African-American Legacy (audio)

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. At age 95, Timuel Black, AM’54, believes his work to carry on the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. is far from over.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Timuel Black, AM’54, helped organize Freedom Trains, filled with thousands of Chicagoans, who heard Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how “the flip of a coin” may have saved him from death on the beaches of Normandy—and how his mother’s words helped him endure the horrors of World War II.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Timuel Black, AM’54, recalls how growing up in the “Black Belt” on the South Side of Chicago was like growing up “in a city within a city.”

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp evoked memories of his enslaved ancestors and cast his career on a path toward ensuring equal rights for all.