NEGRO, BLACK, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN ILLINOIS

A slave named Manuel was burned to death for witchcraft in Illinois in 1779.

Abraham Lincoln and the Recruitment of Negro Soldiers.

Airport Homes Race Riots. Whites Protest Negroes Moving Into New Temporary Housing.

Alpha [Woman's] Suffrage Club of Chicago, Illinois.

Anthony Overton the first Negro to lead a Major American business conglomerate.

Bessie "Queen Bess" Coleman, First Black & Native American Woman to get a Pilot License.

Château de la Plaisance Amusement Park Negro Owned Chicago, (1907-1910)

Chicago Leland Giants Negro Base Ball Team. (1901-1909)

Chicago Race Riot (the "Red Summer") of 1919.

Chicagoan Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet (1917-2000).

Chicagoan Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), the "Queen of Gospel"

Chicagoan Sarah Elisabeth Jacobs Goode, the first Negro woman to receive a U.S. Patent.

Chicago's Founder, Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable, An In-Depth History.

Chicago's Very Own, Bud Billiken's Day Parade History, Since 1929.

Daniel Hale Williams Completes First Open-Heart Surgery in Chicago in 1893.

Decades before the Civil War, Turkey Hill in St. Clair County was a settlement of free Negroes.

Ernest “Ernie” Banks, the first Negro Chicago Cubs player. Known as "Mr. Cub."

East St. Louis, Illinois Race Riots of 1917.

Edith Spurlock Sampson, America's first Black female Judge.

Emma J. Atkinson was one of the Mysterious “Big Four" Abolitionists.

Free Frank McWorter paid for his own freedom from slavery, found his family and freed them.

Free Negroes in Illinois Before the Civil War, 1818-1860

Freedom Village, Illinois, was America’s first Negro town founded in the early 1820s.

How Negroes in Early Springfield, Illinois Influenced Lincoln's Views on Race and Society.

Illinois' Negro Laws, aka Black Codes.

Illinois' Negro World War I Regiment; The Forgotten Story.

John Crenshaw's "Old Slave House," the Reverse Underground Railroad in Equality, Illinois.

John Jones, a free Negro, pamphlet spurred Illinois General Assembly to Repeal Black Laws.

Keanon Kyles, a black opera singer, gets his big break after years as a night janitor.

Ku Klux Klan in Southern Illinois in 1875.

Lost Towns of Illinois - Africa, a settlement in Williamson County, Illinois.

Lost Towns of Illinois - New Philadelphia, Illinois.

"Negro Boys on Easter Morning" Photoshoot in Chicago's Bronzeville Neighborhood. 1941

Negroes, Race, and Ethnicity in Illinois and the North during the Civil War.

Opinions on 'Slavery' and 'Reconstruction of the Union,' by President Lincoln. pub:1864

Orestes "Minnie" Miñoso, first Black Chicago White Sox player, known as "Mr. White Sox."

Racism at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Removal of the "African Dip" dunk tank from Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago, Illinois.

The Boy Scouts of America, the First Negro Troop in Evanston Recognized in 1912.

The Chicago Leland Giants Negro Base Ball Team. (1901-1909)

The Disappearance of Civil Rights Pioneer Lloyd Gaines, last seen in Chicago in 1939.

The Goals of the Excessive Number of Negro Woman's Clubs in 1890-1920 Chicago.

The Institute of Slavery in Illinois.

The Jack Spratt Coffee House Civil Rights Sit-In on May 15, 1943, in Chicago.

The Morgan Park Community, home to Chicago's pioneer Negro settlement, began in 1880s.

The Negro Travelers' Green Book - Chicago Section, 1954.

The Reason Why Colored American Is Not in 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

The Story about Aunt Jemima and the Illinois Aunt Jemima's Kitchen Restaurants.

The Story of Chicago’s Forgotten World’s Fair, American Negro Exposition.

The World’s Fair that Ignored More than Half the World.

TERMS: NEGRO until the mid-1960s; COLORED is Historically Slang; BLACK mid-1960s to late 1980s; AFRICAN-AMERICAN began in the late 1980s.