An Autobiography of Black Chicago by Travis, Dempsey

An Autobiography of Black Chicago (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781932841671)

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Format: Paperback
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An Autobiography of Black Chicago by Travis, Dempsey

An Autobiography of Black Chicago

$18.00
An Autobiography of Black Chicago by Travis, Dempsey

An Autobiography of Black Chicago

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Few were more qualified than Dempsey Travis to write the history of African Americans in Chicago, and none would be able to do it with the same command of firsthand sources. This seminal paperback reissue of Travis's best-known work, An Autobiography of Black Chicago, depicts Chicago's African-American community through the personal experiences of Dempsey Travis, his family, and his circle. Starting with Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who was the first non-Native American to settle on 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 in 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.


Author: Dempsey Travis
ISBN-10: 1932841679
ISBN-13: 9781932841671
Publisher: Agate Bolden
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2014
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
By Dempsey Travis
By Dempsey Travis
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Dempsey Travis (1920-2009) was born and raised in Chicago. He was a real estate magnate, civil rights activist, jazz musician, and author. He graduated from Chicago's DuSable High School in 1939 and served in the army during World War II. He graduated from Roosevelt University in 1949 and received a degree from the School of Mortgage Banking at Northwestern University in 1969. He is the author of Views from the Back of the Bus and An Autobiography of Black Jazz, among many other books. He served as president of the Society of Midland Authors, as financial editor for Dollars and Sense magazine, and as a contributing writer to Ebony and The Black Scholar.

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