GOOD MONDAY MORNING P.O.U.! (This series was originally posted in May 2013) This week's series will focus on African-American Bankers. JESSE BINGA (1865-1950) Binga State Bank Chicago, Ill … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: African-American Bankers
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Friday Open Thread: Early African American Basketball II
HAPPY FRIDAY P.O.U.! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! We continue our series on Early African American Basketball... SAVOY BIG FIVE Chicago, Illinois … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Early African American Basketball II
Thursday Open Thread: Early African American Basketball II
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! We continue our series on Early African American Basketball... OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH COSMOPOLITANS Chicago, Illinois … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Early African American Basketball II
Thursday Open Thread: Free Black Communities
New Philadelphia, Illinois was one of the most famous of the antebellum all-black towns. Founded by Frank McWorter (1777-1854), a former Kentucky slave who purchased his freedom with his own earnings, New Philadelphia, Illinois was the first U. S. town to be registered by an African American prior to the Civil War. Now covered by prairie farm fields, New Philadelphia was … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Free Black Communities
Wednesday Open Thread: Free Black Communities
In the early 1820s, eleven African American families, some free, some fugitive, crossed the Mississippi River from the slave-state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois to found the first black town in the United States. According to oral tradition, the group was led by Priscilla and John Baltimore, and included the Anderson, Sullivan, Singleton, Wilson, Cox, Wyatt, and … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Free Black Communities