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872 N. Orleans, Chicago: Destroyed, 1991 [5] All of Mankind: 1971-73: 617 W. Evergreen Ave, Chicago: Whitewashed 2015 History of the Packing House Worker: 1975: 4859 South Wabash, Chicago: Restored, 1998 Wall of Daydreaming and Man's Inhumanity to Man: 1975: 47th Street and Calumet Avenue, Chicago: Restored, 2003 [6] Childhood is Without ...
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
Jesse Binga (April 10, 1865 – June 13, 1950) was a prominent American businessman who founded the first privately owned African-American bank in Chicago. [1] Binga recalled coming to Chicago in the 1890s with $10 in his pocket.
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
The chest of drawers, known as the Weare Chest, was made between 1680 and 1700. ... Stone built a large house at 192 York Street that still stands, and his will in 1773 lists furniture, likely ...
In the mid-1980s, the store received a new name, 32 Mott Street General Store, and in 2003, it closed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, The New York Times reported.
As a member of the Mbuti people, [7] Ota Benga lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Congo Free State.His people were attacked by the Force Publique, established by King Leopold II of Belgium as a militia to oppress the local people and communities, most of whom were used as forced laborers in the extraction and exploitation of Congo's massive supply of rubber. [8]