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Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226306410; Moore, D. "CineWiki - Regal Theater and African-American Exhibition in Chicago." CineWiki - Regal Theater and African-American Exhibition in Chicago, December 14, 2008. Web. April 23, 2013.
The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."
Chicago Department of Human Resource float in the 1973 parade. Photo by John H. White. Barack Obama float for 2004 U.S. Senate race in the 2004 parade. Miss Black Illinois in the 2004 parade. U.S. Navy band marches in the 2008 parade. Anti-violence group for a Chicago high school in the 2008 parade. Hillcrest High School marching band in the ...
As The Charlotte Observer looks back on the stories of the city’s first Black club, Excelsior, we gathered a list of Black-owned hot spots of today.
In 1949, he became the first African American to chair a congressional committee. [38] Chicago is home to three of eight African-American United States senators who have served since Reconstruction, who are all Democrats: Carol Moseley Braun (1993–1999), Barack Obama (2005–2008), and Roland Burris (2009–2010).
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A revamped version returned for one day on June 22, 2019, as "FreakNik Atlanta '19 - The Festival" with a concert at Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood. [ 4 ] Originally "Freaknic", the name of the event is a portmanteau of "picnic" and "freak", in accordance with the D.C. Metro Club's 1982–1983 theme "The Return of the Freak".
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and ...