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Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915–1952 is a non-fiction book by Wallace D. Best, published by Princeton University Press in 2007. It discusses African-American Protestantism , [ 1 ] in Bronzeville, Chicago during the stated period in its title, which coincides with the Great Migration .
Moon blocks or jiaobei (also written as jiao bei etc. variants; Chinese: 筊杯 or 珓杯; pinyin: jiǎo bēi; Jyutping: gaau2 bui1), also poe (from Chinese: 桮; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poe; as used in the term "poe divination"), are wooden divination tools originating from China, which are used in pairs and thrown to seek divine guidance in the form of a yes or no question.
Bigsby & Kruthers was a high profile men's clothier in Chicago for 30 years from 1970 to 2000. The privately held company was founded by Joe Silverberg, joined shortly thereafter by his brother, H. Gene Silverberg, who both got their start as children working on Maxwell Street.
A University of Chicago political scientist provided guidance, and BYP100 grew to several chapters across the country, with headquarters in Chicago. Charlene Carruthers, the 32-year-old national director, noted that existing organizations in the city, such as the Nation of Islam, were also unapologetically black.
Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (UNC Press Books, 2019). Best, Wallace. "Black Belt," in Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2007; p. 140. Best, Wallace D. Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952. (Princeton University Press, 2007: ISBN 978-0-6911-3375-1, 2013). Info page.
Weare, Walter B. Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the NC Mutual Life Insurance Company (1993) Weare, Walter B. "Charles Clinton Spaulding: Middle-Class Leadership in the Age of Segregation," in John Hope Franklin and August Meier, eds., Black leaders of the twentieth century (U of Illinois Press, 1982), 166–90. Spaulding ...
Black Herman traveled between the North and South and provided conjure services in Black communities, such as card readings and crafting health tonics. However, Jim Crow laws pushed Black Herman to Harlem, New York's Black community, where he operated his own Hoodoo business and provided rootwork services to his clients.
Chas A. Stevens was a Chicago department store. It started in 1886 as a catalog business and eventually grew to 29 locations in the Chicago metropolitan area. [1] In 1988 the chain filed for bankruptcy and liquidated. Its flagship State Street store was the hub of fashion during the 1940s, 50s and 60s in Chicago. It featured six floors of ...