvCcAbwbNblY8LxA7_kbxzmilkNAoL3Isi-0/s1600-h/New+Regal+Theater2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZk5IrfrcVz8hRd4cKZ7WbsYNGQPRXJI1h5nxCckIp9bpEJ78IgwN5UmaqBuu-_oflO8huTlYiaM4PCSzL4yht9YPBB9jI3u7rX4tl0_IvCcAbwbNblY8LxA7_kbxzmilkNAoL3Isi-0/s320/New+Regal+Theater2.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>New Regal Theater Interior</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> The New Regal Theater sought to cry upward the Moorish architectural legacy of the Regal Theater inwards its roughly $10 1 chiliad m dollar renovation. The restored home was designed alongside a grand "Persian courtyard" to showcase home too musical concerts. This South Side amusement centre is located inwards the South Shore community of Chicago at 1641 E. 79th Street.</div> </div>

Black Chicago Together With The Majestic Theater

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Chicago Urban League: Promoting Dark Community Development

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEj20FOINCvNq3WgHp_lbofu0jUZb9QNSJ25Vw8NZHFyOtIPcg3mTWjL_lP1w3TimHrhHmqUX1oIfcuDI4_PfGpfXoaoSsF5-J0XmRECowM066ZH0XFSNjEqok1ozrXiwe2RrFpq1s-4/s1600-h/chicago+urban+league.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEj20FOINCvNq3WgHp_lbofu0jUZb9QNSJ25Vw8NZHFyOtIPcg3mTWjL_lP1w3TimHrhHmqUX1oIfcuDI4_PfGpfXoaoSsF5-J0XmRECowM066ZH0XFSNjEqok1ozrXiwe2RrFpq1s-4/s320/chicago+urban+league.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Photo of children exterior of the Chicago Urban League</b></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1916 a grouping of community leaders established what would function i of the oldest in addition to largest race relations agencies inwards the country. The organization was founded to assist African Americans migrating from the South to Chicago during the Great Migration. It helped the novel residents alongside services inwards housing in addition to exercise matters.</div><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFJFeap8Tjn89fpo7R322W3YpTJQCkLT6_-4DwHhl17S3KbtvJYGg98P851yi93Mg3XD4imPgwe37eZZPLe3wqHGJUDHfRbbR5j1OnVdbz5gzFSFljyo_9sIWlVvxmOeE4Jf_JkK2quk/s1600-h/chicago+urban+league+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFJFeap8Tjn89fpo7R322W3YpTJQCkLT6_-4DwHhl17S3KbtvJYGg98P851yi93Mg3XD4imPgwe37eZZPLe3wqHGJUDHfRbbR5j1OnVdbz5gzFSFljyo_9sIWlVvxmOeE4Jf_JkK2quk/s320/chicago+urban+league+poster.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: Chicago Urban League sponsored Father & Son Banquet at the Savoy Ballroom</b> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Silkscreen on boardby Albert M. Bender, Chicago, 1939, Library of Congress, Prints in addition to Photographs Division, </span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">WPA Poster Collection)</span></div>  <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">In cooperation alongside 7 other offices around the city, the Chicago Urban League was instrumental alongside stabilizing the African American community afterward the Chicago Race Riots of 1919. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">As i of the showtime institutions to create sociological studies of the community, it became the forerunner inwards reporting of import findings inwards the expanse of race relations, project relations, in addition to juvenile delinquency. It is the oldest in addition to largest of the 113 National Urban League affiliations across the country. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Chicago Urban League occupied the Swift mansion shown higher upward for years. Its offices are forthwith located adjacent door to its historic residence, a modern multi-level purpose facility at 4510 S. Michigan Avenue inwards Chicago.</div></div>

Chicago Urban League: Promoting Dark Community Development

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African Americans Inward The Insurance Business: Supreme Freedom Life Insurance Co.

<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/AVvXsEj6WFIGrIueHqAL5kqF74VTUNSFCdB6_Ge3fQ6EgXt1z_Fx8N2r1l3ra3spKbTbXZrLz091pjdhiH-kom9H23SG-9m_R0Wa64517K3RIB6fx3S3qJ6yG1uZAeGbAeYxdoq93jyFOzadtB4/s1600-h/supreme+liberty+life+insurance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6WFIGrIueHqAL5kqF74VTUNSFCdB6_Ge3fQ6EgXt1z_Fx8N2r1l3ra3spKbTbXZrLz091pjdhiH-kom9H23SG-9m_R0Wa64517K3RIB6fx3S3qJ6yG1uZAeGbAeYxdoq93jyFOzadtB4/s320/supreme+liberty+life+insurance.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co. Chicago 15, Illinois</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Multigraph Division, Stock Room, HOME OFFICE (ca. 1950, postcard)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>The Supreme Life Insurance Company (formerly Liberty Life Insurance Company) was the showtime Black owned in addition to operated insurance companionship inwards the northern United States.</i> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>FAIR INSURANCE POLICIES FOR BLACKS IN CHICAGO</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Frank L. Gillespie was an Arkansas-native in addition to insurance agent for Royal Insurance Company. He speedily noted the inferior lineament life insurance policy provisions offered African Americans by the White-owned insurance agency. The Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co. (also referenced to equally Supreme Life Insurance Company) was incorporated inwards 1919 past times an investment grouping headed past times Gillespie. The first Black-owned insurance agency outside of the U.S. southern states offered  African Americans a ameliorate lineament life insurance than offered past times White-owned agencies of the time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">By 1921, Gillespie raised $100,000 to issue life insurance policies to Chicago's African American residents. The master offices for the young firm were set-up inwards a store-front in addition to instant floors of what was therefore known as Roosevelt State Bank. It is a two-story commercial edifice structure located at what when therefore referred to equally the corner of 35th Street in addition to South Parkway (now Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive or known past times the natives equally King Drive). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjaJOfo7jiv8yGZXbzE3HcS0LtEDb5NA3c8A850AfDJZ4iM_qRRiZbhyb9ndwW-pqmUhmKGLgANdxqE-yWUe4JcgTxAPUJ1iCqU8ixKRv1xW40vBTYy_sf-npiG_mWKyy7guzpF93Zzs/s1600-h/Supreme+Life+Building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjaJOfo7jiv8yGZXbzE3HcS0LtEDb5NA3c8A850AfDJZ4iM_qRRiZbhyb9ndwW-pqmUhmKGLgANdxqE-yWUe4JcgTxAPUJ1iCqU8ixKRv1xW40vBTYy_sf-npiG_mWKyy7guzpF93Zzs/s320/Supreme+Life+Building.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Supreme Life Building (Chicago)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(3501 S. King Drive, cir. 1985)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Located inwards the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District of Chicago, the historic Supreme Life Building was built inwards 1921 past times architect Albert Anis. In 1924, Supreme Life Insurance Co. bought the consummate banking company edifice at 3501 S. King Drive. The Supreme Life companionship fully operated the structure from 1919 to 1962. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 9, 1998. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>PROSPERING IN BRONZEVILLE</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">By 1925, the companionship had written more than $5 meg inwards insurance policies in addition to opened branch offices inwards Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri, in addition to Washington D.C. It was 1 of the few Black insurance companies to hold upwards the Great Depression. After the Great Depression, Supreme Life expanded into 1 of the nation's largest minority insurance companies. </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/AVvXsEjJ8HzPOarImVqE7NpsHo2DEXdf3509qRmPgOcYQZ6INxJWLQ_alZiIuw1o4jybi_nyNnD3LQWnI7vy_92EiqhIISPe2bU7tpdfmcxwSzBFOVzl7b8ev_77YOz-DHRBrJ97MH2J59pqyM4/s1600-h/SUPREME+LIBERTY+LIFE+INSURANCE+-+OFFICE+INTERIOR+-+SEPIA+-+c+1950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8HzPOarImVqE7NpsHo2DEXdf3509qRmPgOcYQZ6INxJWLQ_alZiIuw1o4jybi_nyNnD3LQWnI7vy_92EiqhIISPe2bU7tpdfmcxwSzBFOVzl7b8ev_77YOz-DHRBrJ97MH2J59pqyM4/s320/SUPREME+LIBERTY+LIFE+INSURANCE+-+OFFICE+INTERIOR+-+SEPIA+-+c+1950.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chicago, Illinois (ca. 1950, postcard)</span></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/AVvXsEg0Kiwr_ajTQR993TPqYXroKdajLkm502BX9UTcy0aUaptzxLdYH7qSZStRE4FHbS2M3yJFM3ZEGtg64A14cUoOFGZO4AVrju88it02iPzHCPVEOYZPQnnT4BqT6zOqD8KATUM8ojqN3_E/s1600-h/supreme+life+insurance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Kiwr_ajTQR993TPqYXroKdajLkm502BX9UTcy0aUaptzxLdYH7qSZStRE4FHbS2M3yJFM3ZEGtg64A14cUoOFGZO4AVrju88it02iPzHCPVEOYZPQnnT4BqT6zOqD8KATUM8ojqN3_E/s320/supreme+life+insurance.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Main Lobby - Supreme Life Insurance Co.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3501 South Parkway, Chicago Illinois (ca. 1950, postcard)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In 1960, the National Insurance Association (NIA) had 46 members. The 46 insurance companies across the acre were owned in addition to operated past times African American businessmen. Collectively, they had $1.65 trillion (not a typo) inwards insurance policies inwards force. The Supreme Life Insurance Company of America was the 3rd largest Black life insurance companionship inwards the acre at the time. In 1960, NIA was belongings $300 million in assets. <i>See</i> Abner, III, David, "Some Aspects of the Growth of Negro Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies, 1930-1960" (Indiana University 1962 doctoral thesis), p. 65, 172. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Currently inwards Chicago, African-American operated insurance companies include <a href="http://www.insurancebrokersinc.com/Life.asp">Insurance Brokers Inc.</a>, which operates its Chicago home-branch offices at locations on both Chicago's southward side in addition to N side. Insurance Brokers was founded past times the Jamaican-born employment concern human in addition to long-time Chicago native Herbert Witter. It offers various policies inwards Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania. The W.A. George Insurance Agency is too a Black owned and operated bonded insurance agency  in Chicago in addition to was established inwards 1972 past times Mercedes George. <br /> <br /> While the master NIA organization no longer exists, the National African-American Insurance Association (NAAIA) currently operates equally national association for Blacks inwards the insurance business. The <a href="http://www.naaiachicago.org/">Chicago chapter of NAAIA</a> is quite active.</div></div>

African Americans Inward The Insurance Business: Supreme Freedom Life Insurance Co.

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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>

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

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African Americans On Maui Association

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1266594054092"></span><span id="goog_1266594054093"></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> As business office of the 2010 Black History Month, the African Americans on Maui Association hosts a novel mass unloosen launch of African Americans inward Hawaii: H5N1 Search for Identity," compiled together with edited past times Ayin M. Adams, Ph.D., followed past times a Special Awards Ceremony. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Full listing of <a href="http://www.gohawaii.com/event?id=13436">Black History Month Events on Maui</a>, including events at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.</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/AVvXsEiMR09cWLzfhosVgtZsQjD50mv-53iTqOdIDS0VcmCAP9_7WzENBgF-W0colHf-8Y2lyCUHYmaKFIcE3kZLJJHfYoxJxWzpZxxGcYgH4fI9_MPQa3nBkXziUoQt3ui6JhmBT5yIzDMYI2Y/s1600-h/Black+History+Month+on+Maiu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMR09cWLzfhosVgtZsQjD50mv-53iTqOdIDS0VcmCAP9_7WzENBgF-W0colHf-8Y2lyCUHYmaKFIcE3kZLJJHfYoxJxWzpZxxGcYgH4fI9_MPQa3nBkXziUoQt3ui6JhmBT5yIzDMYI2Y/s640/Black+History+Month+on+Maiu.jpg" width="446" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Post script</em></strong>: back upwards efforts of local Hawaiian community to preserve African American historical heritage on the isle past times </span><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/147/830/903/save-preserve-hawaiis-african-american-200-years-cultural-heritage/#" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">signing this petition</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. In 2015, the petition is to hold upwards submitted inward back upwards of a proposal to the Hawaii State Legislature to found a Hawaii Commission to Preserve the Cultural Heritage of People of African descent in Hawaii.</span> </div> </div>

African Americans On Maui Association

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Alexander Crummell: Founder Of The American Negro Academy

<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/AVvXsEjf5mLxynHMp6Bzs6PGWV-bWmufuruwZjPLnIsiRORzBJMQ9z9ixjANJwu4W53wTOBkilHMoNLvffQFmI7emnWQuwziqbp0bTc_leK76A-MtH6DDv8lAOFRf8HpW-dfITnnb1mTg0GSM9w/s1600-h/crummell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf5mLxynHMp6Bzs6PGWV-bWmufuruwZjPLnIsiRORzBJMQ9z9ixjANJwu4W53wTOBkilHMoNLvffQFmI7emnWQuwziqbp0bTc_leK76A-MtH6DDv8lAOFRf8HpW-dfITnnb1mTg0GSM9w/s200/crummell.jpg" width="441" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Alexander Crummell (b. March 3, 1819 - 1898)</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Alexander Crummell, A.B., D.D., LL.D was born March 3, 1819 inwards New York City. He was friend as well as mentor to W.E.B. Du Bois as well as an outspoken social commentator as well as clergyman in nineteenth century America. He founded the American Negro Academy as well as became a  critic of his contemporary Booker T. Washington. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "His father, Boston Crummell, was the boy of a West African main inwards Timanee. On his maternal side, Crummell’s ancestors had been gratis residents inwards New York for generations," according to the <a href="http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/scguides/crummell/crummellintro.pdf">Alexander Crummell Collection</a>, published past times Scholarly Resources, Inc. His granddaddy is said to bring been a chief inside the Vey tribe of West Africa.</div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "<i>And, lastly, our boys as well as girls almost universally grow upwards without trades, looking forward, if they create facial expression forward, many of them, to beingness servants as well as waiters; as well as many more, I am afraid, expecting to perish a living past times adventure as well as hap-hazard.</i></div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Doubtless some of you lot volition nation that the colored people are non the alone people at error inwards these respects; that the American people, inwards general, are running wild most the higher civilization -- are neglecting trades as well as merchanism, as well as are leaving the to a greater extent than practical as well as laborious duties of life to foreigners."</i></div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Excerpt from <i>Civilization & Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South</i>, edited past times J. R. Oldfield, p. 136, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville as well as London), from The Publications of the Southern Texts Society Collection (First Edition 1995). </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">   </div>   <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtGYR32ugZg9U6TDUMrzYlwJ8NOJgXm9mpjbJUMi0O2XHYsjs8tkwyAhGIQbuoDAZxfR_yFZxmrNLHyxY8kqZbr9isvsmjehBiUfllubhrRMrSXZtcBWR3O8m5huLjufmNjKQxjjVcIM/s1600-h/american_negro_academy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtGYR32ugZg9U6TDUMrzYlwJ8NOJgXm9mpjbJUMi0O2XHYsjs8tkwyAhGIQbuoDAZxfR_yFZxmrNLHyxY8kqZbr9isvsmjehBiUfllubhrRMrSXZtcBWR3O8m5huLjufmNjKQxjjVcIM/s320/american_negro_academy.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: American Negro Academy Members includes a seated W.E.B. DuBois.</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Crummell's American Negro Academy was an association of Africans from some the world. It was among the early on societies of global Africans that would associate for progress of African people. The academy would advocate the “Talented Tenth” concept afterward articulated inwards Earth writings of W.E.B. DuBois, i of the academy's founding members. Crummell's members inwards Republic of Liberia as well as Sierra Leone would pave the agency for W.E.B. DuBois edifice associations betwixt Blacks inwards America as well as Blacks inwards Africa.<br /> <br /> Further reference: "Encyclopedia of Missions," past times Harry New-comb; as well as inwards a sketch called "Africa inwards Brief," past times the Rev. J. J. Coles, missionary to the Vey tribes inwards Africa.</div> </div>

Alexander Crummell: Founder Of The American Negro Academy

Photo: Alexander Crummell (b. March 3, 1819 - 1898) Alexander Crummell, A.B., D.D., LL.D was born March 3, 1819 inwards New York City....

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From Malcolm Niggling To Malcolm 10 To El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuoSEyjSnyW4CAshCKjBsRqy29tmz0xyPFzCSaFdBJXupuEvfrQ5Ggk0wDrkTHsuRFu-bFZe6RNWqiAYRihY1fmiuJgAYQav5aRDVYQSjB1CerLayeCrkQlx3nzqYHATGn8M7LjVL5gI/s1600/Photo+of+Malcolm+X+in+March+1964+Public+Domain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuoSEyjSnyW4CAshCKjBsRqy29tmz0xyPFzCSaFdBJXupuEvfrQ5Ggk0wDrkTHsuRFu-bFZe6RNWqiAYRihY1fmiuJgAYQav5aRDVYQSjB1CerLayeCrkQlx3nzqYHATGn8M7LjVL5gI/s1600/Photo+of+Malcolm+X+in+March+1964+Public+Domain.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Malcolm X inward 1964.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-size: large;">The nifty Black leader, debater together with speaker, usually known every bit Malcolm X (English: ˈmælkəm ˈɛks) was born May 19, 1925 every bit Malcolm Little together with died Feb 21, 1965 every bit El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز‎).  His woman parent was Louise Little (maiden nurture Louise Langdon Norton), born inward the Caribbean Area island of Grenada, British West Indies, at the Grenadines' southern tip. His virile someone parent was born inward Reynolds, Georgia (Taylor County) and became a Baptist minister and <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/502.html">Garveyism</a> organizer under the leadership of the Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey.</span><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?" a May 5, 1962 speech</b></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Malcolm X inward Los Angeles, California</b></div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/gRSgUTWffMQ?version=3&hl=en_US"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param> <embed src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/gRSgUTWffMQ?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div> </div>

From Malcolm Niggling To Malcolm 10 To El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

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Ramón Mongo Santamaria

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Ramón Mongo Santamaria

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Susan L. Taylor: Advocate For Mentoring

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Susan L. Taylor: Advocate For Mentoring

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