Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black

by Timuel D. Black and Timuel D. Black Jr.

Book Overview

Timuel Black is an acclaimed historian, activist, and storyteller. Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black chronicles the life and times of this Chicago legend.

Sacred Ground opens in 1919, during the summer of the Chicago race riot, when infant Black and his family arrive in Chicago from Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the first Great Migration. He recounts in vivid detail his childhood and education in the Black Metropolis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810139243
• ISBN13: 9780810139244
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"