WBEZ Curious City Stories Airing BHM24
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Air Date: Feb. 1, 2024
Independent Black cinema got its start on Chicago’s South Side (Rerun)
Air Date: Feb. 8, 2024
Looking back at the 1940 exposition that showcased Black art and innovation
Air Date: Feb. 15, 2024
Black History Month, which has Chicago roots, has faced resistance from the start
Sources for BHM24 Social Media Videos
Day 1
The Underground Railroad and the Little Calumet River
Fugitive Slave Acts — History.com
African American Heritage Water Trail
Day 2
Former Slave Rufus Estes Helped Teach America How To Cook — LAist
Day 3
The Birth of Gospel Music in Chicago — WTTW
Day 4
Katherine Dunham Collection Articles and Essays — Library of Congress
Institute for Dunham Technique Certification
Dunham turned anthropology into artistry — UChicago News
Day 5
Ida B. Wells’ Lasting Impact On Chicago Politics And Power — WBEZ’s Curious City
Day 6
Joe Louis (The American Experience Features) — PBS
‘Brown Bomber’ was a hero to all — ESPN
Day 7
Chicago’s Breakdown: When Jazz Came North — The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Day 8
Mae Jemison — National Women’s Museum
Day 9
Ralph Metcalfe, 1975 Hall of Fame Inductee — USATF
Day 10
Walter T. Bailey’s National Pythian Temple Fragment, Chicago, Illinois — Art Institute of Chicago
Walter T. Bailey — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Day 11
Hazel M. Johnson, ‘Mother of the Environmental Justice Movement’ — Chicago Public Library
Day 12
History Of The Fire Pole Started With Black Chicago Firehouse In 1870s — CBS 2
Day 13
History — Quinn Chapel AME Church
The rise of Black political power in early Chicago — The TRiiBE
Day 14
56 years ago, a dying Lorraine Hansberry coined the phrase “young, gifted and black.” — Literary Hub
Day 15
Day 16
The rise and fall of a Black banking icon — Axios
Day 17
Nat ‘King’ Cole’s TV Show Gets Digital Release — CBS
Day 18
The Pekin: Chicago’s First Black-Owned Theater — Chicago Public Library
Chicago’s Black Theater — WTTW
Day 19
Anthony Overton — Harvard Business School
Overton Hygienic Building — Chicago Landmarks
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
Day 20
Chicago’s Wall of Respect: how a mural elicited a sense of collective ownership — The Guardian
The Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) is formed — African American Registry
Day 21
Illinois Writers Project: “Negro in Illinois” Digital Collection — Chicago Public Library
Federal Writers’ Project — Encyclopedia of Chicago
Day 22
History — The Vivian G. Harsh Society
Black History Month Spotlight: Vivian Harsh, Chicago’s First Black Librarian — WTTW
Day 23
Addie L. Wyatt — National Park Service
Hall of Honor Inductee: Rev. Addie Wyatt — U.S. Department of Labor
Day 24
The People’s Free Food Program — Mapped Chicago
The Radical Origins of Free Breakfast for Children — Eater
Day 25
Day 26
The first Black-owned airport in the U.S. was in Robbins, Illinois — WBEZ
Day 27
Wabash Avenue YMCA — National Park Service
The Bronzeville Origins of Black History Month — Chicago History Museum
Day 28
Celebrating 100 Years with Timuel Black, Jr. — Chicago Public Library
Day 29
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