In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Th

Spurred first by the civil rights debates of the 1960s and 1970s, then by the culture wars of the following decades, the Chicago Historical Society (CHS) increa

A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois

Black Chicagoans were at the centre of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as p

Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of these institu