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[3] [5] [6] In 1968, the museum was renamed for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a fur trader of black African ancestry and the first non-Native-American permanent settler in Chicago. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] During the 1960s, the museum and the South Side Community Art Center , which was located across the street, founded in 1941 by Taylor-Burroughs and ...
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]
A commemorative plaque, struck in 1937, was installed on a marble block at Pioneer Court after its 1965 dedication. It reads, "KINZIE MANSION / Near this site stood Kinzie Mansion, / 1784-1832, home of Pointe Du Saible, / Le Mai, and John Kinzie, Chicago's / "first civilian," here was born in 1805, / the city's first white child Ellen Marion Kinzie". [4]
Chicago's DuSable Museum has turned over hate mail letters to the U.S. Secret Service they received shortly after President Joe Biden's inauguration.
Taylor-Burroughs taught at DuSable High School on Chicago's south side from 1946 to 1969, and from 1969 to 1979 was a professor of humanities at Kennedy-King College, a community college in Chicago. She also taught African American art and culture at Elmhurst College in 1968.
The DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL, where the Thomas Miller mural mosaics (c.1995) are installed in the lobby. Thomas Miller (December 24, 1920 – July 19, 2012) [ 1 ] was an American graphic designer and visual artist , whose best known publicly accessible work is the collection of mosaics of the founders of DuSable ...
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable: Location: Chicago, Illinois, U.S. A bronze bust of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable by ...
Shortly before 1 p.m., the Chicago Police Department marine unit recovered the body along the northbound lanes of the 3100 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive. He was pronounced ...