Timuel Black

Timuel Dixon Black Jr. (December 7, 1918 – October 13, 2021) was an American historian, educator, author and civil rights activist. He was an expert in African American history in Chicago. 

Black began his career as a social worker. During the 1960s, Black was president of the Negro American Labor Council. He was an organizer of the Chicago participation in the 1963 March on Washington.

Black was the named plaintiff in the lawsuit Black v. McGuffage. The suit claimed that the Illinois voting system discriminated against minorities during the 2000 United States presidential election.

Black died on October 13, 2021 while in hospice care at his Kenwood home in Chicago, Illinois from prostate cancer, aged 102.

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