Promoting Dark Artists: The Due South Side Community Fine Art Middle Of Chicago

<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/AVvXsEgz9vBMeARq001rFnKTM6GtCQU-IC9xYYdfEpkrnZuRl5nC1gRnyObtWgMdulIE6rXLNMmVH1It7IkzMjP5vF6gJDEMFv1mBRkSeWrfv-qLdRFvnD-m1fv3yjZ6Any4rBJYB8bXGEVKfDs/s1600-h/SSCAC+Artists-gather-for-historic-photo-in-front-of-SSCAC-2004-300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9vBMeARq001rFnKTM6GtCQU-IC9xYYdfEpkrnZuRl5nC1gRnyObtWgMdulIE6rXLNMmVH1It7IkzMjP5vF6gJDEMFv1mBRkSeWrfv-qLdRFvnD-m1fv3yjZ6Any4rBJYB8bXGEVKfDs/s320/SSCAC+Artists-gather-for-historic-photo-in-front-of-SSCAC-2004-300.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: The South Side Community Art Center</b></span></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) has provided entry to the arts for thousands yesteryear supporting Chicago’s African American artists since 1941. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>BLACK CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The South Side Community Art Center was purchased by a private committee spearheaded yesteryear the African American human of affairs Golden B. Darby. Garnering the fiscal back upward of the the U.S.A. federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), the art centre was formally dedicated yesteryear Eleanor Roosevelt inwards May, 1941. It officially opened its doors inwards December, 1941. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The SSCAC was founded to come across the community postulate to encourage the evolution of fine arts. It became an establishment where African American artists could develop as well as display their plant as well as develop Black youth inwards the arts. Filmmaker as well as lensman Gordon Parks; artists <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=chicagos-cultural-maverick-dr-margaret">Margaret Burroughs</a>, Archibald J. Motley, <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=chicagos-cultural-maverick-dr-margaret">Charles White</a>, as well as Eldzier Cortor; poet Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as author Richard Wright, all honed their crafts at this institution.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUx8yQ8H-MFNgiYlxoob1lI1WpaG9_VDZuIptlRRXru19qERZrisMcvyfhBBRSa4HfQDy7D_FBVLpHsN0EltrAvCdP4AKa73nc_h23238-JPAwkdzfB5hSE_ZWIkl3F3sJwkXkbcs_Zs/s1600-h/SSCAC+Charles+White.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUx8yQ8H-MFNgiYlxoob1lI1WpaG9_VDZuIptlRRXru19qERZrisMcvyfhBBRSa4HfQDy7D_FBVLpHsN0EltrAvCdP4AKa73nc_h23238-JPAwkdzfB5hSE_ZWIkl3F3sJwkXkbcs_Zs/s320/SSCAC+Charles+White.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: The belatedly fine creative soul Charles H. White (1918-1979)</b></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/AVvXsEgnLXBFufRrt2njtocx-etKtgr0bENXbdJl3Vj9ZfygFR6FWYupTC31ArB3NbObClyLyyYvIV44aGwNI7doNHvd-Ba1D7d8wCXBFV88_7sLh4o3h11V-O8JKTi_XJsEY1Dc7Sx3dSIPuRA/s1600-h/SSCAC+gwendolyn_brooks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnLXBFufRrt2njtocx-etKtgr0bENXbdJl3Vj9ZfygFR6FWYupTC31ArB3NbObClyLyyYvIV44aGwNI7doNHvd-Ba1D7d8wCXBFV88_7sLh4o3h11V-O8JKTi_XJsEY1Dc7Sx3dSIPuRA/s320/SSCAC+gwendolyn_brooks.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The belatedly poet as well as author Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://www.southsidecommunityartcenter.com/">South Side Community Art Center</a> is located at 3831 S. Michigan Avenue, the onetime mansion of White Sox possessor Charles Comisky. It hosts writer's workshops as well as classes inwards painting, drawing, photography, as well as pottery.</div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8xdSYE6be4xff2CwIYMAwjhmXAOmE55eef8Wbnzo-7l7lwFcL3feqXxHzYn-5F1JaeykQU32SNVjrNnv6WUOJKj9EB48FujyXi6_Pavl7nodhRBAgW7491sXO9wQO-Mf-0R0YYMxSXQ/s1600-h/SSCAC+community+arts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8xdSYE6be4xff2CwIYMAwjhmXAOmE55eef8Wbnzo-7l7lwFcL3feqXxHzYn-5F1JaeykQU32SNVjrNnv6WUOJKj9EB48FujyXi6_Pavl7nodhRBAgW7491sXO9wQO-Mf-0R0YYMxSXQ/s320/SSCAC+community+arts.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Encourage Community Arts</b></div></div>

Promoting Dark Artists: The Due South Side Community Fine Art Middle Of Chicago

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

<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/AVvXsEjNRcGcZ94cEljOMHZxtltrFCSjsLNfi9iJaPTogEc1pmV22dGYIp20GzfIH2jKQUQCw-UKUXzawkf_2lVvt0JGa-c9pOMIdayYQPNXHqZjZeeRxo2MqiIPlD29p50dzDCYvlPZe5rAbcQ/s1600/Photo+of+Dr+Theodore+Lawless.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRcGcZ94cEljOMHZxtltrFCSjsLNfi9iJaPTogEc1pmV22dGYIp20GzfIH2jKQUQCw-UKUXzawkf_2lVvt0JGa-c9pOMIdayYQPNXHqZjZeeRxo2MqiIPlD29p50dzDCYvlPZe5rAbcQ/s1600/Photo+of+Dr+Theodore+Lawless.jpg" width="280" /></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;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Dr. Theodore K. Lawless (b. </span></span><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;">Dec. 6, 1892 </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- d. May 1, 1971)</span></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Dr. Theodore Kenneth "T.K." Lawless had an extensive noesis of dermatology that made him ane of the leading international peel specialists of his time.</i> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>EARLY LIFE AND TRAINING</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He was born to Rev. Alfred Lawless as well as Harriet Dunn Lawless inwards Thibodeaux, Louisiana inwards 1892. Lawless became a committed philanthropist afterwards completing extensive academic studies as well as achieving worldwide success inwards his medical practice. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He attended Talladega College inwards 1914 where he earned his B.A. In 1919, he obtained an M.D. from Northwestern University School of Medicine, as well as an M.A. in 1920 from Northwestern University. He studied dermatology at Columbia University in 1920 as well as attended Harvard University in 1921. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> From 1921-22, Lawless studied at the University of Paris. From 1922-23, he studied at the University of Freiburg, as well as from 1923-24 he studied at the University of Vienna. He became a noted lecturer inwards the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University inwards Chicago. He was too in ane trial a professor of physiology at Howard Medical School. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>MEDICAL PRACTICE</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Dr. Lawless created Chicago's largest as well as only about respected dermatology clinics inwards the take in of the African American community. Patients came from across the nation for his coveted services. The clinics where located inwards the T.K. Lawless Professional Building, located at 4300 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdepsCbsHbxYB80i5Aslmd6jHa0W3e6DmumR-6WnTZDe_oHqSZuPS9Y9Ss_y54J9Nt0vQrwRRkO8jI1mCPKxkVejVaTz05nn4j7v94WC2bOpATFBhh9-HX5fYJ9abGRmW-gDwu0NGhPk/s1600-h/TK+Lawless+Building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdepsCbsHbxYB80i5Aslmd6jHa0W3e6DmumR-6WnTZDe_oHqSZuPS9Y9Ss_y54J9Nt0vQrwRRkO8jI1mCPKxkVejVaTz05nn4j7v94WC2bOpATFBhh9-HX5fYJ9abGRmW-gDwu0NGhPk/s320/TK+Lawless+Building.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: T.K. Lawless Professional Buiding inwards Chicago at </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">4300 S. King Drive</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> His medical query contributed greatly towards establishing a cure to leprosy. His noesis inwards dermatology as well as inwards the handling of syphilis were used yesteryear both the United States of America as well as European physicians. He served every moment a consultant to the the United States of America Chemical Warfare Board. During World War II, he served on the Advisory Committee on venereal disease. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Dr. Lawless donated a query laboratory to Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hospital inwards State of Israel was named afterwards him to honor his $160,000 financial donations toward establishing a dermatology hospital (Lawless Department of Dermatology) at the Beilinson Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel. In 1954, Lawless was awarded the Spingarn Medal, the highest ranking NAACP award. By the 1960s, Ebony periodical listed Dr. Lawless amidst America's 35 Negro millionaires.</div> </div>

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

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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>

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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>

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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>

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<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>

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