Metropolitan Tenants Organization to present Dr. Timuel Black, Jr. with Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Timuel Black, Jr. is a legendary civil rights activist who was instrumental in organizing the Freedom Trains from Chicago to the historic 1963 March on Washington. He has been a participant and leader of virtually every social justice campaign since then. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Black’s family was part of the Great Migration to the North while he was still a child. A retired educator, Black is one of the city’s elder statesmen.
His activism has never let up. He was a leader of the black boycott of the Chicago Public Schools in 1963; was responsible for bringing Dr. Martin Luther King to Chicago in 1966 and marching with him as part of the Chicago Freedom movement protesting the city’s blatant segregation; and he politically challenged the Chicago machine, playing a key role in the election of Harold Washington as the city’s first African-American Mayor.
Fifty Years After Freedom Summer
2323 North Milwaukee, Chicago
Tickets: $65 each; $50 for Employees of Nonprofits
