Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black
Autor Timuel D. Black, Jr. Editat de Bart Schultz Cu Susan Klonskyen Paperback – 14 ian 2019
Timuel Black is an acclaimed historian, activist, and storyteller. Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black chronicles the life and times of this Chicago legend.
Sacred Ground opens in 1919, during the summer of the Chicago race riot, when infant Black and his family arrive in Chicago from Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the first Great Migration. He recounts in vivid detail his childhood and education in the Black Metropolis of Bronzeville and South Side neighborhoods that make up his "sacred ground."
Revealing a priceless trove of experiences, memories, ideas, and opinions, Black describes how it felt to belong to this place, even when stationed in Europe during World War II. He relates how African American soldiers experienced challenges and conflicts during the war, illuminating how these struggles foreshadowed the civil rights movement. A labor organizer, educator, and activist, Black captures fascinating anecdotes and vignettes of meeting with famous figures of the times, such as Duke Ellington and Martin Luther King Jr., but also with unheralded people whose lives convey lessons about striving, uplift, and personal integrity.
Rounding out this memoir, Black reflects on the legacy of his friend and mentee, Barack Obama, as well as on his public works and enduring relationships with students, community workers, and some very influential figures in Chicago and the world.
Sacred Ground opens in 1919, during the summer of the Chicago race riot, when infant Black and his family arrive in Chicago from Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the first Great Migration. He recounts in vivid detail his childhood and education in the Black Metropolis of Bronzeville and South Side neighborhoods that make up his "sacred ground."
Revealing a priceless trove of experiences, memories, ideas, and opinions, Black describes how it felt to belong to this place, even when stationed in Europe during World War II. He relates how African American soldiers experienced challenges and conflicts during the war, illuminating how these struggles foreshadowed the civil rights movement. A labor organizer, educator, and activist, Black captures fascinating anecdotes and vignettes of meeting with famous figures of the times, such as Duke Ellington and Martin Luther King Jr., but also with unheralded people whose lives convey lessons about striving, uplift, and personal integrity.
Rounding out this memoir, Black reflects on the legacy of his friend and mentee, Barack Obama, as well as on his public works and enduring relationships with students, community workers, and some very influential figures in Chicago and the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810139244
ISBN-10: 0810139243
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 24 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810139243
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 24 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
TIMUEL D. BLACK JR. has spent his life furthering the cause of social justice, and his two volumes of oral histories, Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration and Bridges of Memory: Chicago's Second Generation of Black Migration, published by Northwestern University Press, chronicle black Chicago history from the 1920s to the present.
SUSAN KLONSKY is an educator, writer, and community activist. She and her husband, Mike Klonsky, are the authors of Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society.
BART SCHULTZ is a senior lecturer in humanities and director of the Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many works, including Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe.
SUSAN KLONSKY is an educator, writer, and community activist. She and her husband, Mike Klonsky, are the authors of Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society.
BART SCHULTZ is a senior lecturer in humanities and director of the Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many works, including Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe.
Cuprins
Introduction—A Reasonable Assumption
Chapter 1—You Come from People
Chapter 2—Interlude: All That Jazz
Chapter 3—Soldiering On
Chapter 4— Life in Teaching and Teaching Chicago
Chapter 5—Talking to the Elders
Chapter 6—The Power and the Glory
Epilogue--Looking Forward: The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight for It
Chapter 1—You Come from People
Chapter 2—Interlude: All That Jazz
Chapter 3—Soldiering On
Chapter 4— Life in Teaching and Teaching Chicago
Chapter 5—Talking to the Elders
Chapter 6—The Power and the Glory
Epilogue--Looking Forward: The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight for It
Descriere
Sacred Ground is the personal memoir of famed Chicago historian Timuel Black, whose life and times from 1919 to the present capture pivotal moments in Chicago history as well as the civil rights movement in Chicago and nationally.