Bibliograph

Sacred ground, the Chicago streets of Timuel Black, Timuel D. Black Jr. as told to Susan Klonsky ; edited by Bart Schultz

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Sacred ground, the Chicago streets of Timuel Black, Timuel D. Black Jr. as told to Susan Klonsky ; edited by Bart Schultz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sacred ground

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1050143719

Responsibility statement

Timuel D. Black Jr. as told to Susan Klonsky ; edited by Bart Schultz

Sub title

the Chicago streets of Timuel Black

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction. A reasonable assumption -- You come from people -- Interlude: All that jazz -- Soldiering on -- A life in teaching -- Talking to the elders -- The power and the glory -- Epilogue. The future belongs to those who fight for it -- Afterword: Walking with my father / Ermetra A. Black Thomas

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