Chicago's Black Metropolis

Ironically, some of us live in a city so rich ion Black History and have never had the opportunity to visit the DuSable Museum. President Obama. The number of African-American leaders that come out of Chicago is startling. Listed below are a few. Please encourage our youth to be educated and visit the museum!

Click this link to learn more. http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/2361912,CST-NWS-BLACK07.article

This is a great outing for the summer to keep them occupied and out of trouble.

A few Chicago Pioneers are:

Daniel Hale Williams, who founded Chicago's Provident Hospital and performed the first successful open heart surgery there in the 1890s. The heart patient lived on for another 10 years.

• Carter G. Woodson, who established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in Chicago in 1915. His Negro History Week later became to Black History Month.

• Sam Young, who introduced "policy" gambling to Chicago around the turn of the century. Depending on your point of view, you can think of it as a predecessor to the state lottery, or the beginning of the black mafia, the film notes.

• Willa Brown, who helped spark the craze for African-American pilots. Not only was she the first-ever black female commercial pilot, but she was savvy enough to show others how to market themselves.

• Thomas A. Dorsey, who was said to have invented the black gospel style of piano music, and championed the career of Mahalia Jackson