Black History Month: Celebrating the innovators, teachers and legends from Chicago and beyond
CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.
Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black high school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior in the early 20th century
On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After ...
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Sharecropper Migration
White school boards seldom hired enough teachers for African American ... board a train in another town. For African Americans, the favored destination was Chicago. From 1920 to 1930, the African ...