The historian and civil rights activist Timuel Black, a grandson of slaves who fought Nazis in WWII and went on to strategize with MLK Jr. and pushed to desegregate housing and public schools, has died at 102. (WBEZ)
Timuel Black liked to tell the story of how he arrived in Chicago. When he was eight months old, he looked around at the oppression in his Birmingham, Ala. birthplace and said “shit, I’m leaving here.” His mother said to his father, “that boy can’t even change his diapers — we’d better go with him.”
Black, the grandson of slaves, lived more than a century and had a hand in electing the city’s first Black mayor and the first Black U.S. president. He fought Nazis in World War II, which earned him four bronze battle stars. But he came home angry. Returning to racial discrimination radicalized him and led to a life of civil rights and public service. Black was fired from a job for attempting to unionize. In 1960, Black helped found the Negro American Labor Council and worked with A.
Of course, that statement is unequivocally false. A Chicago cultural treasure, through and through, Black was a walking encyclopedia on Black Chicago. He died Wednesday at the age of 102. Driving around the South Side, I learned about racially restrictive covenants, the importance of the Hansberry family beyond daughter Lorraine’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” and important moments that shaped the Black Belt. Talking to him deepened my own familial understanding. I, too, am the granddaughter of the Great Migration. Our talks and interviews helped my journey in connecting the dots on housing segregation and how public housing got built here.
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