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An Autobiography of Black Chicago

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Few were more qualified than Dempsey Travis to write down the history of African Americans in Chicago, and none would be capable of do it with the similar command of firsthand sources. This seminal paperback reissue of Travis’s perfect-known work, An Autobiography of Black Chicago, depicts Chicago’s African-American community during the personal experiences of Dempsey Travis, his circle of relatives, and his circle. Starting with John Baptiste Point du Sable, who used to be the primary non–Native American to settle at the mouth of the Chicago River, and ending with Travis’s own successes leading the city’s NAACP chapter, organizing Martin Luther King’s first march within the city, and providing equal housing opportunities for black Chicagoans, An Autobiography of Black Chicago is a comprehensive yet intimate history of African Americans in 20th-century Chicago.
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