Learn about the Charles Walton Papers and the Dungill Family Papers, two popular collections in the Harsh Research Collection.
Tim Black, In His Own Words
The Vivian G. Harsh Collection and Chicago Public Library are thrilled to announce the launch of the Timuel D. Black Jr. Digital Collection, which contains digitized images of speeches delivered and letters written by Black.
Black Press Day: Documenting Chicago’s Journalism History
Black Press Day, March 16, commemorates the date in 1827 that the first issue of Freedom’s Journal hit the streets of New York City. The newspaper is considered to be the first African American-owned and -operated newspaper in the United States. Its editors declared, “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others…
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Chicago’s African American History?
It’s February and that means we’re celebrating African American History Month. Our quiz doesn’t even begin to cover every aspect or era of African American life and history in Chicago, but we hope you enjoy it and learn a few new things! To help you warm up, we'll give you the answer to this question…
Black Poetry Day: Celebrate Black Poets in Chicago and Beyond
On October 17, we celebrate Black Poetry Day! Initially celebrated in 1970 at New York Public Library’s Huntington Library Branch on Long Island, Black Poetry Day awards us a chance to celebrate and recognize African American poets, old and new. The inspiration for Black Poetry Day was the birth anniversary of Jupiter Hammon, long-considered to…
Celebrating 100 Years with Timuel Black, Jr.
On December 7, 2018, one of Chicago's greatest treasures, Timuel Black, Jr., turns 100! Please join us in wishing him the happiest of birthdays! Black was...
Celebrating Chicagoan, African American Painter Charles White
On April 2, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of African American painter and graphic designer Charles White. According to Roosevelt University professor Erik Gellman in The Black Chicago Renaissance, White not only “applied his art as a weapon in Chicago,” but he discovered a unique appreciation and love for African American history…
Remembering Chicagoan Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Chicagoan and African American historian and editor Lerone Bennett, Jr. died Wednesday, February 14 at 89. Bennett began a long and storied publishing career first writing for the Atlanta Daily World, while also serving as city editor for Jet magazine. In 1953, he became the associate editor of Ebony. Five years later, he accepted the…
Philip Sang Collection Documents African American Experience
Chicago Public Library recently digitized over 200 items documenting the African American experience. You can see these items in our Philip David Sang Digital Collection. The Sang collection, acquired by CPL in the late 1970s and housed in the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection at Woodson Regional Library, consists of a range of materials and…
Labor of Love: Revs. Addie and Claude Wyatt Photographs
Chicagoan Addie Wyatt was a minister, labor activist and civil rights activist who founded the Vernon Park Church of God in 1955 with her husband, Claude Wyatt. The Vivian G. Harsh Collection recently completed the addition of more than 2,800 photos documenting the Wyatts' family life, ministry, and labor and civil rights work from the…
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