Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kneberg was born in 1903 in Moline, Illinois to artist and interior designer Charles Kneberg and his wife Ann (married 1879). [2] She travelled to Italy in 1924 to study art and music in preparation for a career as a musical performer, but after four years returned to the United States and began training as a nurse at the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago.
Joseph Ralston Caldwell (June 14, 1916 – December 23, 1973) was an American archaeologist.In the late 1930s he conducted major excavations in the Savannah, Georgia area at the Irene site as part of Depression-era archaeology program.
Black Feminist Archaeology is relatively new within the discipline of archaeology, and has been predominantly led by Black women in historical North American contexts. [32] It focuses on the intersection between race, gender, and class in the interpretation of the American archaeological record, and rejects the separation or prioritization of ...
On July 29, 1895, representatives of 42 black women's clubs from 14 states—including the Colored Women's League of Washington, the Women's Loyal Union of New York, and the Ida B. Wells Club of Chicago—gathered in Berkeley Hall for the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, with Josephine Ruffin presiding. [7]
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.
[3] [5] [6] In 1968, the museum was renamed for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a fur trader of black African ancestry and the first non-Native-American permanent settler in Chicago. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] During the 1960s, the museum and the South Side Community Art Center , which was located across the street, founded in 1941 by Taylor-Burroughs and ...
Theresa A. Singleton is an American archaeologist and writer who focuses on the archaeology of African Americans, the African diaspora, and slavery in the United States.She is a leading archaeologist applying comparative approaches to the study of slavery in the Americas. [1]
Opened in Bronzeville in an 1893 mansion, it became the first black art museum in the United States [2] and has been an important center for the development Chicago's African American artists. [1] Of more than 100 community art centers established by the WPA, this is the only one that remains open. The center was awarded Chicago Landmark status ...