The city unexpectedly lost Harold Washington — its first Black mayor — 35 years ago today, Chicago.
Washington was born on April 15, 1922, at Cook County Hospital, grew up in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood and was among the first graduates of DuSable High School after it opened in 1935, catering primarily to Blacks whose families or ancestors had come to Chicago from the American South during the Great Migration.In the early 1950s, Washington, then a law student at Northwestern University, started working for 3rd Ward Ald.
In the general election, Washington went on to defeat Republican Bernie Epton, despite Epton’s support from many high-ranking Democrats, some of whom tried to stoke racist fears in white neighborhoods about the prospects of a Black mayor. In his “combative” inaugural address, the new mayor “proclaim the death knell of the Democratic machine,” the Tribune wrote at the time.
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