Gratified that @WeinbergCollege highlighted our web exhibit, BLACK ORGANIZING IN PRE-CIVIL WAR ILLINOIS, for women's history month. We researched & wrote abt some remarkable Black women; the @CCP_org has been generative for thinking abt women's history. news.weinberg.northwestern.edu/2022/03/18/how…
Among the women we highlight is Mary E. Mann, who in 1863 became Chicago's first Black public h.s. graduate and went on to be the city's first black principal. Bio here (unfortunately we didn't find a pic of her) coloredconventions.org/black-illinois… 
Some white Chicagoans tried to stand in Mary Mann's way, but she prevailed with support from others, inc. Republican John Wentworth. That story, and other stories of struggle over race and segregation in 1860s Chicago, are here:coloredconventions.org/black-illinois…
We previewed the remarkable life of Mary Richardson Jones in this earlier thread. An interesting factoid on Black Chicago hist: When the new Quinn Chapel AME Church opened in Nov. 1853, one of the first lectures it sponsored was on women's rights.
https://twitter.com/katemasur/status/1496148647255367684
The @CCP_org has spawned tremendous new work on Black women's hist. including this great article by Denise Burgher: "Recovering Black Women in the Col'd Conventions Mvmt" and several exc. pieces in the @UNC_Press volume, *The Colored Conventions Movement* muse.jhu.edu/article/744566
And check out The Black Women's Organizing Archive associated with @DigBlk to learn still more. (@dgburgher tried to tag you above but failed!)
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