Founders Hall / Southside Stories
the founder of the DuSable Museum
Who is Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs?
The War highlighted in the exhibit
What is World War I?
The first Black person to be elected mayor of Chicago
Who is Harold Washington?
The summer of 1919 where race riots caused by white supremacy and domestic terrorism consumed the United States
What is the Red Summer?
What is Equiano.Stories?
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable
Who is the founder of Chicago?
Who is the museum named after?
the first all-black National Guard Unit of it kind in the US
The year Harold Washington was first elected mayor
What is 1983?
the reason behind Chicago's rapidly growing population in the early 1900s
What is The Great Migration?
The full name of the Black Panther Party. Bonus: A program they started to support school children that was later adopted nationally, though without due credit
What is the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Bonus: The Free Breakfast Program
the initial name of the DuSable Museum
What is the Ebony Museum of Negro History?
The Commander of the 370th Infantry Unit, though eventually replaced by a white officer, presumably to remove high-ranking Black officers
Who was Colonel Franklin Denison?
Popular paraphernalia during Harold Washington's 1983 and 1987 mayoral bids
What are campaign buttons?
His murder initiated the Chicago 1919 Race Riot
Who was Eugene Williams?
Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and David Richmond
Who are the Greensboro Four?
Placemaker, Creator, Activist, Mentor
What are the 4 themes represented in the Southside Stories exhibit?
Three women who traveled to France to work as welfare workers for Black soldiers
Who are Kathryn Magnolia Johnson, Addie Waites Hunton, and Helen Noble Curtis?
25,000; 50,000; 100,000
What is the number of signatures required to get on the ballot? What is the number of signatures Harold said he needed to run? What is the number of signatures Harold supporters gathered?
The autographical memoir that played a role in abolishing the British Slave Trade in 1807
What is The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)
Dr. Burrough's signature medium and art practice. She often handed these out freely within the community.
What are linocuts on wood? What are prints, ink on paper?
They donated the bulk of the artifacts displayed in this exhibit.
Who are Captain James Hall and Sergeant Matthew Jenkins?
A symbol meaning "a great king has died"
What is painting a stool with blood to dry black? / What is painting a stool black?
The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922)
What was the published account reporting the causes of the Chicago 1919 Race Riot?
What is Africa, Slavery, Reconstruction, Migration, Civil Rights, Black Power, and Post-Sixties?