Historian and longtime South Side resident, Timuel Black talked about why the Barack Obama Presidential Library would be important to the South Side on March 17, 2015, at his home in Chicago.
A photo of Timuel Black, right, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at a news conference, was on display at the Woodson Library in Chicago on Jan. 14, 2012.
Timuel Black, center, speaks in support of bringing the Obama Presidential Center to Jackson Park at the Chicago Plan Commission on May 17, 2018.
Civil rights activist and historian Timuel Black at home in Chicago on March 25, 2013.
Heather Ireland Robinson, executive director at the Jazz Institute of Chicago, takes part in a drive-by celebration of Timuel Black’s 102nd birthday on Dec. 7, 2020.
Timuel Black, seated, attends a drive-by celebration in honor of his 102nd birthday on Dec. 7, 2020. The Rev. Jesse Jackson stands behind Black.
Timuel Black at a drive-by celebration in honor of his 102nd birthday, put on by family, friends and community members in Chicago on Dec. 7, 2020.
Chicago historian and educator Timuel Black is presented with an honorary street sign by Ald. Pat Dowell, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the 27th annual interfaith breakfast honoring the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 18, 2013. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin joins them on the podium.
Attendees applaud as the honorary Dr. Timuel Black St. sign is unveiled at the corner of South State and 49th streets on Jan. 19, 2013, in Chicago.
Timuel Black stands under the honorary Dr. Timuel Black St. sign after its unveiling at the corner of South State and 49th streets on Jan. 19, 2013, in Chicago.
Timuel Black talks with guests at a Justice Day event at the Village Green in Winnetka on July 26, 2015.
Chicago historian and educator Timuel Black, 99, delivers a lecture on Feb. 25, 2018, at the DuSable Museum of African American History.
Chicago cultural historian Timuel Black, 91, at his Hyde Park home on Sept. 10. 2010.
Chicago historian and educator Timuel Black, center, laughs with Sen. Dick Durbin, left, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Jan. 18, 2013, before the presentation of an award to Black at the 27th annual interfaith breakfast honoring the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights activist and historian Timuel Black at his home in Chicago on March 25, 2013.
Timuel Black, longtime Chicago activist, historian and professor emeritus of social sciences at the City Colleges of Chicago, in the lobby of UIC’s Forum, before being honored by the Jazz Institute of Chicago in 2008. Black grew up on the South Side and is known as the “truth teller of Chicago.”
Chicago historian and educator Timuel Black, left, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel bow their heads in prayer at the start of the 27th annual interfaith breakfast honoring the life of the Rev Martin Luther King Jr., at the Conrad Hilton Towers in Chicago on Jan. 18, 2013.
Historian and longtime South Side resident, Timuel Black in his home discussing why the Barack Obama Presidential Library would be important to the South Side on March 17, 2015.
Author Timuel Black, left, chats with Ruby Chapman and Roy Benjamin during a conference for African American writers to discuss new works at Trinity United Church of Christ in 2005.
Timuel Black, a longtime civil rights activist in Chicago, at Liberty Baptist Church where planning meetings took place for freedom marches during the 1960s.
Timuel Black, historian and author of “Bridges of Memory.”
