September 2, 2015
Lionel Kimble Jr. is co-chair of an event celebrating a black history association launched in Chicago.
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National Group to Celebrate Black Studies Roots in Chicago
Racial issues were front and center in America in 1915. The controversial film, “The Birth of the Nation,” which portrayed all blacks as unintelligent and black men as sexually aggressive towards white women was released. And more than 50 African-Americans were lynched. Before the year was out, the Ku Klux Klan was reborn in Stone Mountain, Ga.