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The Black National Anthem 32 1 Table of Contents Page 3 Welcome Letter Pages 4-15 Paintings with Biographies Pages 16-24 Black Owned Businesses in Alphabetical Order Page 25 Importance of Supporting Black Owned Pages 26-27 Other Online Resources Pages 28-29 Lift Every Voice & Sing Page 30 Citations for Biographies & Contact Info Page 31 After the Peanut Advertisement A.F. Hill Park (Princeton St & Green Garden Pl) is getting a walking trail. It is about 1/3 of a mile and will be completed in the Spring of 2021! See image ← 2 31 CITATIONS (Painting Biographies) 2/6/2021 1. https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-medgar-evers/ Dear Community Member, 2. https://aaregistry.org/story/an-exceptional-opera-singer-leontyne- price/ Thank you for coming to the drive-thru Black History Month Cel- 3. https://www.biography.com/news/duke-ellington-facts-duke-ellington- ebration! As hard as 2020 was, we did not want to cancel this day annual event but rather adapt and adjust in 2021. 4. https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/dick-gregory 5. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/brooks- Adhering to COVID-19 safety precautions, we are unable to in- gwendolyn-1917/ 6. https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/P/POWELL,-Adam-Clayton,- vite you into our gymnasium at this time. We hope you to utilize Jr--(P000477)/ this booklet as a means to explore the people featured in the 7. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/biographical/ paintings at Fairmont Community Center (FCC) and for addition- 8. https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-w-e-b-dubois/ al resources to help celebrate all month long. 9. https://kchistory.org/week-kansas-city-history/wilkins-rising 10. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1950/bunche/ On the front cover of this booklet are the newest paintings in biographical/ 11. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p97.html FCC gymnasium of Vice President Kamala Harris and Former 12. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ President Barack Obama. They are featured on each side of the fannie-lou-hamer mural as soon as you walk into the gymnasium. Thank you to 13.https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/louis-armstrong-about- louis-armstrong/528/ our donors Kathy & Joe Pecora as well as AARP Illinois for mak- 14. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ ing this possible. mary-mcleod-bethune 15. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/muhammad-ali Lockport Township Park District is in the process of switching 16. https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/history/thurgood-marshall/ registration software companies in efforts to make the online 17. https://poets.org/poet/langston-hughes registration process smoother and the refund process simpler. 18. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/eckstine-billy- 1914-1993/ Thank you for your patience at this time. Electronically fill out this 19. https://www.nps.gov/people/shabazz.htm information here: https://www.lockportpark.org/household- 20. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/williams-daniel- information-sheet/ hale-1856-1931/ 21. https://www.biography.com/inventor/madam-cj-walker When you fill out this information online, there is a 22. https://www.biography.com/scientist/charles-drew 23. https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/ “spin to win” game which can give you discounts, carver/ gift cards or even a summer pool pass! 24. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ sojourner-truth 25. http://www.crispusattucksmuseum.org/crispus-attuck/ Warm regards, With any questions contact Nikki Gotsch Nikki Gotsch [email protected] LTPD Recreation Supervisor (815)838-1183 30 3 Lift ev’ry voice and sing, ‘Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on ’til victory is won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, 1. Medgar Evers (1925-1963) Civil Rights leader and Activist. Out from the gloomy past, Evers was rejected to the then-segregated University of Mississippi Law School ‘Til now we stand at last in February 1954. Evers became the focus of an NAACP campaign to desegre- Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. gate the school; U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education 347 US 483 that segregation was unconstitutional. Evers became the NAACP’s first field officer in Mississippi and was instrumental in eventually God of our weary years, desegregating the University of Mississippi in 1962. God of our silent tears, 2. Leontyne Price (1927-Living) Superb Soprano-Opera Singer. Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Price graduated from Central State College (Ohio) and studied at the Julliard Thou who has by Thy might School of Music in New York City. Price sang in the San Francisco Opera from Led us into the light, 1957-1960. She won several Grammy awards from the American Society of Recording Arts and Sciences. She was always conscious of her role as a pio- Keep us forever in the path, we pray. neering black in opera and worked hard against racial prejudice, refusing what Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, she considered inappropriate roles and investing her performances with dignity and grandeur. where we met Thee, Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, 3. “Duke” Ellington (1899-1974) Jazz Musician and Composer. we forget Thee; As a composer, arranger, pianist and bandleader, he was a major force for Shadowed beneath Thy hand, nearly 50 years (1926-74), creating innovations in each area. He did all of that while constantly touring with his orchestra which, despite major changes in the May we forever stand, music world, never broke up during his lifetime. True to our God, True to our native land. 4 29 Lift Every Voice and Sing – often called “The Black National Anthem” – was writ- ten as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) and then set to music by his brother John Rosa- mond Johnson (1873-1954) in 1899. It was first performed in public in the Johnsons’ hometown of Jacksonville, 4. Dick Gregory (1932-2017) Comedian & Civil Rights Activist Gregory attended Southern IL University for two years before being drafted into the Florida as part of a celebration of Lin- Army in 1954 which cultivated his early talent for comedy. He moved to Chicago and got involved in the comedy scene. Gregory was well-known and financially suc- coln’s Birthday on February 12, 1900 by cessful; he addressed social issues in his comedy routines. In the 1960s, he began to spend less time on comedy and more on civil rights activism. Gregory ran for a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the seg- Mayor of Chicago against Richard Daley in 1966. In his lifetime, he became the author of 13 books, gone on over 150 hunger strikes to protest injustices including regated Stanton School, where James war, hostage situations, and the death penalty. Weldon Johnson was principal. 5. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) Poet & Author from Chicago. In 1950, Brooks became the first African-American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for a volume titled Annie Allen that chronicled the life of an ordinary black girl grow- ing up in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. During her lifetime, Brooks received numerous honors and served in several prestigious capacities in- cluding appointment as poet laureate of Illinois (1968), poetry consultant for the Library of Congress (1985) among many others. 6. Adam Clayton Powell (1908-1972) Minister, Politician and First Black Representative in the U.S. Congress. An unapologetic activist, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., left his mark on Congress during his 12 terms in the House of Representatives. Viewed by his Harlem constituents as a dedicated crusader for civil rights, Powell earned the loyalty and respect of many African Americans with his confrontational approach to racial discrimination. 28 5 Learning for Justice [Website] Educational Resource https://www.tolerance.org/ Louis Armstrong House Museum [Website] Museum https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/ National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Mu- seum [Website] Museum https://aprpullmanportermuseum.org/ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [Website] Organization 7. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) the Most Notable Leader of https://www.naacp.org/ the Civil Rights Movement and Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse Smithsonian National Museum of African Amer- College. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary he ican History & Culture [Website] was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in grad- uate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 Museum and receiving the degree in 1955. In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the https://nmaahc.si.edu/ Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Associ- The Conscious Kid [Website] ation for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation.
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