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Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor (Northern Illinois University Press, 1985); 1983 election of Harold Washington; Knupfer, Anne Meis. "'Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood': African-American Women's Clubs in Chicago, 1890 to 1920." Journal of Women's History 7#3 (1995): 58–76. Knupfer, Anne Meis.
African Americans have significantly contributed to the history, culture, and development of Illinois since the early 18th century. The African American presence dates back to the French colonial era where the French brought black slaves to the U.S. state of Illinois early in its history, [3] and spans periods of slavery, migration, civil rights movement, and more.
Furthermore, in the 1970s, Gambian students played an important role in the formation of the African Student Union of the University of Illinois at Chicago, city where they establish ties with other African groups, such as the Senegalese. Furthermore, Gambians lead the Move, an African organization Chicago nonprofit founded in 1983 to try to ...
2 Africa. 3 Asia. Toggle Asia subsection. 3.1 Israel. 3.2 India. 3.3 Pakistan. ... List of active non-governmental organizations of national minorities, Indigenous ...
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
The Nigeria Diaspora is also one of the most organized Diasporas with an umbrella organization, Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO America, NIDO Asia, NIDO Africa and NIDO Europe) represented with chapters in most countries and continents of the world.
List of Afro-Latinos; List of African-American firsts; List of black Academy Award winners and nominees; List of black animated characters; List of black superheroes; Black billionaires; List of historically black colleges and universities; Index of African-American-related articles; List of African American Greek and fraternal organizations
As of 2013, the Chicago area has the largest Palestinian American population in the U.S., and that Chicago-area Palestinian-origin people made up 25% of all Palestinian-originating persons in the U.S. [59] In 1995 there were 85,000 persons of Palestinian origin in the Chicago area, making up about 60% of the Arab Americans there; at that time ...