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Timuel Dixon Black, a prominent Chicago civil rights activist, was remembered Friday as someone who helped shape the city’s history and shared wisdom with younger generations. Black, a highly-celebrated centenarian in the city who died Oct. 13 at 102 years old, was laid to rest . . .
CHICAGO (CBS) — Some of Chicago’s most powerful figures paused on Friday to honor the life and legacy of a Chicago icon. A small gathering of family, friends and community leaders attended the private funeral for Timuel Black. They shared memories and historical moments. Black marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became a political […]
Source: Paul Natkin / Getty After recently sending some birthday love to an age-defying 110-year-old Black woman from Virginia, we now have to acknowledge another one of our Black elders for a reason that’s the most unfortunate. It saddens us to reveal that Chicago’s own Timuel Dixon Black Jr., a longtime civil rights activist […]
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE After recently sending some birthday love to an age-defying 110-year-old Black woman from Virginia, we now have to acknowledge another one of our Black elders for a reason that’s the most unfortunate. It saddens us to reveal that Chicago’s own Timuel Black, a longtime civil right activist and respected […]
(CNN) — Civil rights leader Timuel Black died Wednesday at the age of 102, according to a statement from the University of Chicago where he obtained a master’s degree in 1954. “He marched with Martin Luther King Jr., campaigned for Chicago mayor Harold Washington, mentored a young Barack Obama and helped bring the Obama Presidential […]
“He marched with Martin Luther King Jr., campaigned for Chicago mayor Harold Washington, mentored a young Barack Obama and helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to the South Side,” the university said of the civil rights leader in a statement. Black also helped end segregation in the Chicago Public Schools district through his work as […]
BRONZEVILLE — Timuel Black, the civil rights activist, historian and centenarian from Chicago’s Black Belt, has entered hospice care. Black is getting care in his Drexel Boulevard home, according to a GoFundMe organized Wednesday by Lisa Yun Lee, a cultural activist and executive director of the National Public Housing Museum. Funds raised will go to […]
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