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Dr. Theodore Kenneth Lawless: Dermatologist, Businessman, In Addition To Philanthropist

Dr. Theodore Kenneth Lawless: Dermatologist, Businessman, In Addition To Philanthropist

Photo: Dr. Theodore K. Lawless (b. Dec. 6, 1892 - d. May 1, 1971) Dr. Theodore Kenneth "T.K." Lawless had an extensive ...

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.

Photo: Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co. Chicago 15, Illinois Multigraph Division, Stock Room, HOME OFFICE (ca. 1950, postcard) The Suprem...

Black Politics: Oscar Stanton Depriest As Well As Unity Hall

<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/AVvXsEgASEgkM3HINCd3dkEh2Dl_RqWvbm1Kks_d-TVhayQ87W3pwxoi4Y-zbgWokL8CoWB7gIb4JKZ5XJvs2XannQhuqLrA4SZ_Yuaf37rQGB0IrYRNwVVB5jIev3R0kPH8dA5k-YGLQNV0vmI/s1600-h/Oscar_Stanton_De_Priest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgASEgkM3HINCd3dkEh2Dl_RqWvbm1Kks_d-TVhayQ87W3pwxoi4Y-zbgWokL8CoWB7gIb4JKZ5XJvs2XannQhuqLrA4SZ_Yuaf37rQGB0IrYRNwVVB5jIev3R0kPH8dA5k-YGLQNV0vmI/s200/Oscar_Stanton_De_Priest.jpg" width="147" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Oscar Stanton DePriest </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><b>(b. March 9, 1871 - d. May 12, 1951)</b></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1915, Oscar Stanton DePriest was elected the starting fourth dimension African American City Council somebody inwards <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=chicago-urban-league" target="_blank">Chicago</a>. Two years after he established the People's Movement Club equally a political base of operations exterior of political party politics channels in the racially polarized city. The Unity Hall edifice housed DePriest's People's Movement Club too would cash inwards one's chips the community headquarters for other prominent Chicago politicians such equally William Dawson. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoO1mOOM5yjTlSfyd5fT0gU3teZKzqcnRWSjiB8OvJbgeDNltXKUGbySLCU0vd0b54ktjffoBKhyphenhyphen2lzuNBr69l1s8cpumtoGLkA6dKAmn5PODuvybXUroaOCNv6BCzZJgMbBY2-4hZB_E/s1600-h/depriest-button-full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoO1mOOM5yjTlSfyd5fT0gU3teZKzqcnRWSjiB8OvJbgeDNltXKUGbySLCU0vd0b54ktjffoBKhyphenhyphen2lzuNBr69l1s8cpumtoGLkA6dKAmn5PODuvybXUroaOCNv6BCzZJgMbBY2-4hZB_E/s200/depriest-button-full.jpg" width="180" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Image: Early Political Campaign Button for Oscar Stanton DePriest </b></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oscar De Priest's successful election stimulate inwards Chicago's Lakeshore led the tendency toward an increase </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in Black political representation inwards the north. In 1928, De Priest became the first African American exterior the South </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">elected to Congress. His representation led to significant federal anti-discrimination legislation.</span></i></div> </blockquote> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> DePriest was specially interested inwards mobilizing voters of the quickly growing Black Belt of Chicago's Second Ward. The community where Unity Hall is located was a bustling strip of <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=chicago-urban-league" target="_blank">Chicago's South Side</a> that was noted for its cabarets too express housing. Unity Hall would serve equally a community delineate of piece of work solid to diverse organizations throughout the years.</div> <br /> From 1916 to 1919, some a one-half a 1000000 Blacks moved to Chicago's Bronzeville community. The housing crush was due to the ascension of industrialization too manufactory jobs inwards northern cities similar Chicago. This resulted inwards an influx of Blacks from the South. Couple this with apartheid-style housing restrictions and the powder keg of racial tension inwards Chicago would lead to the infamous Chicago Race Riots of 1919.</div> <br /> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> <b>UNITY HALL</b></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pz7WFez84dYgBsOdNQ2FBC2OTQhjbU9K-e52Uq9f3C-veOZy_-Uq_ZAFcpgAM7_4s8NDExyIm5TDA1VbMSDPWth_ZPBKGKuxBxkBe53TxA7EplI5Rg1euEFHsObXfYCAyw0pGEZtL3s/s1600-h/Unity+Hall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pz7WFez84dYgBsOdNQ2FBC2OTQhjbU9K-e52Uq9f3C-veOZy_-Uq_ZAFcpgAM7_4s8NDExyIm5TDA1VbMSDPWth_ZPBKGKuxBxkBe53TxA7EplI5Rg1euEFHsObXfYCAyw0pGEZtL3s/s320/Unity+Hall.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Unity Hall, 3140 S. Indiana, Chicago</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 align="center"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmSjcjIemGWcwhyphenhyphen42mV5VRradgaqxhMHqK9cJ3Ek3bWWSR2Vwa7VmME63goP2uVCt9OaOvHPb1VuyKnmoU5lrRJ77tcSUHHXof4EsUTDl6BQWGf6vH6LwgNd4wt7W8a5C8zKaazWdci8/s1600-h/unity+hall+moorish+convention.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmSjcjIemGWcwhyphenhyphen42mV5VRradgaqxhMHqK9cJ3Ek3bWWSR2Vwa7VmME63goP2uVCt9OaOvHPb1VuyKnmoU5lrRJ77tcSUHHXof4EsUTDl6BQWGf6vH6LwgNd4wt7W8a5C8zKaazWdci8/s320/unity+hall+moorish+convention.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Unity Hall, Moorish Science Convention of 1928</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Unity Hall was built inwards 1887 past times architect L.B. Dixon. The cherry-red brick too terra cotta edifice located at 3140 S. Indiana Avenue was originally built for a Jewish Social Organization called the Lakeside Club. This building is with the rare surviving 19th-century club-house architectural structures surviving inwards Chicago. This edifice construction is with the National Historic Landmarks.</div> </div>

Black Politics: Oscar Stanton Depriest As Well As Unity Hall

Photo: Oscar Stanton DePriest (b. March 9, 1871 - d. May 12, 1951) In 1915, Oscar Stanton DePriest was elected the starting fourth d...

Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. In Addition To The Functioning Force Organization

<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/AVvXsEjRY8_cWtRO998meoVHaXXwBlX47kKmY_hUmx7qI0EKkk2zXGOsvNcZ6Zk4oTmkDqDRsVa5kmJVxaDnWx8N5xj3zGzFTsc5OwvKHCb1h9oF744XMj-nHGboXasuTaiOacnwkC-e299CCmc/s1600-h/jesse+jackson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRY8_cWtRO998meoVHaXXwBlX47kKmY_hUmx7qI0EKkk2zXGOsvNcZ6Zk4oTmkDqDRsVa5kmJVxaDnWx8N5xj3zGzFTsc5OwvKHCb1h9oF744XMj-nHGboXasuTaiOacnwkC-e299CCmc/s320/jesse+jackson.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. (</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><b>b. Oct 8, 1941)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>On Dec 25, 1971, the immature Jesse Jackson along alongside lxx other prominent Black leaders founded Operation PUSH, a social change organization headquartered inward Chicago.</i> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>JACKSON STARTS OPERATION PUSH IN CHICAGO</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now alongside to a greater extent than than lxx affiliates across the nation, Operation PUSH focuses on Black political empowerment every bit good as encouraging increased connections betwixt Blacks in addition to American industry. The community organisation has successfully negotiated agreements with large in addition to pocket-size businesses across the field to increment fair employment practices inward hiring, promotions, franchising, in addition to sub-contracting opportunities for all Americans.</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/AVvXsEgHRIRAZVwM0BwZKWvAOGzFlGJOyi9l5kJmHBjbRz6aC9qpXpx8VygEOeiZKZozjPElek73awTm_UrPAq2zOfs8NxkSLLoRDcb5A2xg9O0UDf3qcLR3xcmut95GA9NRQhjnWgfdnscwGDI/s1600-h/jessejackson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRIRAZVwM0BwZKWvAOGzFlGJOyi9l5kJmHBjbRz6aC9qpXpx8VygEOeiZKZozjPElek73awTm_UrPAq2zOfs8NxkSLLoRDcb5A2xg9O0UDf3qcLR3xcmut95GA9NRQhjnWgfdnscwGDI/s320/jessejackson.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 immature Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">and others on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel inward Memphis</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged the youthful Jackson to croak a potent community activist inward Chicago in addition to inward the nation. Jesse Jackson, Sr. launched his national political career from the Operation PUSH headquarters. The organisation served every bit the base of operations where Jackson launched his U.S. presidential campaigns inward 1984 in addition to 1988. <br /> <br /> <b>THE RAINBOW PUSH COALITION BUILDING</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsOXV-e8nFm0Uz82FWMRetucE-HzaUlnlzCgzLdInUbgw-gQgHvABRZGmxj90IcC3XTV_usXCwJIE7GQI_zRHFZK8lUHpVW7ciWT_i7mV12eQNb3pL7QjkAkh7UcgY1-_oesK2fB-GAc/s1600-h/OPERATION+PUSH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsOXV-e8nFm0Uz82FWMRetucE-HzaUlnlzCgzLdInUbgw-gQgHvABRZGmxj90IcC3XTV_usXCwJIE7GQI_zRHFZK8lUHpVW7ciWT_i7mV12eQNb3pL7QjkAkh7UcgY1-_oesK2fB-GAc/s320/OPERATION+PUSH.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: Operation Push National Headquarters</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The national headquarters for Operation PUSH was built inward 1923. It was originally built for the Kehilath Anshe Ma'arive (K.A.M.) congregation, the oldest Jewish congregation inward Chicago. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. in addition to other community organizers purchased the edifice inward 1971. The Rainbow Coalition was founded past times Jackson inward 1985 in addition to was housed inward the edifice at 930 E. 50th Street. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Surrounding the Operation PUSH headquarters are older generation mansions lining Drexel Boulevard inward the Bronzeville community of Chicago's South Side. In his classic run <i>Native Son</i>, author Richard Wright chronicles the life of a immature Black human from the community where the picturesque edifice stood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Operation PUSH and the Rainbow Coalition was subsequently merged and renamed <a href="http://www.rainbowpush.org/PHP/results.php">The Rainbow PUSH Coalition</a>. It advocates in both U.S. civil rights in addition to international human rights efforts. This historic edifice continues has served every bit a voter registration centre and labor mediation site for many years.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="285" width="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMZUvNiTkAM&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMZUvNiTkAM&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Video: Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2) continues his father's legacy </span></b><br /> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">of political activism. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here he speaks in the Operation PUSH building in 2006 </span></b><br /> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">where he launched </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">his political motion for the Chicago Mayor post.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br /> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=blachisthero-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0743291441&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></i></div></div>

Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. In Addition To The Functioning Force Organization

Photo: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. ( b. Oct 8, 1941) On Dec 25, 1971, the immature Jesse Jackson along alongside lxx other prominent Black l...

Anthony Overton: A Dark Manufacturer, Banker, Lawyer In Addition To Publisher

<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/AVvXsEgqRIln0UafXM1CDqEMT75GAnYipNMSPBJ-k6UpDh4AyPc_9Kg7TNg8EUBMEj6fUG-HII7tA5aOJUUUr7nF51YdJqbSWQx7zXQ1pMtu4P1xU8E2fpV6NeW4N1BmpEZMReUC2wVQzpNg4lU/s1600/Photo+of+Anthony+Overton+manufacturer+entrepreneur+banker+lawyer+businessman+african+americans+business.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRIln0UafXM1CDqEMT75GAnYipNMSPBJ-k6UpDh4AyPc_9Kg7TNg8EUBMEj6fUG-HII7tA5aOJUUUr7nF51YdJqbSWQx7zXQ1pMtu4P1xU8E2fpV6NeW4N1BmpEZMReUC2wVQzpNg4lU/s1600/Photo+of+Anthony+Overton+manufacturer+entrepreneur+banker+lawyer+businessman+african+americans+business.jpg" width="229" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Anthony Overton (b. March 21, 1865 - d. July 2, 1946)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <i>On March 21, 1865, Anthony Overton was born into slavery in Monroe, Louisiana. It was non until Dec 18, 1865 that slavery legally ended inwards the United States. Overton became a pioneering manufacturer, banker, lawyer together with businessman. Much of his employment organisation operations arose amid the African American community inwards Chicago.</i> <br /> <br /> <b>ANTHONY OVERTON</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The boy of Anthony together with Martha (Deberry) Overton, Anthony Overton was educated at Washburn College together with would equally good graduate from the University of Kansas where he earned a Bachelor of Laws. He graduated from the University of Kansas constabulary school. He skilful constabulary for a fourth dimension together with fifty-fifty served equally a gauge earlier concentrating on developing his employment organisation operations.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> In 1898, Overton established the Hygienic Manufacturing Company inwards Kansas City. In 1911, he moved operations to Chicago where he manufactured baking powder, privy preparations, together with other extract products. He soon launched the High-Brown Products label where he produced a full-line of ladies fine cosmetics together with perfumes inwards Chicago. </div>   <br /> <b>OVERTON HYGIENIC BUILDING</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMV3IZHCoZx_Bkiibw6LKupNGyabDl9I9kkWmgOMwNmrbdpaUbQgu0CZKexFKRYQAsFI5mNxeQ04vibve8lvaiVmQnX-PY270cTfKeC4X83GvGdBIln-qujQTbHAOhxP2_XQnLBahS2tY/s1600-h/hygienic+building.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMV3IZHCoZx_Bkiibw6LKupNGyabDl9I9kkWmgOMwNmrbdpaUbQgu0CZKexFKRYQAsFI5mNxeQ04vibve8lvaiVmQnX-PY270cTfKeC4X83GvGdBIln-qujQTbHAOhxP2_XQnLBahS2tY/s320/hygienic+building.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Overton Building (photograph from Commission on </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chicago Historical together with Architectural Landmarks)</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/AVvXsEiPDfpHRLDRKMNy_3SGxRYyA4s2zqZcmtTLlD7BL-q3MMekCj4I2uxHUDD6vUinyh-JeFKmXNb0lglYU9RnHit4Rgsk4_-MNrQOgLFa9P0LJp6nHbVMIfS9pJVjYfC5Q78fw5fIIEdZXaM/s1600-h/overton+hygienic+building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDfpHRLDRKMNy_3SGxRYyA4s2zqZcmtTLlD7BL-q3MMekCj4I2uxHUDD6vUinyh-JeFKmXNb0lglYU9RnHit4Rgsk4_-MNrQOgLFa9P0LJp6nHbVMIfS9pJVjYfC5Q78fw5fIIEdZXaM/s320/overton+hygienic+building.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Overton Hygienic Building inwards Chicago Today</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Anthony Overton developed a major employment organisation conglomerate inwards Chicago that began its operations from this Overton Hygienic Building. In 1922, Overton commissioned architect Z. Erol Smith to blueprint together with build the Overton Hygienic Building. In add-on to hygienic assist products, Overton would run the <i>Chicago Bee</i> paper franchise, Victory Life Insurance Company, Douglass National Bank, together with Northern Realty Company from this employment organisation facility together with his minute building, The Chicago Bee Building. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Overton Hygienic Building was later known inwards history equally the Palace Hotel. The edifice is immediately owned yesteryear the Mid-South Planning together with Development Commission, which announced plans to role the edifice equally an incubator for small-scale businesses inside the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District neighborhood. The Overton Hygienic Building is a Chicago Landmark together with constituent of the historic Bronzeville District inwards the Douglas community surface area of Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 3619-3627 State Street.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <br /> <b>THE CHICAGO BEE BUILDING</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8M0U1IpsbWPbExv7OeHXQSncWN3vw-u06vsLPWkyTu4AYi8QUnRehmyaPpeATA4blmy0qNYIlGFIijjOwppqtZ22oH73xRuzQQksa9RAxuSHighyphenhyphenNqiLkz34wbQQ7_3sQt4oK3pKAhrI/s1600-h/Chicago-Bee-Building.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8M0U1IpsbWPbExv7OeHXQSncWN3vw-u06vsLPWkyTu4AYi8QUnRehmyaPpeATA4blmy0qNYIlGFIijjOwppqtZ22oH73xRuzQQksa9RAxuSHighyphenhyphenNqiLkz34wbQQ7_3sQt4oK3pKAhrI/s320/Chicago-Bee-Building.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Chicago Bee Building</span></b></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDsjzzfFWibEY1uz550mEocSDagzAbQ0ydU9wkGidisu1nKIUXz7xidhfoM77xhUc08XraWqEJx5Qkn4k-8CvWNmsrL3itVbIOaYM4TX1OD_MEfGlta1o_uJJIWQRsP8rmGyugE-NwPE/s1600-h/Chicago+Bee+Building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDsjzzfFWibEY1uz550mEocSDagzAbQ0ydU9wkGidisu1nKIUXz7xidhfoM77xhUc08XraWqEJx5Qkn4k-8CvWNmsrL3itVbIOaYM4TX1OD_MEfGlta1o_uJJIWQRsP8rmGyugE-NwPE/s320/Chicago+Bee+Building.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Bee Building, immediately known equally The Bee Branch Library</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1926, The <i>Chicago Bee</i> paper publishing employment organisation was founded equally ane of Chicago's <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=robert-s-abbott-and-growth-of-black">African American newspapers</a>. Overton affirmed his confidence inwards the viability of the Black Metropolis of Bronzeville Chicago yesteryear commissioning architect Z. Erol Smith ane time again to blueprint a novel three-story edifice to operate his novel paper publishing employment organisation inwards a separate facility equally his query together with development, together with manufacturing operations. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Chicago Bee Building features a richly ornamented facade executed alone inwards terra cotta. It was ane of the some picturesque of the historic buildings inwards Bronzeville -- at the fourth dimension the only ane designed inwards the Art Deco mode of the belatedly 1920s.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWp5AfG8a8hMLJ4jltl0HN0IRVHIbQJwKEfxVMIXPvLkGXugtj4SUO2Sj9RYSshjwWrm1HK7VXEdkdNAHXwB0kQVt0TcH3EcxzgkET5hEJc8ZpC-C_DbkEjVDTRwMQl_DAebTqNqYCMI/s1600-h/chicago+bee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWp5AfG8a8hMLJ4jltl0HN0IRVHIbQJwKEfxVMIXPvLkGXugtj4SUO2Sj9RYSshjwWrm1HK7VXEdkdNAHXwB0kQVt0TcH3EcxzgkET5hEJc8ZpC-C_DbkEjVDTRwMQl_DAebTqNqYCMI/s320/chicago+bee.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: Librarian Jo Willis poses in forepart of the Art Deco doors of the Chicago Bee Building</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Although structure started at the starting fourth dimension of the Great Depression, the edifice was gear upward for occupancy yesteryear 1931. In add-on to the <i>Chicago Bee</i> newspaper, the edifice would identify the offices of the Overton Hygienic Company after the Douglass National Bank unopen inwards 1932. The paper unopen inwards the early on 1940s. The Anthony Overton Elementary School on Chicago's South Side was afterwards named inwards honor of this bang-up African-American businessman. </div> </div>

Anthony Overton: A Dark Manufacturer, Banker, Lawyer In Addition To Publisher

Photo: Anthony Overton (b. March 21, 1865 - d. July 2, 1946) On March 21, 1865, Anthony Overton was born into slavery in Monroe, Lo...

Nina Simone

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="244" width="325">   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GUcXI2BIUOQ&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GUcXI2BIUOQ&hl=en&fs=1" height="244" width="325" wmode="transparent" /> </object></div><div align="center"><b>Video: Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/)</b> </div><div align="center">(b. Feb 21, 1933 – d. Apr 21, 2003) </div><div align="center"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Born inward Tryon, North Carolina, Eunice Kathleen Waymon became best known yesteryear her phase mention Nina Simone ane time she completed her studies at Juilliard School of Music as a classical pianist. She performed folk, jazz, blues, together with mortal music to alive audiences throughout Africa, the Caribbean Area Islands, the EU, together with US. Ms. Simone's music performances were roughly of the most classic stage productions inward the history of American music.</div><div align="center"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_5HJCNcnFvZaeCiagCSt1bSQR9Y4XFmmjDz1OMr35pGRAm4Tpry2XagzyyAOgmr1-EFNibfEMMdlB0VdoFCnIvAzsBE5Otu3j8fNRQqci6V8Bzry0WfCBwllyHKocC6NqyhYUfA-HEo/s1600-h/nina.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_5HJCNcnFvZaeCiagCSt1bSQR9Y4XFmmjDz1OMr35pGRAm4Tpry2XagzyyAOgmr1-EFNibfEMMdlB0VdoFCnIvAzsBE5Otu3j8fNRQqci6V8Bzry0WfCBwllyHKocC6NqyhYUfA-HEo/s320/nina.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo of Nina Simone</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div align="center"><object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qCwME6Jpn3s&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qCwME6Jpn3s&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div></div>

Nina Simone

Video: Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/) (b. Feb 21, 1933 – d. Apr 21, 2003) Born inward Tryon, North Carolina, Eunice Kathleen Waymon be...

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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