CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE | AUGUST | AUGUST CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE The Reader’s guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival Its sprawling cross section of the genre includes world-changing explorers the Art Ensemble of Chicago, trad band the Fat Babies, venerable guitarist George Freeman, and restless experimenter Rob Mazurek. 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My mini briefcase and beret are always my staple pieces for most of my looks.” See more of them, along with her creative work, on Instagram @loveb2by. —IG Alina Anna ISAGIALLORENZO LOVELYTHEBAND Friday Pilots Club Marina City Love in October Jugo de Mango CHICAGO 6 BAND (Featuring Chicago Bears Alumni) ll AUGUST - CHICAOREADER3 CITY LIFE Denison on the cover of The Crisis, the offi cial magazine of the National the crowd refused to sing along. One man SIGHTSEEING Association for the Advancement of rose and said that he didn’t want “to sing that Colored People INTERNETARCHIVE song until this country is what it claims to be, ‘Sweet land of liberty.’” They thought The white press was aghast. Denison found the event to be “entirely disgraceful.” The the FBI. Its Chicago o ce identifi ed Denison protest would not be “conducive to legisla- he was an as “the chief individual agitator” of the 1919 tion to right the wrongs” against Blacks in Chicago race riot. the south. “No well-mannered colored person Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1862, Deni- with any regard for himself and the com- ‘agitator’ son graduated with honors from Lincoln Uni- munity he lives in could afford to use such versity. In 1890, he was voted valedictorian language and rebel against a patriotic song,” Franklin A. Denison was no by his all-white class at Union College of Law, Denison told the Chicago Evening Post. rabble-rouser, but the Bureau a school a liated with Northwestern Univer- As a measure of his own patriotism, Deni- of Investigation said he sparked sity. A year later he was appointed assistant son served in the Eighth Regiment of the Il- the 1919 race riot. prosecuting attorney in Chicago, the first linois National Guard, the only all-Black unit in the country. After the unit was mobilized By J N person of color to hold that position. Once an apprentice to a carriage maker, Denison during the Spanish-American War, Denison, briefly presided over the 1908 Republican who was fluent in Spanish, was appointed National Convention. a judge of the Court of Claims in Santiago, he Victory Monument on King Drive Colonel Franklin A. Denison. Beloved by his Denison was no rabble-rouser. On March Cuba. In 1914, he earned the rank of colonel. near 35th Street honors Black Chica- troops, Denison was removed from command 27, 1892, Bethel African Methodist Church In theory, Denison and his men were equal goans who fought in France during before he could lead his men into battle. He held a packed protest meeting against south- to their white counterparts. However, Black the First World War. Nearby is a subsequently came under the attention of ern lynching. Reverend George W. Gaines guardsman frequently came under physical T plaque for their former commander, the Bureau of Investigation, the precursor of began to lead “My Country Tis of Thee,” but harassment when they went on training Because doing nothing changes nothing. chicago ideas oct 12—17 4 CHICAOREADER - AUGUST ll CITY LIFE routines in Springfi eld. The Eighth Regiment comments implied that “colored people were was mobilized to San Antonio in 1916. There, deliberately oppressed” and that the motto white soldiers refused to salute their superi- on American coins, “In God We Trust,” was o r o c e r s . disingenuous. Although Denison “occasion- DISCOVER After the American declaration of war ally” mentioned the need to buy war bonds, against Germany in April 1917, Denison the informants felt his speech had ruined worked tirelessly to bring in Black recruits. their prepared presentation. The report By August, all National Guard units had been touched on rumors that Denison had broken WHY CHICAGO drafted into the U.S. Army. Two days before under the strain in France. the regiment left for training at Camp Logan, If Denison was embittered by not being outside of Houston, Black soldiers marched with his men as they chased the German ARCHITECTURE downtown after officers from the Houston army all the way to Belgium, he didn’t show Police Department accosted a local African it in public. Writing in the Broad Ax, a Black American woman and a soldier who had tried Chicago newspaper, Braddan portrayed to intercede on her behalf. The ensuing riot Roberts as an incompetent schemer who had STARES BACK. led to 19 deaths. Nineteen Black soldiers were played up Denison’s poor health. In response, later executed. The Eighth survived Houston Colonel Roberts wrote to Military Intelli- with no major incidents. In their fi nal parade, gence, confi rming he had reported Denison’s EXPLORE THE AWESOME its chaplain, W. S. Braddan, remarked that rheumatism. He went on to label Braddan the Eighth had received not “a handclap a coward, pleading that the Black officers AND UNEXPECTED from the whites, who regarded us with sullen under his command were incompetent. silence, for never before had Houston seen Throughout the spring and summer of 1919, ON CAC’S 65 DOCENT-LED Negro Soldiers marching her streets under law o cials did little to address the epidemic arms.” of bombings of Black residences and assaults WALKING TOURS. On their voyage to France, Braddan against African Americans in white Chicago recalled