BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bf863cfea648a89563f4efa63dbbfade4355 CATEGORIES:Enrichment Series- Open to the Public SUMMARY:Civil Rights & Black Activism in Antebellum Illinois LOCATION:The Nineteenth Century Club\, 178 Forest Avenue\, Oak Park, IL 60301\, Unit ed States DESCRIPTION:
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Northwestern University professor and aut hor Kate Masur will detail the history of the Illinois “Black laws” - laws that restricted the rights of free African Americans from the state’s found ing through 1865 - and organized efforts to repeal those laws. Among the Il linoisans who demanded repeal were Black leaders John Jones and H. Ford Dou glass, as well as white editor Zebina Eastman. Oil painting pictured by Alfred Jackson Tyler, 1963
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