Bronzeville / Black Chicagoan Historical Society

11/14/2022

Be ready for some truth telling...

11/14/2022

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11/11/2022

Maurice Brooks brought sunshine into every place he went.. a great husband, father, friend, and Board Trustee of the Bronzeville Historical Society. RIH

11/09/2022

Check us out in the November issue of Chicago Magazine

11/08/2022

TRACING OUR PATH THROUGH BRONZEVILLE - FILM PREMIERE 3PM Nov. 12, 2022

TRACING OUR PATH THROUGH BRONZEVILLE - FILM PREMIERE 3PM Nov. 12, 2022

Join us to celebrate Film maker Reginald Rice to premier his documentary on artists in the beloved community of Bronzeville in Chicago.

11/06/2022

TRACING OUR PATH THROUGH BRONZEVILLE - FILM PREMIERE 3PM Nov. 12, 2022

TRACING OUR PATH THROUGH BRONZEVILLE - FILM PREMIERE 3PM Nov. 12, 2022

Join us to celebrate Film maker Reginald Rice to premier his documentary on artists in the beloved community of Bronzeville in Chicago.

11/06/2022

Honored to be the guest speaker on Sunday November 13 for their 14th Year Anniversary. Meet me there

10/28/2022

Time Machine: Bronzeville Between the World Wars.

Check out this awesome storytelling immersive digital experience with your families. Also share widely. Donations are needed to complete the Time Machine: Bronzeville work.

Explore the stories, cityscape, and legend and lore of Chicago's Bronzeville circa 1940.

10/17/2022

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A new week begins 💪
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10/17/2022

Renegade Ada Cheng is a phenomenal advocate for healing, justice, and honoring everyone's story. You could hear a pin drop in the packed room during her storytelling. Check us out at Truths As We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic in Bronzeville/Chinatown on Saturday Oct 22, 2022 at 238 W 23rd St. at 1PM. https://www.facebook.com/events/1745158529193138

10/17/2022

Volunteers archive key burial records — preserving the histories of tens of thousands of Black Chicagoans

Volunteers archive key burial records — preserving the histories of tens of thousands of Black Chicagoans

Members of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago spent nearly a decade cataloging the burial records of Black Chicagoans. A digital archive is now at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Chicago Public Library.

10/17/2022

Nearly ‘Erased by History’: African Americans Search for Lost Graves

Nearly ‘Erased by History’: African Americans Search for Lost Graves

Families and volunteers seek out and restore abandoned cemeteries as a way of recovering their own personal stories.

10/16/2022

Why the problem of maternity care deserts is getting worse

Why the problem of maternity care deserts is getting worse

The number of deaths due to pregnancy-related causes is on the rise, according to a new report from the March of Dimes, a nonprofit organization focused on maternal and infant care. The report found that as outcomes get worse, so too is access to high-quality maternity care. Ali Rogin speaks with Dr...

10/15/2022

I look forward to building more and more alliances with Illinois elected officials to protect, preserve, and share African American one of a kind documents that illuminate our roles in history. Thank you Illinois Comptroller Lamont J. Robinson for State Representative Alderman Pat Dowell Steven Charles Williams Nettie Nesbary for all that you do.

I was pleased to join Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza and Alderman Pat Dowell to honor Mrs. Sherry Williams and the Bronzeville / Black Chicagoan Historical Society as they transfer the death records of 140,000 individuals to the Chicago Public Library's Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection. This important project preserved the history of Black Illinoisans and the Great Migration. The Comptroller's office was able to save these records from being destroyed after the Carter Funeral Chapel and Charles Jackson Funeral Home closed. The Bronzeville Historical Society catalogued and preserved the death records, which date back to the 1920s.

10/03/2022

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09/27/2022

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09/25/2022

Chicago Fire Dept. Entrance Exam. Click the link below to sign up.

Chicago Fire Dept. Entrance Exam. Click the link below to sign up.

City of Chicago :: Fire

09/25/2022

Photos from Richard Hunt Sculptor's post

09/19/2022

With 93 Boyz, Vic Mensa hopes to add flavor to Illinois' growing cannabis industry • The TRiiBE

With 93 Boyz, Vic Mensa hopes to add flavor to Illinois' growing cannabis industry • The TRiiBE

“I feel phenomenal to be able to be the first Black-owned cannabis brand operating in the state of Illinois,” rapper Vic Mensa told The TRiiBE.

09/14/2022

Photos from Toure Muhammad's post

09/13/2022

09/09/2022

Work from home for Delta Airlines

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09/08/2022

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”—James Baldwin

08/29/2022

HISTORY is Lunch presented at Mississippi Civil Rights Museum – Weds Aug 31 online with Maurice Allen and Sherry Williams (Free online)

https://bronzevillehistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/history-is-lunch-presented-at-mississippi-civil-rights-museum-weds-aug-31-online-with-maurice-allen-and-sherry-williams/

Join Online participation here History Is Lunch: Maurice Allen and Sherry Williams, “The Great Migration” At noon on Wednesday, August 31, Maurice Allen and Sherry Williams will present “The Great …

08/14/2022

Photos from Bobby Rush's post

08/08/2022

Altar Memorials: Honoring Our Ancestors

Altar Memorials: Honoring Our Ancestors

08/08/2022

07/19/2022

Join Our Mission

Join Our Mission

07/19/2022

Past redlining practices linked to present-day abandoned properties in Cook County, new report says

Past redlining practices linked to present-day abandoned properties in Cook County, new report says

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas would like the report to spark discussions about reforms to the county’s scavenger sales that occur every two...

07/19/2022

Auntie Fee's Egg Rolls

Auntie Fee's Egg Rolls

06/27/2022

Shaun B., UNADULTERATED

Shaun B., UNADULTERATED

Chicago's own Shaun B. returns to the Bronzeville Historical Society with his unique brand of comedy and storytelling.

06/15/2022

Ida B. Wells Festival - Sat. June 25, 2022 at 8 AM - 2 PM

Ida B. Wells Festival - Sat. June 25, 2022 at 8 AM - 2 PM

IDA B. WELLS FESTIVAL - A CELEBRATION FOR ALL AGES. Family fun to enjoy poetry, music, hopscotch, face painting, Panel Discussion 1PM

06/10/2022

Dinah Washington and Sam Cooke! Two of the most wonderful singers ever!

05/22/2022

Those Who Did Not Die: An evening with survivors of Chicago gun violence

Those Who Did Not Die: An evening with survivors of Chicago gun violence

Join us for a virtual storytelling experience featuring four survivors of gun violence, whose stories illuminate Chicago’s epidemic.

05/22/2022

This is so hard to watch. Buffalo was a place we’d frequently drive 2 from Toronto growing up. Some summers we’d go by the falls (Niagara Falls). I saw many incredible concerts there. Bebe and Cece Winans, Luther Vandross, Al Hamen concerts to name a few.
So many great memories there. It saddens me the more I hear about the victims and their lives. These were decent, good natured people. I’m so heartbroken. 🕊

05/22/2022

May 21, 2006: Katherine Dunham died in her sleep from natural causes in New York City. She died a month before her 97th birthday.

Katherine Dunham was a dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist.

Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in African-American and European theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years. She has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of Black dance."

SOCIAL ACTIVISM:
✊🏿The Katherine Dunham Company toured throughout North America in the mid-1940s. Dunham refused to hold a show in one theater after finding out that the city's Black residents had not been allowed to buy tickets for the performance.

One historian noted that "during the course of the tour, Dunham and the troupe had recurrent problems with racial discrimination, leading her to a posture of militancy which was to characterize her subsequent career."

✊🏿In Hollywood, Dunham refused to sign a lucrative studio contract when the producer said she would have to replace some of her darker-skinned company members.

✊🏿In 1950, while visiting Brazil, Dunham and her group were refused rooms at a first-class hotel in São Paulo, the Hotel Esplanada, frequented by many American businessmen. She made sure the incident was publicized.

The incident was widely discussed in the Brazilian press and became a hot political issue. In response, the Afonso Arinos law was passed in 1951 that made racial discrimination in public places a felony in Brazil.

✊🏿In 1992, at age 83, Dunham went on a highly publicized hunger strike to protest the discriminatory U.S. foreign policy against Haitian boat-people. Time reported that, "she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job", she said, "is to create a useful legacy."

Dunham ended her fast only after exiled Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Jesse Jackson came to her and personally requested that she stop risking her life for this cause.

In recognition of her stance, President Aristide later awarded her a medal of Haiti's highest honor.

05/18/2022

Chicago Department of Family & Support Services on Twitter

Chicago Department of Family & Support Services on Twitter

“Are you struggling to make rent? The DFSS Rental Assistance Program (RAP) is ready to support you and still is accepting applications. Apply for direct rental support at https://t.co/sfCnGfncVO ”

05/08/2022

05/05/2022

𝗙𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 (𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆) 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 1900.

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁.𝗼𝗿𝗴/𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻-𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻-𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆/𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻-𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆/.