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Fire on the prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the politics of race (Holt, 1992, ISBN 0-8050-2698-3) Rocksborough-Smith, Ian. Black public history in Chicago: Civil rights activism from World War II into the Cold War (U of Illinois Press, 2018). Rocksborough-Smith, Ian. "Margaret T.G. Burroughs and Black Public History in Cold War Chicago".
A gathering was held in Chicago in 1911 and an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of emancipation was proposed. [2] It was originally planned for 1913 as the "Illinois (National) Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom". [1] Chicago Coliseum at 1513 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois . Atlas Printing Co. published the official program ...
David Barclay of Youngsbury (1729–1809), also known as David Barclay of Walthamstow or David Barclay of Walthamstow and Youngsbury, [1] was an English Quaker merchant, banker, and philanthropist. He is notable for an experiment in "gratuitous manumission ", in which he freed the slaves on his Jamaican plantation and arranged for better ...
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The young family moved to Chicago in March 1845, eight years after the city's incorporation. [1] [7] Committed abolitionists, they were drawn by Chicago's large anti-slavery movement. [5] On the journey, they were suspected of being runaway slaves and detained, but were freed on the appeal of their stagecoach driver. [7] [8]
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Although it focuses on exhibiting African-American culture, it is one of several Chicago museums that celebrates Chicago's ethnic and cultural heritage. [ 17 ] Antoinette Wright, director of the DuSable Black History Museum, has said that African-American art has grown out of a need for the culture to preserve its history orally and in art due ...
The American Negro Exposition, also known as the Black World's Fair and the Diamond Jubilee Exposition, was a world's fair held in Chicago from July until September in 1940, to celebrate the 75th anniversary (also known as a diamond jubilee) of the end of slavery in the United States at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865.