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The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable 's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African and French descent. [4] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city's first Black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first ...
e. 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.
Professor of Political Science and U.S. Congressman. Born in Chicago. Washington Hesing. May 4, 1849. Dec 17, 1897. Postmaster of Chicago and managing editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. Lived and died in Chicago. Janet Jagan. Oct 20, 1920.
Founded in 1911 by local Black business leaders, the cemetery is next to the Oak Hill Cemetery. [1] The cemetery is noteworthy for the number of famous African-American Chicagoans buried there, among them several notable blues and jazz musicians, as well as notables in literature, sports, and history.
African Americans. This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focus on those African Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African Americans. The United States of America has a long history of racism against its Black citizens. [2]
9. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868 – 1963), 82-year old anthropologist and publicist, co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of ...
The Black Reparations Co-Governance Task Force “will conduct a comprehensive study and examination of all policies that have harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to present day,” and ...
Founded in Chicago Big Black: 1981: 1987: Punk/noise rock band Founded in Chicago suburb of Evanston: The Buckinghams: 1966: present: Sunshine pop band Founded in Chicago Cheap Trick: 1973: present: Rock group Founded in Chicago, Cheap Trick plans to open a music complex on Motor Row in Chicago's South Loop [22] The Chi-Lites: 1959: present: R ...