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Ida B. Wells Boycotts the World’s Fair – Part 2

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Richard Guzman

[ Read Part 1 of this post. ] Chicago eventually became Ida B. Well’s home base.  What drew her here, away from her significant writing and crusading in Memphis, was controversy over the “White City” of the 1893 World’s Fair.  Blacks were … Continue reading →

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John Jones Crusades Against “Black Laws”

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Richard Guzman

Born in Greene County, North Carolina, around 1816, John Jones moved to Chicago in 1845 and established a tailor shop which had many wealthy, white Chicago customers.  By the 1870’s it made him perhaps the wealthiest black in the Midwest.  … Continue reading →

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