In a FOX 32 Special Report, we look at how one historical event spurred another, and it all happened on Chicago’s South Side.
In September 1915, Chicago was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Carter G. Woodson was one of the many who flocked to the Windy City for this event.
"I give tours from time to time and one of the places I stop is the Wabash Avenue YMCA," he said. "One of the most interesting things you always get — an "ah ha" moment is when you tell them this is where Black History Month started."SUBSCRIBE TO FOX 32 CHICAGO ON YOUTUBE"While he was here in Chicago, he met with several people at the Wabash Avenue YMCA," Turner said.
"She was Chicago Public Library’s first Black branch head within the library system," said Stacie Williams, Division Chief for Archives and Special Collections, Chicago Public Library.
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