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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Harold Washington, Coramae Richey Mann, Bobby Rush, Melissa Bean, Anthony Braxton, Kenneth Zucker, Carolyn Rodgers, Steve Camp, Emil Jones, Eddie Harris, Berel Wein, Carol Ronen, James Warren, Danitra Vance, Warren W. Wiersbe, Paul Mirecki, Michael Quigley, Amy Madigan, Jake Bernstein, Clarice Assad, Al Barkow, Randi Ettner, Jesse Brown, David Applebaum, Robert Lamm, Art Porter, Jr., Frank W. Asper, Bobbie L. Steele, Gus Savage, Blanche M. Manning, Merle Dandridge, Tony Alcantar, Lynne Leach, Edsel Albert Ammons, Donal Henahan, Willis Laurence James, Moshe Kletenik, Sheldon Drobny, Michael Bond, Tony Yalda, Nita Engle, Robert Jordan, Raymond F. Clevenger, Parvesh Cheena, Toni Harp, Lee Willerman, Jerry Roper, Ronald Muldrow, John Proulx, David L. Kaplan, Joseph Bloch, Joel Gerber, Rey Colon, Tunc Erem, Edward Boatner, Matthew Holden, Joffre Stewart, Phillip Jackson, Grant R. Mulder, Reg Weaver. Excerpt: Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 - November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who became the first Black Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987. Harold Washington was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy and Bertha Washington. His father had been one of the first precinct captains in the city, a lawyer and a Methodist minister. His mother, Bertha, left a small farm near Centralia, Illinois, to make a fortune in Chicago as a singer. She married Roy soon after arriving in Chicago and had three children, one named Kevin and the other named Ramon Price(from a later marriage), former artist and chief curator of The DuSable Museum of African American History. Washington grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, at the time the epicenter of black culture in the city. He attended DuSable High School, then a new segregated high school, and was a member of the first graduating...
