An Autobiography of Black Politics

by Dempsey J. Travis

Book by Travis, Dempsey J. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094148405X
• ISBN13: 9780941484053
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Urban Research Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Black Chicago Politics 101

An Autobiography of Black Politics by the late Chicago real estate magnate, Dempsey J. Travis, is an important work and chronicle of Black Politics in the city of Chicago. If one wants to understand the political roots of the city that helped produce the first Black President, Barack Obama, then this book outlines the political, social and racial climates in Chicago's past. Published in 1987, the book is divided into five parts: Part 1: "Checagou" The Early Years; Part 2: The Years of the Black Political Bulldogs; Part 3: The Decade That Blacks Left the Party of Lincoln; Part 4: The Daley Years and Part 5: The Harold Washington Years. The book includes numerous photos--Travis not only writes the book, he lives much of the history he writes about and thus, his first hand knowledge and account of Black Politics in Chicago, is nuanced by his participation in a number of the events. This book has been overlooked as an important resource on Chicago's politics, perhaps because it is not written by an academic but yet, with so few books written in the 20th century that give us this up close narrative, I highly recommend this work.