IN MEMORIAM: Timuel Black; Civil Rights Leader and Chicago Historian

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Timuel Black spent decades working as an activist and educator on Chicago’s South Side, impacting the lives of countless people. He is pictured in 2014 standing near his Hyde Park home. He passed away in October 2021 at the age of 102. Photo credit: Robert Kozloff

Timuel Black, historian, civil rights activist, dies at 102; Mr. Black, a political and civil rights activist, educator, historian, prolific author and revered elder statesman and griot of Chicago’s Black community, died Wednesday, Maudlyne Ihejirika, Chicago Sun-Times, 10/13/21

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