African Americans in Chicago
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Here is the black Chicago family album, of African Americans leaving the violent, racist South and goin' to Chicago to find the American Dream.
The story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it all. It began long before the city itself. Wells, the Eighth Regiment, Jesse Jackson, Oprah, and much more . . . including a guy named Obama. The first white man here was a black man, Potowatami natives reportedly said about Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the brown-skinned man recognized as Chicago...




