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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Selika_Williams

Marie Selika Williams - Wikipedia Marie Selika Williams (c. 1849 – May 19, 1937) was an American coloratura soprano. She was the first black artist to perform in the White House.

A Great man who cared for us ALL. His name was MR. Bill Lucy !

Pershing Hotel, 64th & Cottage Grove

The Pershing had three music venues: a lounge, a ballroom and a street-level nightclub. The club was once known as Birdland until Morris Levy, owner of the Birdland in New York City, threatened to sue, at which point the Chicago version changed its name to Budland (some say at the behest of pianist Sun Ra), visible on far left of this photo.


From its opening, the hotel was connected to the city's crime syndicate; the ballroom was first operated by bootlegger Al Tierney, who had previously run the establisment that became the Plantation Cafe (35th & Calumet). Later controlled by the Capone/Torrio gang, the hotel was 'turned over to black' after it was used as housing for GIs; its postwar owners also ran the DuSable Hotel at Oakwood and Drexel.


Before finding fame as a disk jockey and being discovered by Dave Garroway, Holmes 'Daddy-O' Daylie worked in the lounge as a bartender. Ahmad Jamal recorded his hit version of 'Poinciana' here in 1958, but the hotel had seen better days long before that. It subsequently closed and reopened numerous times, including once being owned by Lorraine Hansberry, who paid $350,000 for it in 1960 and briefly renamed it the Nan-Carl Hotel (after her parents).


Sandor Demlinger photo ca. 1963. Seems to have closed in the late '70s and demolished in the '80s.

This was the Pershing hotel and Ballroom in Chicago Ill.

Pershing Hotel, 64th & Cottage Grove

The Pershing had three music venues: a lounge, a ballroom and a street-level nightclub. The club was once known as Birdland until Morris Levy, owner of the Birdland in New York City, threatened to sue, at which point the Chicago version changed its name to Budland (some say at the behest of pianist Sun Ra), visible on far left of this photo.


From its opening, the hotel was connected to the city's crime syndicate; the ballroom was first operated by bootlegger Al Tierney, who had previously run the establisment that became the Plantation Cafe (35th & Calumet). Later controlled by the Capone/Torrio gang, the hotel was 'turned over to black' after it was used as housing for GIs; its postwar owners also ran the DuSable Hotel at Oakwood and Drexel.


Before finding fame as a disk jockey and being discovered by Dave Garroway, Holmes 'Daddy-O' Daylie worked in the lounge as a bartender. Ahmad Jamal recorded his hit version of 'Poinciana' here in 1958, but the hotel had seen better days long before that. It subsequently closed and reopened numerous times, including once being owned by Lorraine Hansberry, who paid $350,000 for it in 1960 and briefly renamed it the Nan-Carl Hotel (after her parents).


Sandor Demlinger photo ca. 1963. Seems to have closed in the late '70s and demolished in the '80s.

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Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X

This Sister, was a colonel in the Mexican army and we should do our homework and find out as much as possible about
Afro-Mexican people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Washington

Harold Washington - Wikipedia Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago.[1] Washington became the first African American to be elected as the city's mayor in April 1983. He served as mayor from April 29, 1983, until his death on November 2...

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Tomorrow morning, we will host our Q3 Honors Program, where we will celebrate our students who made Honor Roll and Principal’s List during Q3. We will be joined by Mr. Tamarques Porter as our Guest Speaker. Special thanks to our Family & Community Specialist, Dr. TeNita Freeman, for putting this event together!

Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois at the World Peace Congress in Paris, 1949

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