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African Americans in Chicago
Contributor(s): Thompson, Lowell (Author)

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ISBN: 0738588539     ISBN-13: 9780738588537
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: February 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical
Dewey: 977.311
LCCN: 2011934693
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" L (0.70 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Locality - Chicago, Illinois
- Geographic Orientation - Illinois
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:

Here is the black Chicago family album, of African Americans leaving the violent, racist South and "goin' to Chicago" to find the American Dream.


The story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it all. It began long before the city itself. Wells, the Eighth Regiment, Jesse Jackson, Oprah, and much more . . . including a guy named Obama. "The first white man here was a black man," Potowatami natives reportedly said about Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the brown-skinned man recognized as Chicago's first non-Indian settler. It's all here: from the site of DuSable's cabin--now smack-dab in the middle of Chicago's Magnificent Mile--to images of famous and infamous residents like boxers Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Louis. Here are leaders and cultural touchstones like Jesse Binga's bank, Robert S. Abbott's Chicago Defender, legendary filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, Ida B. Here is the black Chicago family album, of folks who made and never made the headlines, and pictures and stories of kinship and fellowship of African Americans leaving the violent, racist South and "goin' to Chicago" to find their piece of the American Dream. Chicago has been called the "Second City," but black Chicago is second to none.


Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Lowell: - Born at 3625 Giles Avenue on Chicago s South Side, Lowell Thompson is an artist/writer and creative catalyst. In 1968, three months after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he was one of the first African Americans hired in the creative department of any leading American advertising agency.
 
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