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DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis
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AfiCOBRA
Photographer Robert Sengstacke
Black Theater
Advertising Black Pride
Harlem Globetrotters
Lorraine Hansberry
Marion Perkins, sculptor
Did the blues change in Chicago?
Chaka Kahn: The Band Rufus
Chaka Kahn: Stevie Wonder
Stan Shaw: "Roots" miniseries
Hip Hop poet J. Ivy
Legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Knuckles: "What is house music?"
Lalah Hathaway: Soul Music
The poet Gwendolyn Brooks
The Black Arts movement
Patty Labelle sings gospel.
Is Chicago a beacon for black theater?
Dr. Margaret Burroughs: DuSable Museum co-founder
Chaka Kahn
Blues legend Koko Taylor
Before Jazz was Ragtime
Ebony Magazine's central theme
A master of disguise
Why was Johnson so successful?
Monroe Anderson: African American Journalists
The Chicago Defender
Pullman Porters
Stan Shaw: Family
John Rogers: African American Entrepreneurs
Adam Green: Bronzeville
What did advertisers fear?
Blacks worked at the Fair
Awed by Bronzeville
Dr. Margaret Burroughs, co-founder SSCAC
Tyrone Haymore: Black Aviation
Dr. King's Chicago Crusade
Carol Moseley-Braun: Justice Thurgood Marshall
Jerry Butler: Civil Rights
John Rogers: Dr. King
J. Ivy: Dr. King
King brought change to Chicago
King's Crusade was successful
Personal memories of a march
DuSable's French influence
Chicago's best kept secret
Chicago named after a sneeze?
Black Panthers
Chaka Kahn: Fred Hampton
Stan Shaw: Black Panther Party
Carol Moseley-Braun: Fred Hampton
Did the FBI murder Fred Hampton?
Jerry Butler: Barack Obama
Overcome with emotion
An amazing experience
Don't count Obama out
There's still work to be done
A transformational moment
It blows your mind
Harold Washington
Carol Moseley-Braun: Harold Washington
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Harold Washington
Jerry Butler: Harold Washington