African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration
by
Margaret Garb
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city’s first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest’s victory was astonishing. It...