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Ida B. Wells, a Black woman journalist and civil rights activist, spearheaded a national anti-lynching movement, co-founded the National Association of Colored Women (1896), established the first Black kindergarten in Chicago (1897), and co-founded the NAACP (1909), among her many other achievements.
Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929). The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, black rights activist, women's rights activist, organizer [17] – February 20, 1895 [18] W. E. B. Du Bois , activist, writer, founder of NAACP E
Marion Nzinga Stamps (born M. Marion Adams; May 28, 1945 – August 28, 1996) was an African-American community activist who fought for equal rights of public housing residents in the Cabrini-Green housing project on the Near-North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
[13] [14] The activists alleged the police made little effort to protect them, and at least eight off-duty Chicago police officers were believed to have been involved in the attacks on the marchers. [15] On August 21, 1976, around 250 civil rights activists tried again to march to Marquette Park but were stopped eight blocks short by police.
Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226130729. Hirsch, Arnold R. (2011). Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940–1960. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9781283097598. McKersie, Robert B. (2013).
Whether you’re wanting to brush up on your Black history or are a full-on history buff looking for your next source of inspiration, you’re bound to discover something new. 1. Harriet Tubman ...
The Rainbow Coalition was an anti-racist, working-class multicultural movement founded April 4, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois by Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party, along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots Organization and José Cha Cha Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords.