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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). Barack Obama moved from the Senate to the White House in 2008. [39]
Students learn to make scale model aircraft for the war effort in a class at the Ida B. Wells Homes community center (March 1942) Named for African American journalist and newspaper editor Ida B. Wells, [1] the housing project was constructed between 1939 and 1941 as a Public Works Administration project to house black families in the "ghetto", in accordance with federal regulations requiring ...
Dearborn was the first Chicago housing project built after World War II, as housing for blacks on part of the Federal Street slum within the "black belt". [3] It was the start of the Chicago Housing Authority's post-war use of high-rise buildings to accommodate more units at a lower overall cost, [6] and when it opened in 1950, the first to have elevators.
Additionally, the African American population in the Roseland area increased exponentially following the riot. Takei cites census data for Chicago neighborhoods to track the increase—while only 4.2% of Roseland was African American in 1940, the black population grew to represent 18.4% of the community by 1950. [26]
The site had originally been home to South Side Park, a baseball stadium for the Chicago White Sox (1900-1910) and then the Chicago American Giants of the Negro Baseball League (1910-1940). In 1944, the CHA purchased the site to build a 422-unit apartment complex of low-rise buildings and row houses.
Its residents are predominantly African American, and it is home to former Senator Roland Burris. Housing many city employees and other officials, Chatham has been a central area for Chicago's middle-class African Americans since the late 1950s. [2]
From the 1940s onward, Holsman focused on designing residences for Chicago's African-American citizens, such as his Princeton Park community. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While Chicago's African-American population boomed from 1920 to 1970 due to the Great Migrations , discriminatory housing policies forced African-Americans to live in the "Black Belt" section ...
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.