Lifting as they climbed
Subtitle: mapping a history of black women on Chicago's south side : a self-guided tour
By: by Mariame Kaba & Essence McDowell
Contributors: McDowell, Essence, author
Publisher: Chicago Black Women Tour
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: African American women; Biography
Description: This publication features a number of Black women who contributed to the development of Chicago from the mid-19th century to today. It tells a story of Black women activists and artists who lived and worked on Chicago's South Side by taking readers on a tour of relevant landmarks and locations. The vast majority of women featured on this tour were active members of multiple organizations who pursued a broad range of issues. Others were artists (writers, painters, musicians, dancers) who both documented the conditions of Black people and shaped the culture of Chicago & the entire country. Chicago's Black women activists organized to make the city work better for themselves, their loved ones and communities. There are 33 main locations, mostly centered on the South Side of Chicago, featured in this guidebook. We've also included 10 additional sites of interest. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-69).
Table of contents: title: Locations : 1. Jones College Prep; title: 2. The Levee (Dearborn Station); title: 3. Quinn Chapel, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church; title: 4. Negro Fellowship League; title: 5. South Side Settlement House; title: 6. The Chicago Defender; title: 7. The Chicago Sunday Bee; title: 8. Margaret Burrough's Home & Original home of Dusable Museum; title: 9. South Side Community Art Center; title: 10. Roberts Temple Church of God; title: 11. Wendell Phillips Academy High School; title: 12. Ida B. Wells-Barnett House; title: 13. Etta Moten Barnett's Home; title: 14. Original All Nations Church; title: 15. Abraham Lincoln Center; title: 16. Alice Browning's Home; title: 17. Bessie Coleman's Marker; title: 18. Gwendolyn Brooks's Home; title: 19. Nora Holt's Home; title: 20. Lillian Armstrong's Home; title: 21. Ebenezer Baptist Church; title: 22. Elam Home for Girls; title: 23. George C. Hall Library; title: 24. DuSable High School; title: 25. Cosmopolitan Community Church; title: 26. Marjorie Stewart Joyner's First Hair Salon; title: 27. Provident Hospital & Training School; title: 28. Operation PUSH (Rainbow Coalition); title: 29. Mahalia Jackson's former residence; title: 30. Hyde Park High School; title: 31. Reynolds Club (University of Chicago); title: 32. Lorraine Hansberry's childhood home; title: 33. Fannie Hagen Emanuel's Home.