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Timuel Black (Timuel Dixon Black Jr.) was born on 7 December, 1918 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., is an American educator, civil rights activist, historian, and author (1918–2021). Discover Timuel Black's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 102 years old?

Popular As Timuel Dixon Black Jr.
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Age 102 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 7 December 1918
Birthday 7 December
Birthplace Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Date of death 13 October, 2021
Died Place Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Norisea Cummings (m. 1946-1958) Ruby Battle (m. 1959-1968) Zenobia Johnson (m. 1981)

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1918

Timuel Dixon Black Jr. (December 7, 1918 – October 13, 2021) was an American educator, civil rights activist, historian and author.

A native of Alabama, Black was raised in Chicago, Illinois, and studied the city's African-American history.

Timuel Dixon Black Jr. was born on December 7, 1918, in Birmingham, Alabama.

His great-grandparents were slaves and his grandparents were born as slaves and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation; his parents were sharecroppers.

Black described his father, Timuel Dixon Black Sr., and mother, Mattie (née McConner), as having taken part in the Great Migration.

In his memoir, Sacred Ground, Black writes that his parents "migrated twice".

Their first move was "from tenant farms where they chopped cotton to the market town of Florence, Alabama, and then on from there to the city of Birmingham", where his "daddy worked for Bessemer Steel".

His parents' second migration was to Chicago in order "to be able fight back against white attackers, to get better jobs and be able to vote, and to get a better education for their children."

Black grew up in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.

1937

He attended Burke Elementary School, Englewood High School, Wendell Phillips Academy High School and later graduated from DuSable High School in June 1937.

After high school, Black worked for Robert Cole’s Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company; later leaving Chicago to work at Greenbaum Tannery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1946

From 1946 until 1958, he was married to Norisea J. Cummings and together they had two children, Ermetra and Timuel Kerrigan Black.

1952

In 1952, Black graduated from Roosevelt University, where he earned a bachelor's degree, and he later earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago.

Black served in World War II, and he received four Battle Stars, the Croix de Guerre, and the Legion of Honour.

Black began his career as a teacher.

1954

After receiving his bachelor's degree, Black began working at Roosevelt High School in Gary, Indiana, in 1954.

In 1954 he joined the First Unitarian Church of Chicago and was a member there until his death.

In October 2021, it was reported that Black was in hospice care at his Kenwood home in Chicago.

Black died at his home in Chicago on October 13, 2021, from prostate cancer, at the age of 102.

1957

Black relocated back to Chicago in 1957 and began teaching at his alma mater, DuSable High School until 1959.

Black worked as a social worker.

1959

Black's second marriage was to Ruby P. Battle from 1959 to 1968.

1960

He was active in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, most notably participating in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Chicago Freedom Movement during 1965 and 1966.

During the 1960s, Black was president of the Negro American Labor Council (Chicago Chapter) and an organizer of Chicago participation in the 1963 March on Washington.

1963

During the 1963 Chicago municipal elections, Black unsuccessfully challenged Claude Holman, Chicago's 4th ward aldermen who was aligned with Mayor Richard J. Daley and with Chicago Public Schools superintendent Benjamin Willis.

1975

In 1975, Black took a position to teach history, sociology and anthropology at Loop College, now Harold Washington College.

1981

From 1981 until his death, Black was married to Zenobia Johnson.

1982

In 1982, he approached Harold Washington, then a congressman, to run for mayor of Chicago.

Black's organizing of support and likely voters helped convince Washington to make his successful mayoral bid.

1983

Black was part of a coalition of Black Chicagoans that worked to elect Chicago's first African-American mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983, and he mentored a young Barack Obama, the future U.S. president, on building a political base on Chicago's South Side.

1990

In the 1990s, Black met with Barack Obama on building a political career on Chicago's South Side, and introduced Obama to people who became helpful to the career of the future U.S. president.

Black was the named plaintiff in the lawsuit Black v. McGuffage.

The suit claimed that the Illinois voting system discriminated against minorities in its use of faulty punch card ballots.

2000

Deployed in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Chicago, the faulty ballots prevented residents from casting valid votes in the 2000 presidential election.

After Black v. McGuffage, punch card ballots were eliminated and a uniform voting system was put in place.

Black served on the board of Defending Rights & Dissent.

2017

In 2017, Senator Dick Durbin introduced a tribute to Black in the Congressional Record on the occasion of Black's receipt of Citizen Action Illinois' ninth annual Pauls Award, named for Paul Simon and Paul Wellstone, describing Black as "a decorated World War II veteran, an educator, author, labor leader, civil rights activist, and historian—and a bender of the moral arc of the universe. He is a visionary and—for me and so many others—a personal hero."

2019

Sacred Ground is a memoir of interviews with Black about the African-American history of the South side of Chicago conducted by Susan Klonsky and edited by Bart Schultz was published in 2019.

Black explained, "I'm here to personalize and transfer that history to younger people across all lines--race and gender."

Black married three times and had two children.