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Timuel Black

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Get Into the Struggle: Timuel Black in his Own Words

by Maira Khwaja and South Side Weekly October 27, 2021October 30, 2021

On October 13, Civil Rights activist, educator, historian, and author Timuel Dixon Black Jr. passed away. He was 102 years old. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Black grew up in Bronzeville, served in the Army during World War II, and taught in public schools in Gary, Indiana and in Chicago for decades. He was an organizer […]

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Timuel Black, South Side historian and activist, is dead at 102

by Aaron Gettinger October 13, 2021
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